The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

Al Pacino: Bobby

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Quotes 

• [repeated line] 

  Bobby : I was gonna marry you!

• Bobby : I was gonna marry you! You think I"d marry a whore?

• Bobby : [to Helen, when he realizes she ratted him out]  CUNT! I was gonna marry you!

• [last lines] 

  Helen : Bobby!

  Bobby : Well?

• Bobby : I told my brother all about you. My brother Hank.

  Helen : You did?

  Bobby : Yeah. He"s gonna love you. Only, he better not love you too much, cause I"ll kick his ass.

• Bobby : [pawning a TV set]  This is UHF! You get everything on here. You want Chicago, you get Chicago. You get Turkey, I hear on this thing. Come on.

  Pawnshop Lady : I"ll give you fifteen dollars, okay?

  Bobby : Esther, I"m a dope addict.

  Pawnshop Lady : I heard that before. Why don"t you give me something new.

  Bobby : I"m a sex-crazed dope fiend.

  Pawnshop Lady : Come on, here, I"ll give you twenty dollars, huh. Twenty dollars!

  Bobby : I"m dyin" from the dope, Esther.

  Pawnshop Lady : And I"m dyin" from hunger.

• Bobby : Last night, tonight, what difference does it make? So, I fucked up.

  Hank : That"s the story of your life! Fuckin" up. What do I gotta do? Carry you every place to make sure you get there, huh? Is that what a brother"s for? What do you think this is, some kind of "He"s Not Heavy, He"s My Brother" crap? Let me tell you something, man, you are heavy!

• Bobby : I was the Babe Ruth of West 81st Street. That"s right! I hit that ball - I hit the ball on the roof one time, right. I went up to get it. There was this crap game going on, right. I won $79 before my next turn at bat. Huh? I"m the greatest!

• Bobby : I want you to shape up!

• Bobby : I"m a germ. You should split.

  Helen : You don"t have to tell me when to go. I"ll just leave.

• Helen : Did you see Marco?

  Bobby : Yeah. Marco. He split, man. He had a gig somewhere. You know them artists, they"re always splittin".

• Ward Nurse : There are no planes from Jersey City, either.

  Bobby : There are! There"s a helicopter that lands on the Pan Am building, then a limousine takes you down.

• Bobby : You know what you are?

  Helen : What am I?

  Bobby : You"re my girl. Right?

• Bobby : I want you to do me a favor. I want you to go up to 119th Street for me. I want you to score for me.

  Helen : You could.

  Bobby : Yeah, I could. Yeah.

  Helen : You"re not just asking me to score for you. You"re asking something else.

  Bobby : What am I askin"?

  Helen : You"re asking how much I"ll do for you.

  Bobby : Yeah. So?

  Helen : So. Alright.

• Hank : Come on, Bobby, don"t try to bull shit me... man. Cut your habit back.

  Helen : He"s only chipping.

  Hank : I chip. He uses - at fifty bucks a day. That"s two bills a week. And this is just the beginning of the panic. Where"s the money gonna come from Bobby?

  Bobby : Huh?

• Bobby : You know how old I was the first time I got busted? Nine. Stealing rubbers in a drug store. I told the cop they was for Hank.

• Helen : Look at that dog.

  Bobby : Hey, Skip.

  Helen : No, this dog"s not Skip.

  Bobby : Come on, Rocky.

  Helen : Sounds like a prizefighter.

• Bobby : Did you ball him?