If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) · 22 quotes
I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.
Tish Rivers
There aren't enough hours in the day or judges on the bench to try all the cases brought against these men. The game has been rigged and the courts see it through. The trial is their right. But to bury you beneath the prison for forcin' the judge and the DA to do their jobs is the court's right, too.
Tish Rivers
You ready for this?
Fonny
I've never been more ready for anything in my whole life.
Adrienne Hunt
Who is going to raise this baby?
Tish Rivers
I am, you dried-up yellow ****!
Adrienne Hunt
Mr. Rivers, what exactly is the purpose of this meeting? You didn't call us all the way over here just to watch my father insult my mother?
Tish Rivers
Why not? It's Saturday night. Can't tell what folks won't do if they get bored enough. Maybe we just invited you over to liven things up.
Adrienne Hunt
I can believe you're that malicious, but I cannot believe you're that stupid.
Tish Rivers
You all right?
Fonny
Me? I'm not the one who just got punched by a midget inside they belly. [pause]
[Both laugh]
Fonny
Do you like me? I mean, when I make love to you? Did you like it?
Tish Rivers
You just want to hear me say it.
Fonny
So?
Tish Rivers
So what?
Fonny
So why don't you go ahead and say it?
