Delroy Lindo quotes
- From the movie: Gone in 60 Seconds
“- Det. Roland Castlebeck: Here I am smack dab in the middle of a moral dilemma, Randall. You've ripped this city to shreds with that little escapade of yours, you and your Eleanor. But I understand what brought you back here. A brother's love is... a brother's love.
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- Det. Roland Castlebeck: You just saved my life, didn't you? So what...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Clockers
“If God created anything better than crack cocaine he kept that shit for himself.”
- La trovi in Reputation and Popularity
“One can never anticipate how audiences will respond.”
“I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions of people and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannot connect with them in my normal, everyday life.”
- La trovi in Celebrities on other topics
“I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life.”
- From the movie: Heist
“Hey, you go to that plastic surgeon, don't you let him put you all the way under. I knew a cat in Stateville one time; went to get his face fixed. Woke up and the sucker had given him a pair of tits.”
- From the movie: Get Shorty
- Bo Catlett: You broke into my house, and I have a witness to it.
- Chili Palmer: What?
- Bo Catlett: Only this time it ain't no John Wayne and Dean Martin shootingbad guys in "El Dorado".
- Chili Palmer: That was "Rio Bravo". Robert Mitchum played the drunk in "El Dorado". Dean Martin played the drunk in "Rio Bravo". Basically, it was the... (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Crooklyn
“- Woody Carmichael: Let me tell you, I got to be like a thief in the night in this house every time I want to get some privacy to do my work!
- Carolyn Carmichael: You selfishchild! Don't tell me about privacy!
- Woody Carmichael: Selfish nothing! Selfish nothing!
- Carolyn Carmichael: Yes, you are selfish! I can't even take a piss without six...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Hard Way
“- Captain Brix: You got two ways to deal with this: you got the easy way, you got...
- John Moss: The hard way.
- Captain Brix: Right. John, do us all a favor and make the right choice.
- John Moss: I always do.” - From the movie: The Cider House Rules
“I'm just tryin' to put things straight. Sometimes, ya gotta break some rules, to put things straight.”
- From the movie: Romeo Must Die
“- Isaak: Mr. Sing... with all due respect, there is no way in the world that anybody in my camp would be foolish enough to touch your family, any more than anybody in your camp would be stupid enough to touch mine. It just wouldn't happen.
- Ch'u Sing: Our business venture will continue.
- Isaak: I'm pleased to hear that, thank you.” - From the movie: Get Shorty
“- Bo Catlett: Mr. Escobar, maybe your nephew panicked and took off.
- Mr. Escobar: Why are you talking to me this bullshit? I think maybe I have Ramón and César staple your tongue to your chin! What do you think?
- Bo Catlett: I think you speak very good English, Mr. Escobar.” - From the movie: Gone in 60 Seconds
“- Raymond Calitri: [aiming a gun] Who are you?
- Det. Roland Castlebeck: I'm a police officer. You don't want to do that now.
- Raymond Calitri: Yeah, I do.
- Det. Roland Castlebeck: Listen to me. You walk out of here with me, you've got some options. You kill me now you think about this, I'm a police officer your life will be over.
- Raymond...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Gone in 60 Seconds
- From the movie: The Cider House Rules
“They outrageous, them rules. Who live in this cider house? Who grindin' up those apples, pressin' that cider, cleanin' up all this mess? Who just plain live here, just breathin' in that vinegar? Someone who don't live here made those rules. Those rules ain't for us. We are supposed to make our own rules. And we do. Every single day.”
- From the movie: Get Shorty
- Bo Catlett: It says here you're getting Martin Weir for the part of Lovejoy?
- Chili Palmer: That's right, we're getting Martin.
- Bo Catlett: Come on, how you gonna do that?
- Chili Palmer: I'm gonna take a gun, I'm gonna put it to his head, and say, "sign the fucking papers, Martin, or you're dead". That's it.
- Bo Catlett: I wonder, would... (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: A Life Less Ordinary
“I commit you to His mercy.”
- From the movie: A Life Less Ordinary
“I remember the good old days. All you had to do was introduce a man and a woman, nature did the rest. Doesn't work like that anymore. Men and women, it's all gone to shit.”
- From the movie: Heist
- From the movie: Malcolm X
- From the movie: Heist
“- Bobby 'Bob' Blane: Sometimes adrenaline gives people the shakes, some might think it's cowardice, so maybe you'd want to pray about it.
- Jimmy Silk: I'm not a religious man.
- Bobby 'Bob' Blane: There's nothing wrong with prayer. We knew this firefighter, this trooper, who always caried a bible next to his heart. We used to mock him, but that...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Clockers
“Open yo mouth, nigga. Now you feel that? I'll put this gun in yo bad-breaf-smellin' mouth and I will pull the trigger. And I will splatter what little motherfuckin' brains you got all over the Corinthian leather interior of my car! And this my wife's brand new car, so you know I don't give a fuck. You understand me? Do you understand me, bitch?”
- From the movie: A Life Less Ordinary
“Have you ever felt like you're not in control of your life?”
- From the movie: Broken Arrow
“- Giles Prentice: Are you sure? I mean, how do you know that?
- Colonel Max Wilkins: Because if it had been a surface detonation, we'd have felt a different kind of ground tremor. We'd also be burned, blind, and dying.” - From the movie: Clockers
“- Rodney Little: Rocco Klein... Rocco Klein, you know, I've always wanted to ask you... you Italian, you a jew? I mean, what are you? You can't make up your mind?
- Det. Rocco Klein: Me?
- Rodney Little: Yeah, you.
- Det. Rocco Klein: I'm from the lost black tribe of Israel, the Yos.”
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