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Frank Pierson Quotes

Total quotes: 30
“[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, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: prayer, Old Man, atheism
“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, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: Attica, Guns, Fucking
“Sylvia: Why don't you smoke?

Sal: I don't want the cancer.”
— Salvatore "Sal" Naturale, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: Cigarettes, smoking, cancer, Lung Cancer
“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, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Egg Eating Contest, Round Number
“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, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: kiss me, Fucked
“[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, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: Attica, Kill
“He won't listen to anybody. He's been very crazy all summer. Since June he's been trying to kill me.”
— Leon Shermer, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: crazy, Death Threats
“I mean, how do they expect you to get uncrazy if you're asleep all the time?”
— Leon Shermer, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: crazy, sedation
“[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, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: telephone, Pope, Astronaut
“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, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Failure to Communicate
“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, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: I Can't Breathe, Claustrophobia
“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, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Just Following Orders, Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right
“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, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Runaway Prisoners, Get Your Mind Right
“Sonny: Is there any special country you wanna go to?

Sal: Wyoming.

Sonny: Sal, Wyoming's not a country.”
— Salvatore "Sal" Naturale, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: wyoming, country, Geography
“[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, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: fuckup, Outcast
“Bank robbing is a federal offense. You got me on kidnapping, armed robbery. You're gonna bury me, man!”
— Sonny Wortzik, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: Bank Robbing, federal offense, Bury, Kidnapping, Armed Robbery
“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, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: ogling, Horny, prayer
“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, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Prison, Mental Torture
“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, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Prison, Chain Gang, Claustrophobia
“That's my darling Luke. He grins like a baby but bites like a gator.”
— Dragline, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Bite Worse than Bark, Baby, gator
“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, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: arrangements, bus, Airport
“I bark. That man there, see him? [points to Sal] He bites.”
— Sgt. Gillis (uncredited), Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: bark, Bite, dog, Threat
“Now, I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean sum-bitch.”
— Captain, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: good guy, mean, Son of a Bitch
“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, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: Psychiatrist, Transgender, sex change
“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, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: Murder, Guts, Job, Hate
“[Speaking to her son Luke] You know, sometimes, I wished people was like dogs, Luke. Comes a time, a day like, when the bitch just don't recognize the pups no more, so she don't have no hopes nor love to give her pain. She just don't give a damn.”
— Arletta, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Dogs, Pups, Bitch, IDGAF
“Yeah, well...sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.”
— Luke Jackson, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Nothing, Cool Hand
“I'm a Catholic, I don't want to hurt anybody.”
— Sonny Wortzik, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: Catholic, Malice
“What we've got here is failure to communicate.”
— Captain, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Failure, Communicate
“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, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: Murder, Job, Hate
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