Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Sully Boyar: Mulvaney
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Sonny : [on a TV broadcast over the phone] I'm robbing a bank because they got money here. That's why I'm robbing it.
TV Anchorman : No, what I mean is why do you feel you have to steal for money? Couldn't you get a job?
Sonny : Uh, no. Doing what? You know if you want a job you've got to be a member of a union. See, and if you got no union card you don't get a job.
TV Anchorman : What about non-union occupations?
Sonny : What's wrong with this guy? What do you mean non-union, like what? A bank teller? You know how much a bank teller makes a week? Not much. A hundred and fifteen to start, right? Now are you going to live on that? I got a wife and a couple of kids, how am I going to live on that? What do you make a week?
TV Anchorman : Well I'm here to talk to you Sonny...
Sonny : Well I'm talking to you. We're entertainment, right? What do you got for us?
TV Anchorman : Well what do you want to get for it? Do you expect to be paid because...
Sonny : No, I don't want to be paid, I don't need to be paid. Look, I'm here with my partner and nine other people, see. And we're dying, man. You know? You're going to see our brains on the sidewalk, they're going to spill our guts out. Now are you going to show that on television? Have all your housewives look at that? Instead of As The World Turns? I mean what do you got for me? I want something for that.
TV Anchorman : Sonny, you could give up?
Sonny : Give up? Right. Have you ever been in prison?
TV Anchorman : No!
Sonny : No! Well let's talk about something you fucking know about, okay? How much do you make a week? That's what I want to hear. Are you going to talk to me about that?
[a "Please Stand By" graphic appears on the TV screen]
Sonny : Hey, what the fuck happened?
Mulvaney : I guess he didn't appreciate your use of language.
Sonny : Fuck him.
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Sonny : What if I take you with me?
Mulvaney : If you take anybody, please take me.
Sonny : They'll shoot you, you know. The cops! They don't give a fuck about your bank insurance. See what they did at Attica? Forty-two people they killed. The innocent with the guilty. Anyway, I won't take you with me. I'll take one of them - girls. A married one with some kids. The cops don't like it in the papers when they shoot a married woman - especially if she's got kids. You're all right. You won't fuck with me, will you?