Sidney Poitier Quotes

Ghazzi Murad What - no kickbacks this week?

Valentina Koslova Major Koslova, MVD.

Ghazzi Murad : Nice to meet you. This damn market economy... here, is this enough?

Valentina Koslova Ghazzi Murad, you are under arrest for the murder of Mayor Nikolai Semankho.

Ghazzi Murad Blow me, darling! You don't have any witnesses. Nothing.

Carter Preston : Your blood is our witness. You left your DNA at the scene of the crime.

Ghazzi Murad DNA? What is this... an American? Who the fuck are you?

Carter Preston Deputy Director Carter Preston, FBI.

Ghazzi Murad FBI. You fuck Americans now, you ugly Militia whore. And you, go fuck yourself. This is not Chicago. This is Russia. So take your bitch and get the fuck out of here. You think I'm afraid of the MVD? I swear, I kill you and your fucking whore mothers, if you don't --

Valentina Koslova I repeat, you --

Ghazzi Murad Fuck you! FUCK YOU, you scar-faced cunt! Fuck you!

Carter Preston Alright, that's enough!

Carter Preston It's not easy taking a life, but you saved one too - mine.

Gregory W. Miller There's talk you quitting this school, going some place where there's nice little obedient boys and girls.

Richard Dadier Well what do you think?

Gregory W. Miller Aww, I figured it's just talk.

Richard Dadier Why?

Gregory W. Miller Well, you know the ropes around here pretty good now, it would be a shame to waste all that... I guess everybody learns something in school, even teachers.

Richard Dadier Yes, I guess so...

Gregory W. Miller Besides, it would be kinda rough breaking in somebody new. Well, see you tomorrow Mr Dadier?

Richard Dadier I thought you were quitting. Is that right?

Gregory W. Miller Well, we have a pact... you wouldn't want to break that?

Richard Dadier No, I guess we wouldn't.

Richard Dadier What is this? The officers club or something? I don't wanna catch you smoking in here again, you understand? Now get out! Come on, you heard what I said. Get out!

Richard Dadier What's the matter? You two guys privileged or something?

Gregory W. Miller We only just got here, chief.

Richard Dadier You did huh? Well, now just get out.

Gregory W. Miller Can't a man wash his hands, chief?

Richard Dadier Wash them and get out.

Gregory W. Miller Sure, chief. You gonna watch me?

Emmanuel Stoker Maybe he'd like to wash them for us.

Richard Dadier What's your name? You, I'm talking to you!

Emmanuel Stoker Me?

Richard Dadier Yes, you!

Emmanuel Stoker Emmanuel.

Richard Dadier Emmanuel what?

Gregory W. Miller Emmanuel Trades. Don't you know, man? This boy here got the school named after him.

Richard Dadier What's your name, wise guy?

Gregory W. Miller Me? Miller. Gregory Miller. You want me to spell it out for you so you won't forget it?

Richard Dadier You don't have to do that. I'll remember, Miller.

Gregory W. Miller Sure, chief. You do that.

Richard Dadier Or maybe you would like to take a walk down to the principal's office with me right now. Is that what you want?

Gregory W. Miller You're holding all the cards, chief. You wanna take me to see Mr. Warneke, you'll do just that.

Richard Dadier Who's your home-period teacher?

Gregory W. Miller You are, chief.

Richard Dadier Well, why aren't you with the rest of the class?

Gregory W. Miller Already told you. Came in to wash up, chief.

Richard Dadier All right, then wash up. Just cut out that "chief" routine, understand?

Gregory W. Miller Sure, "chief". That's what I been doing all the time. Okay for us to drift now, "chief"?

Noah Cullen There, now just the meanness shines through.

Declan Mulqueen I can identify him by his face, given the opportunity... but more importantly, by his methods. So you can leave Isabella out of this.

Carter Preston Did you work with him?

Declan Mulqueen With him? No. No way.

Carter Preston Do you have a problem with this man?

Declan Mulqueen That's between him and me.

Carter Preston Isabella Zancona is the only confirmed contact we have... and we will find her. With or without your help.

