Jamal Quotes in Blast (2004)

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Jamal Quotes:

  • Jamal: [answers phone] Hijacked oil rig, can I help you?

  • Jamal: Next thing I know, I hook up with his band of warriors and I'm in the middle of this mess. People shooting, they tell me to electrocute you, the girl keeps hitting me in the face, you knocked me out. I'm dealing with a lot of stuff here.

  • Agent Reed: [answers phone] Special Agent Reed, identify yourself.

    Jamal: 5073. The other kids are shooting at me, mom, and I wanna come home.

    Agent Reed: No, no. You can't do that. We need you to find out what Kittredge is really up to.

    Jamal: Agent Reed, you've confused me with somebody who gives a damn, okay? I didn't sign up for a hero gig. Come and get me, all right? Put me in jail. I don't care. All I got with me is a tugboat captain with a death wish.

    [puts down phone and looks at Lamont apologetically]

    Jamal: Not you

  • Jamal: Is he dead? Okay, I'm tired of dead people.

  • Jamal: [chanting] King Leo's got a great big castle,

    [Troops of men echo him]

    Men: King Leo's got a great big castle,

    Jamal: We're gonna shove it right up his a**hole!

    Men: We're gonna shove it right up his a**hole!

    Jamal: Sound off!

    Men: 1,2!

    Jamal: Break it on down!

    Men: Uh, uh, uh-uh!

  • Guard #1: Who be ye?

    Jamal: Who be I? I be stompin' yo ass you put your hand on me one more again!

  • Jamal: Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the presence of fear, yet the will to move on.

  • Jamal: Do you have a thong?

    Victoria: Excuse me?

    Jamal: Never mind. We'll just take an old pair of drawers and cut the ass out.

  • Percival: How dare you deflower the king's daughter.

    Jamal: Believe me, someone got to that flower long before I did.

  • [Trying to get Victoria's 's phone number]

    Jamal: ANYBODY GOT A PEN?

    Victoria: You can read and write!

    Jamal: Yeah!... Who you been datin'?

  • Jamal: With these hands, I make

    [holds out and flicks on lighter]

    Jamal: ... FIRE!

    Crowd member: We have fire.

  • Jamal: That's why you shouldn't drink your own urine.

  • Jamal: 9-1-1! 9-1-1! White man down! White man down!

  • Jamal: 'Tis roadkill!

  • Jamal: I'm not only the... duke's official messenger... but I'm also the court jester!

  • King Leo: You arrive early. My daughter and I welcome you. What news from Normandy?

    Jamal: What news? Well a couple of drive-bys, other than that, same ole same ole.

    King Leo: When will the Duke arrive to take my daughter's hand?

    Jamal: This is a hell of a setup you've got here. I mean, I'm not lyin'. I mean, wooh! You got to have major coins behind this. Who's backin you, Puffy?

    King Leo: Silence, Moor! Tell me when will the Duke arrive.

    Jamal: Oh, I, I get it. You wanna see if I can improv. Ok, well let's see. Uh. The Duke will arriveth in all his royal pomposity and splendor on Tuesday.

    King Leo: Tuesday! Ha! That is excellent news! Phillip, have the servants supply this messenger with much food and drink. And let him lay with any damsel that he desires, except my daugher, of course.

    [everyone laughs]

  • Jamal: [draws sword] Prepare to taste cold steel.

    Percival: [pause] ... Behold!

  • Jamal: Let's all give Percy some mercy.

  • Jamal: At sixteen, I've seen more bodies than a mortician. Every time I step out my door I face the risk of being shot. To the rest of the world it's just another dead body on a street corner. They don't know that he was my friend.

  • Jamal: Man, what am I DOIN' in here, man? This ol' ghetto ass class got people in here lookin' like a bad rerun of cops!

  • Andre: It's the dumb class cuz. It means you too dumb.

    Jamal: Man, say it to my face cuz.

    Andre: I just did. See what I mean? Dumb?

  • Silas: This class is fucking boring I'm out of here.

    Dean Carl Cain: Uh, excuse me did I hear you say something?

    Silas: With all do respect sir, suck my dick.

    Jeffery: No sir, I'm not saying anything. It's... it's these guys.

    Silas: You're an asshole.

    Dean Carl Cain: Did you just call me an asshole?

    Jamal: No I said idiot.

    Dean Carl Cain: An idiot.

    Jeffery: No sir, no sir, I...

    Dean Carl Cain: What did you say?

    Jeffery: I said that this school has nice halls.

    Dean Carl Cain: This is not funny.

    Silas: You couldn't teach your way out of kindergarten class, dean.

    Dean Carl Cain: I think we had enough interruptions for today. I think you should leave.

    Jeffery: Sir...

    [gets ready to walk out of the class]

    Silas: This would have never happened if I were black.

    [class laughs]

  • Jamal: I'm a ghost ghost ghost ghost ghost ghost ghost.

  • [after Harvard is described to them]

    Silas: Shit, I'll fucks witcha!

    Jamal: Shit, I'll fucks witcha, too!

    Huntley: And that's a good thing?

