Anthony Come on now. This is America! Time is money.
Played by Ludacris 
Crash (2005) · 35 quotes
Crash (2005) · 35 quotes
Most-quoted character in Crash (2005): in 12 of its 35 quotes
Most scenes with: Peter (10)
It's just black people demeaning other black people, using that word over and over. You ever hear white people callin' each other "honky" all the time? "Hey, honky, how's work?" "Not bad, cracker, we're diversifying!"
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10 scenes Anthony You see any white people in there waiting an hour and thirty-two minutes for a plate of spaghetti? Huh? And how many cups of coffee did we get?
You don't drink coffee and I didn't want any.
Anthony That woman poured cup after cup to every white person around us. Did she even ask you if you wanted any?
We didn't get any coffee that you didn't want and I didn't order, and this is evidence of racial discrimination? Did you happen to notice our waitress was black?
Anthony That waitress sized us up in two seconds. We're black and black people don't tip. So she wasn't gonna waste her time. Now somebody like that? Nothing you can do to change their mind.
So, uh... how much did you leave?
Anthony You expect me to pay for that kind of service?
Anthony Look around you! You couldn't find a whiter, safer, or better-lit part of this city. But this white woman sees two black guys, who look like UCLA students, strolling down the sidewalk and her reaction is blind fear. I mean, look at us, dog! Are we dressed like gang bangers? Huh? No. Do we look threatening? No. Fact, if anybody should be scared, it's us: we're the only two black faces surrounded by a sea of over-caffeinated white people, patrolled by the trigger-happy LAPD. So, you tell me, why aren't we scared?
Because we got guns?
Anthony You could be right.
[After curving off the road during conversation and hitting something, Peter looks under the car.]
Aw... shit, man, we just ran over a ****.
Anthony You're saying there's a **** under this truck?
What part of that didn't make sense to you? There's a **** under the **** truck!
Anthony Well what did he do just? Just jump out in the middle of the road?
We gotta pull out of there. I think we can do it by his arms.
Anthony You pull on that arm and it's gonna come off. Now here's an idea, let's just get back in the car and drive until he falls off.
Or we can pull him out and drop him off at a hospital.
Anthony You start pulling on that fool's arm and it's gonna fall off. Then you are gonna be standing in the street holding a ****'s arm. Then what's your ass gonna do?
If we leave him here he dies, then we're up for murder charges. Now how 'bout you just come down here, grab an arm, and help me pull him out, dog?
Anthony Shit.
[They both start pulling the man out]
Anthony No, no, no, take that voodoo-ass thing off of there right now!
I know you just didn't call St. Christopher voodoo. Man's the patron saint of travelers, dog.
Anthony You had a conversation with God, huh? What did God say? Go forth, my son, and leave big slobbery suction rings on every dashboard you find? Why the hell do you do that?
Look at the way your crazy ass drives, then ask me that again!
Anthony You have no idea why they put those great big windows on the sides of busses, do you?
Why?
Anthony One reason only. To humiliate the people of color who are reduced to riding on 'em.
Anthony You could fill the Staples Center with what you don't know.
The Kings are playing tonight.
Anthony You don't like hockey! You just say you do to piss me off!
]dejected] I love hockey!
Lucien [After driving the man they struck to the hospital, the chop-shop owner wants to destroy the car Anthony and Peter stole]
You watch the Discovery Channel?
Anthony Not a lot.
Man, they got some good shit on that channel.
Lucien Every night there is a show with somebody shining a blue light and finding tiny specks of blood splattered on carpets and walls and ceiling fans, bathroom fixtures and special-edition plastic Burger King tray cups. The next thing they show is some stupid redneck in handcuffs who looks absolutely stunned that this is happening to him. Sometimes the redneck is actually WATCHING the Discovery Channel when they break in to arrest him. And he still can't figure out how on earth they could've caught him! :[pauses] Do I look like I wanna be on the Discovery Channel?
Anthony No.
Lucien Then get the **** outta my shop.
We didn't get any coffee that you didn't want and I didn't order, and this is evidence of racial discrimination? Did you happen to notice our waitress was black?
Anthony And black women don't think in stereotypes? When's the last time you met one who didn't think she knew everything about your lazy ass before you even opened your mouth? That waitress sized us up in two seconds. We're black, and black people don't tip, so she wasn't gonna waste her time! Someone like that, there's nothing you can do to change their mind.
So, uh, how much did you leave her?
Anthony You expect me to pay for that kind of service? [Peter laughs] What? What the **** is you laughing at, man?
Anthony You wanna listen to music of the oppressor, you go right ahead.
How in the lunacy of your mind is hip-hop music of the oppressor.
Anthony Listen to it, man. **** this, **** that! You think people go around calling each other honkies all day? "Hey, honkie! How's business?" "Going great, cracker! We're diversifying!"
[changes the station]
How about this, huh? How about that? You like that? Man's singing about lynching ****!
Anthony And you think there's a difference, don't you?
Anthony You've got absolutely no idea where hip-hop comes from, do you?
Anthony You see, back in the '60s, we had smart black articulate black men. Like Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton. These brothers were speaking out, and people were listening. And then, the FBI said, "Oh, no! We can't have that! I know! Let's give the **** some music by a bunch of mumbling idiots, and sooner or later they'll all copy it, and nobody'll be able to understand a **** word they say! End of problem."
