Heavy Traffic (1973)

Beverly Hope Atkinson: Carole

Quotes 

• Michael : Uh, are you serious about stayin' with me? Cause, I mean, it's really okay with me. I mean, if I could... I could sleep on the floor, and you could... I mean...

  Carole : Listen here, white boy, don't hand me that honky shit. "Stay with you." You ain't got nothin' goin' for you. Damn, man! First you help me get my ass kicked out of a good gig, then, cause you think I need you for a few goddamn minutes, you try to jive-ass me for a quick lay? Now, listen here, boy!

  [pats her behind] 

  Carole : As long as Carole got this here good thing,

  [taps her head] 

  Carole : and this here left, ha ha ha! She don't need ANYTHING else unless she wants it, and child, I don't want it.

• Carole : Listen, Michael. Uh, first thing in the morning, we will take them big-ass drawings of yours up to one of them big cartoon syndicates. You can sell 'em, we'll get some bread, get our clothes out of Angie's house and split for San Francisco. And Shorty can't roll that far.

  Michael : I'm gonna tell you, Carole, I don't wanna sell my cartoons to one of them places. They, uh - they ain't gonna buy that crap anyway. I'm an underground cartoonist. That's - that's where I belong.

  Carole : So why don't you sell your stuff to your underground friends?

  Michael : They don't wanna buy any.

  Carole : Now, why that, Mr. Underground?

  Michael : 'Cause, well, uh...

  [in whisper to Carole] 

  Michael : I still jack off.

  Carole : [Laughing]  You are cool!

  [Both Laughing] 

• Three Black Prostitutes : Why not come down and join us, honey? The bread's good, and you can keep all the white boys you want.

  Carole : If Miss Carole comes down, you ladies gonna starve for lack of work. But seein' as how I'm basically good natured, I'll forget that. Now, I was wonderin' if you ladies...

  Second Prostitute : That's right!

  Third Prostitute : That's us.

  Fourth Prostitute : Especially me, honey!

  Carole : -Would know of any action other than her own that Carole could get her ass into?

• [Carole and Michael have been fired and Michael has hit her] 

  Carole : What's your problem?

  Michael : Shit, man, I got no time for this bullshit! That's all it is, it's all a bunch of bullshit!

  Carole : Listen, mother, we just got to get it together. A couple of jobs ain't nothin. This world ain't gonna drop its drawers easy for you, just like you think I'm gonna do for you. And I've been playing easy games, bringing you along slow. But seein' as how you don't know a friend when you sees one, let's see the kind of balls you got for a real man's game. Okay, creep?

  Michael : You're on, nigger!

• [Carole shows up at Michael's apartment after being stalked by Shorty] 

  Carole : Surprise, Sugar. You're on. What you gonna do about it? I mean, you're on for a few days 'til I hook it up?

  Michael : Uh, yeah, sure, of course. Right on.

  Carole : Right on!

  [removing her top] 

  Carole : Sugar, don't you mean right OFF?

  [Michael faints] 

  Carole : Well, ain't this some shit.

• [Michael is working as Carole's manager at a dance hall] 

  Carole : What are you doin' Michael?

  Michael : [dressed as a pimp]  I'm gittin' wid' it, Carole! A really zooty cash 'n booty funky and booty razzmattazz!

  Carole : [laughs]  Well, Zoot, how's about razzatazzin' up a dollar twenty-five cent dance for us?

  Michael : All righty! A'righty jazz and hot licks!

  [stops an elderly customer] 

  Michael : Pops, I'd like you to meet and dance with the fourth Andrews Sister!

  Customer : The fourth?

  Michael : Yeah, because she was black, they kept her in the back.