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Hey! I'm walkin' here! ..."
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"I'm walkin' here!"
©Source: Courtesy of United Artists
Character: Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo
Played By: Dustin Hoffman
Movie: "Midnight Cowboy" (1969)
Director: John Schlesinger

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The Truth Behind Midnight Cowboy's Famous 'I'm Walkin' Here' Scene
BY
ROBERT VAUX
AND
KIERAN LOUGHLIN
UPDATED DEC 21, 2023
In the latest Movie Legends Revealed, find out whether the famous 'I'm Walkin' Here' scene in Midnight Cowboy was actually improvised or not.

Midnight Cowboy
SUMMARY
 The famous "I'm walkin' here" scene in Midnight Cowboy, where Dustin Hoffman nearly gets hit by a cab, has become one of the most quotable lines in movie history.
 Hoffman claimed that the scene was improvised, but the film's producer and director suggest that it was filmed with an extra in the cab.
 While the truth about whether the line was improvised or not remains unclear, there are several factors that help explain the discrepancy and what likely occurred.

MOVIE URBAN LEGEND: Dustin Hoffman improvised the famous "I'm walkin' here" scene in Midnight Cowboy.

The 1969 film Midnight Cowboy was a watershed moment in American cinematic history, being the first (and only) X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The success of the film, about a na;ve male prostitute from Texas (the titular "Midnight Cowboy," played by Jon Voight) and a hustler he met in New York City (played by Dustin Hoffman), helped to change the way Hollywood treats topics that would normally be seen as too noncommercial to be made into studio films (Midnight Cowboy made more than $40 million on a budget of roughly $3 million.) It arrived after the fall of the Hays Code, which ruthlessly censored notions of sex and nudity which are central to the movie's story. On top of its merits as pure cinema, and its moving story about an unlikely friendship between two of New York's most downtrodden residents, it's a celebration of artistic freedom after decades of being harshly curtailed.


One of Midnight Cowboy's most famous scenes depicts Voight and Hoffman walking down the street when Hoffman is nearly hit by a cab. He hits the vehicle and shouts the iconic quote, "Hey! I'm walkin' here!" It's become one of the most quotable lines in movie history, and aptly summarizes the movie's central theme that every person — no matter how humble — deserves basic dignity and respect. It's also led to a big question about how the line came about. Hoffman is a dedicated method actor, and supposedly improvised it during filming. But the film's producer Jerome Hellman offers a different version of the story, leading to a great deal of speculation on whether the line was really improvised or not. Details vary, but the truth most likely falls somewhere in the middle.