Taxi Driver Quotes

A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action, while attempting to liberate a twelve-year-old prostitute.

"Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.""Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up.""You're only as healthy as you feel.""I realize now how much she's just like the others, cold and distant, and many people are like that, women for sure, they're like a union.""I got some bad ideas in my head.""Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.""You get a job. You become the job.""The idea had been growing in my brain for some time: TRUE force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again.""How's your driving record? Clean? It's clean, real clean. Like my conscience.""I once had a horse, on Coney Island. She got hit by a car.""In the middle of the bridge she changes her pantyhose.""So what is it? Why do you want to be a taxi driver? Do you need a second job? Are you moonlighting? I... I just want to work long hours. What's moonlighting?""How's everything in the pimp business?""You got a .44 magnum? It's an expensive weapon. That's all right. I got money. It's a real monster. It'll stop a car at a hundred yards. Put a round right through the engine block.""Now back to Gene Krupa's syncopated style""Sometimes, I like to hold a midget.""I think I know what you mean, Travis.""You're a young girl, you should be at home. You should be dressed up, going out with boys, going to school, you know, that kind of stuff.""Now I see it clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.""All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention. I believe that someone should become a person like other people.""The idea had been growing in my brain for some time. True force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again.""Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.""I realize now how much she's just like the others - cold and distant, and many people are like that. Women for sure. They're like a union."