Shaft (2000)

Samuel L. Jackson: John Shaft

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Quotes 

• John Shaft : You know me. It's my duty to please that booty!

• Peoples Hernandez : This is Egyptian Cotton, motherfucker... two-twenty thread. That's like half your shitty-ass paycheck, okay?

  John Shaft : You wouldn't know Egyptian cotton if the Pharaoh himself sent it to you, you knockoff-wearing motherfucker!

• Peoples Hernandez : You're not a cop anymore.

  John Shaft : Do you think that makes me less dangerous, or more dangerous?

• Walter Wade, Jr. : Do you know who my father is?

  John Shaft : No, do you?

• John Shaft : Yo, Luger, what's up with the "cornbread" talk, man?

  Luger : And your problem is what?

  John Shaft : Nazis with badges, that's my problem!

  Luger : [laughs]  "Nazis?" You gotta lighten up, Shaft. I talk like this all the time... but I see your point. Maybe I should take an "ethnic sensitivity" workshop, huh? Fuck you!

  John Shaft : Maybe I should "workshop" my foot up your ass!

• [Trey starts seizing on the gurney] 

  Walter Wade, Jr. : Homeboy's got rhythm, huh?

  John Shaft : What?

  [Shaft punches Wade in the face] 

  Walter Wade, Jr. : What? Was it something I said? I think my nose is broke!

  Lt. Kearney : I've been waiting for this. You are gone from this precinct!

  John Shaft : For what?

  John Shaft : [punches Wade again]  For that?

• John Shaft : Who lost your rap sheet for you?

  Leon : You...

  John Shaft : Who got you that Jets tryout?

  Leon : You...

  John Shaft : Who got you that gig at the club?

  Leon : You.

  John Shaft : Who delivers ten times outta ten?

  Leon : Alright, dawg... You.

• [Inside Rasaan's apartment] 

  John Shaft : Man, this is some repugnant shit.

• John Shaft : I'm gonna fuck you up for making me run!

• John Shaft : I know cats who'd take out whole zipcodes for that kind of cheese.

• John Shaft : It's Giuliani time!

• John Shaft : I see you someplace I don't think you belong... I will kill you.

• John Shaft : This is Detective Vasquez. She's...

  Carmen Vasquez : She's unavailable at the moment.

• John Shaft : [passing Carmen on his way toward gang members]  Anybody lookin' to maintain their employment with the NYPD

  [draws his gun] 

  John Shaft : might be in their best interest to leave now...

• John Shaft : April Fool, motherfucker. Told you not to make me run!

• John Shaft : [to Walter Wade]  How you doing, Richie Rich? Remember me?

• John Shaft : Hey! Hey goddammit! Hey! Don't make me chase you, you gonna piss me off!

• Luger : [to Shaft]  Why don't you pick a color? Black or blue?

  Carmen Vasquez : [to Luger]  Hey, fuck you

  John Shaft : [to Luger]  How about I make you both?

• Luger : [after robbing Walter in disguise]  How'd I sound?

  John Shaft : How did you sound?

  Luger : "Freeze mofo I'll bust a cap in your dome"

  John Shaft : You are a pure notorious P.I.G, how much we got?

  Luger : [looking through the bag]  forty two thousand , it's a lot of cash for a simple murder around here

• John Shaft : [hits Hernandez in the head with a basketball]  Peoples Hernandez! Come on down!

• Big Raymond : Yo, Shaft, you got a call. Guy says it's urgent. I think it's the clinic. I believe the test results may have come back.

  John Shaft : Today we find out if I'm your daddy or the German shepherd.

  Big Raymond : Ooh. Pretty good. Ha, ha.