Gloria Clemente Quotes in White Men Can't Jump (1992)

Billy Hoyle: [while lying in bed] When I say I wanna make love, it means, "Let's screw." That's the kind of thing I thought you would say.

Gloria Clemente: I don't like the word "screw," OK? I prefer "make love" or "fuck." Screwing is for carpenters.

Billy Hoyle: [pours a glass of water in her face] Oh, you're gonna get it!

Gloria Clemente: Oh, honey!

Billy Hoyle: Oh...

Gloria Clemente: We're you going?

Billy Hoyle: [irritated, while getting dressed] Anywhere to get the hell away from you. Psycho, chiquita nut case!

Gloria Clemente: Oh, come back, I want to make love. Honey, come back, I want to screw!

Gloria Clemente: [to Billy] Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs.

Gloria Clemente: [while in the Deane's apartment] Teammates can't hustle each other.

Rhonda Deane: Oh really? Why not?

Gloria Clemente: It's not artistic.

Gloria Clemente: [referring to Sidney] He lives in The Jungle, right?

Billy Hoyle: [while on a bus] No honey, we can't. They don't let white people into the Crenshaw District. I don't know about Puerto Ricans but it's a reverse discrimination thing.