Taxi Driver

Taxi driver Travis tells his potential employer, “I can’t sleep nights.” (0:02)

Travis: “All the animals come out at night: whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies.” (0:06)

Travis: “Twelve hours of work, and I still can’t sleep.” (0:10)

Campaign worker Tom tells co worker Betsy, “You can get in trouble selling pharmaceuticals in a campaign office.” (0:12)

Travis tells drivers Wizard and Doughboy,“He got cut up by some crazy...” (0:16)

Betsy quotes song lyrics to Travis: “He’s a prophet and a pusher...”
Travis: “I’m no pusher. I never have pushed.” (0:27)

Wizard tells Travis, “Get drunk.” (0:48)

Travis: “Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere... I’m God’s lonely man.” Schizoid personality disorder? (0:53)

Dealer Easy Andy asks Travis, “How about dope, grass, hash, coke, mescaline, downers, Nembutal, Tuinal, chloral hydrates? How about uppers, amphetamines?”
“Crystal meth. I can get you crystal meth, nitrous oxide.” (0:57)

Prostitute Easy tells Travis, “Well, I must have been stoned.”
Travis: “They drug you?”
Easy: “Look, I was stoned... When I’m not stoned I got no place else to go.” (1:21)

Travis tells Easy, “I don’t go screw... with a bunch of junkies the way you do.”
Referring to pimp Sport: “He’s also a dope shooter.” (1:25)

Iris’ timekeeper tells Travis, “You crazy son of a bitch... Crazy son of a bitch... Crazy son of a bitch... You crazy son of bitch.”
Travis points a revolver at his own throat and pulls the trigger, but he cannot find a live round.”
When a police officer enters the room Travis gestures as though shooting himself in the head with a bloodied hand. (1:40)

References in Begin Again, Nothing Like the Holidays