Stevie Newsom Quotes in Set It Off (1996)

Lida 'Stony' Newsom: [holding up a check] Look! Did your sister come through for you or what?

Stevie Newsom: Where did you get this?

Lida 'Stony' Newsom: Don't worry about where I got it from. That ain't none of your business. Just look at the digits!

Stevie Newsom: Look, Stony, there's something I got to tell you.

Lida 'Stony' Newsom: Look, Stevie, I know this is hardly enough money. But I swear, I will get every...

Stevie Newsom: No, no, listen to me. I didn't get into U.C.L.A., and I'm not going because I didn't get accepted.

Lida 'Stony' Newsom: [angrily slaps Stevie] You didn't get IN?

Stevie Newsom: Come on, Stony, don't go off on me now...

Lida 'Stony' Newsom: DON'T you tell me not to go off on you! Do you have any IDEA what I had to go through? Do you?

Stevie Newsom: I'm not staying around for this.

[moves to leave]

Lida 'Stony' Newsom: [grabbing Stevie's shirt] You ARE going to hang around for this, and don't you move. Why did you have to lie to me?

Stevie Newsom: Stony, you know how long you told me that I HAD to go to college? Well, I'm sorry, but maybe that life just isn't for me.

[exits the apartment]

Lida 'Stony' Newsom: [tears the check into pieces]