Jeremiah Quotes in Four Brothers (2005)

Jack: Jack drinks Jack! Jack drink Jack!

[considering his name is Jack and he's Drinking Jack Daniels]

Jeremiah: Jackie is drunk!

Bobby: Jack likes ass crack and ballsack.

Jack: Jack doesn't like ass crack and ballsack! Jack likes boobs! Jack's got fans. Jack's got lots of fans.

Angel: Man, shut the hell up.

[at Thanksgiving dinner, the brothers reminisce about Evelyn]

Evelyn Mercer: [to Jeremiah] Zip up your mouth Jeremiah. Did you grow up in a barn?

Jeremiah: [to Angel] Close your mouth, Angel. You think you a cow or somethin'?

Evelyn Mercer: [to Angel] More tattoos Angel?

[Angel pulls his sleeve down]

Evelyn Mercer: It's okay, you don't have to hide them. Look at mine!

Evelyn Mercer: [pulls sleeve back to reveal a rose, winks] But get your elbows off of the table.

Evelyn Mercer: [to Jack] Jackie. I know bad things happened to you before you came here Jackie, hey look at me!

[Jack looks at her]

Evelyn Mercer: But you're safe now.

Jeremiah: Do you remember when I built that tree house and you burnt that shit down? Boy, I wanted to kick your ass!

Bobby: Don't worry, your house is brick, I ain't gonna burn it down.

Angel: You said something, didn't you, Jerry?

Jeremiah: I did not say nothing, man.

Angel: Why you always - ?

Bobby: I did.

Jeremiah: What you say?

Bobby: I told him I was banging his wife. Come on, man!

Angel: I did too.

Jeremiah: Me too.

Jeremiah: Evelyn was in this city for a long time. She saw a lot that was terrible, but she stayed hopeful. She still believed that things were getting better, sometimes despite all evidence. And that's a hard thing to do, stay hopeful. Even when you can't find a reason.

Jeremiah: Mom always said, as bright as Bobby is, he just doesn't like to think.

Angel: It's a little heavy in here, I'm just gonna go outside and get a little air.

Bobby: You're full of shit, man. You can smell that ass from down the street, huh?

Angel: What are you talking about?

Bobby: What do you mean, what? You know exactly what we talking about with La Vida Loca.

Angel: Ain't nobody going to go get no La Vida Loca nothing!

Jeremiah: She's got a boyfriend.

Bobby: She's got a boyfriend, she's got hard dick in her right now. She screaming somebody else's name and the last thing she's doing is thinking about is your black ass.

Angel: It's kinda hot in there, I'm just gonna go outside and get some air.

Bobby: [laughing] You can smell that ass from down the street, huh?

Angel: What are you talking about?

Bobby: What do you mean "what" man, you know "what", man.

Jeremiah: She's got a boyfriend.

Bobby: She's got a boyfriend, she's got hard dick in her right now and she's screaming someone else's name and the last thing she's thinking about is your black ass.

[All Laugh]

Angel: Why are you guys comin' at me with this. I told you I'm not going to go see that girl, and I'm NOT!

Jeremiah: What's the plan, Bobby?

Bobby: We're wingin' it, Jerry.

Jeremiah: We're always wingin' it.

Jack: We're gonna get killed.

Angel: What'cha mean WE, white boy?

Bobby: [seeing Jack pissing on the floor] Look, look at your little brother.

Jeremiah: Jack!

Jack: Oh I'm sorry, is this the master suite?

[Angel, Bobby, and Jerimiah laugh]

Jack: Am I making the property value go down?

Jack: [crying after being shot] BOBBY!

Bobby: [pinned down on the porch] Jack!

Jack: [crying] BOBBY!

Jeremiah: Jack!

Jeremiah: [lifts kids silver necklace] What is this? Aluminum?

Jack: Shit doesn't even spin.

Angel: She's the only woman that ever gave a damn. The least we can do is go bang on a few doors and see what happens. We owe her that much.

Jeremiah: So you're gonna shoot up the whole town cause y'all mad?

Angel: Why not?

Jeremiah: C'mon, man, the people who did this are probably from the same shitty-ass streets we're from. Mom would've been the first to forgive them, and y'all know that.

Bobby: [to a booing crowd at a basketball game] You tell me where I can find this guy and you can finish your game.

Jeremiah: [pointing to Jack who's trying to get their attention] Cracker Jack.

Bobby: I appreciate your help very much. You've all been outstanding citizens.

Bobby: If I find out you had something to do with what happened to Ma, I swear to God, Jerry, I'm gonna kill you here and now!

Sofi: No, Bobby, no!

Bobby: Now Angel's gonna ask you some questions, and brother, I shit you not, the time for lying is over!

Angel: We know you lied about your business! And we know you got mixed up with some gangsters!

