Doctor.
C'mon, what? What?
Always do the right thing.
That's it?
That's it.
I got it. I'm gone.
Pino
John Turturro · 8 quotes
Mookie
Spike Lee · 7 quotes
Da Mayor
Ossie Davis · 6 quotes
Sal
Danny Aiello · 6 quotes
Ahmad
Steve White · 3 quotes
Mister Senor Love Daddy
3 quotes
Radio Raheem
Bill Nunn · 3 quotes
Tina
Rosie Perez · 1 quote
Do the Right Thing quotes
Page 1 of 2Unless you done stood in the door, listened to your five hungry children crying for bread, and you can't do a damn thing about it. Your woman standing there, you can't even look her in the eye. Unless you done that, you don't know me, my pain, my hurt, my feelings. You don't know shit!...Don't call me bum. Don't call me a drunk. You all ain't got the sense that God give a billy goat! Don't call me nothin'. It's disrespectful. I know your mamas and your papas raised you better."
Yo, man, I hope you finished your little soliloquy, man. 'Cause first of all, I've been peein' straight for years, understand what I'm saying? And you're right, I wouldn't stand in the doorway and listen to my five children go hungry. I'd be out getting a job, doing somethin', anything to put food in their mouth. And you're right. I don't want to know your pain. I don't care to know your pain. You're the one who put yourself in this situation, man. Every day, every day, I see you walk up and down this block, inebriated. Never sober! But that's what DA stands for, Da Mayor, Drunk Ass. He don't get no respect here. You'll never get respect here, boy. How you gonna tell me how my parents raised me? I respect those who respect themselves.
ML
Look at those Korean mother****ers across the street. I betcha they haven't been a year off da mother**** boat before they opened up their own place.
Coconut Sid
It's been about a year.
ML
A mother**** year off the mother**** boat and got a good business in our neighborhood occupying a building that had been boarded up for longer than I care to remember and I've been here a long time.
Sweet Dick Willie
It has been a long time.
Coconut Sid
How long?
ML
Too long! Too long. Now for the life of me, I haven't been able to figger this out. Either dem Koreans are geniuses or we Blacks are just plain dumb.
Coconut Sid
It's got to be because we are black. Ain't no other explanation. No, no, I know, man. You know it's true. Ain't they always trying to keep the black man to be about shit?
Sweet Dick Willie
You mother****ers hold that shit down. I'm tired of hearing that old excuse, I'm tired of hearing that shit.
ML
You know, I swear, man, I will be one happy fool when we open our own business right here in our neighborhood. I swear to God, I will be the first in line to spend what little money I got.
Coconut Sid
Be right there with you, man.
Sweet Dick Willie
You mother****ers are always talking that old Keith Sweat shit: 'I'm gonna. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that.' You ain't gonna do a god-damn thing, but sit your monkey ass on this corner. Hey, ML, when you gonna get your business, huh? [no answer from ML] Yeah, just like I thought. You ain't going to do a goddamn thing. But I'll tell you what I'm going to do, hear me, I'm gonna go over there and give them Koreans more of my money. Get the **** out of my way. It's Miller time, mother****ers. Old, moose-head ****ers telling me what to do. And, Coconut, you got a lot of damn nerve, you got off the boat, too. Leave me alone. [To the Koreans] Hey, Kung Fu, go on give me one of them damn beers. Damn it!
ML
Well, gentlemen, the way I see it, if this hot weather continues, it's going to melt the polar caps and the whole wide world. And all the parts that ain't water already will surely be blooded.
Coconut Sid
You're a simple mother****er. Now where you read that shit, eh? Polar caps...
ML
Don't worry about it. But when it happens, and I'm in my boat, and your black asses are drowning, don't call for me to throw you no rope, no lifesaver, or no nothing.
Sweet Dick Willie
You fool! You're 30 cents away from having a quarter! Where the **** you gon' get a boat?
Pino, **** you, **** your **** pizza, and **** Frank Sinatra.
