Latest Quotes

“I'm a Catholic, I don't want to hurt anybody.”

— Frank Pierson, Sonny Wortzik, Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon

“I mean, how do they expect you to get uncrazy if you're asleep all the time?”

— Frank Pierson, Leon Shermer, Chris Sarandon, Dog Day Afternoon

“I couldn't explain why I did the things I did. So I went to this psychiatrist who explained to me I was a woman in a man's body. So Sonny right away wanted to get me money for a sex change operation: but where was he to get that? 2,500 dollars! My God, he's in hock up to his ears already.”

— Frank Pierson, Leon Shermer, Chris Sarandon, Dog Day Afternoon

“Sylvia: Why don't you smoke? Sal: I don't want the cancer.”

— Frank Pierson, Salvatore "Sal" Naturale, John Cazale, Dog Day Afternoon

“He won't listen to anybody. He's been very crazy all summer. Since June he's been trying to kill me.”

— Frank Pierson, Leon Shermer, Chris Sarandon, Dog Day Afternoon

“I bark. That man there, see him? [points to Sal] He bites.”

— Frank Pierson, Sgt. Gillis (uncredited), James Bulleit, Dog Day Afternoon

“[to his mother] I'm a fuckup and I'm an outcast. If you get near me you're gonna get it—you're gonna get fucked over and fucked out.”

— Frank Pierson, Sonny Wortzik, Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon

“Tell them to put their guns down! Put the fucking guns down! Put 'em down! Put 'em down! Put the fucking guns down! Put those guns down! Attica! Attica! You got it, man! You got it, man! You got it, man! You got it! You got it!”

— Frank Pierson, Sonny Wortzik, Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon

“Sonny: You'd like to kill me? Bet you would. Sheldon: I wouldn't like to kill you. I will if I have to. Sonny: It's your job, right? The guy who kills me... I hope he does it because he hates my guts, not because it's his job.”

— Frank Pierson, Sonny Wortzik, Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon

“[to the other officers moving toward him] What's he doing? Go back there man! He wants to kill me so bad he can taste it! Huh? ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!”

— Frank Pierson, Sonny Wortzik, Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon

“Sal: What'd he say? Sonny: He was talkin' about arrangements . we were talkin' about the TV. Sal: Why couldn't he talk about that here? Sonny: He was showin' me how the airport bus is comin' in, like that, Sal.”

— Frank Pierson, Sonny Wortzik, Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon

“Sonny: Kiss me. Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti: What? Sonny: Kiss me. When I'm being fucked, I like to get kissed a lot.”

— Frank Pierson, Sonny Wortzik, Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon

“Travis Bickle: I'll tell you why. I think you're a lonely person. I drive by this place a lot and I see you here. I see a lot of people around you. And I see all these phones and all this stuff on your desk. It means nothing. Then when I came inside and I met you, I saw in your eyes and I saw the wa…”

— Paul Schrader, Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver

“Sonny: Is there any special country you wanna go to? Sal: Wyoming. Sonny: Sal, Wyoming's not a country.”

— Frank Pierson, Salvatore "Sal" Naturale, John Cazale, Dog Day Afternoon

“I got some bad ideas in my head.”

— Paul Schrader, Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver

“Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.”

— Paul Schrader, Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver

“I realize now how much she's just like the others, cold and distant, and many people are like that, women for sure, they're like a union.”

— Paul Schrader, Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver

“Now I see this clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction. There never has been a choice for me.”

— Paul Schrader, Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver

“Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up.”

— Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver

“Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.”

— Paul Schrader, Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver