“Drugstore Cowboy” quotes

“Well, to begin with, nobody, and I mean nobody, can talk a junkie out of using. You can talk to them for years but sooner or later they're gonna get ahold of something. Maybe it's not dope. Maybe it's booze, maybe it's glue, maybe it's gasoline. Maybe it's a gunshot to the head. But something. Something to relieve the pressures of their everyday...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Dillon - Bob

“Diane was my wife. I loved her, and she loved dope. So we made a good couple.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“I knew it in my heart. You can buck the system but you can't buck the dark forces that lie hidden beneath the surface. The ones some people call superstitions.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“- Bob: Why don't you grow up?
- David: I am growing up!”
Matt Dillon - Bob
Max Perlich - David

“Where did you get your goddamn license? Shithead!”
Kelly Lynch - Dianne

“Most people don't know how they're gonna feel from one moment to the next. But a dope fiend has a pretty good idea. All you gotta do is look at the labels on the little bottles.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“Jesus Christ, is she over eighteen?”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“Bob's like a rabbit, in and out and no nonsense. That goes for a lot more than a hospital pharmacy.”
Kelly Lynch - Dianne

“Alright everybody just act cool. Just like we got back from church.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.”
William S. Burroughs - Tom the Priest

“- David: How much do you want for that foxy female?
- Bob: Hey what do you think I am, some closet pimp? I've never heard such a violation of women's rights in all my life!... Just out of curiosity, how many bags of speed would you give me for this girl?”

Max Perlich - David
Matt Dillon - Bob

“- Tom the Priest: Well well. Bad Bobby Hughes. Imagine seeing you here after all these years.
- Bob: You live here too?
- Tom the Priest: I have nowhere else to go. There is no demand in the priesthood for elderly drug addicts.”
William S. Burroughs - Tom the Priest
Matt Dillon - Bob

“Man, I love cops. If there were no hot shit cops like Gentry around, the competition would be so heavy there'd be nothing left to steal.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“I truly feel pity for you both. You are grown up now! And yet you still act as children, who want to do nothing but run and play. You cannot run and play all your life, Dianne!”

Grace Zabriskie - Bob's Mother

“Sometimes bad luck can be good luck.”
Kelly Lynch - Dianne

“All these kids, they're all tv babies. Watching people killing and fucking each other on the boob tube for so long it's all they know. Hell, they think it's legal. They think it's the right thing to do.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“There's nothing more life-affirming than getting the shit kicked outta you.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“I'm a junkie, I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle. But it just didn't pay off. You know, you don't see my kind of people. Because my kind of people don't beg dope, they go out and get it.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“Lord, it's my dope fiend thief of a son and his crazy little nymphomaniac wife.”
Grace Zabriskie - Bob's Mother

“You won't fuck me and I always have to drive.”

Kelly Lynch - Dianne

“Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized.”
William S. Burroughs - Tom the Priest

“I was once a shameless full-time dope fiend.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“- Drug Counselor: Have you ever been convicted of a felony?
- Bob: Yeah, a few times.”
Beah Richards - Drug Counselor
Matt Dillon - Bob