Taxi Driver Quotes

Taxi Driver is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Taxi Driver stopped airing in 1970.

It features Julia Phillips; Michael Phillips as producer, Bernard Herrmann in charge of musical score, and Michael Chapman (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Taxi Driver is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Taxi Driver is 113 minutes long. Taxi Driver is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, Cybill Shepherd as Betsy, Peter Boyle as Wizard, Jodie Foster as Iris, Harvey Keitel as Sport, Martin Scorsese as Passenger, Harry Northup as Doughboy, Diahnne Abbott as Concession Girl, and Norman Matlock as Charlie T.

Taxi Driver Quotes

Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle

• (Robert De Niro) "You're only as healthy as you feel."

• (Robert De Niro) "Dear Father and Mother: July is the month I remember which brings not only your wedding anniversary but also Father's Day and Mother's birthday. I'm sorry I can't remember the exact dates, but I hope this card will take care of them all. I'm sorry again I cannot send you my address like I promised to last year. But the sensitive nature of my work for the government demands utmost secrecy. I know you will understand. I am healthy and well and making lots of money. I have been going with a girl for several months and I know you would be proud if you could see her. Her name is Betsy but I can tell you no more than that -- I hope this card finds you all well as it does me. I hope no one has died. Don't worry about me. One day, they'll be a knock on the door and it'll be me. Love Travis."

• (Robert De Niro) "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."

• (Robert De Niro) "Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the cum off the back seat. Some nights, I clean off the blood."

• (Robert De Niro) "Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the cum off the back seat. Some nights, I clean off the blood."

• (Robert De Niro) "I first saw her at Palantine Campaign headquarters at 63rd and Broadway. She was wearing a white dress. She appeared like an angel. Out of this filthy mess, she is alone. They -- cannot -- touch -- her."

• (Personnel Officer) "How's your driving record? Clean?"
• (Robert De Niro) "It's clean, real clean. Like my conscience."

• (Robert De Niro) "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."

• (Robert De Niro) "Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep. Damn. Days go on and on. They don't end."

• (Robert De Niro) "I realize now how much she's just like the others, cold and distant, and many people are like that, women for sure, they're like a union."

• (Robert De Niro) "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."

• (Robert De Niro) "s*** -- I'm waiting for the sun to shine."

• (Robert De Niro) "May 26th. Four o'clock p.m. I took Betsy to Charles Coffee Shop on Columbus Circle. I had black coffee and apple pie with a slice of melted yellow cheese. I think that was a good selection. Betsy had coffee and a fruit salad dish. She could have had anything she wanted."

• (Robert De Niro) "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."

• (Robert De Niro) "Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep. Damn. Days go on and on. They don't end."

• (Robert De Niro) "I got some bad ideas in my head."

• (Robert De Niro) "Huh? Huh?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Faster than you, f***ing son of a -- Saw you coming you f***ing -- s***heel."
• (Robert De Niro) "I'm standing here; you make the move. You make the move. It's your move --"
• (Robert De Niro) "Don't try it you f***."
• (Robert De Niro) "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 f*** do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK."

• (Personnel Officer) "Wanna work uptown at nights? South Bronx? Harlem?"
• (Robert De Niro) "I'll work anytime, anywhere."
• (Personnel Officer) "Will you work on Jewish holidays?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Anytime, anywhere."

• (Robert De Niro) "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."

• (Robert De Niro) "I would say he has quite a few problems. His energy seems to go in the wrong places. When I walked in and I saw you two sitting there, I could just tell by the way you were both relating that there was no connection whatsoever. And I felt when I walked in that there was something between us. There was an impulse that we were both following. So that gave me the right to come in and talk to you. Otherwise I never would have felt that I had the right to talk to you or say anything to you. I never would have had the courage to talk to you. And with him I felt there was nothing and I could sense it. When I walked in, I knew I was right. Did you feel that way?"
• (Cybill Shepherd) "I wouldn't be here if I didn't."

• (Robert De Niro) "I first saw her at Palantine Campaign headquarters at 63rd and Broadway. She was wearing a white dress. She appeared like an angel. Out of this filthy mess, she is alone. They -- cannot -- touch -- her."

• (Robert De Niro) "I think someone should just take this city and just -- just flush it down the f***in' toilet."

• (Robert De Niro) "June 29th. I gotta get in shape now. Too much sittin' is ruinin' my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on, it will be fifty push-ups each morning, fifty pull-ups. There'll be no more pills, there'll be no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on, it will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight."

• (Robert De Niro) "The idea had been growing in my brain for some time: TRUE force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again."

• (Robert De Niro) "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."

• (Robert De Niro) "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 someone should become a person like other people."

• (Personnel Officer) "So what is it? Why do you want to be a taxi driver? Do you need a second job? Are you moonlighting?"
• (Robert De Niro) "I -- I just want to work long hours. What's moonlighting?"

• (Robert De Niro) "I called Betsy again at her office and she said maybe we'd go to a movie together after she gets off work tomorrow. That's my day off. At first she hesitated but I called her again and then she agreed. Betsy, Betsy. Oh no, Betsy what? I forgot to ask her last name again. Damn. I got to remember stuff like that."

• (Robert De Niro) "The idea had been growing in my brain for some time. True force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again."

• (Robert De Niro) "Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk."

• (Robert De Niro) "I realize now how much she's just like the others; cold and distant, and many people are like that. Women for sure. They're like a union."

