Abraham Quotes in Fortress (1992)

Abraham: Don't dream.

Michelle: You... You killed my brother.

Abraham: And you just killed my sister. I guess we're even.

Abraham: We are the Hebrews. Righteous people - not very good at sports.

Zed: [Abraham draws back with the knife, about to stab Isaac] STOP! What are you doin' with that kid?

Abraham: [Abraham freezes, with the knife still held high] ... Nothing.

Zed: Nothing?

Abraham: This is my son, sir. We were playing a game, alright? It's called... "Burny Burny Cut Cut".

Abraham: [addressing Zed, Oh, and Isaac] Therefore, to signify my covenant with the one true God, I shall on this day circumcise the flesh of my penis. And of you. And you, and of you, and every male who dwelleth hereby.

Zed: Excuse me?

Oh: I don't know what you mean.

Abraham: We shall grasp the foreskins of our penises, and we shall cut therefrom the extra flesh. Amen.

Zed: Oh... I don't think I have any extra.

Oh: Couldn't we pierce our ears or something?

Abraham: No, no, no. So it shall be written, and so it shall be done.

Zed: Let me get this straight. You're saying you have too much cock? And you wanna...

[makes a cutting gesture. Abraham nods]

Zed: You know, Abe, it's been a long day, we've all had a lot to drink, and I know that this foreskin thing sounds like a good idea now, but you might wanna sleep on it. We can always cut it off in the morning. But if we do it now, there's just no way to get it back on there.

Abraham: No, no, no, trust me, it's gonna be a very, very sleek look. This is gonna catch on. I'm gonna go get my good knife. Just wait right there. I'll be right back to cut your penises. Not the whole thing, you understand. Just the very tip. And after, we're all gonna have wine and sponge cake.

Barabba: Look boss it's Tuco who fucked up not us. Just give us a few more days. You kill us... you and your benefactor don't get anything, no money, no merchandise, no nothing, just two dead bodies...

Abraham: Hey fellas! I'll give you 48 hours. You ruin my dream. I'll shoot you in the ass.

Abraham: Wait a minute! We're using film metaphors? I thought we were using barnyard code?

Senator: What? What difference does it make?

Abraham: You know. The pig is in the poke. We've got a prize winning cow. Like that.

Abraham: We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans, both at the same time! It's exhausting!

Abraham: No female has ever made it and now you're number one. You cracked the Tejano market wide open. You walked into Mexico and they don't even accept Mexican-Americans and they love you, and now?

Selena Quintanilla: And now... gringos. Disney World!

Abraham: You remember?

Selena Quintanilla: Uh-huh.

Abraham: And all the barriers that have stopped people before... and you went through them like they didn't exist. Maybe for you they don't exist. I love you, and I'm very proud of you.

Selena Quintanilla: Hey dad, what was so important you had to drag me over here?

Abraham: Aye, Selena we have a problem. And I don't know where to start. It's Yolanda.

Selena Quintanilla: What?

Abraham: We started to get complaints from fans who had sent money to the fan club and had received nothing. Not a picture, nada. Then I found out she had a problem with her previous employer.

Selena Quintanilla: Well what kind of problem? Because you know Yolanda. She wouldn't do that.

Abraham: Money problems. We didn't find out about it because they had settled it out of court. But I went to the records at some of the fan clubs to find these cheques. They're very suspicious to me.

[Selena looks at the cheques]

Abraham: And what's worse, is that a lot of the records are missing. Selena, I'm worried. She's been handling a lot of business in the boutiques.

Selena Quintanilla: [unnerved] I know.

Abraham: Mujhe toh chadi zeher ki tarah... ki ab paani bhi peeta hoon - toh aag lag jaati hain.

Abraham: History uthaa ke dekh lo, do cheezein hamesha common rahi hain. Mardo ka zamaan raha hain, aur aurton ne aakey aafat ki hain.

Abraham: You know, when you're not working, it's terrible. And when you're working? It's terrible.

Abraham: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

Sampson: I do bite my thumb, sir.

Abraham: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

Sampson: Is the law of our side if I say ay?

Gregory: No.

Sampson: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you sir; but I bite my thumb, sir.

Gregory: Do you quarrel, sir?

Abraham: Quarrel, sir? No, sir.

Sampson: If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.

Abraham: No better.

Sampson: Well, sir.

Gregory: Say 'better'; here comes one of my master's kinsmen.

Sampson: Yes, better, sir.

Abraham: You lie.

Sampson: Draw, if you be men! Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

Gregory: Do you quarrel , Sir?

Abraham: Quarrel, Sir? No, Sir.

Abraham: The ways of the Lord are not our ways. And what He hath intended or how it shall be perfected is not in our power to know. Only in the trust of what is to come can we prosper. And in that trust shall we pitch our tents.

Isaac: [as Abraham is preparing to kill him as a sacrifice] There is nothing that He may not ask of thee?

Abraham: Nothing.

Abraham: The night is filled with Thy voice. Here am I. What wouldst Thou demand of me?

Abraham: [to Sarah] Lo, here I bring my love beside thee in the tent.

Spud Kilton: [Spud is keen to introduce his friends to his big brother, the Army man] I want you to meet my brother, Jed. Jed, this is Jimmy.

Captain Jed Kilton: Hello, Jimmy.

Spud Kilton: His mother and father are Chinese.

Jimmy: Yes.

Spud Kilton: [then he turns to his black friend] And this is Abraham.

Abraham: My ma and pa are Republicans.

[everyone laughs]