Tillie Quotes in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Tillie: I don't care to see a member of my own race getting above himself.

Tillie: All hell done broke loose now!

Tillie: Civil rights is one thing. This here is somethin' else.

John: How do you do, Miss Binks?

Tillie: I got somethin' to say to you, boy. Just exactly what you tryin' to pull here?

John: I'm not trying to pull *anything*. I was lookin' to find me a wife.

Tillie: Ain't that just likely! You wanna answer me somethin'? What kind of doctor you supposed to be, anyhow?

John: Would you believe horse?

Tillie: Oh! You make with witticisms and all, huh? Well let me tell you somethin'. You may *think* you're foolin' Miss Joey and her folks, but you ain't foolin' me for a minute. You think I don't see what you are? You're one of those smooth-talkin', smart-ass niggers, just out for all you can get, with your Black Power all that other troublemakin' nonsense. And you listen here. I brought up that child from a baby in her cradle, and ain't *nobody* gonna harm her done while I'm here watchin'. And as long as *you* are *anywhere* around this house, I'm right here watchin'. You read me, boy? You bring any trouble in here you just like to find out what Black Power *really* means! And furthermore to that, you ain't even all that good-lookin'!

Joanna Drayton: I brought you the latest bulletin. Guess who's coming to dinner now?

Tillie: The Reverend Martin Luther King?

Tillie: Well, as you know, every revolution requires a secret mission or two to level the battlefield, so Boris and I whipped up a little something that might even the odds tomorrow.

Taz: What is this?

Tillie: Microscopic crabs. Kind of tough to focus on your surfing when you got those cute little critters dancing in your shorts.

Boris: In 1971, I put the crabs like that into the jockstrap of President Nixon. I was towel boy in racquet club, and there is famous film of Nixon shaking the hand of Chinese premier, and then immediately he scratches his balls.

Tillie: Don't you love it the way dogs sometimes get this look like they got a hectic schedule to follow? Busy, busy, busy!