Dolemite (1975)

Rudy Ray Moore: Dolemite

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Quotes 

• Dolemite : Ghosts? If you ever see a ghost, cut the motherfucker.

• Dolemite : I'm gonna let 'em know that Dolemite is back on the scene! I'm gonna let 'em know that Dolemite is my name, and fuckin' up motherfuckers is my game!

• Dolemite : You no-business, born-insecure, jock-jawed motherfucker!

• Dolemite : Man, move over and let me pass 'fore they have be to pullin' these Hush Puppies out your motherfuckin' ass!

• Dolemite : [referring to his cheap prison-issued suit]  You, guard! I want you to take these cheap motherfuckers and wipe your ass with them!

• Detective Mitchell : Now, I know you think you're smart, see, 'cause you got all them flashy clothes, you got that big car there, you got all them Black bitches working for you.

  Dolemite : You forgot about the white ones.

• Willie Green Henchman (blue suit) : By the way, who're you waitin' for anyway?

  Dolemite Girl : I'm waitin' for Dolemite!

  Willie Green Henchman (blue suit) : For who?

  Dolemite : Dolemite, motherfucker, you heard her.

• Dolemite : [hands Green's crew a wad of cash]  Give that to Willie Green and tell him I want him out of here in 24 hours... and 23 of 'em are already gone! You understand?

• Dolemite : Some folks say that Willie Green was the baddest motherfucker the world ever seen. But I want you to hold onto your seats. And hold onto them tight. 'Cause you now gettin' ready to see the story of me. Yes, me! The badass. Dolemite!

• Dolemite : Way down in the jungle deep, the lion stepped on the signified monkey's feet. The monkey said, "Motherfucker, can't you see? You're standing on my goddamn feet?" The monkey lived in a jungle in an old oak tree, bullshittin' a lion every day of the week.

• Dolemite : Damn! Looks like my women is on time.

• Dolemite : [after woman hands him a pair of cotton boxer shorts]  Bitch, you bring me these goddamn cotton dra--you know I don't wear no fuckin' cotton draws!

• Dolemite : Meet me at the Total Experience in one half a hour.

• [repeated line] 

  Dolemite : Can you dig it?

• Warden : Now, you're a gambling man, aren't you?

  Dolemite : Depends on the game, Warden, and how high the stakes are.

  Warden : Well, I might as well level with you: The game is rough, and the stake is your life.

• Dolemite : Nice to have seen you people - but fuck you, man.

• Dolemite : Is the Fat Burger joint still in business?

  The Queen Bee : Oh, yes. That's where the penny pimps and the nickel and dime hustlers hang out - when they ain't got no money and tricks be kinda slow.

• Dolemite : It's nice to have seen you people. But, fuck you man!

• Dolemite : What am I to do man? Lay up here and let 'em take a crack shot at my black ass?

• Dolemite : Well, I'll be damned. You know, I thought you was just another one of them jive ass rooty tooty cops.

• Dolemite : Goddamn, Mama, you must be new on my scene.

  Chi : I am.

  Dolemite : What's your name?

  Chi : It's Chi, short for Chicago.

  Dolemite : I hope you ain't as cold as the windy city, because the way I feel now baby, I could sure warm you up.

• Dolemite : I guess they bailed me out so they could take a crack shot at my ass.

  Pinky : You know, you're such a bitch. You don't even trust your own mother.

  Dolemite : Since you wanted my love, I'm gonna give you a fuckin' you'll never forget!

• Dolemite : One beautiful day in the merry month of May, Great Titanic, sailed away. The captain and the lieutenant was havin' a few words, when the great Titanic hit that mighty iceberg. Shine was in the boiler room eatin' some peas, black-eyed peas, it was. And the water came damn near to his knees. Before Shine could take a bite of bread, that water come darn near up to his head. Shine run up on the deck, said, "Captain, Captain, Captain, that water's damn near up to my neck." Captain said, "Shine, go back, pack the sacks. We gotta enough sacks, to keep this water back., You standin' up here, steady bullshittin' and drinkin', but can't you see this raggedy hunk-a-junk is slowly sinkin'?" I said, "Cap, I'll be in New York unpackin' my trunk when the news reach the world, this junk done sunk." The captain said, "Shine, go back and fear no doubt, 'fore I take this two-by-four and whack your black ass out." Shine said, "Captain", this shit you talkin' mighta once been true, but this is one time your motherfuckin' talk ain't gonna do." Shine just run and jumped up in the ocean, with his black ass doin' a back wheel in motion. I said, "Cap, all these rich broads run and jumped up on the top. One broad hollered, 'Shine, stop!' All this good stuff to you I'll give if you make it possible for me to live." Shine said, "Bitch, I like your shape and I like your plan, but you shoulda been offering me your stuff when we was on dry land. If I was in Mississippi and asked you for a piece of trim, you woulda had my black ass hangin' from the highest limb."

• Dolemite : Here come another broad out hollerin'. Hollerin', "Shine, Shine, Shine. I'm the captain's wife. Why won't you help me to save my life? I've been through the cotton fields and I waded through the mills. And, honey, I'm a soul sista, baby and we from the same blood." "You can talk so sweet and you can sing so fine, but you shouldn't of brought your high yellow ass across that darn color line. But I'm the one you call the boiler room flunkie, now keep your ass on this ship and drown with these honkys!"

• Blakeley : I'm only trying to be helpful.

  Dolemite : Oh, it's your kinda niggas that helped me to get in here.

• [first lines] 

  Prison Guard : Okay, Dolemite, the warden wants to see you.

  Dolemite : Oh, shit. What the hell does that rat-soup-eatin' motherfucker want with me?

• Dolemite : Mmm, mmm, mmm. Yes baby you can get behind me and in front of me, too.

• Dolemite : Another frame up, hmm.

  Detective Mitchell : That's right.

• Dolemite : Man, who done it? Who done it? Who killed Jimmy?

  Creeper : Lighten up, bro, I'll tell ya, I'll tell ya. Man, wait a minute, man. Damn. It had to do with business stuff over at the schoolhouse, man, and uh, he wanted out, man, and uh, they wouldn't let him. He went to the police, you know. It didn't do no good. One day, he was on his way to the pad. Lowriders passed by, man, and blow him up. You know, I'm comin' outta the pawn shop. You know, I seen it all. I was comm' out the pawn shop, man. That's what happened. That's the truth man.

• Dolemite : What do you know about little Jimmy? Do you know who killed Jimmy, man? Who killed little Jimmy? Do you know, man?

• Dolemite : Girls, come here. Come here, girls. I've been wantin' see me a honky dance. Dance, motherfucker, dance! Dance! Dance! Girls, this motherfucker's got rhythm, hasn't he?