Dog Day Afternoon 1975 quotes

18 quotes · 2 characters
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Characters
Sonny Wortzik Al Pacino · 14 quotes
Moretti Charles Durning · 3 quotes

Most scenes together: Sonny Wortzik & Moretti (3)

Dog Day Afternoon quotes

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Leon

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

Maria's Boyfriend

He's got my girl in there! Maria!

Agent Sheldon

I want them all.

I want to talk to Leon.

Agent Sheldon

I want to come in, and see if everybody's okay.

You got guts. You think if Sal and me have cut their throats we're gonna let you out?

Agent Sheldon

I have to see.

Sal

Tell the TV to stop saying there's two homosexuals in here.

Agent Sheldon

I will, Sal.

[after being attacked by Maria's boyfriend]

Who the **** is that?!

I don't know. He-he's one of the Spanish kids.

Who's Maria?

They got her inside.

Hey, wait a minute, what are you trying to do? Trip the alarm? Use the spare key?

Mulvaney

It must have been on my mind.

Well, you'll get your mind right. I'm a Catholic, and I don't want to hurt anybody, understand?

Mulvaney

Yes, sir.

No alarms! No alarms!

Mulvaney

Okay.

No games, alright? Use the other one.

I don't wanna talk to some flunky pig tryin' to calm me, man.

Now you don't have to be calling me pig for...

[notices other officers moving toward him]

What is he doin'?

[shouts at officers]

Will you get back there?!

What are you movin' in there for?!

[runs toward closing officers]

Will you get the **** back there?! Get back there, will ya?!

[addresses other cops moving toward him]

What's he doin'? 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!

[the crowd cheers]

Attica!! Attica!! Remember Attica?!
Note: the line in bold ranked #86 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

I'm robbing a bank because they got money here. That's why I'm robbing it.

Anchorman

No, what I mean is why do you feel you have to steal for money? Couldn't you get a job?

Uh, no. Doing what? You know if you want a job you've got to be a member of a union. See, and if you got no union card you don't get a job.

Anchorman

What about non-union occupations?

What's wrong with this guy? What do you mean non-union, like what? A bank teller? You know how much a bank teller makes a week? Not much. A hundred and fifteen to start, right? Now are you going to live on that? A got a wife and a couple of kids, how am I going to live on that? What do you make a week?

Anchorman

Well I'm here to talk to you, Sonny...

Well I'm talking to you. We're entertainment, right? What do you got for us?

Anchorman

Well, what do you want to get for it? Do you expect to be paid because...

No, I don't want to be paid, I don't need to be paid. Look, I'm here with my partner and nine other people, see. And we're dying, man. You know? You're going to see our brains on the sidewalk, they're going to spill our guts out. Now are you going to show that on television? Have all your housewives look at that? Instead of As the World Turns? I mean what do you got for me? I want something for that.

Anchorman

Sonny, you could give up.

Give up? Right. Have you ever been in prison?

Anchorman

No!

No! Well. let's talk about something you **** know about, okay? How much do you make a week? That's what I want to hear. Are you going to talk to me about that?

Anchorman

Sorry, this has been interrupted.

Hey, what the **** happened?

Mulvaney

I guess he didn't appreciate your use of language.

**** him.

[to Detective Sergeant Eugene Moretti]

Bank robbing is a federal offense. You got me on kidnapping, armed robbery. You're gonna bury me, man!

[to his mother]

I'm a ****-up and I'm an outcast! If you get near me you're gonna get it- you're gonna get **** over and **** out!

[to Salvatore "Sal" Naturile]

That's all they're interested in - it's a freak show to them. I can't control it, Sal - let 'em say what they want. Forget it. It don't matter.