Striptease (1996)
Ving Rhames: Shad
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Quotes
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Chico : Are you Ms. Grant?
Erin Grant : [sarcastically] No, I'm Barbara Bush.
Chico : [to Shad] And you are?
Shad : George Bush.
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Shad : You talk to her?
Erin Grant : Darrell's phone's disconnected. I think he moved again.
Shad : You know, I'd embrace the opportunity to maim his white ass up.
Erin Grant : I know you would, and that's really thoughtful, but I don't think it would help my case in court if I had him attacked.
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[Shad appears besides Erin's car while Darrell is holding her at knifepoint inside it]
Shad : Drop the knife! You got 'til three. One...
Darrell Grant : Suck my dick!
Shad : Whip the little fella out. Two...
Darrell Grant : [brandishes the knife at Shad] This here's a domestic squabble...!
[Shad seizes his knife hand and wrenches his arm over the window jam, snapping the bone. Darrell screams]
Shad : Three.
Darrell Grant : You broke my arm!
Shad : You sure?
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Erin Grant : [Shad has just put a roach in a container of yogurt] So, this is the new brainstorm, huh?
Shad : Accordin' to the Wall St. Journal we got here the hottest selling yogurt in the country. I bring this in, say my hair fell out from the shock. BOOM! They pay off big time. My lawyer thinks it's a genius idea.
Erin Grant : Your lawyer has an office over a video store.
Shad : Call me a dreamer. I don't wanna be a bouncer forever.
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Alan Mordecai : Do you follow politics, Mr. Shad?
Shad : Do I look like I follow politics?
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Shad : "Free Willy" back yet?
Video Clerk : Still out.
Shad : People are pigs! Sit on movies like they own 'em!
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[about going after Erin without police backup]
Shad : So we're it? A cop and a bouncer?
Lt. Al Garcia : Plus two strippers and a kid. We're in great shape.
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Lt. Al Garcia : [about Erin] Dilbeck didn't invite her back?
Shad : She said no.
Lt. Al Garcia : Well, that's good. Because I don't think she should go back there, even with you. And what was with her tonight? She seemed edgy.
Shad : She got her moods, man. Could be that time of the month.
Lt. Al Garcia : So now you're the gynecologist-bouncer, bouncer-gynecologist?
Shad : Hey! I just watch out for the girls.
Lt. Al Garcia : Wow... so do I. That makes a grand total of two people in the entire state of Florida. Because the higher-ups in my department, they're not exactly pushing this investigation. Is any of this making sense to you?
Shad : Because of this asshole Congressman.
Lt. Al Garcia : Bingo! We've got two homicides here, and nobody gives a shit except you and me. And I'm worried about that girl. She's all alone out there.
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[Orly hires Lorelei and her trained python away from the Flesh Farm, only they send the snake's dead body]
Orly : Here, go rustle up a new snake.
Shad : Where, the AM/PM? Who the fuck carries pythons at ten o'clock at night?
Orly : There's an all-night snake farm on Route 27. Ask for Jungle Juan. And get rid of that thing! God, I hate this business! You know why? It's lost its humanity.
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Lt. Al Garcia : [in the morgue] Now here comes that brilliant and charming attorney of yours, Mr. Mordecai. Found him 400 yards offshore. Now show him the rest of his kisser.
Medical Examiner : [uncovers Mordecai's face] Crabs find lawyers a particular delicacy, yeah.
Shad : Looks like lasagna. Cover that shit up.
Lt. Al Garcia : You mind telling me why your name was on his calendar for tomorrow?
Shad : I was involved in a litigation with a yogurt company.
Lt. Al Garcia : Just based on my limited experience, this doesn't look like the sort of thing a yogurt company would ordinarily do. You know, I hear this prick represented the same poor kid who got mauled at your club. Now that I find fascinating, Shad!
Shad : He had a picture...
[retching]
Shad : Man, I'm gonna lose it!
[the coroner starts to cover Mordecai's face, Garcia stops him]
Lt. Al Garcia : A picture of what? A certain legislator?
Shad : Yeah... beatin' the kid's ass.
Lt. Al Garcia : And where's the original?
Shad : I got no idea.
[the coroner covers up Mordecai, Garcia hands Shad a box of mints]
Lt. Al Garcia : Here, freshen up. Thanks.
Medical Examiner : Can I interest you in dessert?
Lt. Al Garcia : No, just the check.
[the coroner laughs and wheels Mordecai away]