"I don't believe I would. I surely don't. You try to live three miles from me and you won't live long, honey. You best keep runnin', Clyde Barrow. And you know it."
After Clyde tells Mrs. Parker that they want to come back and live nearby, she says this, encouraging the two of them to go far away so as not to get killed by the authorities. Now that her daughter is a wanted criminal, Mrs. Parker does not want to be associated with her, and in an act of protectiveness urges them to get as far away as possible. This line is at once a kind of protective statement as well as a statement of rejection.
"I don't think he's lost. I think the bank's been offerin' extra reward money for us. I think Frank just figured on some easy pickins, didn't ya Frank? You're no Texas Ranger. You're hardly doin' your job. You ought to be home protectin' the rights of poor folk, not out chasin' after us!"
When Frank Hammer first confronts the criminals, they handcuff him and give him a hard time. Clyde mocks Frank with this line, telling the ranger that he ought to be focusing on helping out poor people rather than trying to catch some common bank robbers. In this line we see that Clyde believes that what they are doing isn't so wrong, and that he has an actual critique of the government and the banks for their unfair treatment of poor citizens.
"Well why not? I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody... I'm a nervous wreck and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine."
After being so disapproving of all the crime that the Barrow gang has committed, Blanche still wants a cut of the loot. As Clyde divvies up the money between himself, Bonnie, Buck, and Moss, Blanche speaks up and asks for her own share, insisting that she's played an equal part in all of it.
Clyde Barrow: Alright. Alright. If all you want's a stud service, you get on back to West Dallas and you stay there the rest of your life. You're worth more than that. A lot more than that. You know it and that's why you come along with me. You could find a lover boy on every damn corner in town. It don't make a damn to them whether you're waitin' on tables or pickin' cotton, but it does make a damn to me.
Bonnie Parker: Why?
Clyde Barrow: Why? What you mean, "Why?" Because you're different, that's why. You know, you're like me. You want different things. You got somethin' better than bein' a waitress. You and me travelin' together, we could cut a path clean across this state and Kansas and Missouri and Oklahoma and everybody'd know about it. You listen to me, Miss Bonnie Parker. You listen to me.
This is Clyde's pitch at the beginning of the film for why Bonnie should come go on the road with him. She is intrigued, but not convinced that she ought to join him in his travels, but he counters that she is suited for something more than her simple provincial life. He promises her fame and notoriety, in contrast to a predictable life in Dallas, flattering her and telling her she's "different."
"You're just like your brother. Ignorant, uneducated hillbilly, except the only special thing about you is your peculiar ideas about love-making, which is no love-making at all."
In a fight with Clyde in the middle of the film, Bonnie tells him he's just like Buck, and insults him for being unsophisticated and uneducated, in contrast to herself. To add insult to injury, she references the fact that Clyde is impotent, emasculating him and referencing the fact that he cannot make love to her.
"You know what you done there? You told my story, you told my whole story right there, right there. One time, I told you I was gonna make you somebody. That's what you done for me. You made me somebody they're gonna remember."
When Bonnie gets her poem about them published in the newspaper, towards the end of the film, Clyde is enchanted, and says this to Bonnie. He is less concerned with the fact that they are wanted by the law and will likely be killed, and more concerned with the fact that Bonnie has immortalized them in verse. He expresses his gratitude for her having made him famous, referencing the fact that that was the promise that he made her at the beginning of the film.
"You've heard the story of Jesse James / Of how he lived and died / If you're still in need / Of something to read / Here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde. / Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang / I'm sure you all have read / How they rob and steal / And those who squeal / Are usually found dyin' or dead. / They call them cold-hearted killers / They say they are heartless and mean / But I say this with pride / That I once knew Clyde / When he was honest and upright and clean. / But the laws fooled around / Kept takin' him down / And lockin' him up in a cell / Till he said to me: "I'll never be free / So I'll meet a few of them in Hell." / If a policeman is killed in Dallas / And they have no clue to guide / If they can't find a fiend / They just wipe their slate clean / And hang it on Bonnie and Clyde / If they try to act like citizens / And rent them a nice little flat / About the third night / They're invited to fight / By a sub-guns' rat-a-tat-tat. / Some day, they'll go down together / They'll bury them side by side / To a few, it'll be grief / To the law, a relief / But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde."
This is the poem that Bonnie writes for the paper. In addition to being a criminal, Bonnie has a penchant for the written word, a talent that Clyde encourages. She writes this poem as an homage to her and Clyde's infamy, and reads it aloud to him. When she does, he encourages her to send it to the paper, and it gets published. Thus, the story of Bonnie and Clyde goes down in history for the whole country to read. It's a morbid poem, and suggests that for all their sophisticated escape tactics, Bonnie and Clyde have made peace with the inevitability of their deaths.
"Step on it, Velma. Step on it, Velma. Velma, step on it, Velma!"
When Bonnie and Clyde steal his car, Eugene gets his girlfriend to drive him in pursuit of them. He talks a big game about confronting them, and urges his girlfriend to drive faster so they can catch up to the gang of criminals, but Eugene seems more frightened than anything, his voice cracking in fear as he tells Velma to "step on it."
"We rob banks!"
This simple assertion, confident and straightforward, is notable because it sounds like a job description, even though it is an admission of criminality. This line, uttered calmly and charmingly, is a testament to Clyde's slickness and arrogant confidence.
"Hey, boy, what you doin' with my Mama's car?"
The first line in the film, Bonnie straightforwardly confronts Clyde about the fact that he's stealing her mother's car. The fact that Bonnie does not get flustered and simply asks him is what endears the thief to the beautiful young woman, and which plants the seed that she might be a viable accomplice in his life of crime. The fact that she is nonchalant and unfazed by something that might fluster a different kind of person impresses him, and shows us that Bonnie Parker is a tough cookie, not someone to be trifled with.
