Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Al Pacino: Sonny

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• Sonny : Is there any special country you wanna go to?

  Sal : Wyoming.

  Sonny : Sal, Wyoming's not a country.

• Sonny : Kiss me.

  Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti : What?

  Sonny : Kiss me. When I'm being fucked, I like to get kissed a lot.

• Sonny : I don't wanna talk to some flunky pig trying to calm me man.

  Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti : Now you don't have to be calling me pig for...

  Sonny : [notices other officers moving toward him]  What is he doing?

  Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti : [shouts at officers]  Will you get back there!

  Sonny : What are you moving in there for?

  Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti : [runs toward closing officers]  Will you get the fuck back there! Get back there will you!

  Sonny : [to the other officers moving toward him]  What's he doing? 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!

  [yells to cheering crowd] 

  Sonny : ATTICA! ATTICA! REMEMBER ATTICA?

• Sonny : You'd like to kill me? Bet you would.

  Sheldon : I wouldn't like to kill you. I will if I have to.

  Sonny : It's your job, right? The guy who kills me... I hope he does it because he hates my guts, not because it's his job.

• Sonny : Look, Mom, I'm a fuck-up and I'm an outcast and that's it. You come near me, you're gonna get it - you're gonna get fucked over and fucked out!

• Sonny : [on a TV broadcast over the phone]  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? I 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?

  [a "Please Stand By" graphic appears on the TV screen] 

  Sonny : Hey, what the fuck happened?

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

  Sonny : Fuck him.

• Sonny : I bark. That man there, see him?

  [points to Sal] 

  Sonny : He bites.

• Sonny : Tell them to put their guns down! Put the fucking guns down! Put 'em down! Put 'em down! Put the fucking guns down! Put those guns down! Attica! Attica! You got it, man! You got it, man! You got it, man! You got it! You got it!

• 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?

• Sonny : I'm a Catholic, I don't want to hurt anybody.

• Sonny : You know what? Sal wanted to go to Wyoming.

  Leon : Oh, Jesus.

  Sonny : I had to tell him its not a country. He don't know where Wyoming is. See, I'm with a guy who don't know where Wyoming is. You think you got problems?

• Sonny : I'll fly into the tropics, fuck the snow.

• Sonny : Hey, you! Manager! Fucker! Don't get ideas. I bark. That man there.

  [points to Sal] 

  Sonny : See him? He bites.

  Sheldon : Believe me, I'm on your side!

  Sonny : On my side, shit!

  Sylvia : Listen, we've got young girls, here. You could watch your language, you know!

  Sonny : I speak what I feel, you know. "Watch my language". Empty the drawer out!

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

• Sonny : [to a cop with his gun drawn]  You see that?

  [points his finger like a gun] 

  Sonny : Put it in your holster!

• Sheldon : You handled yourself real well, Sonny. A lot of men would've choked, and we might have had a death or a multiple death on our hands. But you handled it. I respect that. Now don't you try to take Sal. We'll handle him. Just sit tight and you won't get hurt.

  [Sheldon turns to walk away] 

  Sonny : Wait a minute... What are you talking about?

  Sheldon : You just sit quiet. We'll handle Sal.

  [Sheldon leaves] 

  Sonny : Do you think I'd sell him out? You fuck!

• Sonny : [on the phone with Moretti]  Sal. He's the killer. We're Vietnam veterans so killing don't mean anything to us, you understand?

• Sonny : Who are you?

  Sheldon : FBI. Sheldon.

  Sonny : Ah, good. About time. Maybe we can get this thing started, huh? Look, get the lights back on and the air conditioning. We got no air conditioning in here!

  Sheldon : No more favors. That's all over, Sonny.

  Sonny : Favors? You been doin' us favors all night?

  Sheldon : I have a jet. I'll have limousine here in a half hour. I want the hostages.

  Sonny : No, no, no. Bullshit.

  Sheldon : I'd like to work with you on this Sonny, not against you.

  Sonny : Well, the hostages are what's keeping me alive.

  Sheldon : When do I get them?

  Sonny : Didn't anybody tell you anything?

  Sheldon : I'd like to hear it from you.

  Sonny : You get one hostage for the limousine that you bring me in. One hostage. One hostage for the jet. Then, I get to the airport. I go into the plane. I check it all out. And if it's all okay, they all come out.

  Sheldon : I want to go inside.

  Sonny : Why?

  Sheldon : To see if everybody's alright.

  Sonny : They're all right.

  Sheldon : No, I have to see.

• Sonny : Sal? Ready to go?

• Sonny : What if I take you with me?

  Mulvaney : If you take anybody, please take me.

  Sonny : They'll shoot you, you know. The cops! They don't give a fuck about your bank insurance. See what they did at Attica? Forty-two people they killed. The innocent with the guilty. Anyway, I won't take you with me. I'll take one of them - girls. A married one with some kids. The cops don't like it in the papers when they shoot a married woman - especially if she's got kids. You're all right. You won't fuck with me, will you?