Jeremiah: You all think I had something to do with mom getting killed?

Angel: You got a check for four hundred thousand that you just so happened to forget to mention, for mom's life insurance!

Jeremiah: She took out the policy for the girls, man, I ain't had nothing to do with that! Come on!

Sofi: You made the payments!

Bobby: Good timing, Jerry, just when it seems like all is lost for you, Ma gets shot by some gangsters and now you hit the fucking lottery?

Jeremiah: So you're all tripping because I made insurance payments? I paid all her bills! And where the fuck were y'all? How many years did I have to take care of her my God-damned self? And you're going to tell me I killed her?

Jeremiah: Where's Bobby?

Bobby: Right here, Jerry!

[Bobby punches him]

Camille Mercer: [after Jeremiah is thrown out of the interrogation room] Don't push him like that!

[next shot]

Camille Mercer: Come here...

Jeremiah: It's alright.

Camille Mercer: Let me see...

Jeremiah: It's just a boo-boo.

Camille Mercer: It's not a just a boo-boo, somebody put their fist in your eye! Let me see...

Jeremiah: C'mon now!

TJ: Let me ask you somethin'. If you're a priest, how come you get to have a girlfriend? What's up with that?

Jeremiah: I'm Episcopal . . .

[long pause]

Jeremiah: ...not Catholic.

Jeremiah: Last night I almost beat a total stranger to death, and I have no idea why. I'm supposed to be ordained a priest in less than a month. My brother hates me, my girlfriend won't marry me because she knows that I am a total fraud, and the only way that I can fix it all is to rip off these guys that I - I don't know, using money I don't have.

[Discussing Jeremiah's sermon]

Sam: It definitely shows that you know the Bible. It's just... very long.

Jeremiah: It's as long as it should be.

Sam: I know, I know. It's just a lot of... detail to take in all at once.

Jeremiah: Sam, that's the whole point. The detail is what makes the passage so relevant.

Sam: It's not the passage. It's just... if you could deliver with a little more . . .

Tex: [interrupting] Sermon sucked, brother.

Jeremiah: My brother's alive?

Rome: Temporarily.

Jeremiah: I'm going to a synposium on semantics.

Brenda Meeks: [Mouthing] You and me should get it on!

Jeremiah: Elder Hale. We should welcome the outsiders among us.

Henry Hale: Jeremiah, ought not your tongue be held?

Jeremiah: I am sorry, Elder Hale... but sometimes my tongue wiggles beyond my ability to control it.

Brenda Meeks: This is a problem with which I have had much experience. Maybe I could help him in a room in which there are no others. Or you can all watch. I don't give a shit.

Jeremiah: I read everything. I read biographies, mainly because I didn't know how other people live their lives. I think my variations reading came from a deep longing for something that was missing. I was searching for someone, for my story. To not feel so alone.

Nick: What are you doing?

Jeremiah: It is a sin not to give to those in need.

Nick: According to who?

Jeremiah: Jeremiah.

Nick: And who is that?

Jeremiah: [turning in his apron] Me. My name is Jeremiah.

Jeremiah: I miss Sudan

Carrie Davis: Why?

Jeremiah: Because in Sudan, we know what a lion looks like.

Jeremiah: I have faith, yardit.

Carrie Davis: Yardit?

Jeremiah: This is our special name for you.

Carrie Davis: For me?

Jeremiah: Yes. It had great cultural significance.

Carrie Davis: What does it mean?

Jeremiah: It means great white cow.

Carrie Davis: Okay. Well, it's better than a lot of things I've been called.

Jeremiah: I think as we prepare to go on this journey; it might be appropriate to have a prayer.

[praying]

Jeremiah: Dear Lord, we ask you to...

Flip: [running onto the bus] Damn, I'm glad ya'll ain't left. I didn't think I was ever goin' to...

George: [angrily] Hey; CP Time, we tryin' to have a prayer here!

Randall: [after Kyle changes seat] I DO MIND THAT YOU'RE NOT MAN ENOUGH TO ADMIT YOU DON'T LOVE ME!

Junior, aka 'Smooth': [bus Passengers react] Great, we goin' to the million man march with a bunch of homos.

Jeremiah: The bible says homosexuality is an abomination, but still I ask myself what would I do if my son was gay or worse, what would I do if I was the one born that way.

Flip: Tell me I didn't just here what I think I did

Xavier: What?

Flip: He just said "You're not man enough to admit you don't love me to him"

Xavier: So?

Flip: There's faggots on the bus!

Xavier: So what, do gays not have a role in the black community?

Flip: I'm not talking about the black community, I'm talking about the pair of faggots we have on the bus!

Jeremiah: I was just yankin' your chain.

Jeremiah: [Last lines] Well Daddy, it's harvest time.