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Scucchia:
Not dead yet? I heard that work kills people.
Salvatore: Its an honest death.
Scucchia: Sleep at night instead of playing cards - you look like refugees from the morgue.
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?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: So he didn't die of indigestion, he died of exhaustion.
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.
Scucchia: There's room for all in the cemetary.
Pio: Sabina, if everyone was as brave as your brother we've won the war.
Cartagine: Work! That's blasphemy!
Franco: Accattone you owe me 1000 lire, pay up before you kill yourself.
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!
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: Not even the river can stop Accattone!
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: I've got plenty of people left to make cry.
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.
Balilla: Remember us begging as kids? Your crying even upset the cops. But it doesn't work now, its disgusting.
Balilla: Damned women, they take you to heaven then they drop you.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You needn't think you're staying home and not working tonight. Your not on social security you know.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You've ruined me. Otherwise I'd be a good worker, or a good thief.
Maddalena: Sing somewhere else - don't spew your booze up here!
Maddalena: You mean my fellow's no good? he's handsome and good and he likes me.
Amore: Be like me, don't love anyone, so I'm called Amore.
Mario: Do you like Neopolitans? We're something special.
The German: Accattone you look worn-out.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Not at all. I'm a free citizen. My woman never came home last night. Someone nobbled her leg. I want to die.
The German: The police are coming! Act nonchalant.
Salvatore: Now he'll start selling holy pictures.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Documents. Who carries documents - I remember my name.
The German: In the words of the prophet, today you sell your ring, tomorrow your watch, next week your chain and in 77 days you'll have nothing left.
Balilla: The cemetary's over there.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Give it my love.
Balilla: Long live us thieves! We stretch out our hand and always get something.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Yes, a jail sentence.
Balilla: We're born with a vocation. I was born with the instinct to thieve. You weren't born with the instinct of a pim so you're a beggar.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You want to pick a fight? Go and get killed somewhere else. I did alright.
Balilla: Go back to thieving, there's no unemployment for thieves.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Where's my good wife?
Papo Hirmedo: Earning bread for her children. The less she sees of you the better.
Papo Hirmedo: One day someone will kill you.
Lady at work: We've been working since 6 o'clock this morning.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: These rotten things can happen.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Its hard work?
Stella: Its a question of habit, if you need something you have to work.
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!
Stella: Are you hungry?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: No, ravenous.
Stella: Well, noon, time to eat.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You seem so nice, so young, so good and kind. I don't know how to put this. Are you from Rome?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You're lucky you don't understand.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Do I need a permit to talk to you?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Don't start acting a tragedy.
Ascenza: Let me lead my life and you live yours.
Ascenza: You were never any good for yourself, for me, for your son. You want to come back? There's no easy life here.
Ascenza: It was the biggest mistake of my life to believe you.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Aren't you cute. The peasants are revolting.
Sabino: Dear Accattone. You've changed from day to night.
Sabino: It is rumoured you haven't eaten for 2 days.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: If I spew over you, you could eat for a week.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: [to dog] You're lucky, you can eat bones.
Franco: Is there a saint who protects the hungry? If you're there, help us.
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
Franco: Hurry up with the pasta or we'll look like the guys at the Nuremberg trial.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: We shall have some price left. Lets go and leave our pasta as an act of charity.
Gennarino: Pride! Pride in taking money from fallen women. Even in jail everyone despises the pimps.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: If I get nothing because of you, you'd better run.
Stella: [Looking at prostitutes] What are those girls doing?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Making money.
Stella: What do they do?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: What all other women do.
Amore: You don't care about her. I do alright because I've got nobody.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Can't you talk of anything else?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Look at him, getting her off for work. The dirty peasant.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Do you mind us walking like this? Do you know I love you? I act fast when someone deserves it, like you.
Stella: Why do you love me?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Firstly because I like you. Second because you seem so strange, so unprotected.
Stella: I want to make a speech.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Mussolini made speeches.
Stella: This is serious, I want you to know everything about me.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Call me Accattone. There are lots of Vittorios but I'm the only Accattone.
Franco: In love! Are you telling me fairytales. If you told me he was starving I'd believe it but in love!
Pio: Everyday is a holiday for us. All you get is MayDay.
