- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Call me Accattone. There are lots of Vittorios but I'm the only Accattone.
- Stella: So, get a job.
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: What, donating blood. No-one drinks my blood. Work. Animals work.
- 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: 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
- Stella: Why do you love me?
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: Firstly because I like you. Second because you seem so strange, so unprotected.
- 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!
- 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!
- Franco: In love! Are you telling me fairytales. If you told me he was starving I'd believe it but in love!
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: You needn't think you're staying home and not working tonight. Your not on social security you know.
- 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: 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: 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.
- 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.
- 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?