Fox and His Friends Quotes

  • Max: There are drunks lying everywhere! The state should do something. It's the same everywhere. In Helsinki recently, there were so many drunks lying around even though it's hard to get alcohol in Finland.

  • Franz Bieberkopf: [repeated lines Fox says to Eugen] I love you!

  • Max: [referring to Franz] He's not the sort of guy whom money makes rich.

  • Franz Bieberkopf: I think you're daft.

    Eugen Thiess: Do you?

    Franz Bieberkopf: Yes, pretty much.

    Eugen Thiess: How about you? Do you wash yourself from time to time?

    Franz Bieberkopf: Some people wash themselves, and some people are clean.

    Eugen Thiess: And some people stink, even though they're clean.

    Franz Bieberkopf: And that's good, because some people are turned on by a bit of smell.

    Eugen Thiess: Don't look at me.

  • Franz Bieberkopf: Some people have a tidy closet, some people have a tidy head.

  • Franz Bieberkopf: Everyone's to be had. What a pity.

  • Barman Springer: What do the ladies in the painting business say? He who climbs high takes longer to fall in the paint pot. But not that much longer.

  • Franz Bieberkopf: I pay for everything. I always pay for everything. I have to pay for everything, always!

    [breaks down sobbing]

  • Bank Teller: Cash. Cash. Cash! If you repeat a word often enough you don't know what it means anymore.

Fox and His Friends

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Language: German,English,French Release date: February 2, 1976