The Banker (2020)

Anthony Mackie: Bernard Garrett

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• Barker : Do you think that follows normal business customs?

  Bernard Garrett : If I was following normal business customs, I'd still be a shoeshine boy in Texas.

• Mrs. Cooper : You can't be here after 6 pm.

  Bernard Garrett : A contractor can't be here after 6 pm, Mrs. Cooper. I'm a resident. I'm moving in.

• Joe Morris : I'm not fucking your wife.

  Bernard Garrett : You go to every table in here to reassure your patrons of that?

  Joe Morris : No. Might have to skip some of them.

• Joe Morris : I don't trust white people.

  Bernard Garrett : How do you even go through life like that?

  Joe Morris : Truth be told, I don't trust black people either.

• Bernard Garrett : You said this was gonna be complicated.

  Joe Morris : What I said was, "This is a bad idea."

  [Bernard scroffs] 

  Joe Morris : Then I agreed to drive off the *cliff* with you and here we are. Now, we gotta buy a kid with 90 days of banking experience his own goddamn bank.

• Joe Morris : I'm not the asshole you think I am.

  Bernard Garrett : You a different kind of asshole, huh?

• Bernard Garrett : The best place to learn about the present state of the real estate market is inside of a bank. We get that building, we'll be inside 12 of 'em. And next time, they'll think *twice* about refusing to make loans to us if we're their landlords.

• Joe Morris : When I first laid eyes on you, I thought you were this uptight, square-ass negro who wouldn't know whitey's hand was 'round his neck if he was staring at it in a mirror.

  Bernard Garrett : Glad, I made such a good first impression.

  Joe Morris : Turns out, you a goddamn revolutionary.

• Tony : Sorry, my dad was such a jerk last night.

  Bernard Garrett : Was he? I didn't notice.

• Bernard Garrett : Let's go home.

  Eunice Garrett : They took 'em all, remember?

  Bernard Garrett : Well, let's go somewhere.

• Bernard Garrett : You saw things years before I did. Even about myself. Five minutes after meeting me.

• Bernard Garrett : When I first met you, I thought you were an entitled playboy clown.