Declan Mulqueen Okay, okay... I want three things. One, get me out of here. I'm no use to you sitting here on my arse.

Carter Preston What's to keep you from taking off?

Declan Mulqueen Nothing.... except I give you my word. Two, I go with you to meet Isabella.

Carter Preston Why?

Declan Mulqueen I want to see her, is all.

Carter Preston And the third thing?

Declan Mulqueen A decent razor.

John Joker Jackson Cullen, I can't make it.

Noah Cullen Come on, man, you draggin the chain.

Declan Mulqueen A man like this doesn't make mistakes.

Valentina Koslova No? They always make one somewhere. Isn't that how you were caught?

Carter Preston Ouch.

Artie West All you gotta do is take it. Come on take it.

Richard Dadier That's just what I'm gonna do, big shot.

Richard Dadier Come on, West. Come on... come on... Where you going, boy? Come on.

Artie West Belazi!... Morales!... Stoker!

Gregory W. Miller You wanna gang fight? You wanna start a rumble? Come on, boy, just make a move.

Artie West All right, you guys. Bascillo, Rock, move, both!

Richard Dadier What's the matter, West? You need help? Come on. You're holding the handle of that knife. Come on, you're the leader. You're the tough guy. You can't cut alone, huh, West? You're not so tough without a gang, but you were tough that night in the alley, weren't you? Seven to two. That's about your odds, isn't it?

Artie West This time you get cut up!

Richard Dadier Yeah, the gang-up didn't work. You went to the principal with a story about race prejudice. You couldn't get rid of me that way. Then you started sending those foul letters to my wife. Didn't you? Didn't you, West? End of the line boy!

Carter Preston Major Koslova ends the debate about women in combat as far as I'm concerned.

Declan Mulqueen How's that?

Carter Preston When she saved my life and took out Terek's brother, she did it knowing she'd be drawing a death sentence down on her neck. But when we offered to set her up some place else when this is over, you know what she said? "The good guys don't hide.

Declan Mulqueen Fierce woman.

Carter Preston In that country, under that system... staggering.

Declan Mulqueen Preston, what about letting me have a gun?

Carter Preston Are you kidding? If the right people knew I was letting you walk around without cuffs, I'd get forced retirement!

Carter Preston This is a manhunt, not your cause. Don't make it personal.

Declan Mulqueen What do you fucking know?

Carter Preston All right! I'll tell you what I know. I know the Jackal set you up in that arms deal in Libya. I know that Isabella was wounded when you walked into the trap. I also know that it was the life you had chosen for...

Declan Mulqueen Did you also know that Isabella was pregnant when she got shot... That our child didn't survive? Don't tell me this isn't personal, Mr. Preston!

Carter Preston I can't risk letting you jeopardize us in a vendetta!

Declan Mulqueen There's no vendetta. All I hope for now is a fresh start.

Carter Preston Maybe it will happen.

Virgil Tibbs Now listen, hear me good, Mama. Please. Don't make me have to send you to jail... There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time.

Carter Preston I wonder if we'll ever know who the hell he really was.

Declan Mulqueen We know all we need to. He was evil, he's dead, and he's gone. Nothing more matters.

Noah Cullen I almost... swallowed half that river. Thanks.

John Joker Jackson What for?

Noah Cullen For pullin me out.

John Joker Jackson Man, I didn't pull you out. I kept you from pullin me in.

John Prentice After all, a lot of people are going to think we are a shocking pair.

Noah Cullen Pineville's south, I don't go south.

John Joker Jackson I used to know a girl in Pineville, if she's still there we get this broke now come on.

Noah Cullen And then what? I'm a strange colored man in a white south town, how long you think before they pick me up?

John Joker Jackson Get off my back I ain't married to you. Now what do I care? Come on!

Noah Cullen You married to me alright Joker. Now here's the ring but I ain't goin south on no honeymoon now!

Liz Oh, my God.

Mother How is this possible?

Whistler Cryptography systems are based on mathematical problems so complex they cannot be solved without a key.

Liz Jannek must have figured out a way to solve those problems without the key and he hard-wired it into that chip.

