Taxi Quotes

Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns

If you look at the world now its one that we couldn't have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn't have believed that everything is disposable!

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio and the other guy took the tires.

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

I drove a taxi at night during my last year at BU and then for another 18 months after graduating in order to buy cameras and pay the rent while I tried to figure out for myself how to freelance.

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.

I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

I'm one of the people who will hear a song in a taxi and be like, stop, stop the car. Like, let's go back. What was that?

Even running to catch a train or a taxi, you can enjoy the high energy of the moment.

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs.

[My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd."

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

Everyone in Nashville's got DUIs because there's no public transportation and everyone's too lazy to call a taxi.

Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.

If I could grant wishes do you think I would be driving a cab?

An altar is like an airport where spirits take off and land

Any church that operates in prayerless and powerless Christianity spend their days and years conducting dust to dust rites in the burial grounds.

Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you from being among the next casualties of war