Dillinger (1973)

Warren Oates: John Dillinger

Photos 

Quotes 

• John Dillinger : What chased you out of Cookson Hills, Floyd?

  Pretty Boy Floyd : Well, the Feds were getting to my folks, and it's hard on them. And then damn Bonnie and Clyde ran through there. Weren't safe for no one. Bunch of mad dogs, that's what they were, and I ain't sorry to see them go.

  John Dillinger : No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.

• Baby Face Nelson : If he screams like that again, the hunters downstairs are going to call the cops.

  John Dillinger : What do you expect me to do about it?

  Baby Face Nelson : Finish him! I wouldn't ask no different!

  Billie Frechette : Oh God, you can't do that!

  Pretty Boy Floyd : Leave the boy be! He deserves a chance. A man deserves a chance.

• John Dillinger : I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

• John Dillinger : All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.

• John Dillinger : My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

• John Dillinger : Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is! These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!

• Billie Frechette : I don't want to be there when they get you. Promise me that I won't have to be there when they get you.

  John Dillinger : They're not going to get me.

  Billie Frechette : I just don't want to see it. I just don't want to see it John.

  John Dillinger : They won't ever get me. I may not live forever, but I'd be a damn fool not to try!

• Billie Frechette : Well, what did he sound like?

  John Dillinger : Who?

  Billie Frechette : Melvin Purvis.

  John Dillinger : Don't you ever say that name again!

• John Dillinger : You have a nice smile, too, miss. I'd like to withdraw my entire account

  Bank Teller : Your entire account?

  John Dillinger : That's right... the whole thing

  Bank Teller : And your name?

  John Dillinger : John. John Dillinger.

  [pulls a pistol] 

• John Dillinger : [before a bank robbery]  OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal.

• John Dillinger : What would you do if you could do anything in the world?

  Billie Frechette : I don't know; maybe go dancing with you again.

  John Dillinger : All right; if that's what you want, we'll go into Chicago tonight, have dinner and go dancing.

  Billie Frechette : [laughing]  Johnnie; you can't go into Chicago!

  John Dillinger : Why not? I can go there to rob banks; I can go there to go dancing with my girl.

• John Dillinger : You really don't know who I am, do you?

  Billie Frechette : Look,pal... you can be whoever you want. As far as I'm concerned, you're Douglas Fairbanks.

  John Dillinger : Who?

  Billie Frechette : Douglas Fairbanks

  John Dillinger : *Wrong*! I'm John Dillinger.

• John Dillinger : Now get over there behind that wheel before I kill ya.

• Pearl : You kinda look like Dillinger, Mr. Long. Did anybody ever tell you that?

  John Dillinger : Oh, no. Do you mean John Dillinger, the criminal?

  Pearl : Uh huh.

  John Dillinger : Oh, some folks think I look like Douglas Fairbanks.

  Pearl : [laughs]  I like Dillinger better.

  Homer Van Meter : He does look like him. I told him that a thousand times.

• John Dillinger : [Dillinger phones Purvis after escaping from prison]  I always felt that, uh, well, I always felt that we oughtta talk occasionally.

  Melvin Purvis : Good, good, I like to hear from you.

  John Dillinger : I understand that, uh, I understand that you been, uh, that you got me on driving a stolen car across state lines. Is that right? Federal offense, that's what the papers said.

  Melvin Purvis : That's right, kid. Not much for a man of your ability.

  John Dillinger : [growing angry]  How'd you like the crash out!

  Melvin Purvis : Liked it fine, Johnny.

  John Dillinger : Yeah, it was great, wasn't it?!

  Melvin Purvis : I've always wanted it that way. It gives me a chance . . .

  John Dillinger : How many men you got on me now, Melvin?!

  Melvin Purvis : Two, Johnny. Two good ones.

  John Dillinger : You and J. Edgar Hoover, huh?

  Melvin Purvis : That's right, kid.

  John Dillinger : Well that's fine, that's fine, Melvin. I like a man with confidence.

  Melvin Purvis : Call whenever you like.

  John Dillinger : Sure been nice talkin' to you.

  Melvin Purvis : You can reverse the charges if you need, kid.

  John Dillinger : [hangs up the phone and yells into the receiver]  Bye! Son of a bitch.