In Cold Blood (1967) · 16 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in In Cold Blood (1967): in 6 of its 16 quotes
Most scenes with: Perry Smith (4)
Doctors. They made a dwarf out of me. Doctors and lawyers. What do they care? Ever see a millionaire fry in the electric chair? Hell, no. There's two kinds of laws, honey: One for the rich and one for the poor.
It's true! Really true! We're on our way and never coming back. Never! And no regrets.
Dick For you. You're leaving nothing. What about my old man... and my mother? They'll still be there when my checks start bouncing.
It's nice the way you think about your folks.
Dick Yeah! I'm a real thoughtful bastard.
That was stupid - stealin' a lousy pack of razor blades! To prove what?
Dick It's the national pastime, baby, stealin' and cheatin'. If they ever count every cheatin' wife and tax chiseler, the whole country would be behind prison walls.
Dick Where are the black stockings?
They didn't have black.
Dick Stop someplace else.
Where?
Dick A Catholic hospital.
Sure. We'll just barge in like it was a goddamn five-and-dime.
Dick Sister, sweetie, we gotta have some black stockings to hide our face.
Okay, forget it. Anyway, nuns are bad luck.
Dick Kind of sexy, though.
You wouldn't think so if you'd lived in one of those orphan homes... with those black widows always at you. Always sneaking up in the dark, spying while you sleep. Hitting you with a flashlight for wetting the bed. That's the first time I was saved by the yellow bird.
Dick The what?
Sort of a parrot. Taller than Jesus. Brilliant yellow, like a sunflower. It attacked those nuns like an avenging angel. The nuns begged for mercy. But the yellow bird slaughtered them anyway. Then the bird folded me in its wings...and lifted me up to paradise.
Dick That's one hell of a bird to have on your side.
Anyway, that's why I have an aversion to nuns...and God and religion.
Dick Forget it. Black stockings are a waste of time. No one's gonna remember us because we're leaving no witnesses.
Dick Next move... Mexico. Once we beat it out of the country.
On what? $43 and a smile and bullshit.
Dick You guessed it, chief. It's the smile that does it. Like it says in the commercials, the family that sticks together lives forever.
What about Perry? Don't you get along?
Dick Nobody can get along with him. There's five guys waiting here for the big swing. Little Perry's the only one yapping against capital punishment.
Don't tell me you're for it?
Dick Hell, hanging's only getting revenge. What's wrong with revenge? I've been revenging myself all my life. Sure. I'm for hanging. Just so long as I'm not the one being hanged.