    Jamal: Yes. That's a "yes"!

    Huntley: Then we'll 'fox' with each other.

  • Jamal: How did I fail women's studies? I love bitches!

  • Bart: I'm the captian of the crew team, Jermaine.

    Jamal: The name's JAMAL, and I'll FUCK yo' crew up! Who are dey?

  • Amir: I remain here solely for the purpose of hooking up with Harvard women. Short ones, tall ones, skinny ones, chunky ones...

    Jamal: Man, I love me a fat chick, man. More cushin' for the pushin'!

  • Silas: So, you trying to get something to bring your nerves down too, huh?

    Jamal: Yeah. I figure if I study high, take the test high, get high scores! Right?

    Silas: Right.

    Jamal and Silas: Right...

  • Silas: Those look like they're still in high school, yo.

    Jamal: If there's grass on the infield, play ball!

  • Bart: [Jamal is rowing pathetically] What are you doing, Hip-hop hooray? Paddle! Paddle like a man, get jiggy with it or something!

    Mamma King: [Mamma King appears in the sky] Jamal! What is ya ass doin' in a boat. Oh I see, you've been smoking too much ganja huh.

    Spectator: [noticing her] It's so huge!

    Mamma King: Well, I guess you might have to just come back home and live with me!

    Jamal: OH HELL NO!

    Mamma King: Did you curse at me!

    Jamal: [Jamal starts paddling as hard as he can]

    [to Bart]

    Jamal: Row motherfucker ROW!

  • Jamal: You see, the system is geared to put most of the wealth into the hands of a few.

    Jamal: Fo shou!

    Jeffery: Fo shou...

    Silas: Oh you don't know shit, I'ma learn you though, I'ma learn you.

  • Jamal: Yo yo, what up Black, the Names Jamal.

    [Kid looks at him bug eyed]

    Jamal: Why you buggin, cuz I'm white?

  • Bilal: Yo Play, Kid, come up here.

    [Jamal buts in requesting the Mic]

    Bilal: No no, I didn't call Jamal.

    Jamal: Bilal, give Me the Mic.

    Bilal: No way, Man!

    Bilal: Dude, give me the Mic.

    Play: C'mon, Bilal, think about it, he likes Big Booty, he likes Dice, and he also likes Bean pies.

    Bilal: [Letting him have the mic] Yeah, he probably got a big dick too, a Big tremendous white Dick!

  • Jamal: Hi, I'm Santa's Number One Elf!

    Brenda: More like numbers one through ten...

  • Jamal: You are forcing me to betray my own father?

    Günther Bachmann: You are not betraying him. You are saving him. That is an act of love.

  • Jamal: I-I can't do this anymore. Someone's going to find out. I can feel it. I'm freightened. They are looking at me. All of them. I'm done. It's over. I'm not your spy. I am student. You cannot make me do this.

    Günther Bachmann: I never made you do anything, Jamal. And I never will. You know that. When we first met, you remember what we talked about? You remember that? Family. The future. Most of us don't get to choose. But, you did. You made the right choice. It's not easy. But, there's no going back - for any of us. We can't undo what's done.

  • Jamal: What can you do when there is no justice or freedom? Then there's the individual that is forced to fight for it. If we give in to the law that says, the strong devour the weak, then we become the animals. That's intolerable. Death is better than inferiority. That means whoever fights for freedom, can also die for it.

  • Jamal: If you're not afraid of death, you're in control of life.

  • Jamal: Do you remember the martyr Abul Azzam? He was very security minded. He said, if you fear death you're already dead. If you don't, you'll have a sudden and painless death. He drove the Mossad crazy. They spent millions trying to capture him. When they surrounded him, and he knew his fate was sealed, he opened the door and shouted, you've come to late!

  • Dan: [after watching Mario Savio's speech about The Machine] What is this machine that he's walking about? It's keeping us down, what is it?

    Jamal: Like, robots and stuff, right?

    Dan: Umm... it could be robots. It could be robots, but let's say it's a metaphor. He's saying this machine is keeping you down. Now, what is that? What keeps us from being free? Ms. Drey?

    Drey: Prisons.

    Dan: Absolutely. Absolutely, prisons. OK? Prisons are definitely a part of it. What else?

    Terrence: White!

    Dan: White is definitely a part of it. The Man.

    Student: The school.

    Dan: The school, exactly. The whole-the whole education system is part of the machine. What else?

    Student: Aren't you the machine then?

    Dan: Oh, no, you didn't. What'd you say?

    Student: Aren't you the machine?

    Dan: You're saying I'm the machine?

    Student: Yeah, you're white. You're part of the school.

    Dan: Oh, yeah, I guess you've got a point. All right, so I'm part of the machine. But if I'm part of it, then so are you. You are, too. We all are. And this is the thing, remember? Everything is made with opposing force. We may be opposed to the machine, but we're still very much a part of it, right? I work for the government, the school, but I'm also very much opposed to a lot of its policies. You guys hate coming to school, right? Holler back if you heard me! You hate it, but you come anyway. Sometimes. Exactly.

  • Jamal: So we go to the 'ship right?

