Lawrence Quotes in A Most Violent Year (2014)

Anna Morales: This is one probably you're gonna regret.

Lawrence: Excuse me?

Anna Morales: My husband's an honorable man. We are not who you think we are.

Lawrence: I think I knew your father.

Anna Morales: Good for you.

Anna Morales: My husband is not my father. Not even close. So if I were you, I would start treating us with a little more respect or I guarantee he will make it his mission in life to ruin you.

[Lawrence turns his head and grins sarcastically]

Anna Morales: This was very disrespectful.

Dr. Facilier: [appearing to read Prince Naveen's palm] Were I a betting man - and I'm not, I stay away from games of chance - I'd wager I'm in the company of visiting royalty.

Prince Naveen: [amazed] Lawrence, Lawrence! This remarkable gentleman has just read my palm!

Lawrence: [noticing the morning newspaper, which had a cover story about Naveen's visit, sticking out of Dr. Facilier's pocket] Or this morning's newspaper.

Lawrence: [finding Naveen escaped] Oh, dear...

[is shocked when Facilier appears behind him]

Lawrence: Aah! You're so quiet.

Dr. Facilier: You let him go?

Lawrence: I saw the little guy gasping for air, so I loosened the lid a little...

[Facilier's shadow trips him up, then laughs]

Lawrence: Sire! I've been looking for you everywhere!

Prince Naveen: What a coincidence, Lawrence. I've been *avoiding* you everywhere!

Prince Naveen: [as he is taken into the church] Lawrence, why are you doing this?

Lawrence: [viciously] It's payback for all those years of... humiliation.

Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?

Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.

Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?

Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.

Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.

Lawrence: Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.

Peter Gibbons: Good point.

Lawrence: Well, what about you now? What would you do?

Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?

Lawrence: Well, yeah.

Peter Gibbons: Nothing.

Lawrence: Nothing, huh?

Peter Gibbons: I would relax... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing.

Lawrence: Well, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's broke, don't do shit.

Peter Gibbons: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?"

Lawrence: No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.

[Peter and Lawrence are working on the crew cleaning up the burned Initech building]

Peter Gibbons: This isn't so bad, huh? Makin' bucks, gettin' exercise, workin' outside.

Lawrence: Fuckin' A.

Peter Gibbons: [nods] Fuckin' A.

Peter Gibbons: [about the plan to steal from Initech] Before we go any further, all right, we have to swear to God, Allah, that nobody knows about this but us, all right? No family members, no girlfriends, nobody.

Samir: Of course.

Michael Bolton: Agreed,

Lawrence: [from the next apartment through the wall] Don't worry, man. I won't tell anyone either.

Michael Bolton: Who the fuck is that?

Peter Gibbons: Uh, don't worry about him. He's cool.

Peter Gibbons: Lawrence, you awake?

Lawrence: Yeah.

Peter Gibbons: You wanna come over?

Lawrence: No, thanks, man. I don't want you fucking up my life, too.

Lawrence: [as Peter leaves to confess to Lumbergh about stealing money, knowing he may go to prison] Peter... watch out for your cornhole, bud.

Lawrence: We still goin' fishin' this weekend?

Peter Gibbons: Nah, Lumbergh's gonna have me come in on Saturday, I just know it.

Lawrence: Well, you can get out of that easily.

Peter Gibbons: Yeah? How?

Lawrence: Well, when a boss wants you to work on Saturday he generally asks you at the end of the day, right?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah.

Lawrence: So, all you gotta do is avoid him... on the last few hours on Friday, duck out early, turn off your answering machine... you should be home free, man.

Peter Gibbons: That's a really good idea.

Lawrence: Fuckin' A, man!

Lawrence: [shouting through the wall from his apartment] Hey Peter, man, check out channel 9, check out this chick.

Lawrence: Doesn't that chick look like Anne?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah, a little bit...

Lawrence: Hey, she hasn't been over here in a while. You two still goin' out?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah. I guess... I don't know. Sometimes I get the feeling like she's cheating on me.

Lawrence: Yeah, I get that feeling too, man.

Peter Gibbons: What do you mean by that?

Lawrence: I don't know, man. I just get that feeling lookin' at her like she's the type of chick that just...

[shudders]

Dewey Finn: [on sticking it to "The Man"] Yes! But, you can't just say it, man. You've gotta feel it in your blood and guts! If you wanna rock, you gotta break the rules. You gotta get mad at the man! And right now, I'm the man. That's right, I'm the man, and who's got the guts to tell me off? Huh? Who's gonna tell me off?

Freddy: Shut the hell up, Schneebly!

Dewey Finn: That's it Freddy, that's it! Who can top him?

Alicia: Get outta here, stupidass.

Dewey Finn: Yes, Alicia!

Summer Hathaway: You're a joke, you're the worst teacher I've ever had!

