Jade Angelou Quotes in The Rock (1996)

John Mason: [while walking in the Palace of Fine Arts] your mother, well... she was very special.

Jade Angelou: Yes, she was. But I don't think that we should romanticize what happened between you and her. Meeting in a bar after a Led Zeppelin concert, ya know? And I was the result.

John Mason: Well, I'd like to think it would have led somewhere if only...

Jade Angelou: If only what? Six federal marshals hadn't kicked down her door and dragged you back to prison?

[John and Jade's conversation is interrupted by police cars converging on the Palace of Fine Arts, Jade backs away from John]

Jade Angelou: Is this about you? You broke out of prison again, didn't you?

[John gropes for a response]

Jade Angelou: Why did you come to me?

Stanley Goodspeed: [appears, showing his badge] FBI, ma'am. Your father's working with us. He's helping us to resolve a dangerous situation.

Jade Angelou: He is?

Stanley Goodspeed: Yes, ma'am. Well, gee whiz, John, I guess we'd better get going, don't you?

John Mason: Whatever you say, Stanley.

[He clasps hands with Jade, then leaves with Stanley]

John Mason: Thank you for that. You could have handled it differently.

Stanley Goodspeed: What do you say we cut the chit-chat, a-hole? You almost got me killed twice! And my jaw hurts like hell.

John Mason: ...Good.