    Conor O'Neill: Yeah, we could.

  • Jamal: Opens the letter

    Forrester: Dear Jamal, Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed. You need to know that while I knew so very early that you would realize your dreams, I never imagined I would once again realize my own. Seasons change young man, and while I may have waited until the winter of my life, to see the things I've seen this past year, there is no doubt I would have waited too long, had it not been for you.

  • Jamal: "The rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those to follow." You wrote that in your book.

  • Prof. Robert Crawford: [to Jamal] Perhaps your skills do reach farther than basketball.

    Jamal: "Further"

    Prof. Robert Crawford: What?

    Claire Spence: [whispered to Jamal] Don't...

    Jamal: [to Crawford] You said that my skills reached "farther" than basketball. "Farther" relates to distance, "further" is a definition of degree. You should have said "further".

    Prof. Robert Crawford: Are you challenging me, Mr. Wallace?

    Jamal: Not any more than you challenged Coleridge.

  • Jamal: Did you ever enter a writin' contest?

    Forrester: Yeah, once.

    Jamal: Did you win?

    Forrester: Well of course I won!

    Jamal: You win like money or somethin'?

    Forrester: No.

    Jamal: Well, whadchu win?

    Forrester: The Pulitzer.

  • Jamal: I was wondering if I could bring you more of my stuff. Or maybe I could write something else.

    Forrester: How about 5,000 words on why you should stay the fuck out of my house!

  • Prof. Robert Crawford: Perhaps the challenge should have been directed elsewhere. "It is a melancholy truth that even...

    Jamal: "great men have poor relations" Dickens.

    Prof. Robert Crawford: "You will hear the beat of..."

    Jamal: Kipling.

    Prof. Robert Crawford: "All great truths begin..."

    Jamal: Shaw.

    Prof. Robert Crawford: "Man is the only animal...

    Jamal: "that blushes... or needs to." That's Mark Twain.

    Jamal: Come on, Professor Crawford...

    Prof. Robert Crawford: [shouting] Get out!

    Prof. Robert Crawford: [whispered] Get... out.

    Jamal: Yeah. I'll get out.

  • Jamal: Man, fuck you William! You wanna know what the real bullshit is? How about you let me take on this one cause you're too damn scared to walk out that door and do something for somebody else. You're too damn scared, man! That's the only reason.

    Forrester: [throws glass against wall and breaks it] You don't know a goddamn thing about reason; There are no reasons! Reasons why some of us live and why some of us don't! Fortunately for you, you have decades to figure that out!

    Jamal: Yeah, and what's the reason in having a file cabinet full of writing and keeping the shit locked so nobody can read it? What is that man? I'm done with this shit.

  • Forrester: I have an homeland that I have not seen for too long.

    Jamal: Oh, you mean Ireland?

    Forrester: Scotland, for God's sakes!

    Jamal: I'm messing with you, man.

  • Jamal: I ain't seen nothing change.

    Forrester: You ain't seen nothing? What the hell kind of sentence is that?

  • Jamal: We've been talking about your book at school.

    Forrester: People have been talking about it for years. They just haven't been saying anything.

    Jamal: I think I got it down, though. I figure you were writing about how life never works out.

    Forrester: Really? You had to read a book to figure that out?

  • Forrester: What's your name?

    Jamal: Jamal Wallace.

    Forrester: Sounds like some kind of marmalade. How old are you?

    Jamal: I'm sixteen.

    Forrester: Sixteen? And you're black. It's remarkable.

    Jamal: "Remarkable"? It's remarkable that I'm black? What does me being black have to do with anything?

    Forrester: You don't know what to do right now, do you? If you say what you really want to, I may not read any more of this. But if you let me run you down with this racist bullshit... what does that make you?

    Jamal: I'm not playing this game, man.

    Forrester: I say you are playing it. An expression is worth a thousand words. Perhaps in your case, just two.

  • Forrester: Let me ask you a question... those two foul shots at the end of the game... did you miss them, or did you *miss* them?

    Jamal: Not exactly a soup question, now is it?

  • Jamal: I'll take poor assumptions for $800, Alex.

  • Jamal: Women will sleep with you if you write a book?

    Forrester: Women will sleep with you if you write a bad book.

  • Forrester: In some cultures it's good luck to be wearing something inside-out.

    Jamal: And you believe that?

    Forrester: No, but it's like praying: what do you risk?

  • Jamal: Be sure to write.

  • Jamal: Eve thought she saw a snake out there.

    Curt: Wait. She saw a snake? Did you get a good look at it?

    Eve: It looked like a black snake.

    Jamal: A black mamba.

    Shelly: A black mamba?

    Jamal: Yeah. A big one.

    Gary: Those things are like seriously dangerous.

    Dana: Should we move camp?

    Curt: It wasn't a black mamba. The mamba is an African snake. Only place you're going to see them are zoos and habitats. So we don't need to move. We're fine. Could have been a cottonmouth. They're pretty dangerous as well. Not as bad as a mamba but be careful guys.

    Jamal: All I know is, it was big and black.

    Eve: Yeah.

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