Once a Thief (1965)

Alain Delon: Eddie Pedak

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• Inspector Mike Vido SFPD : Knock off the goofball talk, Pedak. Speak Gringo.

  Eddie Pedak : Alright. How can you justify this one? Planning on losing me another job, is that it?

  Inspector Mike Vido SFPD : No. No, this time it's different. This time I'm going to shove you into the gas chamber.

• Eddie Pedak : When I was a kid in Trieste, I used to go out on the boats and I liked it. I want to go out there and watch the land disappear. Be free! And when I come back home, with the land coming back to me, I'll be clean!

  Kristine Pedak : Then we can move out of that dump we're in and get a new place.

  Eddie Pedak : Trying to tame me?

  Kristine Pedak : You? Man I need a chair and a *long* whip. No, I want you the way you are. Wild!

• Walter Pedak : Eddie, there's so much money in this world, there's so much money, and so many different ways to get it!

  Eddie Pedak : Stealing.

  Walter Pedak : Yeah, stealing! Everybody in this whole stinking world is a thief: the press, the priest, the whole public! Eddie, you know the one thing we have in common with the kings and the lions of the whole world - we're all thieves.

• Eddie Pedak : You want a cigarette?

  Kristine Pedak : You know what I want.

• Eddie Pedak : How long have you been out?

  Luke : Four months. Barely enough time to get a good high.