Taxi Driver Quotes

Travis Bickle: You talkin' to me?

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Travis Bickle: You're only as healthy as you feel.

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Travis Bickle: The idea had been growing in my brain for some time: TRUE force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again.

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Travis Bickle: Let me tell you something. You're in a hell, and you're gonna die in a hell, just like the rest of 'em!

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Wizard: You get a job. You become the job.

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[last lines]
Betsy: Travis, I'm... how much was it? [Travis clears meter]
Travis Bickle: So long.

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Personnel Officer : Wanna work uptown at nights? South Bronx? Harlem?
Travis Bickle : I'll work anytime, anywhere.
Personnel Officer : Will you work on Jewish holidays?
Travis Bickle : Anytime, anywhere.

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Iris : God, you're square.
Travis Bickle : Hey, I'm not square, you're the one that's square. You're full of shit, man. What are you talking about? You walk out with those fuckin' creeps and low-lifes and degenerates out on the streets and you sell your little pussy for peanuts? For some low-life pimp who stands in the hall? And I'm square? You're the one that's square, man. I don't go screwing fuck with a bunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that bein' hip? What world are you from?

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Travis Bickle : You're a young girl, you should be at home. You should be dressed up, going out with boys, going to school, you know, that kind of stuff.

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Travis Bickle : Shit... I'm waiting for the sun to shine.

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Travis Bickle : Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.

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Travis Bickle : The idea had been growing in my brain for some time: TRUE force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again.

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Travis Bickle : You're only as healthy as you feel.

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Travis Bickle : I should get one of those signs that says "One of these days I'm gonna get organezized".
Betsy : You mean organized?
Travis Bickle : Organezized. Organezized. It's a joke. O-R-G-A-N-E-Z-I-Z-E-D...
Betsy : Oh, you mean organezized. Like those little signs they have in offices that says, "Thimk"?

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Wizard : Hey Travis, this here's Doughboy. We call him that 'cause he'll do anything for a buck.
Doughboy : Hi Travis. Got change of a nickel?

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Sport : See ya later, copper!
Travis Bickle : I'm no cop, man.
Sport : Well, if you are, then it's entrapment already.

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Travis Bickle : I think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the fuckin' toilet.

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Travis Bickle : The days go on and on... they don't end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people.

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Travis Bickle : June twenty-ninth. I gotta get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 pushups each morning, 50 pullups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight.

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Personnel Officer : How's your driving record? Clean?
Travis Bickle : It's clean, real clean. Like my conscience.

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Travis Bickle : All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me.

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Travis Bickle : Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.

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Wizard : You get a job. You become the job.

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Wizard : Look at it this way. A man takes a job, you know? And that job - I mean, like that - That becomes what he is. You know, like - You do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for thirteen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become - You get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. People are born, y'know? I envy you, your youth. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know.
Travis Bickle : I don't know. That's about the dumbest thing I ever heard.
Wizard : It's not Bertrand Russell. But what do you want? I'm a cabbie. What do I know? I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about.
Travis Bickle : Maybe I don't know either.

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Travis Bickle : Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up.

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Passenger : Have you ever seen what a .44 Magnum will do to a woman's pussy? Now that you should see. What a .44 Magnum will do to a woman's pussy that you should see?

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Travis Bickle : Now I see this clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction. There never has been a choice for me.

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Travis Bickle : I got some bad ideas in my head.

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Travis Bickle : [ Travis is trying his guns on the mirror ] Huh? Huh? [ Draws ]
Travis Bickle : Faster than you, fucking son of a... Saw you coming you fucking... shitheel. [ Reholsters ]
Travis Bickle : I'm standing here; you make the move. You make the move. It's your move... [ Draws ]
Travis Bickle : Don't try it you fuck. [ Reholsters ]
Travis Bickle : You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK. [ Draws ]

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Senator Charles Palantine : We meet at a crossroads in history. No longer will the wrong roads be taken.

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