Yeah? Well, **** you, too, and **** Michael Jackson.
Pino, who's your favorite basketball player?
Magic Johnson.
And who's your favorite movie star?
Eddie Murphy.
And who's your favorite rock star?
Boss. Bruce.
Prince.
Bruce!
Pino, all you ever talk about is **** this and **** that, and all your favorite people are so-called ****.
It's different. Magic, Eddie, Prince... are not ****. I mean, they're not black, I mean - Let me explain myself. They're - They're not really black. I mean, they're black, but they're not really black. They're more than black. It's different.
It's different?
Yeah. To me, it's different.
You dago, wop, guinea, garlic breath, pizza slinging, spaghetti bending, Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole Mio, non-singing mother****er.
You gold teeth, gold chain wearing, fried chicken and biscuit eating, monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast running, high jumping, spear chucking, three-hundred-sixty-degree basketball dunking, titsun, spade, mulignan. Take your **** pizza piece and go the **** back to Africa.
Stevie
You little slanty eyed, me-no-speaky-American, own-every-fruit-and-vegetable-stand-in-New-York, bullshit, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Summer Olympic '88, Korean kickboxing son-of-a-bitch.
Officer Long
You Goya bean eating, fifteen-in-a-car, thirty-in-an-apartment, pointed shoes, red wearing, Menudo, mira-mira Puerto Rican ****. Yeah, you!
Sonny
It's cheap! I got a good price for you, Mayor Koch, "How-I'm-doing?", chocolate egg cream drinking, bagel and lox, B'nai B'rith, Jew asshole.
Yo! Hold up! Time out! Time out! Y'all take a chill! Ya need to cool that shit out! And that's the double truth, Ruth!
Mother-Sister
Good morning.
Is it a good morning?
Mother-Sister
Yes, indeed. You almost got yourself killed last night.
I've done that before. Where did you sleep?
Mother-Sister
I didn't.
Hope the block is still standing.
Mother-Sister
We're still standing.
Mother-Sister
Hey, you old drunk! What did I tell you about drinking in front of my stoop? Move on. You're blocking my view. You are ugly enough. Don't stare at me. The Evil eye doesn't work on me.
Mother-Sister, you've been talking about me for 18 years. What have I ever done to you?
Mother-Sister
You a drunk fool.
Besides that. Da Mayor don't bother nobody and nobody bother Da Mayor but you. The man just tends to his own business. I love everybody. I even love you.
Mother-Sister
Hold your tongue. You don't have that much love.
One day, you're gonna be nice to me. We may both be dead and buried, but you're gonna be nice; at least civil.
Daddy, you know, I've been thinking... maybe we should sell this place, get out while we're still ahead... and alive.
You really think you know what's best for us, Pino?
Maybe we can... can we sell this and open up a new one in our own neighborhood?
There's too many pizzerias already there.
Then maybe we could... we could try something different.
What am I gonna do? What am I - that's all I know. What am I doing? I been here twenty-five years. Where am I going?
I'm sick of ****. It's like I come to work, it's Planet of the Apes. I don't like being around them. They're animals.
Why you got so much anger in you?
Why? I'll tell you why. My friends, they laugh at me. They laugh right in my face. They tell me, "Go to Bed-Stuy. Go feed the moulies".
Do your friends put money in your pocket, Pino? Food on your table? They pay your rent, a roof over your head? They're not your friends. If they were your friends they wouldn't laugh at you.
Pop, what can I say? I don't want to be here. They don't want us here. We should stay in our own neighborhood, stay in Bensonhurst, and the **** should stay in theirs.
I never had no trouble with these people. I sat in this window. I watched these little kids get old. And I seen the old people get older. Yeah, sure, some of them don't like us, but most of them do. I mean, for Christ's sake, Pino, they grew up on my food. On my food. And I'm very proud of that. Oh, you may think It's funny, but I'm very proud of that. Look, what I'm trying to say, son, is, uh... Sal's Famous Pizzeria is here to stay. I'm sorry. I'm your father, and I love you, I'm sorry but... but that's the way it is.
