Jake Phillips Quotes in The Principal (1987)
Jake Phillips Quotes:
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Jake Phillips: ["Screwdriver" Phillips barges into the office of a napping "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" Latimer] ... You're ever-vigilant, I see.
Rick Latimer: Where I come from, we knock.
Jake Phillips: Where *I* come from, we pick locks. With your permission, I'll replace your old rusty one with a new deadbolt. The kind only .357 Magnums can open up.
Rick Latimer: Thanks, Jake; that's real encouraging. I feel much better now.
Jake Phillips: Do you mind if I ask you a question I ask all imported principals?
[without waiting for an answer]
Jake Phillips: ... What is a fine, white-bread boy like you doing in a place like this?
Rick Latimer: Keeping my warm ass planted in this chair.
Jake Phillips: [indicates the "Classified Ads" which Latimer has been going through] 'Till something better comes along, right?... I don't know why I thought it should've been any different.
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Rick Latimer: I'll be here tomorrow.
Jake Phillips: I'll be here too.
Rick Latimer: We are very stupid men.
Jake Phillips: Yeah, I know. But what can you do?
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Rick Latimer: [dealing with a couple of troublemakers in his new office, both of whom keep insulting - and trying to injure - each other in front of him] ... Like I said, we got all day...
Robert Darcy: [enters nervously] ... I was hoping to speak to you before this...
Rick Latimer: This wonderful welcoming party? Why don't we start my first day off with some expulsion papers for Mr. Shit and Mr. Fuck here? And call the police.
[to Jake Phillips who has just popped in]
Rick Latimer: Hi. Rick Latimer. I'm the new principal.
Jake Phillips: No kidding.
[moves on]
Robert Darcy: [to Latimer] ... Did you get a look at the neighborhood coming into this place? Brandel High isn't exactly the highest priority for the police around here.
Rick Latimer: These guys are trying to cut each other's nuts off.
Robert Darcy: The cops would only ask why you stopped them. As far as expulsion goes, most of the students here have already been expelled from someplace else.
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Rick Latimer: [awaiting Victor Duncan] We'll give him another minute. And then we'll go home.
Jake Phillips: [after only a few seconds] Okay, time's up.
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