Memorable Quotes from Chris Rock
26 quotesUnexpected Truths About Jay's Private Life
Jay
Yo, man, tell me something about me.
Rufus
You masturbate more than anyone on the planet.
Jay
Ah, fuck, everyone knows that. Tell me something nobody knows.
Rufus
When you do it, you're thinking about guys.
[walks off]
Jay
Dude, not all the time.
Debt Between Friends
Bethany
You knew ]?
[[Christ]
Rufus
Knew him? Shit, nigga owes me 12 bucks!
Desperation in a Moment of Crisis
Pookie
Scottie, help me - I'm gonna die!
[as Pooky peers into camera in despair]
The Dangers of Belief vs. Ideas
Rufus
His only real beef with mankind is the shit that gets carried out in His name. Wars, bigotry, televangelism. The big one, though, is the fractioning of all of the religions. He said mankind got it all wrong by taking a good idea and building a belief structure on it.
Bethany
You’re saying having beliefs is a bad thing?
Rufus
I just think it’s better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea, changing a belief is trickier. People die for it, people kill for it. The whole of existence is in jeopardy right now, because of the Catholic belief structure regarding this plenary indulgence bullshit. Bartleby and Loki, whether they know it or not, are exploiting that belief. And if they’re successful, you, me… ALL of this ends in a heartbeat, all over a belief.
Real Football Challenge Against the Guards
Battle
Wow, no bullshit? Real football, against the guards?
Nate Scarborough
Full contact.
Battle
Captain Knauer is their quarterback?
Caretaker
Yup.
Battle
So I get to...tackle him?
Paul Crewe
Yeah, you can either tackle him or hit him over the head with that hammer.
[Pointing to Battle's crotch.]
Battle
I want to hurt him, not kill him.
[Grins]
Caretaker
Let's get out of here before that thing bites someone.
[To Crewe]
Paul
Okay, we'll see you and your pet iguana at practice.
Inmate Rating System Explained
Nate Scarborough
Hazen has a rating system for every con.
[accessing main computer]
Paul Crewe
What's three stars?
[sees the three-star rating on Big Tony Cobianco's file]
Nate
The more prone to violence that the inmate is, the more stars he gets.
Skitchy
Five stars is the max.
Caretaker
I didn't know that.
Skitchy
Yeah.
Caretaker
Let's see how many stars my maniacal ass got.
[Nate accesses file and sees Caretaker only had a 0.5 star rating]
Paul
Wow.
Caretaker
Half a star? That's gotta be a mistake. Check it again. Check it again.
Paul
You're about as maniacal as a boxful of kittens.
Caretaker
Come on, that's not funny, man. I'm gonna have to stab somebody or something. Get my rep up.
Paul
Why don't we have a maniacal pillow fight tonight. That could get it up some.
Skitchy
Yeah. We can sell it to pay-per-view. Superstar Versus Half-a-Star.
[overhears]
A Toast to Uncertainty
Rufus
So what do we do now?
Metatron
Well, I say we get drunk, because I'm all out of ideas.
Enterprise Room: A Space for Escape
Pookie
(Pooky describing a room used for freebasing) They call it the "Enterprise Room", man, because it's for people who wanna be beamed up to Scotty.
Request for Promotion and Celebration
Bony T
Now check this out, man. I've been working here about 9 days. You know, been on time most of the time, even when it rains. Don't you think it's about time we talk promotion?
Marcus
HAHAHA!
Bony T
Marcus. Come on, man. I get my own office, man. Bring my hos in here, we have a little party, set this muthafucka off, man!
Questioning Belief and Ideas
Rufus
Why, Bethany Sloane, are you saying you believe?
Bethany
No. But I have a good idea.
Rallying Cry Against Authority
Caretaker
Now who we gonna crush?!
Crowd
THE GUARDS!
Caretaker
Who we gonna kill?!
Crowd
THE GUARDS!
Caretaker
Who we gonna kiss?!
Brucie
THE GUARDS!
Caretaker
Gotcha.
