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Robert Benton Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“[to Clyde] You're just like your brother. Ignorant, uneducated hillbilly, except the only special thing about you is your peculiar ideas about love-making, which is no love-making at all.”
— Bonnie Parker, Bonnie and Clyde
Tagged: ignorant, Hillbilly, love-making, Anti-White
“[after Clyde shows off his marksmanship with a handgun]
Bonnie Parker: You're good!

Clyde Barrow: I ain't good. I'm the best!

Bonnie Parker: And modest!”
— Clyde Barrow, Bonnie and Clyde
Tagged: Modesty, Egotistical
“You know what you done there? You told my story, you told my whole story right there, right there. One time, I told you I was gonna make you somebody. That's what you done for me. You made me somebody they're gonna remember.”
— Clyde Barrow, Bonnie and Clyde
Tagged: Story, Memories
“You try to get something to eat around here and some son of a bitch comes up to you with a meat cleaver.”
— Clyde Barrow, Bonnie and Clyde
Tagged: diner, meat cleaver
“This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks.”
— Clyde Barrow, Bonnie and Clyde
Tagged: Introductions, Bank Robbers
“Hey, you wanna hear a story 'bout this boy? He owned a dairy farm, see. And his ol' Ma, she was kinda sick, you know. And the doctor, he had called him come over, and said, uh, 'Uhh listen, your Ma, she's lyin' there, she's just so sick and she's weakly, and uh, uh I want ya to try to persuade her to take a little brandy,' you see. Just to pick her spirits up, ya know. And 'Ma's a teetotaler,' he says. 'She wouldn't touch a drop.' 'Well, I'll tell ya whatcha do, uh,'—the doc—'I'll tell ya whatcha do, you bring in a fresh quart of milk every day and you put some brandy in it, see. And see. You try that.' So he did. And he doctored it all up with the brandy, fresh milk, and he gave it to his Mom. And she drank a little bit of it, you know. So next day, he brought it in again and she drank a little more, you know. And so they went on that way for the third day and just a little more, and the fourth day, she was, you know, took a little bit more—and then finally, one week later, he gave her the milk and she just drank it down. Boy, she swallowed the whole, whole, whole thing, you know. And she called him over and she said, 'Son, whatever you do, don't sell that cow!'”
— Buck Barrow, Bonnie and Clyde
Tagged: brandy, dairy farm, Stories
“[reading her poem] You've heard the story of Jesse James / Of how he lived and died / If you're still in need / Of something to read / Here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde. / Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang / I'm sure you all have read / How they rob and steal / And those who squeal / Are usually found dyin' or dead. / They call them cold-hearted killers / They say they are heartless and mean / But I say this with pride / That I once knew Clyde / When he was honest and upright and clean. / But the laws fooled around / Kept takin' him down / And lockin' him up in a cell / Till he said to me: 'I'll never be free / So I'll meet a few of them in Hell.' / If a policeman is killed in Dallas / And they have no clue to guide / If they can't find a fiend / They just wipe their slate clean / And hang it on Bonnie and Clyde / If they try to act like citizens / And rent them a nice little flat / About the third night / They're invited to fight / By a sub-guns' rat-a-tat-tat. / Some day, they'll go down together / They'll bury them side by side / To a few, it'll be grief / To the law, a relief / But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.”
— Bonnie Parker, Bonnie and Clyde
Tagged: Bonnie and Clyde, jesse james, Infamy
“Clyde Barrow: Alright. Alright. If all you want's a stud service, you get on back to West Dallas and you stay there the rest of your life. You're worth more than that. A lot more than that. You know it and that's why you come along with me. You could find a lover boy on every damn corner in town. It don't make a damn to them whether you're waitin' on tables or pickin' cotton, but it does make a damn to me.

Bonnie Parker: Why?

Clyde Barrow: Why? What's you mean, 'Why?' Because you're different, that's why. You know, you're like me. You want different things. You got somethin' better than bein' a waitress. You and me travelin' together, we could cut a path clean across this state and Kansas and Missouri and Oklahoma and everybody'd know about it. You listen to me, Miss Bonnie Parker. You listen to me.”
— Clyde Barrow, Bonnie and Clyde
Tagged: Stud, West Dallas, erectile dysfunction, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
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