Sonny Wortzik quotes from Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Sonny Wortzik

All right, freeze! Nobody move!

Sonny Wortzik

Alright, it's the FBI, so nobody give your real name.

Sonny Wortzik

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.

Sonny Wortzik

You know I can call anybody, they'd put it on the phone? The Pope, an astronaut, the wisest of the wise... Who do I have to call?

Sonny Wortzik

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

Sonny

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.

Sonny

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

Mulvaney

Yes, sir.

Sonny

No alarms! No alarms!

Mulvaney

Okay.

Sonny

No games, alright? Use the other one.

Sonny

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

Det. Moretti

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

Sonny

What is he doin'?

Det. Moretti

Will you get back there?!

Sonny

What are you movin' in there for?!

Det. Moretti

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

Sonny

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!

Sonny

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.

Sonny

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?

Sonny

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?

Sonny

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...

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...

Sonny

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.

Sonny

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

Anchorman

No!

Sonny

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.

Sonny

Hey, what the **** happened?

Mulvaney

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

Sonny

**** him.

Sonny

So, Sal, Where do you want to go?

Sal

Wyoming.

Sonny

Sal, Wyoming, that's not a country.

Sonny

Who the **** is that?!

Moretti

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

Sonny

Who's Maria?

Moretti

They got her inside.

Moretti

Hey, man, I'm sorry.

Sonny

How'd that happen?

Moretti

They got his girlfriend in there. You know the Spanish.

Sonny

Kiss me, man.

Moretti

What?

Sonny

Kiss me. When I'm being ****, I like to get kissed a lot.

Agent Sheldon

I want them all.

Sonny

I want to talk to Leon.

Agent Sheldon

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

Sonny

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.