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Quotes from In Cold Blood (1967)

19 quotes
Scott Wilson
Dick: [to Perry, just after arrest] Hey, Buddy, put in a call for that big, ol' Yellow Bird!
- Scott Wilson (as Dick) in In Cold Blood (1967)

Scott Wilson
Dick: [to Perry] I'm SICK of it, maps, buried treasure, ALL OF IT! So ship it, burn it, get RID of that ton and a half of garbage! There AIN'T no buried treasure, and even if there WAS, boy, hell, you can't even swim!
- Scott Wilson (as Dick) in In Cold Blood (1967)

Robert Blake
Dick: Did you ever hang any paper?
Perry: I couldn't cash a check, even if it was good!
- Robert Blake (as Perry) in In Cold Blood (1967)

Robert Blake
Dick: Did you see those guys? They coulda robbed us!
Perry: What of?
- Robert Blake (as Perry) in In Cold Blood (1967)

Scott Wilson
Dick: I don't know gold dust from diarrhea!
- Scott Wilson (as Dick) in In Cold Blood (1967)

Scott Wilson
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.
- Scott Wilson (as Dick) in In Cold Blood (1967)

John Forsythe
Alvin Dewey: Someday, somebody will explain to me the motive of a newspaper. First, you scream, "Find the bastards." Till we find them, you want to get us fired. When we find them, you accuse us of brutality. Before we go into court, you give them a trial by newspaper. When we finally get a conviction, you want to save them by proving they were crazy in the first place.
- John Forsythe (as Alvin Dewey) in In Cold Blood (1967)

Scott Wilson
Herbert Clutter: Why do you boys want to do this?
Dick: Shut up!
- Scott Wilson (as Dick) in In Cold Blood (1967)

Scott Wilson
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.
- Scott Wilson (as Dick) in In Cold Blood (1967)

Robert Blake
Perry: Do you have any aspirin? They took my aspirin away.
Alvin Dewey: Fellin' bad?
Perry: My legs do.
- Robert Blake (as Perry) in In Cold Blood (1967)