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Frank Pierson

Frank Pierson

Birthname

AKA Frank Pierson

Birthday May 12, 1925

Birthplace Chappaqua, New York, United States

Death July 22, 2012

Educated At Harvard College

Nationality United States Of America, United States

Occupations Film Director, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Leso

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[to his mother] I'm a fuckup and I'm an outcast. If you get near me you're gonna get it—you're gonna get fucked over and fucked out.

— Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon

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

Sal: Wyoming.

Sonny: Sal, Wyoming's not a country.

— Salvatore "Sal" Naturale (John Cazale), Dog Day Afternoon

wyoming country Geography

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Boss: Sorry, Luke. I'm just doing my job. You gotta appreciate that.

Luke: Nah—calling it your job don't make it right, Boss.

— Luke Jackson (Paul Newman), Cool Hand Luke

Just Following Orders Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right

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Oh come on. Stop beatin' it. Get out there yourself. Stop feedin' off me. Get out of here. I can't breathe. Give me some air.

— Luke Jackson (Paul Newman), Cool Hand Luke

I Can't Breathe Claustrophobia

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You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right.

— Captain (Strother Martin), Cool Hand Luke

Runaway Prisoners Get Your Mind Right

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Dragline: Why you got to go and say fifty eggs for? Why not thirty-five or thirty-nine?

Luke: I thought it was a nice round number.

— Luke Jackson (Paul Newman), Cool Hand Luke

Egg Eating Contest Round Number

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[Alone in a church, talking to God, as police lights begin flashing] Is that your answer, old man? Well, I guess you're a hard case, too.

— Luke Jackson (Paul Newman), Cool Hand Luke

prayer Old Man atheism

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Sylvia: Why don't you smoke?

Sal: I don't want the cancer.

— Salvatore "Sal" Naturale (John Cazale), Dog Day Afternoon

Cigarettes smoking cancer Lung Cancer

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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 Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon

Attica Guns Fucking

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[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 Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon

telephone Pope Astronaut

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[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!

— Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon

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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.

— Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon

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What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.

— Captain (Strother Martin), Cool Hand Luke

Failure to Communicate

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He won't listen to anybody. He's been very crazy all summer. Since June he's been trying to kill me.

— Leon Shermer (Chris Sarandon), Dog Day Afternoon

crazy Death Threats

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I mean, how do they expect you to get uncrazy if you're asleep all the time?

— Leon Shermer (Chris Sarandon), Dog Day Afternoon

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The Girl: [Washing her car with the radio on loud to get the prisoners’ attention]

Dragline: Hey, Lord... whatever I done, don't strike me blind for another couple of minutes.

— Dragline (George Kennedy), Cool Hand Luke

ogling Horny prayer

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

— Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon

Bank Robbing federal offense Bury Kidnapping Armed Robbery

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Yeah, well...sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

— Luke Jackson (Paul Newman), Cool Hand Luke

Nothing Cool Hand

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

— Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon

Catholic Malice

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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 Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon

Murder Guts Job Hate

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Now, I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean sum-bitch.

— Captain (Strother Martin), Cool Hand Luke

good guy mean Son of a Bitch

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I couldn't explain why I did the things I did. So I went to this psychiatrist who explained to me I was a woman in a man's body. So Sonny right away wanted to get me money for a sex change operation: but where was he to get that? 2,500 dollars! My God, he's in hock up to his ears already.

— Leon Shermer (Chris Sarandon), Dog Day Afternoon

Psychiatrist Transgender sex change

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Captain: You gonna get used to wearin' them chains after a while, Luke. Don't you never stop listenin' to them clinking. 'Cause they gonna remind you of what I been saying. For your own good.

Luke: Wish you'd stop being so good to me, Captain.

— Luke Jackson (Paul Newman), Cool Hand Luke

Prison Mental Torture

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Boss Paul: That ditch is Boss Kean's ditch. And I told him that dirt in it's your dirt. What's your dirt doin' in his ditch?

Luke: I don't know, Boss.

Boss Paul: You better get in there and get it out, boy.

— Luke Jackson (Paul Newman), Cool Hand Luke

Prison Chain Gang Claustrophobia

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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 Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon

arrangements bus Airport

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