Dewey Finn: Summer, that is great! I like the delivery because I felt your anger!

Summer Hathaway: Thank you.

Lawrence: You're a fat loser and you have body odor.

Dewey Finn: ...All right, all right! Now, is everybody nice and pissed off?

Lawrence: [to Freddy] You're an idiot.

Freddy: Shut up!

Lawrence: You shut up!

Freddy: You wanna go?

Tomika: You touch him, I'll shove those sticks down your throat.

Lawrence: [telling off Dewey as Mr. S] You're a fat loser and you have body odor!

[awkward silence]

Dewey Finn: Give me a platform. Let's rock, let's rock, today. Now do it to me.

Lawrence: Let's rock, let's rock, today.

Dewey Finn: That's good. Slap it, shoot it, ka-boot it.

Derek Vinyard: Nigger, you just fucked with the wrong bull! You should've learned your lesson on the fuckin' basketball court! But you fuckin' monkey's never get the message. My father gave me that truck motherfucker! You ever shoot at fireman? You come here and shoot at my family? I'm gonna teach you a real lesson now motherfucker. Put your fuckin' mouth on the curb.

Lawrence: Come on man...

Derek Vinyard: I said put your mouth on the curb!

[Lawrence bites onto the curb]

Danny Vinyard: Derek, no!

Derek Vinyard: That's it! Now say good night.

[Derek stomps Lawrence's head into the curb]

Bryce: Well don't you know...

Roosevelt Stokes, Bryce, Webb, Lawrence, Harry 'Sweetbread' Crane: That's the sound of the men. Get back. Working on the chain... Ga-e-ang...

Bryce: Well don't you know...

Roosevelt Stokes, Bryce, Webb, Lawrence, Harry 'Sweetbread' Crane: That's the sound of the men. Get back. Working on the chain... gang...

Harry 'Sweetbread' Crane: And let me hear you say it...

Roosevelt Stokes, Bryce, Webb, Lawrence, Harry 'Sweetbread' Crane: Oooh... Ahhhh... Oooh... Ahhh...

Bryce: Well don't you know...

[song repeats a few more times]

Lawrence: I dreamt I woke up and I was *white*.

Roosevelt Stokes: That's no dream man. That's a nightmare

Lawrence: You tellin' me, Brother Man. I had this sudden urge to start clappin' on one and three.

[laughter from the Soul Patrol]

Lawrence: Then I started listenin' to all this *weird* music like Creedence Clearwater Revival and uh.. uh.. Three Dogs in the Night.

[more laughter from the Soul Patrol]

Lawrence: Then I found myself eating cream cheese and bagels.

[more laughter from the Soul Patrol]

Lawrence: Then, I don't know why, but I had this sudden urge to start chasing after women with *flat asses*.

Clarissa Marr: [Referring to her unfinished portraiture] You paint me as a happy mother. I'm not very happy. I'm scarcely a mother... and yet I smile because I'm supposed to be happy.

Lawrence: No, Lady Rohan; you smile because you're fortunate.

Clarissa Marr: Aren't they the same thing?

Lawrence: A dairy maid can be happy; but she's not obliged to smile when she's wretched. The fortunate must pay their debt. A great lady must never been seen without a smile.

Lawrence: I got business I gotta do this weekend.

Chelsea: What business?

Lawrence: Music. I'm trying to start a label.

Chelsea: Oh, yeah? Like what kind? Like rap?

Lawrence: Why you gotta go racial? Look, don't put me in a box, all right? What, because I'm black I can't listen to Green Day?

Chelsea: You're right, that was dumb. So, what kind of music?

Lawrence: Rap.

Lawrence: [Clay and Jenna just ran inside the house telling him they found a body] You fucking with me because I'm high? That's not cool. Because I just finished fucking smoking, okay?

Trent: Hey, Lawrence, how about a little help?

Lawrence: Dude, that's not a good look for you, man. You ask the one black guy to pump the gas for you? Shit.

Trent: Okay. Nolan. How about I pay, you pump?

Nolan: Sure, man. Hey, I give a wicked blow job too.

Trent: Okay, well, um, we'll try that out later.

Lawrence: [about Bree] Just go over there and fucking talk to her.

Chewie: Are you kidding? I have a better shot at fucking a penguin than that girl.

Lawrence: [Chewie pulls out a bong] Lucille? Baby, is that you?

Chewie: [acting as Lucille] Lawrence, you've been cheating on me.

Lawrence: No.

Chewie: I saw you with a bowl the other night.

Lawrence: No, you...

Chewie: A bowl!

Dorothea: I am nobody Mr. Hayes, but I do not intend to be nobody for long. It is too exhausting.

Lawrence: With all due respect, you appear to be somebody to me.

Dorothea: You're not a radical I hope Mr. Hayes?

Lawrence: I take the liberty to follow my own thoughts.

Dorothea: I'm a believer in independence myself.