Accattone

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 won't have eyes to cry with.

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.