Jackie Brown (1997)

Pam Grier: Jackie Brown

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Quotes 

• Max Cherry : I'll bet, besides maybe an afro, you look exactly how you did at 29.

  Jackie Brown : Well, my ass ain't the same.

  Max Cherry : Bigger?

  Jackie Brown : Yeah.

  Max Cherry : Ain't nothin' wrong with that!

• Jackie Brown : Sit your ass down on that sofa.

  Ordell Robbie : See? Police start fuckin' wit' chur mind, start pittin' black against black. Thats how they do, you know. They been doin' this since the beginning of...

  Jackie Brown : Shut your raggedy ass up and sit the fuck down!

• Jackie Brown : Now sooner or later, they're gonna get around to offering me a plea deal, and you know that. That's why you came here to kill me.

  Ordell Robbie : I ain't come here to kill you...

  Jackie Brown : No, no, it's OK, it's OK, now. I forgive you.

• Jackie Brown : Well, I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on people almost 20 years. The best job I could get after my bust was Cabo Air, which is the worst job you can get in this industry. I make about sixteen thousand, with retirement benefits that ain't worth a damn. And now with this arrest hanging over my head, I'm scared. If I lose my job I gotta start all over again, but I got nothing to start over with. I'll be stuck with whatever I can get. And that shit is scarier than Ordell.

• Ordell Robbie : Is that what I think it is?

  Jackie Brown : What do you think it is?

  Ordell Robbie : I think it's a gun pressed up against my dick.

  Jackie Brown : Well, you thought right. Now take your hands off from around my throat, nigga.

• Jackie Brown : Aw, the milk went bad while I was in jail.

  Max Cherry : Black's fine.

  Jackie Brown : Cool.

• [Ray Nicolet and Jackie Brown are discussing Ordell Robbi's business] 

  Jackie Brown : He sells guns.

  Ray Nicolet : You ever see him sell guns?

  Jackie Brown : No.

  Ray Nicolet : Then how do you know he sells guns?

  Jackie Brown : He told me. Besides, why else would an ATF man be after him?

• Jackie Brown : What's the matter, haven't ever borrowed someone's car before?

  Max Cherry : Not after they're dead.

• Jackie Brown : Melanie?

  Melanie : Jackie?

  Jackie Brown : Hey, girl, what's up?

  Melanie : Hey, are you getting that suit?

  Jackie Brown : Yeah. You like it?

  Melanie : It looks really good on you.

  Jackie Brown : You got something for me?

  Melanie : You betcha.

  Jackie Brown : I put a cherry on top. Booh-yah! What the fuck did Ordell ever do for us, huh?

  Melanie : Thanks.

• Cockatoo Bartender : What's your drink brother?

  Ordell Robbie : Let me have a screwdriver homes.

  Cockatoo Bartender : And what about you?

  Jackie Brown : Oh, I'm fine.

  Cockatoo Bartender : Yes you are

  [they all laugh, the bartender leaves] 

  Ordell Robbie : Damn, I bet you come in here on a Saturday night, you need nigga repellent to keep them motherfuckers off your ass.

  Jackie Brown : Oh, I do okay.

  Ordell Robbie : Bull shit, Jackie. You a fine motherfucker. I bet chu do a damn sight better than okay.

• Jackie Brown : Silly? You want to see some motherfuckin' silly? If I have to tell you to shut up one more time, I'm gonna shut you up.

• Ordell Robbie : See, that shit works my nerves, you being all buddy-buddy with that motherfucker.

  Jackie Brown : If I wasn't so buddy-buddy with that motherfucker, none of this would work.

• Jackie Brown : I ain't playin' with you. I'm gonna unload both of these motherfuckers if you don't do what I tell you to do. You understand what I'm sayin'?

• [last lines] 

  Jackie Brown : I'll send you a postcard.

  Max Cherry : Will you?

  Jackie Brown : I sure will partner.

  [They kiss. Both are silent for a moment after, then the phone begins to ring. Max hesitates to answer it] 

  Jackie Brown : You're running a business Max.

  Max Cherry : [answers phone]  Cherry Bail Bonds. Uh, What is it your son's charged with?

  [Jackie leaves the office, Max watches her go] 

  Max Cherry : Yes, that's a very serious offense. Is your son still in school? Does his father still live in the house? Could I excuse myself? Would you call me back in about half an hour? Yes, thank you.

  [Hangs up the phone and watches Jackie drive off out the window] 

• [Jackie and Ordell need accomplices for the money exchange] 

  Jackie Brown : So I sit down at the table, eat my food, then your girl comes along. Oh, you have anybody yet?

  Ordell Robbie : Yeah, I got someone.

  Jackie Brown : Who?

  Ordell Robbie : What you care?

  Jackie Brown : What I care is my ass facing the penitentiary. If you send some hard-headed rock whore up in here...

  Ordell Robbie : Hey, hey, hey, hey. She ain't gonna be no "rock ho." She gonna be cool. Promise.

• Ray Nicolet : You've no idea what happened to the 50,000 dollars. You're clueless about the money, right? You've no idea about the 50 grand.

  Jackie Brown : I have no idea.

  Ray Nicolet : Not... You've no idea? You don't know?

  Jackie Brown : Nuthin', no.

  Ray Nicolet : Could have gone here? Could have gone there?

  Jackie Brown : No, no. I don't know.

  Ray Nicolet : You don't know? No clue? You're clueless.

  Jackie Brown : I know nothin. Not a clue!

  Ray Nicolet : No idea?

  Jackie Brown : I don't have any idea where the mothafuckin' money is.

  Ray Nicolet : Not even a little idea? Maybe?

  Jackie Brown : Not even... Not even a little tiny motherfucking idea.

• Jackie Brown : ...the money won't convict him, guns will.

  Max Cherry : You're rationalizing.

  Jackie Brown : Well that's what you do to go through with the shit you start, you rationalize. I can do it, Max, I know I can. I just can't do it without you.

• [first lines] 

  Girl at Security Gate : Flight 710 to Cabo San Lucas, now boarding Gate 103, first class only. Flight 710, Cabo San Lucas, now boarding Gate 103. First class only.

  Jackie Brown : [greeting passengers]  Buenos dias. Welcome aboard. Welcome aboard.

• Max Cherry : You never got into the whole CD revolution?

  Jackie Brown : Oh, I got a few, but I can't afford to start all over again. I mean, I've invested too much time and money in my albums.

  Max Cherry : Yeah, but you can't get new stuff on records.

  Jackie Brown : I don't get new stuff that often.

  [puts on an LP] 

  Max Cherry : Its pretty. Who is this?

  Jackie Brown : The Delfonics.

  Max Cherry : Its nice.

  Jackie Brown : Mmm-hmm.

• Jackie Brown : I couldn't wait to get home last night and wash the jail outta my hair.

• Jackie Brown : [singing]  110th Street, Pimps trying to catch a woman that's weak, Across 110th Street, Pushers won't let the junkie go free, Across 110th Street, Woman tryin' to catch a trick on the street, Ooh, baby, Across 110th Street, You can find it all in the street...

• Max Cherry : [Jackie offers a cigarette]  No, thanks. I quit three years ago.

  Jackie Brown : Gain weight?

  Max Cherry : Ten pounds. Take it off and put it back on.

  Jackie Brown : That's why I don't quit.

• Ordell Robbie : I suppose you see a piece of this for yourself?

  Jackie Brown : Its my plan. We're in this together.

  Ordell Robbie : Yeah, but its my money and I don't need no fuckin' partners.

  Jackie Brown : I ain't your partner. I'm your manager. And I'm managing to get your money out of Mexico, into America, in your hands, and I'm managing to do it all under the nose of the cops. So, therefore, I'm your manager, and a manager gets 15%.

  Ordell Robbie : No, a manager gets 10%.

  Jackie Brown : No, thats an agent. A manager gets...

  Ordell Robbie : I'm gonna give you 10.

  Jackie Brown : No. No. A manager gets 15%, agent gets 10. I'm getting 15%, all right?

  Ordell Robbie : All I'm gonna give you is 10.

  Jackie Brown : And the same deal as before.

  Ordell Robbie : I can do that.

• Jackie Brown : She knows everything. She's not a part of it and she's pissed off that she's not a part of it.

• Ordell Robbie : That shit works my nerves, you and that motherfucker being so buddy-buddy.

  Jackie Brown : Hey, if I wasn't so buddy-buddy with that motherfucker, this wouldn't work.

• Jackie Brown : If you had the chance, unemployed now, to walk away with a half a million dollars, would you take it?

• Jackie Brown : What's up? What are you going to be doing during all this?

  Ordell Robbie : Now that you got 'em watchin' my ass, I'm gonna be in a titty bar downtown waitin' on Louis to call me and tell me everything's cool.