Quotes from Midnight Cowboy (1969)

21 quotes
Ruth White
Sally Buck: You look real nice, lover boy, real nice. Make your old grandma proud. You're gonna be the best-looking cowboy in the whole parade.
- Ruth White (as Sally Buck) in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Brenda Vaccaro
Shirley: You fell. Hey fella, you fell.
- Brenda Vaccaro (as Shirley) in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Barnard Hughes
Towny: Oh, Joe it's... it's so difficult, I - You're a nice person, Joe, I- I- I should never have asked you up here, you're... You're a lovely person, really. Oh, God, I loathe life, I loathe it! Please go, please.
- Barnard Hughes (as Towny) in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Dustin Hoffman
Gretel McAlbertson: Why are you stealing food?
Ratso Rizzo: I was just, uh, noticing that you're out of salami. I think you oughtta have somebody go over to the delicatessen, you know, bring some more back.
Gretel McAlbertson: Gee, well, you know, it's free. You don't have to steal it.
Ratso Rizzo: Well, if it's free, then I ain't stealin'.
- Dustin Hoffman (as Ratso) in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Dustin Hoffman
Ratso Rizzo: Excuse my vulgarity.
- Dustin Hoffman (as Ratso) in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Dustin Hoffman
Ratso Rizzo: Frankly, you're beginning to smell and for a stud in New York, that's a handicap.
- Dustin Hoffman (as Ratso) in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Jon Voight
Ratso Rizzo: Here I am, goin' to Florida, my leg hurts, my butt hurts, my chest hurts, my face hurts, and like that ain't enough, I gotta pee all over myself.
[Joe Buck laughs]
Ratso Rizzo: That's funny? I'm fallin' apart here!
Joe Buck: It's just - Know what happened? You just took a little rest stop that wasn't on the schedule!
- Jon Voight (as Joe Buck) in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Dustin Hoffman
Ratso Rizzo: I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
- Dustin Hoffman (as Ratso) in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Dustin Hoffman
Ratso Rizzo: The two basic items necessary to sustain life, are sunshine and coconut milk... didya know that?
- Dustin Hoffman (as Ratso) in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Dustin Hoffman
Ratso Rizzo: You know, in my own place, my name ain't Ratso. I mean, it just so happens that in my own place my name is Enrico Salvatore Rizzo.
Joe Buck: Well, I can't say all that.
Ratso Rizzo: Rico, then.
- Dustin Hoffman (as Ratso) in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

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