Crease Turn it off.

Whistler Anybody want to crash some passenger jets?

Crease I said turn it off.

Bishop Turn it off!

Carl So, it's a code-breaker.

Bishop No, it's The code-breaker. No more secrets.

Pete V. Morales I get up at 7:30, go wash. But my stinking sister, she's still in the bathroom, so I can't get in.

Richard Dadier That's fine, boy. keep on talking.

Pete V. Morales So then I go to the stinking bathroom. I wash my stinking face. Then I eat some stinking sausages.

Artie West Louder, come on!

Emmanuel Stoker We can't hear you in the balcony.

Pete V. Morales So then I go down the stinking street with my stinking books, and then I meet this stink-face who lives near me. And he says: "You go to school, Pete?" I say, "You stinking right, boy!" So we walked to the stinking El, and wait for the stinking train. What do you think? The stinking train is late. So I gotta get into the stinking crowd. And that's why I'm stinking late to school, teach. How was I? Okay?

De Lica You sure stunk up that record, boy!

Richard Dadier That'll be enough for the day.

Artie West You gonna play it?

Richard Dadier No. Thanks for picking Morales. I'm sure you're his "friend".

Gregory W. Miller Sure enough, chief. Too bad you can't say the same.

Richard Dadier And just what does that mean?

Artie West Morales is a spic, that's what it means. Maybe you don't like spics.

Richard Dadier That will be enough of that, West.

Pete V. Morales What did I do, anyhow?

Artie West All right, sit down... spic.

Belazi You heard him, greaseball.

Pete V. Morales At least I'm no Irish Mick!

Richard Dadier I said, that will be enough! Now, you pick up that magazine, Belazi. Pick it up! I wanna get one thing very clear in this classroom.There's not gonna be any name calling here. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Now you understand that? All of ya!

Pete V. Morales I was just kidding.

Richard Dadier Yeah, I know you're just kidding. That's how things start. Like a street fight. Somebody pushes somebody in fun. Somebody pushes back, and soon you got a street fight with no kidding. That's the same way with name-calling. All right, West, look. You're of Irish descent. So is Murphy over there. You call him a Mick. He calls you a Mick. Suppose Miller called you a Mick. Is that all right? Then you call him a nigger.

Pete V. Morales I was just kidding.

Richard Dadier Well, stop kidding!

Artie West Sure, sure. Come on, Morales. Tell me all about your stinking sister!

Noah Cullen Nigger! You call me that again, and I'll kill you!

Richard Dadier Now, pretty soon, you're gonna be reading in the newspapers want ads for jobs, apartments, something to buy. Advertising space is expensive so abbreviations are used. Now, write out the complete words to all the abbreviations in these problem ads. All right, get started.

Richard Dadier Belazi. Let's keep your eyes on your paper.

Belazi Me?

Richard Dadier Cheating won't help you learn those abbreviations, you know.

Artie West He won't look for no job. His old man owns a store.

Belazi Yeah, and I'm not gonna buy me me no Cadillac either.

Artie West No, It's cheaper to steal one. That's arithmetic for ya, teach.

Richard Dadier All right, Belazi. Bring me your paper up here.

Belazi Five points off. What for?

Richard Dadier For having loose eyes. West!

Artie West You talking to me, teach?

Richard Dadier Bring your paper up here West.

Artie West What for?

Richard Dadier I said bring your paper up here.

Artie West And I said , what for?

Gregory W. Miller Come on, Artie. Bring him the paper.

Artie West Now, look, you keep your rotten mouth out of this, black boy.

Richard Dadier Miller!... Hold it... All right. All right, Miller. It's all right. Now, bring your paper up here, West.

Richard Dadier All right, we're going down to see the principal.

Artie West We are? You gonna make me, Daddy-O? How'd you like to go to hell?

Belazi What's the matter, Daddy-O?

Artie West Yeah, how about it, teach? You got a big mouth. Tell me to do this, do that. Are you big enough to take me to the principal's office? Because that's what you're gonna have to do. Take me. So, come on! Take me! Come on!

