Jackie Brown Quotes

Jackie Brown is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Jackie Brown completed its run in 1970.

It features Lawrence Bender as producer, James Newton Howard in charge of musical score, and Guillermo Navarro as head of cinematography.

Jackie Brown is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Jackie Brown is 154 minutes long. Jackie Brown is distributed by Miramax.

The cast includes: Samuel L. Jackson as Ordell Robbie, Robert Forster as Max Cherry, Pam Grier as Jackie Brown, Robert De Niro as Louis, Bridget Fonda as Melanie, Chris Tucker as Beaumont, Lisa Gay Hamilton as Sheronda, Michael Keaton as Ray Nicolet, Tom Lister Jr. as Winston, and Michael Bowen as Mark Dargus.

Jackie Brown Quotes

Samuel L. Jackson as Ordell Robbie

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "What the f*** you doin' knockin on the door like the god**** police? You wanna die?"
• (Robert Forster) "I thought you might be asleep."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "You keep f***in' with me, you're gonna be asleep forever."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "god**** girl, you gettin' high already? It's just 2 o'clock."
• (Bridget Fonda) "It's that late?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "You know you smoke too much of that s***, that s*** gonna rob you of your own ambition."
• (Bridget Fonda) "Not if your ambition is to get high and watch TV --"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Oh, ya'll a couple Cheech and Chongs, huh?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Well don't get up, I got it."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "god**** girl, how you live like this?"
• (Lisa Gay Hamilton) "Like what?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Like this. This some repugnant s***."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "What the f*** happened to you, man? s***, your ass used to be beautiful."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "This you and me talking, is this like a lawyer-client thing, and you can't repeat nothing I tell you?"
• (Robert Forster) "You're not my client until you get busted and I bond you out."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Well, if we ain't got no; what's that s*** called?; confidentiality, why should I tell you a thing?"
• (Robert Forster) "Because you want me to know what a slick guy you are. You got stewardesses bringing you fifty grand."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Now why would a stewardess be bringing me fifty grand?"
• (Robert Forster) "Now you want me to speculate on what you do. My guess is you're in the drug business, except the money's moving the wrong way. Whatever you're into, you seem to be getting away with it, so more power to you."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "And let me tell you something about my lawyer. This brother's name is Stassen Gowens."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Yeah, woman, damn."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Girl, don't make me put my foot in your ass."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "It's Jackie Brown."
• (Robert De Niro) "Well, if she got to it, why didn't she take it all?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "I'll be sure to ask that bitch before I blow her brains out."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Somebody with a grudge blew Beaumont's brains out. Oh s***, that s*** rhymes. "Blew Beau-mont's, brains out.""

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Now that there is the Tec-9, a crappy spray gun from South Miami. This gun is advertised as the most popular gun in American crime. Do you believe that s***? It actually says that in the little book that comes with it: the most popular gun in American crime. Like they're actually proud of that s***."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "I'm serious as a heart attack."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Uh uh uh -- I didn't hear you wash your hands."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Jackie can tell me any story that comes into her pretty little head, just so long as at the end of that story she hands me my motherf***ing money."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Now, the thing is, I ain't never done business with these Koreans before. Now I ain't worried, because, by and large, Asians are very dependable, they don't want no trouble. You might argue with them about price and s***, but you don't need to worry about them shooting you in the back, you know what I'm saying?"

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Louis, Louis, Louis. You gonna tell me who you saw?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Yeah, Max Cherry."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Max Che --"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "You seen Max Cherry in the dress department where we -- Man look at me when I'm talking to you. You see that muthaf***a in the dress department when we bout to get a half million dollars and you don't think nothin' 'bout him being there?"
• (Robert De Niro) "No, why? They know each other?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Hell yeah they know each other. He bonded her out of county."
• (Robert De Niro) "How am I supposed to know that?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "You know he's a bail bondsman don'tcha? You know all them muthaf***as is crooked as a barrel of snakes don'tcha?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Why should I think something's weird if I don't know nothing about them knowing each other?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "I don't wanna hear no f***in' excuses Louis."
• (Robert De Niro) "I ain't givin' you f***in' excuses. Man I'm tellin' you I don't f***in' -- I'm giving you f***in' reasons."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Oh oh oh oh. You gonna tell me the reason you lost every god**** cent I got in the world?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Hey. Hey man."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "You gonna tell me reasons?"
• (Robert De Niro) "You better --"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Let me tell you the reason muthaf***a. The reason IS yo' ass ain't worth s*** no more."
• (Robert De Niro) "You better f***in' back off man."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "What the f*** happened to you man? Your ass used to be beautiful."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "You can't trust Melanie but you can trust Melanie to be Melanie."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "See, that s*** works my nerves, you being all buddy-buddy with that motherf***er."
• (Pam Grier) "If I wasn't so buddy-buddy with that motherf***er, none of this would work."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "I can do that."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherf***er in the room, accept no substitutes."

• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Hey, where's Melanie?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Well -- that's what I want to tell you. She was being such a pain. She made us late for the pickup because she locked herself in your bathroom for hours with her bong getting high. She was nagging and complaining -- so strung out. She wouldn't shut up, so --"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "You left her back there?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Not exactly. I shot her."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "You shot Melanie?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Twice."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Is she dead?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Is she dead, yes or no?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Pretty much."

Robert Forster as Max Cherry

• (Robert Forster) "Yeah."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "There ain't nothing you want to tell me before we get out of this car, is there?"
• (Robert Forster) "No."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Last chance, motherf***er. You sure?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "You better be, motherf***er. All right, let's roll."

• (Robert Forster) "Is white guilt supposed to make me forget I'm running a business?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Oh, it's like that, huh?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Alright, I got your little thousand bucks."

• (Robert Forster) "Ordell, this isn't a bar. You don't have a tab."

• (Robert Forster) "Half a million dollars will always be missed."

• (Robert Forster) "I'm 56 years old. I can't blame anybody for anything I do."

• (Robert Forster) "Beaumont Livingston."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Livingston, huh?"
• (Robert Forster) "On his prior, he served eighteen years, he's working out ten years probation."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "You don't say."
• (Robert Forster) "Know what he's on probation for?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Ain't got a clue."
• (Robert Forster) "Possession of unregistered machine guns."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Damn. Now, they gonna consider that a violation of his probation?"
• (Robert Forster) "They do consider this a violation of his probation. Your boy's looking at ten years, plus the concealed weapon."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "He ain't gonna like that. Beaumont ain't got a doin' time kind of disposition."

• (Robert Forster) "If you've got time, you think you can find out where he's staying?"
• (Tom Lister Jr.) "Cops can't locate him, huh?"
• (Robert Forster) "They don't have your winning personality."

• (Robert Forster) "I'd say you're in the drug business, except the money's moving in the wrong direction."

• (Robert Forster) "You know, a good cop will never let you know he knows you're full of s***."

• (Robert Forster) "I'll bet, besides maybe an afro, you look exactly how you did at 29."
• (Pam Grier) "Well, my ass ain't the same."
• (Robert Forster) "Bigger?"
• (Pam Grier) "Yeah."
• (Robert Forster) "Ain't nothin' wrong with that."

Chris Tucker as Beaumont

• (Chris Tucker) "Man, you must be out of your f***in' mind if you think I'm gonna get in this dirty-ass trunk."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "We ain't going nowhere but to Koreatown, man. You ain't gonna be locked in here no more than ten minutes."
• (Chris Tucker) "I ain't ridin' in no trunk for no minute, man."

Pam Grier as Jackie Brown

• (Girl at Security Gate) "Flight 710 to Cabo San Lucas, now boarding Gate 103, first class only. Flight 710, Cabo San Lucas, now boarding Gate 103. First class only."
• (Pam Grier) "Buenos dias. Welcome aboard. Welcome aboard."

• (Pam Grier) "What's the matter, haven't ever borrowed someone's car before?"
• (Robert Forster) "Not after they're dead."

• (Pam Grier) "-- the money won't convict him, guns will."
• (Robert Forster) "You're rationalizing."
• (Pam Grier) "Well that's what you do to go through with the s*** you start, you rationalize. I can do it, Max, I know I can. I just can't do it without you."

• (Pam Grier) "Well, I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on people almost 20 years. The best job I could get after my bust was Cabo Air, which is the worst job you can get in this industry. I make about sixteen thousand, with retirement benefits that ain't worth a damn. And now with this arrest hanging over my head, I'm scared. If I lose my job I gotta start all over again, but I got nothing to start over with. I'll be stuck with whatever I can get. And that s*** is scarier than Ordell."

• (Pam Grier) "Shut your raggedy-ass up, and sit the f*** down."

• (Pam Grier) "Melanie?"
• (Bridget Fonda) "Jackie?"
• (Pam Grier) "Hey, girl, what's up?"
• (Bridget Fonda) "Hey, are you getting that suit?"
• (Pam Grier) "Yeah. You like it?"
• (Bridget Fonda) "It looks really good on you."
• (Pam Grier) "You got something for me?"
• (Bridget Fonda) "You betcha."
• (Pam Grier) "I put a cherry on top. Booh-yah. What the f*** did Ordell ever do for us, huh?"
• (Bridget Fonda) "Thanks."

• (Pam Grier) "Now sooner or later, they're gonna get around to offering me a plea deal, and you know that. That's why you came here to kill me."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "I ain't come here to kill you --"
• (Pam Grier) "No, no, it's OK, it's OK, now. I forgive you."

• (Pam Grier) "So I sit down at the table, eat my food, then your girl comes along. Oh, you have anybody yet?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Yeah, I got someone."
• (Pam Grier) "Who?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "What you care?"
• (Pam Grier) "What I care is my ass facing the penitentiary. If you send some hard-headed rock whore up in here --"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Hey, hey, hey, hey. She ain't gonna be no "rock ho." She gonna be cool. Promise."

• (Pam Grier) "Aw, the milk went bad while I was in jail."
• (Robert Forster) "Black's fine."

