John Ortiz Quotes

Arthur What is this? I told you to dress street.

Thelonious Monk Ellison I did!

Arthur Fucking Sesame Street.

Arthur Imagine exploding your brain trying to think of a toilet paper commercial.

Arthur Check this out.

Thelonious Monk Ellison I don't care how drunk we get. I'm not selling it.

Arthur That's not what I'm doing. Johnnie Walker Red. 24 bucks. johnnie Walker Black. 50 bucks. Johnnie Walker Blue. One hundred and sixty dollars. See the metaphor?

Thelonious Monk Ellison No.

Arthur These are all made by the same company. The red is shit. The black is less shit. The blue is good. But fewer people buy the blue because it's expensive. And at the end of the day, most people just want to get drunk. For most of your career, your books have been blue. They're good, complex. But they're not popular because most people want something easy. Now, for the first time, ever, you've written a red book. It's simple, prurient... it's not great literature, but it satisfies an urge. And that's valuable. What I'm trying to illustrate is that... just because you do red, doesn't mean you can't also do blue. You can do it all. Like Johnnie Walker. In fact, you got Johnnie Walker beat because, you don't even have to put your real name on it.

Thelonious Monk Ellison Shesus. Do we drink now?

Arthur This thing scares me.

Thelonious Monk Ellison Scares you? Why?

Arthur Because white people think they want the truth, but they don't. They just want to feel absolved.

Thelonious Monk Ellison Well, fortunately, that's not my problem.

Arthur People wanna love you, Monk. I personally don't know what they see in you, but they wanna love you. You should let them love all of you.

Paula Baderman Hello?

Arthur Hello Paula!

Paula Baderman Arthur! So wonderful to hear from you. I hope you are with the man of the hour.

Arthur I am indeed. He's right here next to me.

Paula Baderman Mr. Leigh?

Thelonious Monk Ellison Uh, yeah, this is he.

Paula Baderman Oh, really?

Thelonious Monk Ellison Uh, uh, yeah, dammit!

Paula Baderman Right.

Thelonious Monk Ellison Motherfucker!

Paula Baderman Right, okay, um, yeah, I was a little confused at first.

Guajiro C'mon, Quisqueya, huh bro? What news?

Quisqueya Your boss is dead and SO ARE YOU!

Tiffany What the fuck?

Veronica Sweetie, sweetie. Honey, calm down.

Tiffany You're killing me. You're killing me!

Veronica Tiffany, please. She'll see how well he's doing, maybe she'll lift the restraining order.

Tiffany Oh, my God.

Ronnie Pat told me.

Tiffany Oh, my God.

Ronnie He told me you should never throw a marriage out the window.

Tiffany He did not say that.

Ronnie Yes.

Tiffany He didn't say that.

Ronnie He said it several times, Tiffany. And it's his chance. You gotta give him a chance.

José Yero You seem okay. But him, I don't like how he looks.

Tubbs Do you wanna fuck with my partner or do you wanna do business with us? Cause I don't give a shit how you think he looks.

José Yero Who you run loads for? Cause other than Nicholas, who the fuck knows you?

Crockett My mommy and daddy know me...

Ronnie You gotta come see the baby. She's beautiful. And Veronica wants to make dinner for you.

Pat Congratulations on the baby, but I'm not buying the invitation.

Ronnie Cause you think Veronica still hates you.

Pat I know Veronica still hates me.

Ronnie It's not true.

Pat Yes, it is. Nikki always said that Ronnie's wife keeps her social calendar where she keeps his balls, in her purse.

Ronnie That's not true.

Veronica Ronnie! What are you doing?

Ronnie Okay, it's a little true. But if you think she still hates you, you're wrong because why would she tell me to invite you to dinner? Hmm?

Veronica Did you invite him?

Ronnie Yes.

Veronica Well, can he make it?

Ronnie I don't know yet! Can you make it next Sunday?

Arthur Nobody in Hollywood reads. They get their assistants to read things and then summarize them. The whole town runs on book reports.

Arthur I be standing outside in the night, a police chopper go by and shine some lights in some backyards and I think, Shine that light on me, mo'fucka, shine me some fuckin light so I can see where the fuck I be at.'" Are you serious?

Thelonious Monk Ellison You notice I didn't put my name on it.

Ronnie Hey, Tiffany! This is Pat.

Tiffany Hi.

Ronnie Pat, my sister-in-law Tiffany.

Pat You look nice.

Tiffany Thank you.

Pat Oh, I'm not flirting with you.

Tiffany Oh, I didn't think you were.

Pat I just see that you made an effort and I'm gonna be better with my wife, I'm working on that. I wanna acknowledge her beauty. I never used to do that. I do that now. Cause we're gonna be better than ever...Nikki. Just practicing. How'd Tommy die?