- Doctor at hospital: Mrs. Rodriguez has expired.
- Paul Kersey: But you told me over the phone she only had a broken arm?
- Paul Kersey: Hey, what's the problem?
- Punk at Car #1: What?
- Paul Kersey: With the car... what's the problem?
- Punk at Car #1: Just get outta my fuckin' face. Who are you?
- Punk at Car #2: We're stealing a fuckin' car. What's it to you?
- Paul Kersey: It's my car.
- Punk at Car #1: Now you gonna die!
- [Kersey shoots them both dead]
- Paul Kersey: A .475 Wildey magnum is a shorter version of the African big game cartridge. It makes a real mess.
- Bennett: [after watching Kersey make his own bullets for half an hour] You load the shells yourself?
- Paul Kersey: Nothing's too good for our friends!
- Hector: Didn't think we'd see you out so soon... Hey man, it's good to see ya! I've just been taking care of a little business, you know?
- Fraker: I can see that...
- Hector: You said I should.
- Fraker: Did I?
- Fraker: [Gang restrains Hector] This is a sticker, Hector. And you're the stickee!
- Hector: No!
- [Fraker stabs Hector in the throat with a switch blade]
- Fraker: [Apparently calling 1-800-Dial-a-Thug] Yeah, Manny Fraker here. Listen, I need some more guys, as many as you can spare me. I need to put some more heat in my area. Yeah, thanks.
- Rodriguez: [to Kersey, about the package just arrived in the mail] What is it?
- Paul Kersey: A LAWS missile launcher. Anti tank, anti personnel. These rounds are self propelling, armour piercing. The round arms three feet out of the barrel. Won't do me much good though, unless I can get them bunched...
- Rodriguez: All I got is a zip gun.
- Paul Kersey: Well, we should get a few of them...
- Kathryn Davis: I hope you like chicken. It's the only thing I know how to make.
- Paul Kersey: Chicken's good. I like chicken.
- Richard Shriker: [speaking to Kersey] I have a theory. If I'm right, after LA you turned pro.
- [looks a newspaper clippings]
- Richard Shriker: Six creeps shot dead in a week. Four gang members killed in Kansas City.
- Bennett: [to Kersey] Twenty years nobody ever did that to me, break my windows! Well I say fuck 'em. I've had it.
- Fraker: [to Kersey on being released from jail] See... I got a lawyer. But I gotta tell yah, if they hadn't broken us up I would've killed you. Next time, you won't even see me coming. Tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna kill a little old lady, just for you. Catch it on the six o'clock news.
- Richard Shriker: I don't like creeps any more than you do. But I can't do anything about them. See, I'm a cop. But you, you shoot 'em.
- Eli Kaprov: It's 90 degrees outside. And I've had my windows nailed shut. - Spoken while wearing a bow tie, long sleeved shirt buttoned all the way to the top, and a knit sweater.
- Paul Kersey: Do you always violate peoples constitutional rights?
- Richard Shriker: Well, this is my jail, Kersey, and I'm the law! That means I *get* to violate your constitutional rights!
- [punches Kersey in the face]
- Pocketbook Lady: [after Kersey shoots and kills The Giggler] Oh, my Lord! It's the creep that stole my pocketbook three weeks ago! Yeah! Hey, praise! Right on!
- Pocketbook Lady: I'm glad he's dead! He took my pocketbook three weeks ago! He should've been dead! I'm glad he's dead!
- Bennett: [to Kersey] You load the shells yourself?
- [as he stands there watching Kersey load the shells himself]
- Tulio: Hey. What the fuck are you looking at?
- Tulio: Hey, lend me five dollars, man.
- Tulio: Hey, I said lend me five dollars! Sucker!
- Maria: [Tulio pushes Rodriguez and he falls over another thug] No!
- Paul Kersey: Hey!
- [Kersey runs over and punches Tulio in the face]
- [Policeman at the station]: You want a glass of water? Huh? You can't have it.