Take the Money and Run Quotes

  • Virgil: After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her, and after half an hour I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.

  • [last lines]

    Virgil: Do you know if it's raining outside?

  • The Narrator: Food on a chain gang is scarce and not very nourishing. The men get one hot meal a day: a bowl of steam.

  • Bank Teller #1: Does this look like "gub" or "gun"?

    Bank Teller #2: Gun. See? But what does "abt" mean?

    Virgil: It's "act". A-C-T. Act natural. Please put fifty thousand dollars into this bag and act natural.

    Bank Teller #1: Oh, I see. This is a holdup?

  • Virgil: Nobody wears beige to a bank robbery!

  • Louise: He is always very depressed. I think that if he'd been a successful criminal, he would have felt better. You know, he never made the 'ten most wanted' list. It's very unfair voting; it's who you know.

  • Louise: He'd have the gang over for a meeting and I'd put out a little tray of pretzels and bullets... I had to. He's my husband.

  • The Narrator: Frankie Wolf, wanted by authorities for dancing with a mailman.

  • Boardinghouse Roommate: One day he told me he was a gynecologist. But he couldn't speak no foreign languages. Who's he kiddin'?

  • Virgil: **after another group of robbers enters the bank** "O.K., show of hands. How many people want to be robbed by *this* group?"

  • Julius Epstein - The Psychiatrist: Well, I think the conflict in this personality, uh, sorta started from his formative years. I think it gives evidence in his choice of the cello. For instance, studying the cello at the age of six. Is just coming out of the formative years, but the conflict is there in his choice. Because it is generally assumed the cello is a phallic symbol, I mean with the grasp and the lowest structural forms certainly a feminine, if anything motherly. In fact, the utilization of the bow, I would imagine is the sublimation of the stroking the torso. So between the grasping, the phallic and the stroking of the torso, would create, I would imagine great conflict. Even at the age of six.