[everyone mocks Brucie]
The Value of Being an Amateur
Mays Gilliam
You're right, Vice-President Lewis. I am an amateur. When it comes to creating so many enemies that we need billions of dollars to protect ourselves, I'm an amateur. When it comes to paying farmers not to grow food while people in this country starve every day, I'm an amateur. When it comes to creating a drug policy that makes crack and heroin cheaper than asthma and AIDS medicine, I'm an amateur. But there's nothing wrong with being an amateur. The people that started the Underground Railroad were amateurs. Martin Luther King was an amateur. Have you ever been to Amateur Night at the ]? Some of the world's best talent was there: ], ], Rockwell, the Crown Heights Affair.
[[w:Apollo Theater|Apollo; [James Brown; [w:Luther Vandross|Luther Vandross]
Martin Geller
Hall and Oates!
Gilliam
The Fat Boys, Rob Base. But you wouldn't know nothing about that. Why? Because when it comes to judging talent and potential.. you, my friend, are an amateur!
Vice-President Brian Lewis
I believe the alderman is over his time.
Gilliam
No, no you had eight years of talk. Now it's my turn. I'm gonna get mine. I'm getting mine!
Arbiter
Ladies and gentlemen, hold your applause, please.
[reacting to audience]
Gilliam
How can you help the poor if you never been poor? How can you stop crime if you don't know no criminals? How can you make drug policy if you never smoked a chronic? How can you do that? Just a nickel bag. I'm a real American. I've been high, I've been robbed, I've been broke. My credit is horrible. They won't even take my cash! Now, you're always talking about "God bless America, and no place else," but isn't it obvious that God has blessed America? America is the richest, most powerful nation on Earth. If America was a woman, America would be a big-titty woman and everybody loves a big-titted woman. So in closing, I'd like to say you are full of shit! "God bless America and no place else." How about "God bless Haiti"? How about "God bless Africa"? How about "God bless Jamaica"? I'm not talking about Jamaica, the beach tribes y'all love, I'm talking about stabbing in Jamaica. That's what I'm talking about. So tonight, I want to say God bless America, and everybody else! The whole world! God bless you! I'm Mays Gilliam, and I'm running for President of the United States of America. Ya heard?
[everybody laughs at the description; to Lewis; waves hand; entire audience is on standing ovation]
Frat House Tensions Escalate Among Characters
Roxanne Feder
Excuse me, why are you here? What's the matter?
Frat Boy Milo
I tell you what is the matter. These old townies trashed our frat house! And nobody treats our good-times headquarters with disrespect!
[mocking Roxanne; frat boys laugh, speaking in normal accent; all frat boys yell "Yeah!"]
Braden Higgins
They didn't do it. Me do it.
Frat Boy Milo
Don't try and cover for him, Z-Dog!
Lenny Feder
Who's Z-Dog?
Frat Boy Andy
We know they're trying to get back at us for making them do the naked plunge in our swimming hole.
Deanne McKenzie
Your swimming hole? I've been swimming at the quarry since I was eight years old.
Frat Boy Andy
Apparently, everybody in this crap town has been swimming there since they were eight years old. I guess nobody wants to leave this dump because they're too busy sucking! We'll finish later.
[all frat boys cheer, Andy and Milo do their handshake, but stop in the middle]
Frat Boy Milo
You promise?
Frat Boy Andy
I promise.
[touching Milo's cheek]
Frat Boy Milo
Okay.
Dickey Bailey
Hey, smart guy! Lenny Feder left this town, moved to Hollywood, made big bucks, probably more money than all you brainiacs put together ever will. But guess what? He came back here. Cause this beautiful town is his home. And it always will be his home.
[looks at Lenny, who nods of approval, Dickey raises his beer, and takes a drink]
Frat Boy Milo
Well, that was just a moving testament to this community, bro! But we didn't come here to hear any lame speeches. We came here to kick some old, smelly ass!
[frat boys cheer, Milo turns around and bends over, and Andy slaps his butt three times]
Lenny Feder
Fellas, we may be old.
Marcus Higgins
We may be smelly.
Deanne McKenzie
We may have a penis.
[she, Roxanne, and a drunk woman point at Beefcake Kitty]
Eric Lamonsoff
But the only ones getting their ass kicked around here is gonna be you spoiled, privileged, uppity, preppy D-bags.
Kurt McKenzie
You hear that? Now let's get BUSY!!