Maybe we should sell this place. Get out while we're still ahead and alive. Couldn't we sell this and open up a new one in our own neighborhood? I'm sick of ****s. It's like I come to work, it's Planet of the Apes. I don't like being around them. They're animals. They don't want us here. We should stay in our own neighborhood, stay in Bensonhurst, and the **** should stay in theirs.
I never had no trouble with these people. I sat in this window. I watched these little kids get old. And I seen the old people get older. Yeah, sure, some of them don't like us, but most of them do. I mean, for Christ's sake, Pino, they grew up on my food. On my food. I'm very proud of that....Sal's Famous Pizzeria is here to stay.
Give me 20 "D" Energizers.
Sonny
20 "C" Energizers?
Not "C", "D".
Sonny
"C" Energizers?
"D", mother****er, "D". Learn to speak English first, all right?
Kim
How many you say?
20, mother****er, 20.
Sonny
Mother**** you.
Mother**** you? You, you all right, man.
What'd I tell you about that noise?
Buggin' Out: What'd I tell you about them pictures?
What the ****, are you deaf?
Buggin' Out: No! Are you? **** YOU! We want some black people on that mother**** Wall of Fame now!
We're trying to go **** home! We've been here all **** day, Buggin Out!
Turn that jungle music off! We ain't in Africa!
Buggin' Out: Why it got to be about jungle music? Why it got to be about Africa? It's about them **** pictures!
It's about turning that shit off and getting the **** out of my place!
RADIO RAHEEM!
**** you!
AND **** YOU TOO!
Get in there, Pino!
This is music. My music!
**** YOUR MUSIC!
Well, turn it off, then.
Vito
Hey, man, get the **** out of here! We're **** closed!
Buggin' Out: **** you! We're closing you guinea bastards for good! For good, mother****er! Until you get some black people on that mother**** Wall of Fame!
You're gonna **** close me?
[Sal grabs his bat] Buggin' Out: You're goddamn right!
YOU BLACK ****!! I'LL **** TEAR YOUR **** **** ASS!
Punchy
[Everbody in the pizzeria starts shouting at once at Sal's insult] [Over all the shouting]
Oh, we're **** now?! We **** now!
Buggin' Out: YOU **** WHITE TRASH! I'LL **** YOU UP!
Sal, put the **** bat down!
Buggin' Out: COME ON, MAN, YOU **** GUINEA TRASH!
YOU BLACK ****!! YOU **** MOTHER****ER!
[Sal explodes in rage and smashes Radio Raheem's boombox several times with his bat]
Buggin' Out: Hey, hey, Sal, how come you ain't got no brothers up on the wall here?
You want brothers up on the wall, get your own place. You can do what you want to do. You can put your brothers and uncles and nieces and nephews, step-fathers, step-mothers, whoever you want. See? But, this is my pizzeria. American Italians up on the wall.
Vito
Take it easy, Pop.
Don't start.
Buggin' Out: Yeah, that might be fine, Sal, but, you own this, rarely do I see any American Italians eatin' in here. All I see is Black folks. So since we spend much money here, we do have some say.
You lookin' for trouble? You a troublemaker, is that what you are? You makin' trouble?
Buggin' Out: Yeah! I'm a troublemaker. I'm makin' trouble.
You're a ball breaker. Always comin' in here lookin' for trouble, aren't you. Suppose I busted your head. How would you - Now, Mookie. Mookie, you wanna get your friend outta here.
Buggin' Out: Oh, you wanna kick me out now? You're gonna kick me out, huh?
Nah, I'm not kickin' you out. You're kickin' yourself out.
Buggin' Out: What? Look, we want some brothers up on the wall. Yo, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, you know, Michael Jordan. Tomorrow!
Buggin' Out: Yo, Mookie.
What?
Buggin' Out: Stay black.