• (Robert De Niro) "I'll tell you why. I think you're a lonely person. I drive by this place a lot and I see you here. I see a lot of people around you. And I see all these phones and all this stuff on your desk. It means nothing. Then when I came inside and I met you, I saw in your eyes and I saw the way you carried yourself that you're not a happy person. And I think you need something. And if you want to call it a friend, you can call it a friend."
• (Cybill Shepherd) "Are you gonna be my friend?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Yeah."

• (Robert De Niro) "You got a.44 magnum?"
• (Andy, Gun Salesman) "It's an expensive weapon."
• (Robert De Niro) "That's all right. I got money."
• (Andy, Gun Salesman) "It's a real monster. It'll stop a car at a hundred yards. Put a round right through the engine block."

• (Robert De Niro) "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."

• (Robert De Niro) "Dear Iris: This money should be used for your trip. By the time you read this, I will be dead. Travis."

• (Robert De Niro) "May 10th. Thank God for the rain which has helped wash away the garbage and trash off the sidewalks. I'm workin' long hours now, six in the afternoon to six in the morning. Sometimes even eight in the morning, six days a week. Sometimes seven days a week. It's a long hustle but it keeps me real busy. I can take in three, three fifty a week. Sometimes even more when I do it off the meter. 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."

• (Robert De Niro) "Listen, you f***ers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the c***s, the dogs, the filth, the s***. Here is a man who stood up."

• (Robert De Niro) "Now I see it clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me."

• (Robert De Niro) "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."

• (Robert De Niro) "Hey Sport. How ya doin'?"
• (Harvey Keitel) "Okay, okay my man, how -- Where do I know you from, man?"
• (Robert De Niro) "I don't know. How's everything in the pimp business, huh?"
• (Harvey Keitel) "Do I know you?"
• (Robert De Niro) "No. Do I know you?"
• (Harvey Keitel) "Get outta here. Come on, get lost, huh."
• (Robert De Niro) "Do I know you? How's Iris? You know Iris."
• (Harvey Keitel) "No, I don't know nobody name Iris. Iris? Come on, get outta here, man."
• (Robert De Niro) "You don't know anybody by the name of Iris?"
• (Harvey Keitel) "I don't know nobody name Iris."
• (Robert De Niro) "No?"
• (Harvey Keitel) "Hey, go back to your f***in' tribe before you get hurt, huh man. Do me a favor, I don't want no trouble, huh. Okay?"
• (Robert De Niro) "You got a gun?"
• (Harvey Keitel) "Get the f*** outta here, man."
• (Harvey Keitel) "Get outta here."
• (Robert De Niro) "Suck on this."

Harvey Keitel as Sport

• (Harvey Keitel) "You're a funny guy; but looks aren't everything."

• (Harvey Keitel) "I once had a horse, on Coney Island. She got hit by a car."

• (Harvey Keitel) "See ya later, copper."
• (Robert De Niro) "I'm no cop, man."
• (Harvey Keitel) "Well, if you are, then it's entrapment already."

• (Harvey Keitel) "Well, take it or leave it. If you want to save yourself some money, don't f*** her. Cause you'll be back here every night for some more. Man, she's twelve and a half years old. You never had no p***** like that. You can do anything you want with her. You can cum on her, f*** her in the mouth, f*** her in the ass, cum on her face, man. She get your cock so hard she'll make it explode. But no rough stuff, all right?"

Cybill Shepherd as Betsy

• (Cybill Shepherd) "Taking me to a place like this is about as exciting as saying to me "Let's f***.""

• (Cybill Shepherd) "Travis, I'm -- how much was it?"
• (Robert De Niro) "So long."

Jodie Foster as Iris

• (Jodie Foster) "I think that -- that Cancers make the best lovers."

• (Jodie Foster) "I don't like what I'm doing, Sport."
• (Harvey Keitel) "Ah, baby, I don't want you to like what you're doing. If you like what you're doing, then you won't be my woman."

• (Jodie Foster) "God, you're square."
• (Robert De Niro) "Hey, I'm not square, you're the one that's square. You're full of s***, man. What are you talking about? You walk out with those f***in' creeps and low-lifes and degenerates out on the streets and you sell your little p***** 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 f*** with a bunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that bein' hip? What world are you from?"

Diahnne Abbott as Concession Girl

• (Diahnne Abbott) "Can I help you?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Hi, what's your name. My name's Travis."
• (Diahnne Abbott) "That's nice. What can I do for you?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Well, I'd like to know your name."
• (Diahnne Abbott) "Give me a break."

Martin Scorsese as Passenger

• (Martin Scorsese) "Have you ever seen what a.44 Magnum will do to a woman's p*****? Now that you should see. What a.44 Magnum will do to a woman's p***** that you should see?"

Peter Boyle as Wizard

• (Peter Boyle) "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 f***ed. More or less, ya know."
• (Robert De Niro) "I don't know. That's about the dumbest thing I ever heard."
• (Peter Boyle) "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 f*** you're talking about."
• (Robert De Niro) "Maybe I don't know either."

• (Peter Boyle) "You get a job. You become the job."

• (Peter Boyle) "In the middle of the bridge she changes her pantyhose."

• (Peter Boyle) "Hey Travis, this here's Doughboy. We call him that 'cause he'll do anything for a buck."
• (Harry Northup) "Hi Travis. Got change of a nickel?"

Harry Northup as Doughboy

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Norman Matlock as Charlie T

• (Norman Matlock) "My man is loaded."

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