Yeah, Paulie was insecure and tried to cover it with the bravado tough guy routine...which is why he was great.
Perfect pairing with Chris who was irrationally secure.
Delivered some of the best lines:
- Tony: "He was a Russian Green Beret. In the Interior Ministery. Killed 16 Chechnan rebels single handed."
Paulie: "Chris, you're never going to believe this. The guy killed 16 Czechlosolvkians.
He was an interior decorator!"
Chris: "His apartment looked like ****."
- Paulie: “This guy gives him the works: MRIs, cat scans, dog scans, you name it.”
- Tony: "And the dinosaurs went extinct."
"Wasn't it a meteor?"
Paulie: "THEY WERE ALL MEAT EATERS!"
- Paulie: "Tone, your dad and I made this drive to Florida all the time. He owned a piece of a dog track.
Our first trip I was driving him in his Cadillac El Dorado and I have never been South of Atlantic City.
We get pulled over in Georgia, we have a New Jersey license plate and worst of all, we're Italian!
You're dad says to me, don't worry about it. Tell the officer you know his captain...Barney Fife.
So I tell him and get wacked with his flashlight across my head. Your dad was laughing his *** off! I had no idea!
Anyway, we gave them a couple bambinos and were back on our way."