[everyone starts fighting]
Questioning the Church's Past Decisions
Rufus
I'm telling you, man, this ceremony tomorrow is a mistake!
Cardinal Glick
The Catholic Church does not make mistakes!
Rufus
Please! What about the Church's silent consent to the slave trade?
Bethany
And its platform of non-involvement during the ]?
[[Holocaust]
Cardinal Glick
...All right, mistakes were made.
Struggling with Addiction's Pull
Pookie
(sobbing) I tried to kick... but that shit just be callin me man, it be callin me, man... I just got to go to it!
Questions of Faith and Historical Truth
Bethany
Why me? Out of all the people on the goddamn planet, why was I tapped?
Rufus
Imagine you're a twelve-year old boy, and one day you're told you're God's only son- more than that, you're God. How long do you think it would take you to come to grips with something that huge? Maybe, say, eighteen years? In the Bible, Jesus suddenly goes from twelve to thirty. Twelve to thirty! Now that's some pretty bad story-telling! Where are the texts dealing with the missing eighteen years?! I'll tell you where; they were offered up as a sacrifice to the God of ecumenical politics!
Bethany
You make it sound like there was some Church conspiracy to cover up the "truth about Christ"! Bullshit! Any important material about Christ would give people a better understanding of the nature of God. Why leave any of it out?
[sarcastically joking; Rufus gives her a look; Bethany instantly becomes more serious]
Rufus
Because it's all closely tied in with His family.
Bethany
His ] and ]?
[[w:Mary (mother of Jesus)|mother; [w:Saint Joseph|father]
Rufus
His ].
[[w:Brothers of Jesus|brothers and sisters]
Bethany
Jesus didn't have any brothers or sisters; Mary was a virgin.
Rufus
Mary ] without knowing a man's touch, this is true, but she did have a husband. And do you really think he would have stayed married to her for all those years if he wasn't getting laid? The nature of God and the Virgin birth are all leaps of faith, but to believe a married couple never got down...well that's just plain gullibility!
[[w:Virgin birth of Jesus|gave birth to Christ]
Bethany
Meaning?
Rufus
The blood that flows through your veins shares a chromosome or two at the genetic level with the one you call Jesus. Bethany, you are the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grand-niece of Jesus Christ.
Jay
So that would make Bethany... part black?
Addressing Community Needs and Injustice
Mays Gilliam
They had a speech written for me about what the people need, but you guys are the people. You know what you need. Better schools, better jobs, less crime. How many of you, right now work two jobs just to have enough money to be broke? That ain't right. If you work two jobs, and at the end of the week, you got just enough money to get your broke ass home, Let me hear you say, "That ain't right!
[takes off coat]
Crowd
That ain't right!
Gilliam
How many of you have children that they call stupid? Don't be ashamed! It ain't your fault. I asked my niece the other day, "What's four plus four?" She said, "44." But that ain't her fault! That's the school's fault. If your child's school has old-ass books and brand-new metal detectors, let me hear you say, "That ain't right!
Crowd
That ain't right!
Gilliam
It ain't right. And now we got these corporations stealing all the money. They ain't stealing their money, they stealing our money! The pension. You work for 35 years. You thought you'd leave your kids a ], now you're gonna leave them with a won't! You show up to get your pension, they give you a pen! Give you a damn pen! What in the hell am I supposed to do with a pen? I should stab you in the neck with this pen, Mr. Pension Taker.
[[w:Last will and testament|will]
Old man
Get your hand out of my pocket!
[stands up and points at Mays]
Gilliam
Taking everybody's pension, and nobody going to jail.
Mitch Gilliam
That's some bullshit. Ain't it?
[to attendee]
Mays
Meanwhile, you and I steal a Big Mac with cheese next thing you know, we on Death Row!
Crowd
That ain't right!
Gilliam
How many of you work in a city you can't afford to live in? That ain't right! How many of you work in a mall you can't afford to shop in? That ain't right! How many of you clean up a hotel... you ain't never gonna be able to stay in? That ain't right! And we got nurses that work in hospitals they can't even afford to get sick in. It ain't right! It ain't right. It ain't right. It isn't right! That shit is wrong! It's dead wrong!
[as crowds get more agitated; crowd responds with That ain't right! with every question; to campaign staffers; to crowd]
Divine Mission and Skepticism in Dialogue
Cardinal Glick
Who sent you here?
