Other Titles • Dog Day Afternoon • Hundstage (1976)
Quotes from Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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Sonny: Attica! Attica!
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Sonny: Kiss me. Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti: What? Sonny: Kiss me. When I'm being fucked, I like to get kissed a lot.
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Sonny: [patting down FBI man] You'd like to kill me. Betcha would. Sheldon: I wouldn't like to kill you. I will if I have to. Sonny: It's your job, right? You know, the guy who kills me, I hope he does it 'cause he hates my guts. Not 'cause it's his job.
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"He wants to know when you'll be through."--Jenny (Carol Kane), repeating to Sonny (Al Pacino) what her husband is asking her on the phone as he's robbing the bank
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"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."--Sonny
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"Attica! Attica!"--Sonny to the crowds outside the bank
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Sonny: So what country do you want to go to? Sal: Wyoming. Sonny: Sal, Wyoming's not a country.
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Sonny: I'm robbing a bank because they got money here. That's why I'm robbing it. TV 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. TV 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? TV 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? TV 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. TV Anchorman: Sonny, you could give up? Sonny: Give up? Right. Have you ever been in prison? TV Anchorman: No! Sonny: No! Well let's talk about something you fucking 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?
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Leon: I mean, how do they expect you to get uncrazy if you're asleep all the time?
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Sonny: I'm a fuck-up and an outcast!
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Sonny: [talking to Sal, waiting for his wife to answer the phone] 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?
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