Taxi Driver Quotes
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Source: Taxi Driver
Speaker: Travis Bickle
You talkin' to me?
Context
This line is spoken by Travis Bickle, played by Robert DeNiro, in the film Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese (1976).
If you think Uber is scary, you never got in a taxi with Travis Bickle, the "hero" of the 1976 film Taxi Driver.
He's a Vietnam War veteran (dishonorably discharged) suffering from insomnia and increasingly violent thoughts of vigilantism. He buys some guns and decides to try out a little tough guy speak.
By himself.
That's is when he utters the famous "You talkin' to me?" line…to an empty room.
Where you've heard it
Whenever anyone's trying to be tough (or jokingly trying to be tough), they'll pull this one out.
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Pretentious Factor
If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.
This isn't tough-guy speak, bro. It's a crazy person talking. And a legit crazy person used this movie as justification for an attempted presidential assassination. (Turn it up to 10 if you try to sound like DeNiro while saying it.)