In Cold Blood (1967)

Robert Blake: Perry

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• Perry : It doesn't make sense. I mean what happened. It had nothing to do with the Clutters. They never hurt me. They just happened to be there. I thought Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman... I thought so right up to the time I cut his throat.

• Perry : It's true! Really true! We're on our way and never coming back. Never! And no regrets.

  Dick : For you. You're leaving nothing. What about my old man... and my mother? They'll still be there when my checks start bouncing.

  Perry : It's nice the way you think about your folks.

  Dick : Yeah! I'm a real thoughtful bastard.

• Dick : Did you see those guys? They coulda robbed us!

  Perry : What of?

• Perry : [quoting his father]  Look at me boy! Take a good look! Cause I'm the last living thing you're ever gonna see!

• [last lines] 

  Perry : [his last words]  I'd like to apologize, but... who to?

• Perry : That was stupid - stealin' a lousy pack of razor blades! To prove what?

  Dick : It's the national pastime, baby, stealin' and cheatin'. If they ever count every cheatin' wife and tax chiseler, the whole country would be behind prison walls.

• Perry : I despise people who can't control themselves.

• Dick : Did you ever hang any paper?

  Perry : I couldn't cash a check, even if it was good!

• Perry : Do you have any aspirin? They took my aspirin away.

  Alvin Dewey : Fellin' bad?

  Perry : My legs do.

• Dick : Next move... Mexico. Once we beat it out of the country.

  Perry : On what? $43 and a smile and bullshit.

  [First use of the word 'bullshit' in a Hollywood film] 

  Dick : You guessed it, chief. It's the smile that does it. Like it says in the commercials, the family that sticks together lives forever.

• Perry : [to himself, looking in a bathroom mirror]  Stick 'em up!

  Perry : Hey, buddy!

  Perry : [realizing he's being watched]  How long you been standin' there?

  Dick : Long enough to catch your late late show.

• Perry : When you hit the end of the rope... your muscles lose control. I'm afraid I'll mess myself.

  Prison Guard : It's nothing to be ashamed of. They all do it.

• Dick : A full day's work deserves a full-course dinner.

  Perry : The condemned ate a hearty meal.

  Dick : I don't know what they ate, but tonight, cheeseburgers

• Dick : What's the matter ?

  Perry : We're the matter! We're ridiculous! You tapping the walls for a safe that isn't there! Tap, tap, tap like some nutty woodpecker... and me, humping around on the floor with my legs on fire and all, stealing a kid's silver dollar. Ridiculous !