Here are the best lines from Taxi Driver, a drama directed by Martin Scorsese, released in 1976, and nominated for four Oscars. In it, famous actors such as Robert DeNiro and Jodie Foster star.
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-I think you're a lonely person. I pass by this place and see you here. I see many people around you. And I see all these phones and all these things on your desk. They don't mean anything. I saw in your eyes that you were not a happy person. -Travis.
-I have been a taxi driver for thirteen years. Ten years at night. And still I don't own my own taxi. You know why? Because I do not want to. That must be what I want. Driving someone else's taxi at night. You understand me? -Wizard.
-Shit. I'm waiting for the sun to shine -Travis.
-Loneliness has followed me all my life everywhere. In bars, in cars, on sidewalks, in stores, everywhere. There's no escape. -Travis.
-Don't try to ruin it. -Travis.
-Have you never heard of the livid of a woman? -Iris.
-Twelve hours of work and still I can't sleep. Curse. The days go by and by. They do not end. -Travis.
-Listen motherfuckers, you stupid heads. Here is a man who will not tolerate more things. A man who stood up for scum, bastards, dogs, crap, fuck. Here is a man who defended them. -Travis.
-Now I see it clearly, my whole life is headed in one direction, I realize now, there had never been a choice for me. -Travis.
-You are a funny boy, but appearance is not everything. -Sport.
-8 of June. My life has taken another turn again. Days can go by regularly over and over again, one being indistinguishable from the next. A long and continuous chain. And then suddenly, a change happens. -Travis.
"I think I know what you mean, Travis." -Senator Palantine.
-Take me to a place like this is as exciting as saying "you have to have sex." -Betsy.
- Swallow this. -Travis.
-I have some bad ideas in my head. -Travis.
-I think someone should take this city… and flush it down the toilet. -Travis.
- I would say that he has enough problems. (…) When I walked in and saw you both sitting there, I could realize that there was no connection between you. And I felt there was something between us. This gave me the opportunity to talk to you. -Travis.
-Some day, a real rain will come and clean all this scum from the streets. -Travis.
-I think Cancer are the best lovers. -Iris.
-I don't spend my time throwing a ball of killers and drug addicts like you. Is that what you call having style? What world do you live in? -Travis.
-One of these days I'm going to “organize”. -Travis.
-Every night I return the taxi to the garage, I have to clean the semen from the back seat. Some nights I clean blood. -Travis.
-The days go by and by… and they don't end. All my life needed was a notion of somewhere to go. Or I think that one should dedicate his life to morbid self-attention, I think that one should become a person like the others. -Travis.
-If you want to save money, don't waste it. Because you will come every night for more. She is 12 and a half years old (…). You can do whatever you want to her, cum inside her, give her in the mouth and in the ass. She will make your penis so hard it will explode. But nothing violent, okay? -Sport.
-Death to sex. -Girl from the concession.
-There's no escape. I am the lonely man of God. -Travis.
-You will be as healthy as you feel. -Travis.
-Let me tell you something. You are in hell, and you will die in hell like the rest of them. -Travis.
-All the animals come out at night, the prostitutes, the fags, the queens, the fairies, the drug addicts, the sick, the mercenaries. (…) I take people to the Bronx, to Brooklyn, to Harlem. I do not care. It makes no difference to me. He does it for some. -Travis.
-Ay baby, I don't want you to like what you do. If you liked what you do then you wouldn't be my woman. -Sport.
-Leave me alone, I'm dead. -Travis.
-You know what it reminds me of you? That song by Kris Kristofferson. A composer. “He is a prophet… he is a prophet and a dealer, half truth, half fiction. A walking contradiction ”. -Betsy.
-I do not know. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. -Travis.
"Faster than you, you fucking son of a bitch… I saw you coming you fucking shit." -Travis.
-When you get a job. You become work. -Wizard.
-Are you talking to me? So who the hell else are you talking to? Am I the only one here. Who the hell do you think you're talking to? -Travis.
-Are you talking to me? -Travis.
-Thank God for the rain that washes all the garbage from the sidewalks. -Travis.
-I once had a horse in Coney Island. They ran her over. -Sport.
-June 29. I need to get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. I have overused my body for too long. From now on I will do 50 push-ups and 50 push-ups every morning. No more pills or junk food. -Travis.
-So what is this? Do you want to be a taxi driver? Do you need a second job? Are you doubling? - Personnel officer.
-I can work anytime, anywhere. -Travis.
"I'm not Bertrand Russell, but what do you want from me?" I am a taxi driver… I don't even know what you are talking about! -Wizard.
-Don't be a whore, you're only 12 years old. Go home! -Travis.
-Hey, I'm not square, you are the one who is square. You are full of shit. What are you talking about? You walk with those fucking creeps, scoundrels and degenerates on the streets and sell your little vagina for peanuts. And I am the square? -Travis.
-I first saw her was at Palantine's campaign headquarters at 63rd and Broadway. I was wearing a white dress. It looked like an angel. Out of all this crap, she's alone. They can't touch her… -Travis.
-There was an impulse that we were both feeling. Otherwise I would never have felt the right to speak to you. And I felt like there was nothing between you and him. When i entered. I realized. Did you feel that way too? -Travis.
-I wouldn't be here if it weren't. -Betsy.
-You are a young lady. You should be home. You should be dressed, hanging out with guys, going to school, you know, that kind of thing. -Travis.
-Have you ever seen what a 0.44 Magnum can do to a woman's vagina? Now you will see. -Passenger.
-I realize now how much she is like the others, cold and distant, and many people are like that, women for sure, they are like a union. -Travis.