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Jackie's Back Quotes

Jackie's Back is a television show that first aired in 1999 on Lifetime Television. Jackie's Back stopped airing in 1970.

It features Gideon Amir as producer, Marc Shaiman as theme composer, and Charles Mills as head of cinematography.

Jackie's Back is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Jackie's Back is 120 minutes long.

The cast includes: Jenifer Lewis as Jackie Washington, Tim Curry as Edward Whatsett St. John, Whoopi Goldberg as Ethyl Washington Rue Owens, Tangie Ambrose as Shaniqua Summers Wells, and Loretta Devine as Snookie Tate.

Jackie's Back Quotes

Tangie Ambrose as Shaniqua Summers Wells

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Loretta Devine as Snookie Tate

  • (Loretta Devine) "I heard you get a check every time they play one of your old songs on the radio. And with just one of them checks? WOOH. I could get me a new refrigerator. Y'know, one of them frost free."

Whoopi Goldberg as Ethyl Washington Rue Owens

  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "She tells that lie child; she does that every year, telling somebody we're related to George Washington. It's George Washington Honor from up there around Peckinpah, Idado. Because our people are mixed; did she tell you that? We are one quarter Korean and half black and one quarter Kawchodinne Indian."
  • (Unnamed) "Jackie's a diva."
  • (Unnamed) "I think, if you look in the dictionary for the word "Diva," you'd probably see Jackie's picture."
  • (Unnamed) "A diva is a very spoiled singer who lies -- like Jackie."
  • (Unnamed) "It's a larger-than-life creature who can turn on a dime -- or on a friend."
  • (Unnamed) "It's a word that some gay man made up --"
  • (Unnamed) "What is a diva?"
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "A dumb -- ignorant -- vicious--"
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "And if that's what Jackie calls herself, she's right."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "Bitter? I'm not bitter. If I was bitter, she'd be dead."

Tim Curry as Edward Whatsett St. John

  • (Tim Curry) "Now, I admit that when they proposed you as a subject, I didn't really know who you were."
  • (Jenifer Lewis) "They sold my records in England."
  • (Tim Curry) "Yes, but I never heard them."
  • (Jenifer Lewis) "Are you trying to provoke me? 'Cause you are not gonna make me get ugly on film. This ain't "60 Minutes," okay?"

Jenifer Lewis as Jackie Washington

  • (Jenifer Lewis) "Momma's gonna need some of her special cough medicine -- and make it a double, Antandra."
  • (Jenifer Lewis) "Of course, now, I do pay homage to all the dead divas -- Billie, Ella, Shirley Bassey --"
  • (Tim Curry) "Shirley Bassey is alive."
  • (Jenifer Lewis) "Really? God bless her. But now them others -- I'm not gonna name names -- but they all stole from me. Aretha, Whitney, Little Brandy, Streisand, Diahann Carroll -- Oh. and Bea Arthur. They all stole from me."

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