Man in Bar Quotes in Stroker Ace (1983)

Man in Bar: Come on, damnit, we wanna hear a *cluck*!

Stroker Ace: Who gives a cluck?

Marlene: Gossie been cattin' with one of my waitresses since he got here. He never told me his partner was a blind 'Bama boy.

Oberon: Marlene, Demure called. Thurman's sick.

Marlene: What about Sassie.

Oberon: Flat tire.

Marlene: Alright, 'Bama, why don't you get up there and show me what you got.

Ray Charles: Well, I, I'm not really prepared to do my thing, I mean, right now, tonight.

Marlene: Well, this is the only audition you're gonna get, Puddin', so either get on up there or you and Gossie can haul your asses back down south.

Oberon: [hands Ray a joint] Here smoke some of this.

Ray Charles: [coughs] That ain't no tobacco, man!

Oberon: No. Hold it in. It'll calm you down.

Marlene: Alright, Oberon, get up there and introduce him.

Oberon: Yes, Maam!

Marlene: Come on, 'Bama.

Ray Charles: Yeah!

Oberon: I got a special treat for all you satin dolls and I'm not talking about Oberon's big thunder. No, that's for another show. We got some new blood for ya. Fresh off the bus from Florida I give you Ray "Don't Call Me Sugar" Robinson.

Ray Charles: How y'all doin' tonight?

Man in Bar: Better than you!

Oberon: Relax, Ray, relax!

Ray Charles: I got it. What do y'all wanna hear?

Aretha Robinson: How 'bout a little Nat King Cole?

Ray Charles: Y'all like Nat King Cole?

[begins playing]

Marlene: 'Bama ain't bad.

Oberon: I'd say he saved our asses.

Man in bar: As long as you fall in love with one of them, you lose , exhaustively lose!

Man in bar: I wonder what happened to Neely O'Hara.

[snidely]

Man in bar: They SAY she had laryngitis.

Neely O'Hara: [taking a drink - searching for a pill] WHO HAD LARYNGITIS?

Edward - Playhouse Bartender: We're closing now, Miss O'Hara.

Neely O'Hara: I'm Neely O'Hara, pal, that's ME singing on that jukebox!

Man in bar: Neely O'Hara sings like a bird. You sound like a frog.

Man in bar: Me, queer! Jesus, I'm a married man, I've got 2 kids and a very expensive mistress. I'm an animal.

Theresa: That's why you go to gay bars ?

Doug: Well, actually, it's kinda interesting.

Woman in Bar: I'll bet.

Drunk: Tell him.

Woman in Bar #2: We're waiting.

Doug: I- I b- I been doin' a little- I been doin' a little figure skating.

Drunk: Damn.

Man in Bar: What'd he say?

Walter Dorsey: You been doin' what?

Old man in back of bar: Finger painting?

Man in Bar: [while watching a basketball game at a bar] I'll tell you who's got it easy.

Edmond: Who?

Man in Bar: [Gestures to basketball game on TV] The niggers. Sometimes I wish I was a nigger.

Edmond: Sometimes I wish I was too.

Man in Bar: I'd rob a store. I don't blame 'em, I swear to God. Because I want to tell ya, we're bred to do the things that we do.

Edmond: Yes.

Man in Bar: Northern race, one thing, southern race... something else.

[Gestures to basketball game on TV again and starts to light up a cigarette]

Man in Bar: And what they want to do is sit under the tree and watch the elephant. And I don't blame them one small bit.