Rufus
We were sent by Him who is called ]!
[[w:I Am that I Am|I Am]
Cardinal Glick
Cute. Really cute.
Rufus
Worked for ].
[shrugs; [Moses]
Contrast of Darkness and Achievement
Haru
The blackness of my belt is as black as inside of a coffin on a moonless night.
Joey
That's pretty nice, man.
High-Tech Setup Comparison in New Jack City
Pookie
They got that shit hooked up like Mission Impossible, man!
A Search for the Holy Bartender
Azrael
Get me a... Holy Bartender.
Bartender
Never heard of it.
Azrael
Ahh, he doesn't know how to make a Holy Bartender. You do, don't you, Muse?
Serendipity
Don't...
Azrael
Ahh, anybody? No? Well, I know how to make a Holy Bartender... Get it?
[Jay and Silent Bob shake their heads; pulls out an Uzi, shoots the bartender repeatedly, then laughs hysterically]
Serendipity
Sweet Jesus, Azrael, why?
[restrained by the Stygian triplets who have suddenly appeared]
Rufus
Come on, demon, I wanna see you try that shit on someone who's already dead!
Azrael
Now, now, Apostle, you maintain that kind of an attitude and you and the barkeep won't be the only corpses in the room. The Christ bitch will join you.
[referring to Bethany]
Serendipity
Are you really that stupid!? You do know what happens if those two jerks enter the church, don't you?
Azrael
I'm actually counting on it! And the pawns are moving into place as we speak...
Jay
Holy Bartender! I get it, that's a great one!
[suddenly starts sniggering]
Marketing Faith to the Young
Cardinal Glick
Fill them pews, people, that's the key. Grab the little ones as well. Hook em while they're young.
[lights a cigarette]
Rufus
Kind of like the tobacco industry?
Cardinal Glick
Christ, if only we had their numbers.
Nostalgic Reflections on College Life
Lenny Feder
Look at this. Beers on ice, hot ladies everywhere, this is how we used to do it.
Frat Guy
This is Kappa Eta Sigma property, so you might wanna quit pervin on our ladies and get back to your trailer homes.
Lenny Feder
Okay, easy there, Abercrombie.
Kurt McKenzie
I haven't been around this many arrogant white college kids since Eminem played Duke.
Other Frat Guy
At least we got into college, skinny Danny Glover.
Lenny Feder
Hey, fellas, that was a good handshake, we've got a good one too, it goes like this.
Kurt McKenzie
How are you doing, sir?
Eric Lamonsoff
Very good, nice to see you.
Football Team Recruitment in Prison
Inmate
Hey, yo, check out this fake Slim Shady, man.
Cheeseburger Eddy
I knew you couldn't resist my shit. I got the shakes that will make you quake, I got the fries that will cross your eyes, I got the burgers that will... I just got burgers.
[Crewe shrugs head]
Paul Crewe
I'm all right. Thank you. Just wanted to talk to you fellas about possibly joining the football team.
Deacon
The only game we'd play with you is "Slap the Point-Shaving White Boy Till He Cries Like a Baby-Back Bitch.
Cheeseburger Eddy
Baby-back bitch, baby-back bitch Baby-back bitch.
[makes a robot dance as his friends laugh]
Caretaker
That's a big-ass robot.
Paul
Yeah.
A Debate Sparks Over Personal Insults
Mays Gilliam
Your mother's ass is so big, when she sits down she's three feet taller. Yo, Lewis! Your mother's got a really big ass!
Lewis Advisor
Sir, it's time we prepare for a debate.
Vice-President Brian Lewis
Nah, give me one good reason I should debate that jerk.
Lewis Advisor
He talked about your mother, sir!
Lewis
So what?
[gets slapped by his mother, who does have a large butt]
Mrs Lewis
Are you going to just let him talk about me like that?
[tearfully walks off]
Martyrdom and Misunderstanding in Conversation
Jay
You believe this shit?!
Rufus
You know, that's a lot like the good people of ] were saying, right before they stoned my ass!
[[w:Antioch|Antioch]
Bethany
You were martyred?
Rufus
That's one way of putting it. Another would be I was bludgeoned to death by big fucking rocks!