Angela Bassett movie quotes

“Don't be spendin' the time I'm talkin' thinkin' 'bout what you're gonna say next!”

Angela Bassett - Lornette 'Mace' Mason

“You use a scalpel, I prefer a hammer.”
Angela Bassett - Erika Sloane

“- Lenny Nero: Are we still friends?
- Mace: I don't know Lenny. You see, friendship is more than one person constantly doing favors for another.”
Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero
Angela Bassett - Lornette 'Mace' Mason

“- T'Challa: How are you feeling today, Mama?
- Ramonda: Proud. Your father and I would talk about this day all the time. He is with us. And it is your time to be king.”
Chadwick Boseman - T'Challa
Angela Bassett - Ramonda

“- Mildred: I know where your head is, but I'm telling you, you have got to get out of the past and look to the future.
- Lewis: I am, and this is it. This is my future. I'm sorry.”
Angela Bassett - Mildred
Jordan Fry - Lewis

“- Nick: How can I be sure you're okay?
- Diane: I suppose I could fuck you.
- Nick: That would work.”
Robert De Niro - Nick Wells
Angela Bassett - Diane

“This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever.”
Angela Bassett

“The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly.”
Angela Bassett

“I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work.”
Angela Bassett

“I know what you always say: 'Everything by the book'. But what if this ain't in the book? Going by the book won't solve it.”

Angela Bassett - Det. Rita Veder

“I'll give up all that other stuff, but only if I get to keep my name. I worked too hard for it, your honor.”
Angela Bassett - Tina Turner

“- John Harris, Sr.: Oh by the way, I'm coming to pick up my kids on Saturday.
- Bernadine Harris: Yeah? If I hear you had 'em anywhere near that tramp bitch, you're gonna regret it for the rest of your life!”
Michael Beach - John Harris, Sr.
Angela Bassett - Bernadine Harris

“- Bernadine Harris: I give you eleven fucking years of my life and you're telling me you're leaving me for a white woman?
- John Harris, Sr.: Would it help if she was black?
- Bernadine Harris: No. It would help if you were black.”
Angela Bassett - Bernadine Harris
Michael Beach - John Harris, Sr.

“- Mace: Lenny, would you relax? We're not being followed. Stop being so paranoid
- Lenny Nero: The guy had a knife to my throat in my Living room. Relaxing might be right out, OK?”
Angela Bassett - Lornette 'Mace' Mason
Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero

“Whoever they are, they're as smart as God and a lot less nice.”

Angela Bassett - Dr. Kaela Evers

“Memories are meant to fade. They're designed that way for a reason.”
Angela Bassett - Lornette 'Mace' Mason

“- Dr. Kaela Evers: When you said you'd been in worse situations than this, were you lying?
- Nick: No. When we were falling toward the planet and the engines cut out? That was worse.”
Angela Bassett - Dr. Kaela Evers
James Spader - Nick Vanzant

- Nick: What happened to your robot?
- Dr. Kaela Evers: Nothing.
- Nick: Really? I hope "nothing" doesn't happen to me.

James Spader - Nick Vanzant
Angela Bassett - Dr. Kaela Evers

“- Stella Payne: So how old are you anyway, young man?
- Winston Shakespeare: Well, I'll be 21 on my next birthday so I guess that makes me 20. And how old are you, young lady?
- Stella Payne: 40.
- Winston Shakespeare: No, truthfully.”
Angela Bassett - Stella Payne
Taye Diggs - Winston Shakespeare

“- Mace: You're some piece of work, Lenny Nero. You're just calmly backstroking along in the big toilet bowl and somehow you never let it touch you. I mean, between working vice and your current so-called occupation, you must have seen every kind of perversion. But you're just like... some teflon man, you still come out this goofball romantic.
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Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero
Angela Bassett - Lornette 'Mace' Mason

“- Ike Turner: Hey, Anna Mae, where you goin'? I need to get some sleep!
- Tina Turner: Go straight to hell, Ike!”
Laurence Fishburne - Ike Turner
Angela Bassett - Tina Turner

“- Lenny: Have you ever been in love with someone who didn't return that love?
- Mace: Yeah, Lenny, I have.
- Lenny: It didn't stop you from loving them, right? Or being able to understand them or forgive them?
- Mace: I guess.”
Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero
Angela Bassett - Lornette 'Mace' Mason

“The worst thing is that he made me move out here where my children are in school with only one other black kid so they won't be improperly influenced. Well, guess what John, you’re the motherfuckin' improper influence! Get your shit! Get your shit! And, get out!”
Angela Bassett - Bernadine Harris