Escape from New York (1981)

Ernest Borgnine: Cabbie

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Quotes 

• Snake Plissken : Where's the President?

  Cabbie : The Duke got him. Everybody knows the Duke's got him. You don't have to put a gun to my head. I'll tell you.

  Snake Plissken : Who's the Duke?

  Cabbie : The Duke? The Duke of New York, A-Number-1, the Big Man, that's who!

  Snake Plissken : I wanna meet this Duke.

  Cabbie : You can't meet the Duke! Are you crazy? Nobody gets to meet the Duke. You meet him once and then you're dead!

• Cabbie : [Snake runs into Cabbie's taxi cab while being chased by the Crazies]  Bad neighborhood, Snake! You don't want to be walking from the Bowery to 42nd Street at night. I've been driving a cab here for 30 years and I'm telling you: you don't walk around here at night! Yes, sir! Those Crazies'll kill you and strip you in ten seconds flat! Usually I'm not down around here myself, but I wanted to catch that show. That stuff is like gold around here, you know.

  [Cabbie casually lights a Molotov cocktail and throws it at approaching Crazies, which explodes in front of them, stopping them... and Cabbie speeds away with Snake in his taxi] 

• Cabbie : Brain? Brain, I brought somebody to see you.

  Snake Plissken : [recognizes Brain]  Harold Helman...

  Brain : Snake?

  Maggie : [curious]  Harold?

  Snake Plissken : How you been, Harold? It's been a long time.

  Maggie : You never told me you knew Snake Plissken, Brain.

  Cabbie : Isn't that great? Hey, Brain, I could use some gas if you could spare some.

  Snake Plissken : I'm glad you remember me. Yeah, a man should remember his past. Kansas City, four years ago, you ran out on me... You left me sittin' there.

  Brain : You were late.

  Snake Plissken : [bitterly]  We were buddies, Harold. You, me, and Fresno Bob. You know what they did to Bob, huh?

• Cabbie : Hey. You're Snake Plissken, ain't you?

  Snake Plissken : What do you want?

  Cabbie : Nothing. I thought you were dead.

• Cabbie : Oh, that Brain, he's the greatest. Mr Fabulous! The Duke loves him.

  Snake Plissken : Who's that?

  Cabbie : That's Maggie. Brain's squeeze. The Duke gave her to Brain just to keep him happy. See what I mean, He-he.

• Cabbie : Don't cross the Duke. Everybody knows that.