Aretha Quotes in Bucktown (1975)

Aretha: You just don't give a damn about anybody do you?

Roy: You listen to me. You show me anybody who gives a damn about anybody else and I'll show you a fool. A damn fool! Who go through life with their hands out, begging instead of grabbing. You think anybody here in this town is any different? They don't give a damn who gets killed. Just as long as the dice keep rolling, the hoes keep hoeing, and the money keeps flowing!

Aretha: You want my opinion?

Duke Johnson: No.

Aretha: Well, you're gonna get it anyway dummy.

Aretha: Well, let me tell you something about people, big shot. Whether they're white, black, green yellow or purple; when they smell a few dollars - they all act alike.

Suzanne: Mom, this is my roommate, Aretha.

Doris: Aretha, what an unusual name.

Aretha: Yes, I think my parents were expecting someone black.

[Suzanne laughs]

Doris: [confused] Are you black?

Aretha: Ummm, no. It was nice to meet you; Suzanne has told me so much about you. I think I'll just go weave a basket or something and let the two of you visit.

Aretha: Flowers for you, Suzanne.

Suzanne: Who died?

Aretha: Both of us almost did for a start. Who are they from?

Suzanne: They're from the guy who pumped my stomach.

Aretha: Bullshit!

[Reading card]

Aretha: "Dear Suzanne. Hope your stomach is better. You seem to be what my mother warned me about: A beautiful, overly-sensitive person." He can tell all that by the contents of your stomach.

Suzanne: I'd have to be sensitive to need all that dope. I'm tempted to marry him so I can tell people how we met.

Suzanne Vale: I have nothing to say.

Aretha: The same cannot be said for the rest of your family.

Suzanne: Did you want some more cashews, Grandpa?

Grandpa: Did I already have some?

Grandma: [under her breath, to Aretha] He gets worse every day.

Grandpa: Who gets worse? I heard that! Get off my back, woman! I wanna go home!

Grandma: We're going home, dear.

Grandpa: Not with you! I wanna go home.

[smiles at Aretha]

Grandpa: Are we going soon?

Aretha: Soon, sir. Very, very soon.

Grandpa: You know what my daddy did?

Aretha: What?

Grandpa: [confused] What were we talking about?

Grandma: [under her breath, to Aretha] I told ya.

Grandpa: I heard that! Get out my back, woman! Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap--that's all you do all the livelong day!

[singing]

Grandpa: And the farmer hauled another load away...

[wanders off across the lawn]

Grandma: [sighs] The other night he punched me when I was trying to put some clean pajamas on him.

Suzanne Vale: [regarding an incoming phone call from Gene Hackman's character] He's a director. I don't wanna talk to him; I'm embarassed. I don't have to right?

Aretha: You don't have to do anything you don't want to do... except never take drugs again and go to AA meetings for the rest of your life.

Suzanne Vale: [sarcastically] Oh, I feel SO much better!