Midnight Cowboy quotes

35 total quotes

Enrico Salvatore 'Ratso' Rizzo
Joe Buck
Mr. O'Daniel
Multiple Characters

View Quote [to Joe] I'm gonna use ya. I'm gonna run you ragged...You and me can have fun together. It doesn't have to be joyless.

View Quote I don't think I can walk anymore. I've been fallin' down a lot. I'm scared...You know what they do to ya when, when they know you can't, when they find out that you can't walk-walk. Oh Christ.

View Quote [to himself, in the mirror] You know what you gotta do cowboy?

View Quote Everything we got only set us back ten and some... Hey you know, Ratso. Rico, I mean. I got this damn thing all figured out. When we get to Miami, what we'll do is get some sort of job, you know. Cause hell, I ain't no kind of hustler. I mean, there must be an easier way of makin' a living than that. Some sort of outdoors work. What do ya think? Yeah, that's what I'll do. OK Rico? Rico? Rico? Hey, Rico? Rico?

View Quote You know what you can do with them dishes. And if you ain't man enough to do it for yourself, I'd be happy to oblige. I really would.

View Quote I've prayed on the streets. I've prayed in the saloons. I've prayed in the toilets. It don't matter where, so long as He gets that prayer.

View Quote You know, with proper management, you could be takin' home fifty, maybe a hundred dollars a day, easy.

View Quote We ain't gonna have to steal no more, that's what I'm tryin' to tell ya. I've got eight bucks in my damn pockets, twenty more come Thursday, boy. We're gonna be ridin' easy before very long, I'm gonna tell ya. She went crazy if you want to know the damn truth of it...She turned into a damn alley cat.

View Quote Well, sir, I ain't a for-real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud.

View Quote It's not, not bad, huh? There's no heat here, but you know, by the time winter comes, I'll be in Florida.

View Quote Got my own private entrance here. You're the only one who knows about it. Watch the plank. Watch the plank. Break your god-damn skull. No way to collect insurance.

View Quote [to Joe] Terrific shirt.

View Quote Lotta rich women back there, Ralph, begging for it, paying for it, too...and the men - they're mostly tutti fruttis. So I'm gonna cash in on some of that, right?...Hell, what do I got to stay around here for? I got places to go, right?

View Quote The X on the windows means the landlord can't collect rent, which is a convenience, on account of it's condemned.

View Quote You know, in my own place my name ain't Ratso. I mean, it just so happens that in my own place, my name is Enrico Salvatore Rizzo...At least call me Rico in my own god-damn place.