Public Enemies (2009) quotes

Director
Michael Mann.

Cast
Christian Bale.
Johnny Depp.
Christian Stolte.
Jason Clarke.

The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.

I was raised on a farm in Moooresville, Indiana. My mama died when I was three, my daddy beat the hell out of me cause he didn’t know no better way to raise me. I like baseball, movies, good clothes, fast cars, whiskey, and you… what else you need to know?
– John Dillinger

We’re having too good a time today. We ain’t thinking about tomorrow.
– John Dillinger

You can be a dead hero or a live coward.
– John Dillinger

You wanna know if we’re armed? We’re armed.
– John Dillinger

They’re looking at me because they’re not used to having a girl in their restaurant in a $3 dress.
– Billie Frechette
Listen, doll. That’s ’cause they’re all about where people come from. The only thing that’s important is where someone’s going.
– John Dillinger
Where are you going?
– Billie Frechette
Anywhere I want.
– John Dillinger

Boy, you are in a hurry!
– Billie Frechette
If you were looking at what I’m looking at, you’d be in a hurry, too.
– John Dillinger

Bye-bye, blackbird.
– John Dillinger

What keeps you up nights, Mr. Dillinger?
– Melvin Purvis
Coffee.
– John Dillinger

Well if it isn’t the man who shot Pretty-Boy Floyd. Good thing ’cause he sure wasn’t Whiz-Kid Floyd.
– John Dillinger

My friends call me John but a son of a bitch screw like you better refer to me as Mr. John Dillinger.
– John Dillinger

How long does it take you to run through a bank?
– Police Chief Fultz
About 1 minute… 40 seconds… Flat
– John Dillinger

What do you want?
– Billie Frechette
Everything. Right now.
– John Dillinger