Jamie Foxx movie quotes

“I'm Jewish and he's Muslim, and because of that he tells me I need to give up certain things, like pork and white women. I can give up the Pork, but the white women? God Damn, how the hell do you do that?”
Jamie Foxx - Drew 'Bundini' Brown

“Hey, Snowball. You wanna know my name or the name of my horse, you ask me.”

Jamie Foxx - Django

“I could be working with my brother right now. I could sleep with my wife every night; take my kids to school every morning. Do you know why I don't? Because I love this job. I thank God for every day he gives me in the corps.”

Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes

- Kurt Buckman: Are you a businessman?
- Dean 'MF' Jones: Yeah. Motherfucker Jones.
- Dale Arbus: Your first name is... Motherfucker?
- Dean 'MF' Jones: Not "motherfucker". "Motherfuckah". White people say "-er", Negroes say "fuck-ah". You say "er", I say "ah".
Jason Sudeikis - Kurt Buckman
Jamie Foxx - Dean 'MF' Jones
Charlie Day - Dale Arbus

“If I have to, I will blast your aero-elastic ass right out of the sky.”
Jamie Foxx - Lt. Henry Purcell

“- Alvin: Let me get this straight, the offer is a million dollars, or you kill me.
- Bristol: Correct.
- Alvin: You know, a million dollars ain't what it used to be, with taxes.”
Jamie Foxx - Alvin
Doug Hutchison - Bristol

“When I'm done with the game, or the game is done with me, I don't wanna be some ghost up on the wall, I wanna be more than that.”
Jamie Foxx - Willie Beamen

“- Lt. Henry Purcell: Four is an unlucky number.
- Capt. George Cummings: Unlucky?
- Lt. Henry Purcell: Yeah! It's not a prime number. See, prime numbers can only be divided by one or itself. Three is a prime number. The Holy Trinity? The thesis and antithesis that come together to form the synthesis...”
Jamie Foxx - Lt. Henry Purcell
Sam Shepard - Capt. George Cummings

“- Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: What about freedom of speech? The Constitution?
- Staff Sgt. Sykes: You don't have any rights. You got any complaints you complain to Saddam Insane. You are a marine. There is no such thing as speech that is free. You must pay for everything that you say.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford
Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes

“Now I bow down to the superiority of the opposite sex in many respects. But from time to time, I believe they should bow down to me.”
Jamie Foxx - Lt. Henry Purcell

“When I was young I really wanted to change the system. I was ready to fight. I was going to be the best, no matter what. Once you get caught up in the game, you suddenly realize the system you wanted to change actually changed you. I lost my way.”

Jamie Foxx - Nick Rice

“- Ray Charles: What if I want to go to another company? There's a guy out there right now that's willing to pay me seven cents a record. Can you do that?
- Ahmet Ertegun: Man, I could promise you fifteen cents a record but you won't get it. Anymore than he'll pay you seven. What I will do is promise you five cents a record and pay you five cents...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles
Curtis Armstrong - Ahmet Ertegun

“Free ain't easy. Free is real. And real's a motherfucker.”
Jamie Foxx - Drew 'Bundini' Brown

“- Ahmet Ertegun: Ray, I'm gonna tell you something and I don't want you to take it the wrong way.
- Ray Charles: Well, then give it to me right then.
- Ahmet Ertegun: I signed you because I sensed something special in you, not because you sound like Nate Cole or Charles Brown.”

Curtis Armstrong - Ahmet Ertegun
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles

“- Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Thank you.
- Staff Sgt. Sykes: Don't thank me, just don't fuckin' die.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford
Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes

“- Max: You killed him?
- Vincent: No, I shot him. Bullets and the fall killed him.”
Jamie Foxx - Max
Tom Cruise - Vincent

“When you get your money, I think you need to get an anger management class.”
Jamie Foxx - Alvin

“- Marlene: Alright, 'Bama, why don't you get up there and show me what you got.
- Ray Charles: Well, I, I'm not really prepared to do my thing, I mean, right now, tonight.
- Marlene: Well, this is the only audition you're gonna get, Puddin', so either get on up there or you and Gossie can haul your asses back down south.”

Denise Dowse - Marlene
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles

“Let's take it to the limit one more time.”
Jamie Foxx - Ricardo Tubbs

“- Vincent: There's no good reason, there's no bad reason to live or to die.
- Max: Then what are you?
- Vincent: I'm indifferent.”
Tom Cruise - Vincent
Jamie Foxx - Max

“I'm bouncing from toy to toy like I'm some sort of drunk dude. Mom's smiling. My father's smiling. It's all good, right? Then around 8:30, cops show up. Take the toys, take my father. But for about two and a half hours I had a very, very happy childhood.”
Jamie Foxx - Alvin

“Everything's so different down here you know, as opposed to being up there. Everything on the ground seems so small and passes by so fast.”
Jamie Foxx - Lt. Henry Purcell

“- Max: You're full of shit.
- Vincent: I'm full of shit? You're a monument of it. You even bullshitted yourself, all I am is taking out the garbage, killing bad people.”
Jamie Foxx - Max
Tom Cruise - Vincent

“- Oberon: You know, Marlene and Gossie's the ones running the game on you, Ray. They sliced up the pie the first night you played. Thirty-five percent off the top. Plus Gossie's double scale as leader.
- Ray Charles: Leader. If anyone's leadin' the band I'm the leader! You know what? Forget the bohumps. I'm goin' my own way.”
Warwick Davis - Oberon
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles

“- Jeff Brown: All right. Hey, pardon me for asking, but how do you get around so good without a cane or a dog?
- Ray Charles: How do you get around so good without a cane or a dog?
- Jeff Brown: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pry.
- Ray Charles: My ears gotta be my eyes, man.”
Clifton Powell - Jeff Brown
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles