Prejudice quotes

“- Matt Drayton: I asked him how he, uh, got so far. You know, he's only 37.
- Christina Drayton: Yeah.
- Matt Drayton: He said he thought he got the best breaks because everybody he met didn't want him to think they were prejudiced against him.”
Spencer Tracy - Matt Drayton
Katharine Hepburn - Christina Drayton

“- Flipper Purify: There's something you should know. I'm having an affair.
- Cyrus: H-bomb! H-bomb!
- Flipper Purify: It gets worse. She's white.
- Cyrus: Nuclear holocaust!”
Wesley Snipes - Flipper Purify
Spike Lee - Cyrus

“- Jamie: This is terrible. I can't believe this happened.
- Russ: Most humiliating experience of my life!
- Jamie: This is awful. This is the suckiest thing that could ever happen! The whole school thinks we're... gay!
- Russ: Don't be such a twerp! Our past histories speak for themselves. No one's going to think we're gay.”
Thomas Ballatore - Jamie
Skip Lackey - Russ

“- Henry Nash: Look at that Indian. There ain't nothin' human about him. He don't even talk.
- Indian Bob: He ain't got nothin' to say.
- Henry Nash: But he's a wild Indian. What are you?
- Indian Bob: Sioux. You know, the ones who got Custer.”

Brad Johnson - Henry Nash
Bob Primeaux - Indian Bob

If I were in America I could say "I love you, dad" the way they do in the films. But in Limerick they'd laugh at you. In Limerick you are only allowed to say you love God, and babies, and horses that win. Anything else is softness in the head.
Andrew Bennett - Narrator

“Screw the middle classes! I will never accept them. My father's other family was middle class, and we were kept out of sight, hidden from view at his funeral.”
Madonna - Eva Perón

“- Jimmy: I never realized.
- Kevin: Never realized what?
- Jimmy: You're a rocker.
- Kevin: What, am I black or something?
- Jimmy: Well you ain't exactly white in that sort of get up, are you?”

Phil Daniels - Jimmy
Ray Winstone - Kevin

“Trash does not compete with class.”

Susan Kellermann - Patty

“- Dallas: Haven't I any right to live? What have I done?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: We're the victims of a foul disease called social prejudice, my child.”
Claire Trevor - Dallas
Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone

“Oh, brothers! We have all gathered here, to preserve our hallowed culture and heritage! We aim to pull evil up by the root, before it chokes out the flower of our culture and heritage! And our women, let's not forget those ladies, y'all. Looking to us for protection! From darkies, from Jews, from papists, and from all those smart-ass folks say...” (continue)(continue reading)

Wayne Duvall - Homer Stokes

“- Joanna Drayton: He thinks you're gonna faint because he's a Negro.
- Christina Drayton: Well... I don't think I'm going to faint, but I'll sit down anyway.”
Katharine Houghton - Joanna Drayton
Katharine Hepburn - Christina Drayton

“She don't want to go out with Italians alone. She's prejudiced against Italians. Do you believe that? In this day and age? What the fuck is the world coming to? I can't believe this, prejudiced against Ital... a Jew broad... prejudiced against Italians.”
Joe Pesci - Tommy DeVito

“Heavy metal bands on trial because kids commit suicide, what is that about? Judas Priest on trial because my kid bought the records, and he listened to the lyrics, and he go into Satan...”
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“- Malik Brody: Tell me about China. Is there a lot of Kung Fu shit going on?
- Toby Wong: What do you mean?
- Malik Brody: Like guys coming up to each other on the street going 'Your Kung Fu is pretty useless, as well as obsolete. You insult me! You bastard. Prepare to die!'.”
Kadeem Hardison - Malik Brody
Mark Dacascos - Toby Wong

“Until we can see each other as equals, justice is never going to be even-handed. It will remain nothing more than a reflection of our own prejudices.”
Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance

“You can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you. Tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork.”

Gary Cooper - John Doe

“Not as stupid as sheep, mind you, But pigs are definitely stupid.”
Miriam Margolyes - Fly

“I just met a girl named Maria, and suddenly I see she's not the... bitch I thought she would be.”

Walter Matthau - Max Goldman

“What is it with you people? Every time you see a black woman there has to be a pimp or a john? What? Do you think there's a lot of work down on the pier for hookers? Do you think I'm giving blow jobs down there to goldfish?”

Whoopi Goldberg - Terry Dolittle

“We answered her questions. She listened to our answers. We told her it was wrong to believe that white people were somehow essentially superior to black people... or the brown or the red or the yellow ones, for that matter.”
Katharine Hepburn - Christina Drayton

“- Private First Class Peterson: I didn't kill much. Some things need gettin' rid of. Man like Waters never did nobody no good anyway, Captain.
- Captain Davenport: Who gave you the right to judge? To decide who is fit to be a negro, and who is not? Who?”
Denzel Washington - Private First Class Peterson
Howard E. Rollins Jr. - Captain Davenport

“- Fenster: They treat me like a criminal. I'll end up a criminal.
- Hockney: You are a criminal.
- Fenster: Why you gotta go and do that? I'm trying to make a point.”
Benicio del Toro - Fenster
Kevin Pollak - Hockney