Robert De Niro as Louis

• (Robert De Niro) "Hey, we gotta go. We're late. Come on, Mel. We gotta go. Let's go."
• (Bridget Fonda) "Hey, kiss my ass, f*** wad."

• (Robert De Niro) "Gimme the bag --"
• (Bridget Fonda) "Watch it dips***, you wanna rip the f***ing bag."
• (Robert De Niro) "Gimme that bag before I knock you out and take it."
• (Bridget Fonda) "Okay take it. Jesus, what's wrong with you?"
• (Robert De Niro) "I'm carrying it."
• (Bridget Fonda) "Okay, you got it. Just take a chill pill for Christ's sake."
• (Robert De Niro) "f*** you and your chill pill."

• (Bridget Fonda) "You ok?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Just -- gettin' old."
• (Robert De Niro) "Seems I can't smoke all that now without coughing."
• (Bridget Fonda) "Coughing's good. It opens up the capillaries. You know, when you cough you're pulling in air, or in this case; smoke, into parts of the lungs that don't normally get used. So, coughing's good, it gets you higher."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Definitely know a lot about that. Look here Louis, I got to run out for a little while so uh, if you like gettin high so much, why don't you hang out here with Mel' n' watch a little TV."
• (Robert De Niro) "Way ahead of ya."
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "See I get high later on when I come back, see I get high at NIGHT, when I get through with all my business."

• (Robert De Niro) "I just felt strange, you know, I thought, if she was your girlfriend --"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "But you f***ed her anyway?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Well --"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "Well, I hope you felt appropriately guilty about it afterwards."
• (Robert De Niro) "Afterwards, I did."

• (Robert De Niro) "Hey, keep your f***ing mouth shut, all right? I mean it not one f***ing word."
• (Bridget Fonda) "Okay, Louis --"

• (Robert De Niro) "Who's that?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "That's Beaumont."
• (Robert De Niro) "Who's Beaumont?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "A employee I had to let go."
• (Robert De Niro) "What'd he do?"
• (Samuel L. Jackson) "He put himself in a position where he was going to have to do ten years in prison, that's what he did. And if you know Beaumont, you know ain't no god damn way he can do ten years. And if you know that, then you know Beaumont's gonna do anything Beaumont can to keep from doing them ten years, including telling the federal government any and every motherf***ing thing about my black ass. Now that, my friend, is a clear cut case of him or me. And you best believe it ain't gonna be me."

Michael Bowen as Mark Dargus

• (Michael Bowen) "Cut to 13 years later, you're 44 years of age. You're flying for the s***tiest-little-shuttle-f***ing piece of s*** Mexican airline that there is."

Michael Keaton as Ray Nicolet

• (Michael Keaton) "You've no idea what happened to the 50,000 dollars. You're clueless about the money, right? You've no idea about the 50 grants."
• (Pam Grier) "I have no idea."
• (Michael Keaton) "Not -- You've no idea? You don't know?"
• (Pam Grier) "Nuthin', no."
• (Michael Keaton) "Could have gone here? Could have gone there?"
• (Pam Grier) "No, no. I don't know."
• (Michael Keaton) "You don't know? No clue? You're clueless."
• (Pam Grier) "I know nothin. Not a clue."
• (Michael Keaton) "No idea?"
• (Pam Grier) "I don't have an idea where the mothaf***in' money is."
• (Michael Keaton) "Not even a little idea? Maybe?"
• (Pam Grier) "Not even -- Not even a little tiny motherf***ing idea."

Tom Lister Jr. as Winston

• (Tom Lister Jr.) "I don't have to know what I'm doing, just so long as you know."
• (Robert Forster) "I think I do. Good enough?"
• (Tom Lister Jr.) "You bet."

• (Tom Lister Jr.) "Look man, there's only three reasons why you can't make your court date. One, you're in a hospital. Two, you're in jail. Three, your ass is dead."

Bridget Fonda as Melanie

• (Bridget Fonda) "Jesus, but if you two are not the biggest pair of f***-ups I've ever met in my entire life. How did you ever rob a bank? When you robbed banks, did you forget where your car was then too? No wonder you went to jail."

• (Bridget Fonda) "That's Japan."
• (Robert De Niro) "Uh, looks like -- I can -- It shows --"
• (Bridget Fonda) "Wanna f***?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Yeah."
• (Bridget Fonda) "That was fun."
• (Robert De Niro) "Yeah, that hit the spot."
• (Bridget Fonda) "Now, we can catch up."
• (Robert De Niro) "Yeah."
• (Robert De Niro) "Got a beer?"
• (Bridget Fonda) "Sure. In the fridge."

• (Bridget Fonda) "When did you get ouf of jail?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Four days ago."
• (Bridget Fonda) "Where at?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Susanville."
• (Bridget Fonda) "How long?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Two months shy of four years."
• (Bridget Fonda) "Four years?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Uh huh."
• (Bridget Fonda) "What for?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Bank robbery."
• (Bridget Fonda) "Really? s***, I'm impressed."

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