Jeffrey Wright movie quotes

“Source Code is not time travel. Rather, Source Code is time re-assignment. It gives us access to a parallel reality.”
Jeffrey Wright - Dr. Rutledge

“Harder to tell the good from bad, villains from heroes these days.”
Jeffrey Wright - Felix Leiter

“I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least.”
Jeffrey Wright - Bernard Lowe

“What humans describe as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane.”
Jeffrey Wright - Bernard Lowe

“Dreams don't mean anything. They're just noise. They're not real.”
Jeffrey Wright - Bernard Lowe

“- Medora Slone: What did it feel like to shoot that female wolf?
- Russell Core: It felt awful. But... I really had no choice. Even though she'd taken a child, too?
- Medora Slone: Because you think it's the natural order?
- Russell Core: The natural order doesn't warrant revenge. They're not what you think, Mrs. Slone. What happened here is......” (continue)(continue reading)
Riley Keough - Medora Slone
Jeffrey Wright - Russell Core

“- Donald Marium: Mr. Core here, was called by your wife. He's a writer. He studies wolves. He was the last person to see her. He's been a big help to us so far. So, we asked him to be here in case you had any questions.
- Vernon Slone: Can you raise the dead?
- Russell Core: No, sir.
- Vernon Slone: Then I have no questions for you.”
James Badge Dale - Donald Marium
Alexander Skarsgård - Vernon Slone
Jeffrey Wright - Russell Core

“The public library is the last bastion of democracy that we have in this country!”
Jeffrey Wright - Anderson

“- Roy Cohn: I want a white nurse. My constitutional right.
- Belize: You're in a hospital, you don't have any constitutional rights.”
Al Pacino - Roy Cohn
Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“- Prior Walter: I had a wet dream.
- Belize: Mmm. The Calvin Klein man?
- Prior Walter: No, it was a woman.
- Belize: Are you turnin' straight on me?”
Justin Kirk - Prior Walter
Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.”
Jeffrey Wright

“I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.”
Jeffrey Wright

“The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.”
Jeffrey Wright

“Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.”
Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“- Peoples Hernandez: You're not a cop anymore.
- John Shaft: Do you think that makes me less dangerous, or more dangerous?”
Jeffrey Wright - Peoples Hernandez
Samuel L. Jackson - John Shaft

“I hate America. Nothing but a bunch of big ideas and stories and people dying, and then people like you. The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word free to a note so high nobody could reach it.”
Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“- Big Pink: How can I ever thank you?
- Jean Michel Basquiat: Can I squeeze your titties?”
Courtney Love - Big Pink
Jeffrey Wright - Jean Michel Basquiat

“- Peoples Hernandez: This is Egyptian Cotton, motherfucker... two-twenty thread. That's like half your shitty-ass paycheck, okay?
- John Shaft: You wouldn't know Egyptian cotton if the Pharaoh himself sent it to you, you knockoff-wearing motherfucker!”
Jeffrey Wright - Peoples Hernandez
Samuel L. Jackson - John Shaft

“- Rene Ricard: What's your name?
- Jean Michel Basquiat: Jean-Michel Basquiat.
- Rene Ricard: Oh my God, you sound famous already!”
Michael Wincott - Rene Ricard
Jeffrey Wright - Jean Michel Basquiat

“You know what your problem is? Your problem is you're so full of piping hot crap the mention of your name draws flies.”

Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“Yo Shaft, I'm gonna put so many lawyers in your ass, you're gonna think they opened a branch office up there.”
Jeffrey Wright - Peoples Hernandez

“Fuck Hawaii. Let's go to Ireland. We'll stop in every bar and have a drink.”

Jeffrey Wright - Jean Michel Basquiat

“- Jean Michel Basquiat: How long does it take to get famous?
- Benny Dalmau: Four years. Six to get rich.”
Jeffrey Wright - Jean Michel Basquiat
Benicio del Toro - Benny Dalmau

“- Jean Michel Basquiat: I gotta get out of New York...
- Andy Warhol: We could go to Pittsburgh! I kinda grew up there. They have this room with all the world's famous statues in it, so you don't even have to go to Europe any more... just go to Pittsburgh.”
Jeffrey Wright - Jean Michel Basquiat
David Bowie - Andy Warhol

“You're supposed to sleep with the wife, Roedel. Great day, in the mornin' you got to know that much! You're supposed to share her bed. That way, if some other man do that, you shoot him.”
Jeffrey Wright - Daniel Holt