Franco Citti credited as playing...
Accattone
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Call me Accattone. There are lots of Vittorios but I'm the only Accattone.
- Kid standing on riverbank: Aren't you going to take off your gold chain and bracelets?
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: No, I want to die wearing my gold like the pharoahs.
- Kid standing on riverbank: Give it to us!
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: No - if you want gold you have to swim for it.
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: What's hunger? A vice - its all in the mind. If they hadn't got used to eating as children... did your lousy father fill you with the vice of eating?
- Franco: Do you remember when we stole from a blind man to get food.
- Pio: And do you remember when we stole your father's false teeth
- Stella: So, get a job.
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: What, donating blood. No-one drinks my blood. Work. Animals work.
- Franco: Tell me your last wishes, what sort of funeral procession?
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Friends follow the hearse, first one to weep buys the drinks.
- Franco: What inscription on the tombstone?
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Try it and See!
- Stella: Why do you love me?
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Firstly because I like you. Second because you seem so strange, so unprotected.
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: I know what has to be done in Italy. Lincoln freed the slaves... but our rulers caused slavery. With a tommy gun in my hand there'd be few left!
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: What should I have? See what I'm reduced to? I disgust myself. Do yo uknow what I was before I met you? I had a car, money, all I wanted. A gold chain, a gold watch, I was all gold.
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Were you there when he made the bet with German and Crazy People. Did he say he'd eat a kilo of potatoes and a whole cheese then swim and nothing would happen?
- Franco: Don't you know you can't swim after a meal, you die. The change from hot to cold stops your digestion.
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: I've lost all my money but I've still got a ring to bet. Scared to bet?
- Franco: I'll take you on, I want to kill you off.
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: We're all washed-up and everybody avoids us. If we've money we're alright, if not we're nothing. We're finished because we're incapable of making it on our own. Today its better to be a thief than follow this despicable trade.
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You needn't think you're staying home and not working tonight. Your not on social security you know.