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The Principal Quotes

The Principal is a television show that first aired in 1970 . The Principal ended its run in 1970.

It features Thomas H. Brodek as producer, Jay Gruska in charge of musical score, and Arthur Albert as head of cinematography.

The Principal is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Principal is 109 minutes long. The Principal is distributed by TriStar Pictures.

The cast includes: Jim Belushi as Rick Latimer, Esai Morales as Raymi, and J.J. Cohen as White Zac.

The Principal Quotes

Jim Belushi as Rick Latimer

  • (Jim Belushi) "-- Like I said, we got all day --"
  • (Robert Darcy) "-- I was hoping to speak to you before this --"
  • (Jim Belushi) "This wonderful welcoming party? Why don't we start my first day off with some expulsion papers for Mr. s*** and Mr. f*** here? And call the police."
  • (Jim Belushi) "Hi. Rick Latimer. I'm the new principal."
  • (Jake Phillips) "No kidding."
  • (Robert Darcy) "-- Did you get a look at the neighborhood coming into this place? Brandel High isn't exactly the highest priority for the police around here."
  • (Jim Belushi) "These guys are trying to cut each other's nuts off."
  • (Robert Darcy) "The cops would only ask why you stopped them. As far as expulsion goes, most of the students here have already been expelled from someplace else."
  • (Victor Duncan) "If you're trying to reach me, I'll just cut your hand off."
  • (Jim Belushi) "I've got another one."
  • (Jim Belushi) "Lighten up. Have some courage. Brave it through a little bit. Look, stoneface; knives only hurt if they go through you. Urine only smells if you don't clean it up. Come on."
  • (Jim Belushi) "We'll give him another minute. And then we'll go home."
  • (Jake Phillips) "Okay, time's up."
  • (Police Officer) "Occupation?"
  • (Jim Belushi) "School teacher."
  • (Jake Phillips) "-- You're ever-vigilant, I see."
  • (Jim Belushi) "Where I come from, we knock."
  • (Jake Phillips) "Where I come from, we pick locks. With your permission, I'll replace your old rusty one with a new deadbolt. The kind only.357 Magnums can open up."
  • (Jim Belushi) "Thanks, Jake; that's real encouraging. I feel much better now."
  • (Jake Phillips) "Do you mind if I ask you a question I ask all imported principals?"
  • (Jake Phillips) "-- What is a fine, white-bread boy like you doing in a place like this?"
  • (Jim Belushi) "Keeping my warm ass planted in this chair."
  • (Jake Phillips) "'Till something better comes along, right? -- I don't know why I thought it should've been any different."
  • (Victor Duncan) "Why don't you do yourself a favor and go back to your white-bread, suburban, cesspool land while you still have a chance?"
  • (Jim Belushi) "I can't."
  • (Victor Duncan) "Please. No more."
  • (Jim Belushi) "You got that right."
  • (Jim Belushi) "No more."
  • (Jim Belushi) "-- Linda, I want you wearing a bra to class. It's not going to change your grade."
  • (Jim Belushi) "I'll be here tomorrow."
  • (Jake Phillips) "I'll be here too."
  • (Jim Belushi) "We are very stupid men."
  • (Jake Phillips) "Yeah, I know. But what can you do?"
  • (Jim Belushi) "-- I want a full-school assembly during sixth period, TODAY."
  • (Unnamed) "Are you MAD? Do you know what could happen?"
  • (Unnamed) "Why are you doing this?"
  • (Jim Belushi) "-- I like the attention."
  • (Jim Belushi) "-- Okay, what's your name?"
  • (J.J. Cohen) "Just call me White Zac. My real last name's O'Something-Or-Other, too long to say."
  • (Jim Belushi) "Sweet. Well, Mr. O'Something-Or-Other, can you tell me what class this is for?"
  • (J.J. Cohen) "Any class Victor Duncan tries to kill me in."
  • (Victor Duncan) "This school here is MY school. And I make the rules."
  • (Jim Belushi) "Not anymore."
  • (Unnamed) "-- A minute is all it takes for you to do insurmountable amounts of damage, Rick. I've put up with all the frat-brat, Peter-Pan bulls*** I can take."
  • (Jim Belushi) "That's your therapist talking, not you."
  • (Unnamed) "At least SOMEBODY was talking; YOU weren't. I tried to make things work, Rick. I didn't run out and get plastered every time we had a problem. I didn't quit on us; you did. You let it go, the way you let EVERYTHING go. Three jobs you blew. Then your father got you in at Willoughby College, and you blew that too."
  • (Jim Belushi) "That's not all my fault. You had to show up in that bar with that guy."
  • (Unnamed) "Rick, grow up."
  • (Jim Belushi) "I'm trying. I'm running a high school now; I'm in charge of it. I'm the principal."
  • (Unnamed) "I heard. At Brandel. That doesn't count as a school."
  • (Jim Belushi) "Now, what is THAT supposed to mean?"

Esai Morales as Raymi

  • (Esai Morales) "Man, do you know where you are? You're at Brandel. Ain't you heard what they said about this place? Garbage NEVER leaves the dump."

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