• Sylvia : He don't have a plan. It's all a whim! Rob a bank, right?

  Sonny : I had a plan. I had a plan!

• Sal : Sonny. Sonny, they said on the TV two homosexuals in the bank. Right on TV. Did you hear what they said?

  Sonny : What difference does it make? They can say anything they want. Let 'em say it.

  Sal : Well, I'm not a homosexual. You tell 'em to get that right. That's - that's going out on the TV.

• Angie : What am I here? I'm your wife. I'm your wife. You know something? You hurt me. You hurt me. You know that? Can you imagine marrying another man? Did I ever do anything to make you do that? I mean, did I ever turn you down or anything? Okay, I - I know I let myself get fat.

  Sonny : No, don't call yourself fat. Don't call yourself fat.

  Angie : I know you can't stand me to say I'm fat: but, I can't stand you being a bank robber, Sonny. That's what love is.

• Leon : Where? Where are you going?

  Sonny : I don't know where yet. Well, we've said Algeria. I don't know. So, I'll go to Algeria. I don't know though.

  Leon : Why - are you going to Algeria?

  Sonny : I don't know why. They got a Howard Johnson's there. So, I'm going.

  Leon : Howard Johnson's. You're warped. You know that. You're really warped.

  Sonny : I'm warped. I know I'm warped.

  Leon : God, Algeria? It's eh - I - I - they - it's eh - you know - they walk around, they got masks on, and they got things on their head. They're a bunch of crazy people there.

  Sonny : So, what am I supposed to do?

  Leon : Well, I don't know. You - you could have picked a better place.

  Sonny : Like where? Sweden? Denmark?

  Leon : Yeah, I like that. Yeah.

• Sal : What'd he say?

  Sonny : He was talkin' about arrangements . we were talkin' about the TV.

  Sal : Why couldn't he talk about that here?

  Sonny : He was showin' me how the airport bus is comin' in, like that, Sal.

• Sonny : He's got asthma. They make him a guard?

  Mulvaney : Well, they go to guard school.

  Sonny : Alright, to learn what? How to shoot? He don't even have a gun.

  Mulvaney : They earn $105 a week to fold a flag.

• Sonny : I don't know, Leon, you know. I'm dying here. I'm dying.

  Leon : Do you ever listen to yourself when you say that? Like, you're dying. Did you?

  Sonny : What?

  Leon : Did you ever listen to yourself?

  Sonny : What are you talking about?

  Leon : What do you mean, what am I talking about? You're dying? Did you know that you say that to me everyday of your life? "I'm dying." Well, you're not dying. You're killing the people around you is what you're doing.

• Moretti : Hey, man, I'm sorry.

  Sonny : How'd that happen?

  Moretti : You got his girlfriend in there. You know how the Spanish are. You okay?

• Sonny : Shit. Where's the goddamn jet? They're always screamin' overhead, goin' somewhere, when you don't need 'em, you know.

• Sonny : I've gone so far with this. Why should I give up now? I can't give up.

• Sonny : So, you needed money, I got your money. That's it.

  Leon : Yeah. Well, I didn't ask you to go and rob a bank!

• Sonny : What am I supposed to say to you?

  Leon : Thanks a lot and - eh - bon voyage.

  Sonny : Yeah, right. See you sometime.

  Leon : Yeah. I'll see you in my dreams, huh?

  Sonny : Right. I'll right a song.

• Stevie : Sonny, I'm getting really bad vibes.

  Sonny : What are you talking about?

  Stevie : Maybe we should take something smaller, Sonny.

  Sonny : Are you crazy? It started already. He's got the gun out.

• Sonny : What's the matter with you? You shouldn't let something like that spoil your fun, you know. You got to get fun out of life.

• Moretti : You look all squeezed out.

  Sonny : Squeezed out. I'm squeezed out.

  Moretti : Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

• Sonny : Sal, I can make it happen. I can make it happen! I made it happen, so far. Right? I can make it happen.

• Sonny : I'm not putting this on anybody. You know? Nothin' on nobody. I did this on my own. You see, all on my own, I did it.

• Moretti : [on the bullhorn]  Sonny, will you come out please. Sonny.

  Sonny : [looks outside the bank]  Shit, it's my mother.

  Moretti : Sonny, someone's here to see you. Sonny, could you come out please. Sonny. Sonny, could you come out please.

  Sonny : [Sonny walks outside]  Mom, what are you doing down here?

• Sonny : Oh, I don't know, you know. Life's so funny.

  Leon : You said a mouthful, sweetheart.

• Sonny : Stevie, don't take the car.

  Stevie : But how will I get home?

  Sonny : Take the subway. We need the car.