The Black Donnellys (TV Series)

The World Will Break Your Heart (2007)

Keith Nobbs: Joey Ice Cream

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Joey Ice Cream : [narrating]  You remember the Donnelly's right? Shaun, Kevin, Jimmy and Tommy? Well they got into some trouble a couple of days ago.

• Joey Ice Cream : It's not as bad as you think, I mean having people come after you. Where I come from it's normal. I mean guys will kill you for looking at 'em wrong. Course when this happens there's usually a fair amount of alcohol involved.

• Joey Ice Cream : [narrating voice over]  There are a lot of guys in my neighborhood who would still be alive today if they'd just shut up and gone to bed the night before.

• Joey Ice Cream : This is crazy. Do we have credit? Do we have money? Do we even have a way to transport the alcohol if it were to fall from the sky?

  Kevin Donnelly : Remember when we were kids and had a contest to see who could shut up the longest?

  Kevin Donnelly : No. Who won?

• Kevin Donnelly : I always wanted to drive a cab.

  Joey Ice Cream : Are you nuts? Twenty hours in a confined space being told what to do by the kind of people who can't even afford cars?

• Kevin Donnelly : [Kevin and Joey sneak into a restaurant and find some Kosher wine]  Crap! All we got here is Jew wine. We allowed to drink this stuff?

  Joey Ice Cream : Who wouldn't allow you, Kevin?

  Kevin Donnelly : I don't know. It's unholy or something.

  Joey Ice Cream : It's fine!

  Kevin Donnelly : I mean it's alcohol too, right?

  Joey Ice Cream : Yeah, only it's Rabbi approved alcohol.

• Huey Farrell : [to young Tommy Donnelly, in a flashback]  You know what else men do? They take care of their mom and their brothers, no matter what.

  Joey Ice Cream : [in voiceover narration]  How was Huey to know that one day that little bit of advise would be that thing that got him killed?

• Joey Ice Cream : [voice over narration]  There are a couple of things you need to know about the Irish. I forget the first. But the second thing is this: they don't believe that death is the end, they think it's about resurrection. And what is more life affirming than sex.

• Joey Ice Cream : [voice over narration]  And this is the way life works sometimes. If they hadn't killed Louis Downtown they woulda been dead right then and there.

• Joey Ice Cream : I thought you said you waited here?

  Kevin Donnelly : No I applied. The bastards wouldn't hire me because of my shadey employment history.