“Harlem Nights” quotes
(1989)
Eddie Murphy
directed this movie
in 1989
Title Harlem Nights
Year 1989
Director Eddie Murphy
Genre Drama, Comedy, Crime
Year 1989
Director Eddie Murphy
Genre Drama, Comedy, Crime
Plot – Harlem, 1918. Sugar Ray is a black man who runs a third-rate bar. He likes Quick, a nearly ten-year-old black orphan. Twenty years later, Sugar Ray has adopted him. The boy has become his highly efficient business partner. Now they run together a stylish club that makes great business, but Bugsy Calhoune doesn't stand their success because he thinks they can limit and ruin his own affairs, so Calhoune tales some measures.
All actors – Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello, Michael Lerner, Della Reese, Berlinda Tolbert, Stan Shaw, Jasmine Guy, Vic Polizos, Lela Rochon, David Marciano
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“- Sugar Ray: I want somebody on him. Vera, do you have a girl?
- Vera: I've got a girl who's pussy is so good, if you threw it up in the air it would turn into sunshine.”What are they gonna put on your tombstone? "Here lies a man, 27 years old. He died, but he ain't no punk." Hey man, that's bullshit. Ok? You know when you die? When you're 89... got your children and your grandchildren around the bed... that's cool. It ain't cool to die at 27.
“What would a woman that fine want in a big, fat, nasty, greasy, fat, stank, bloated, cheesy-backed, 12-sandwich-eatin' bastard?”
“It's not how many you shoot. It's who you shoot.”
“Yeah, Barbara, it's Richie. Yeah look, I ain't never coming home no more. Take it easy.”
“I think I'm going to leave, ‘cause you probably want to sit there by yourself, alone, and think about who you pissed off. So, I'll let you have your space.”
“You shut the fuck up, Bennie. I would tell you to kiss my ass too, but you probably can't find it you blind motherfucker.”
“- Sugar Ray: Vera, you know we tally up at 4 o'clock. What is your problem?
- Vera: Kiss my ass, Sugar. I've got to watch my girls until the last trick is gone. And I'm not about to ask no customer to roll over so I can punch some goddamn clock. Now, this is your place, but I am in charge of the girls... and you can just kiss my ass.”“- Quick: I ain't playin’ games no more. You put that fuckin' razor away or I'll blow your goddamn pinky toe off!
- Vera: Oh! Now you're gonna shoot me in my pinky toe.”“You're gonna be the nine-toes-havingest-limpingest bitch in Harlem if you don't stop fucking with me. Now put the razor away.”
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