Pio: What is Accattone? The tough guy of Rome. Basically he's just stupid.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Up yours and anyone else who's against me.
Pio: Let him - the river takes everything.
Amore's client: Aren't you ashamed. Wash your face you silly drunk.
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.
Stella: So, get a job.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: What, donating blood. No-one drinks my blood. Work. Animals work.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: I thought you were different. I've never been mistaken before in my life.
Stella: I know what you're doing with me. I've been expecting it. I know what you want from me.
Stella: I've only known pain and misery. I'm not like the others. How do I know what I must and mustn't do?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: The important thing is that we love each other. One day that will be all. Madonna make me a saint, I've already done my pennance.
Margheritona: Put your soul at ease, there's no hell and no heaven.
Margheritona: Amore make way for new talent, its time you were pensioned off.
Amore's client: The world today is a sewer. Now they all do it, more or less.
Margheritona: Now what? Nothing doing? Are you leaving me like this?
Amore's client: Anyone who mucks me about has had it.
Margheritona: Leave me alone, I won't go to the police station. I do as I please.
Margheritona: There's no loving in this world now.
Maddalena: You don't know him, he's capable of anything. Everything as long as he's alright. Even killing. You must arrest him. He's not fit to live.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: There are 2 possibilities. Either I've gone mad or my brain's back.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You still got some masala? Happy days.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: To tell the truth, Stella's found a roof. The first step has been taken.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: [singing] Just give me the will to work. Work for me dad, I'd rather shirk.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: I thought work might be a pleasure... I'm not doing any more, its killing me!
Colleague at labouring job.: What a bad effect work has on you.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You make me sick you dirty pimps.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: How prosaic.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Either the world kills me or I kill it.
Balilla: Accatone lets drink a drop, it bucks you up.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: I haven't a lira, yesterday I even tried going to work.
Balilla: What a disgrace.
Balilla: The world belongs to those with teeth.
Balilla: Cinderella's lost shoe gained her a prince. Yours would summon the fire brigade.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: He who trusts in providence will never starve. Stella was right. My poor Stella.
Poilceman: Don't even try to escape, we know who you are.
Cartagine: Accattone, how are you?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: [Dying] Now I'm fine.
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Salvatore: Its an honest death.
Scucchia: Sleep at night instead of playing cards - you look like refugees from the morgue.
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?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: So he didn't die of indigestion, he died of exhaustion.
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.
Scucchia: There's room for all in the cemetary.
Pio: Sabina, if everyone was as brave as your brother we've won the war.
Cartagine: Work! That's blasphemy!
Franco: Accattone you owe me 1000 lire, pay up before you kill yourself.
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!
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: Not even the river can stop Accattone!
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: I've got plenty of people left to make cry.
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.
Balilla: Remember us begging as kids? Your crying even upset the cops. But it doesn't work now, its disgusting.
Balilla: Damned women, they take you to heaven then they drop you.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You needn't think you're staying home and not working tonight. Your not on social security you know.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You've ruined me. Otherwise I'd be a good worker, or a good thief.
Maddalena: Sing somewhere else - don't spew your booze up here!
Maddalena: You mean my fellow's no good? he's handsome and good and he likes me.
Amore: Be like me, don't love anyone, so I'm called Amore.
Mario: Do you like Neopolitans? We're something special.
The German: Accattone you look worn-out.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Not at all. I'm a free citizen. My woman never came home last night. Someone nobbled her leg. I want to die.
The German: The police are coming! Act nonchalant.
Salvatore: Now he'll start selling holy pictures.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Documents. Who carries documents - I remember my name.
The German: In the words of the prophet, today you sell your ring, tomorrow your watch, next week your chain and in 77 days you'll have nothing left.
Balilla: The cemetary's over there.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Give it my love.
Balilla: Long live us thieves! We stretch out our hand and always get something.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Yes, a jail sentence.
Balilla: We're born with a vocation. I was born with the instinct to thieve. You weren't born with the instinct of a pim so you're a beggar.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You want to pick a fight? Go and get killed somewhere else. I did alright.
Balilla: Go back to thieving, there's no unemployment for thieves.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Where's my good wife?
Papo Hirmedo: Earning bread for her children. The less she sees of you the better.
Papo Hirmedo: One day someone will kill you.
Lady at work: We've been working since 6 o'clock this morning.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: These rotten things can happen.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Its hard work?
Stella: Its a question of habit, if you need something you have to work.
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!
Stella: Are you hungry?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: No, ravenous.
Stella: Well, noon, time to eat.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You seem so nice, so young, so good and kind. I don't know how to put this. Are you from Rome?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You're lucky you don't understand.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Do I need a permit to talk to you?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Don't start acting a tragedy.
Ascenza: Let me lead my life and you live yours.
Ascenza: You were never any good for yourself, for me, for your son. You want to come back? There's no easy life here.
Ascenza: It was the biggest mistake of my life to believe you.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Aren't you cute. The peasants are revolting.
Sabino: Dear Accattone. You've changed from day to night.
Sabino: It is rumoured you haven't eaten for 2 days.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: If I spew over you, you could eat for a week.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: [to dog] You're lucky, you can eat bones.
Franco: Is there a saint who protects the hungry? If you're there, help us.
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
Franco: Hurry up with the pasta or we'll look like the guys at the Nuremberg trial.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: We shall have some price left. Lets go and leave our pasta as an act of charity.
Gennarino: Pride! Pride in taking money from fallen women. Even in jail everyone despises the pimps.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: If I get nothing because of you, you'd better run.
Stella: [Looking at prostitutes] What are those girls doing?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Making money.
Stella: What do they do?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: What all other women do.
Amore: You don't care about her. I do alright because I've got nobody.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Can't you talk of anything else?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Look at him, getting her off for work. The dirty peasant.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Do you mind us walking like this? Do you know I love you? I act fast when someone deserves it, like you.
Stella: Why do you love me?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Firstly because I like you. Second because you seem so strange, so unprotected.
Stella: I want to make a speech.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Mussolini made speeches.
Stella: This is serious, I want you to know everything about me.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Call me Accattone. There are lots of Vittorios but I'm the only Accattone.
Franco: In love! Are you telling me fairytales. If you told me he was starving I'd believe it but in love!
Pio: Everyday is a holiday for us. All you get is MayDay.
Pio: What is Accattone? The tough guy of Rome. Basically he's just stupid.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Up yours and anyone else who's against me.
Pio: Let him - the river takes everything.
Amore's client: Aren't you ashamed. Wash your face you silly drunk.
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.
Stella: So, get a job.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: What, donating blood. No-one drinks my blood. Work. Animals work.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: I thought you were different. I've never been mistaken before in my life.
Stella: I know what you're doing with me. I've been expecting it. I know what you want from me.
Stella: I've only known pain and misery. I'm not like the others. How do I know what I must and mustn't do?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: The important thing is that we love each other. One day that will be all. Madonna make me a saint, I've already done my pennance.
Margheritona: Put your soul at ease, there's no hell and no heaven.
Margheritona: Amore make way for new talent, its time you were pensioned off.
Amore's client: The world today is a sewer. Now they all do it, more or less.
Margheritona: Now what? Nothing doing? Are you leaving me like this?
Amore's client: Anyone who mucks me about has had it.
Margheritona: Leave me alone, I won't go to the police station. I do as I please.
Margheritona: There's no loving in this world now.
Maddalena: You don't know him, he's capable of anything. Everything as long as he's alright. Even killing. You must arrest him. He's not fit to live.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: There are 2 possibilities. Either I've gone mad or my brain's back.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You still got some masala? Happy days.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: To tell the truth, Stella's found a roof. The first step has been taken.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: [singing] Just give me the will to work. Work for me dad, I'd rather shirk.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: I thought work might be a pleasure... I'm not doing any more, its killing me!
Colleague at labouring job.: What a bad effect work has on you.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You make me sick you dirty pimps.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: How prosaic.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Either the world kills me or I kill it.
Balilla: Accatone lets drink a drop, it bucks you up.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: I haven't a lira, yesterday I even tried going to work.
Balilla: What a disgrace.
Balilla: The world belongs to those with teeth.
Balilla: Cinderella's lost shoe gained her a prince. Yours would summon the fire brigade.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: He who trusts in providence will never starve. Stella was right. My poor Stella.
Poilceman: Don't even try to escape, we know who you are.
Cartagine: Accattone, how are you?
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: [Dying] Now I'm fine.
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