"If you wouldn't open your mouth, everything would be just fine."

"[to his father] I don't know if you'd be particularly interested in hearing anything about me. My life, most of it do…"

"[out of his car during a traffic jam, yelling at other motorists] Ants! Why don't we all line up like a goddamned bun…"

"[to Bobby] I'll go out with you, or I'll stay in with you, or I'll do anything that you like for me to do, if you tel…"

"There isn't anybody gonna look after you AND love you, as good as I do."

"Palm Apodaca: People. Animals are not like that. They're always cleaning themselves. Did you ever see, umm... pigeons…"

"Catherine Van Oost: You're a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himse…"

"Betty: When I was four, just four years old, I went to my mother and I said, "What's this hole in my chin?" - I saw t…"

"Jack Nicholson - Robert 'Bobby' Eroica Dupea"

"Irene Dailey - Samia Glavia"