Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Warren Beatty: Clyde Barrow

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• Clyde Barrow : This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks.

• [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!

• [about Bonnie's poem] 

  Clyde Barrow : 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.

• [moments after Clyde has committed armed robbery and they are about to make their getaway in a stolen car] 

  Bonnie Parker : Hey! What's your name, anyway?

  Clyde Barrow : [starts car]  Clyde Barrow.

  Bonnie Parker : [loudly over the engine noise]  Hi. I'm Bonnie Parker. Pleased to meet you!

• Clyde Barrow : What're you writing?

  Bonnie Parker : I'm writing a poem about us.

  Clyde Barrow : Let me hear it.

  Bonnie Parker : It's called The story of Bonnie and Clyde. You've heard of 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.

• Bonnie's Mother : You know Clyde, I read about you all in the papers, and I just get scared.

  Clyde Barrow : Now Ms. Parker, don't you believe what you read in all them newspapers. That's the law talkin' there. They want us to look big so they gonna look big when they catch us. And they ain't gonna catch us. 'Cause I'm even better at runnin' than I am at robbin' banks! Shoot, if we'd done half that stuff they said we'd done in that paper, we'd be millionaires by now, wouldn't we? But Ms. Parker, this here's the way we know best how to make money. But we gonna be quittin' all this, as soon as the hard times are over. I can tell ya that. Why just the other night, me and Bonnie were talkin'. And we were talkin' about the time we're gonna settle down and get us a home. And uh, she says to me, she says, "You know, I couldn't bear to live more than three miles from my precious Mother." Now how'd ya like that, Mother Parker?

  Bonnie's Mother : I don't believe I would. I surely don't. You try to live three miles from me and you won't live long, honey. You best keep runnin', Clyde Barrow. And you know it.

  [to Bonnie] 

  Bonnie's Mother : Bye, baby.

• Bonnie Parker : What would you do if some miracle happened and we could walk out of here tomorrow morning and start all over again clean? No record and nobody after us, huh?

  Clyde Barrow : Well, uh, I guess I'd do it all different. First off, I wouldn't live in the same state where we pull our jobs. We'd live in another state. We'd stay clean there and then when we'd take a bank, we'd go into the other state.

• Clyde Barrow : Hell, you might just be the best damn girl in Texas.

• Clyde Barrow : ...the truck drivers come in to eat greasy burgers and they kid you and you kid them back, but they're stupid and dumb, boys with big tattoos all over 'em, and you don't like it... And they ask you for dates and sometimes you go... but you mostly don't, and all they ever try is to get into your pants whether you want to or not... and you go home and sit in your room and think, when and how will I ever get away from this?... And now you know.

• Bonnie Parker : Mama's an old woman now. I don't have no mama. No family either.

  Clyde Barrow : Hey, I'm your family.

  Bonnie Parker : You know what, when we started out, I thought we was really goin' somewhere. This is it. We're just goin', huh?

  Clyde Barrow : I love you.

• Clyde Barrow : There's nothing wrong with me, I mean, I don't like boys.

• Clyde Barrow : I don't think he's lost. I think the bank's been offerin' extra reward money for us. I think Frank just figured on some easy pickins, didn't ya Frank? You're no Texas Ranger. You're hardly doin' your job. You ought to be home protectin' the rights of poor folk, not out chasin' after us!

• 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.

• Bonnie Parker : Hey, that ain't ours!

  Clyde Barrow : Sure it is.

  Bonnie Parker : But we come in this one.

  Clyde Barrow : That don't mean we have to go home in it!

• [after failing to sexually perform with Bonnie] 

  Clyde Barrow : 'Least I ain't a liar.

• Clyde Barrow : 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 : Honey, c'mon, I wanna talk to you for just a minute. Sit down, huh? This afternoon we killed a man, and we were *seen*. Now, so far nobody knows who you are, but they know who I am and they gonna be coming after me and anybody who's running with me. Now it's murder, it's gonna get rough. Now look: I can't get out now but you still can. I want you to say the word to me, and I'm gonna put you on that bus back to your momma. 'Cause you mean a lot to me, honey, and I just ain't gonna make you run with me.

  Bonnie Parker : No.

  Clyde Barrow : Huh?

  Bonnie Parker : No!

  Clyde Barrow : Now look, I ain't a rich man. You could get a rich man if you tried!

  Bonnie Parker : I don't want a rich man!

  Clyde Barrow : You ain't gonna have a minute's peace.

  Bonnie Parker : You promise?

• [during a robbery, a bank guard pulls a gun on Clyde. He responds by shooting the hat off the guard's head] 

  Clyde Barrow : Next time, I'll aim a little lower!

• Clyde Barrow : Now you just tell me what was wrong with that car.

  C.W. Moss : Dirt.

  Clyde Barrow : Dirt?

  C.W. Moss : Dirt in the fuel line... just blowed it away.

• Clyde Barrow : [Bonnie can't stop laughing after Clyde held up a failed bank and left empty-handed]  We got a dollar ninety-eight, and you're laughing!

• Clyde Barrow : [to Texas Ranger Frank Hamer]  You know, down in Duncanville last year, poor farmers kept you Iaws away from us with shotguns. You're supposed to be protecting them from us and they're protecting us from you.

• Bonnie Parker : When we started out... I thought we were really going somewhere. But this is it. We're just going.

  Clyde Barrow : I love you.

• Clyde Barrow : [after a failed session with Bonnie]  I told you I wasn't no lover boy.