Artie West Come on. For a bright boy, you didn't learn nothing. Well, take me down. Come on. Step right up and taste a little of this , Daddy-O.

Richard Dadier Give me that knife, West.

Artie West Where do you want it? You want it in the belly? Or how about in the face, huh? Here it is. All you gotta do is take it. Come on, take it! Come on!

Gregory W. Miller Take it easy, chief. He's crazy, he's high, he's floating on Sneaky Pete wine.

Pete V. Morales He's gonna kill him.

John Prentice You've said what you had to say. You listen to me. You say you don't want to tell me how to live my life? So what do you think you've been doing? You tell me what rights I've got or haven't got, and what I owe to you for what you've done for me. Let me tell you something. I owe you nothing! If you carried that bag a million miles, you did what you were supposed to do because you brought me into this world, and from that day you owed me everything you could ever do for me, like I will owe my son if I ever have another. But you don't own me! You can't tell me when or where I'm out of line, or try to get me to live my life according to your rules. You don't even know what I am, Dad. You don't know who I am. You don't know how I feel, what I think. And if I tried to explain it the rest of your life, you will never understand. You are 30 years older than I am. You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the deadweight of you be off our backs! You understand? You've got to get off my back! Dad. Dad. You're my father. I'm your son. I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man. Hmm? Now, I've got a decision to make, hmm? And I've got to make it alone. And I gotta make it in a hurry. So, would you go out there and see after my mother?

Noah Cullen Go on, tell me all that big talk about Charlie Potatoes, when the chains off and nobody chasing you. Come on. You can't, can you? You can't because you're nothing. You're not even a man! You're a monkey on a stick. That cracker mob back there, they pull the string and you jump.

Richard Dadier There will be no calling out. You have any questions to ask, just raise your hand. You hear that, Miller?

Gregory W. Miller Sure, teach. You coming in strong. I can't tune you out.

Artie West His name ain't "teach".

Belazi It's "Daddy-O!

Artie West Hey, don't you know his name, jerk?

Belazi Excuse me, Mr. Jerk.

Richard Dadier All right, West, since you're so cooperative, suppose you stay after class and help me out.

Artie West I'm busy.

Belazi Oh, go on, Artie. Help him out.

Emmanuel Stoker Then you could be together, "alone".

Pete V. Morales Oh, "Daddy-O!

Richard Dadier All right, all right, fine. We had a few laughs. In a minute, the bell's gonna ring out there. That means you go to your civics class. Tomorrow morning when you come into this class...

Artie West Hey, teach, you're coming back here tomorrow?

Richard Dadier Sure, I'm coming back tomorrow.You know why? Because I'll "miss" you, West.

Crease Don't tell me you can't do it because I know you can. And don't tell me you won't do it because I've got to have it. I need to know, and I need to know now.

Mother Guys, that federal building's been scheduled for demolition since August. Housed the ] and Department of Agriculture. Been vacant for a month.

Carl The NSA never had an office in San Francisco. Their West Coast operations are out of Los Angeles.

Crease Oh, God. Yeah, thanks. Jannek's grant is from the NSA. How could you be so goddamn stupid?!? Two guys show up, say they're government, and you just buy it.

Whistler They probably were government - just not ours.

Bishop Everybody pack up whatever you can. This place isn't safe.

Mother What are you doing?

Bishop I'm going to a concert.

Bishop The probable level of security is very low. But if you guys don't want to take that chance just to keep me out of jail, fine, I understand, I'll do it.

Whistler Well, Bish, I can't speak for the other guys, but I'm in it for the money, I don't care if you go to jail.

Carl Me neither. I'm in.

Mother Uh... could we maybe just go back to the "they might kill us" part?

Bishop Mother, if I thought that was likely to happen, I wouldn't bring this to you. But there is a risk.

Whistler And it pays $175,000!

Mother I'm in.

Crease You guys will be chalk outlines without me. All right, what do we need?

Crease Now what are you saying, the ] killed ]?

Mother No, they shot him but they didn't kill him. He's still alive.

Noah Cullen I ain't gettin mad, Joker. I been mad all my natural life.