A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

Delroy Lindo: Jackson

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Quotes 

• Jackson : What the hell did you do to her?

  Robert : I punched her in the face.

  Jackson : Oh, you punched her in the face. She's half your size and you punch her in the face?

  Robert : She had a gun!

  Jackson : Oh, she had a gun! So that makes everything all right, does it?

  Robert : No, I'm not saying it makes everything all right. I'm just trying to explain to you that for all I knew, she could have been a karate expert or something.

  Jackson : With a broken arm? WITH A BROKEN ARM?

  Robert : O.K., I'm sorry.

• [last lines] 

  Gabriel : All clear.

  O'Reilly , Jackson : [rising and gasping for breath] 

  Gabriel : So, how was it?

  O'Reilly : Believe me Gabriel, you don't want to know.

  Gabriel : But it worked!

  O'Reilly : Love... worked.

  Gabriel : Amaratus pathum laborium!

  Jackson : Are we going home now?

  Gabriel : We're goin' home.

  Jackson : At last.

• Jackson : Have you ever felt like you're not in control of your life?

• [Knock on the hideout's door] 

  Jackson : What is that?

  O'Reilly : Answer it, Jackson.

  Jackson : I can't do that. We're playing blackjack, she might cheat while I'm out of the room.

  [Celine, who's bound and gagged, rolls her eyes] 

  O'Reilly : Fine. I'll answer the door, you play blackjack with the hostage.

• Robert : You... you're going to kill me?

  Jackson : Yeah.

  [Robert cries hysterically] 

  Robert : Well then I don't see why I should dig!

  Jackson : If you dig, I promise you when the time comes I'll shoot you through the head.

  [Robert laughs bitterly] 

  Jackson : Now look, you don't like that? I can just shoot you through the testicles right now, you can bleed to death, I'll dig the grave, it's up to you.

• O'Reilly : Our fee for the recovery of your daughter is... one hundred thousand dollars.

  Naville : That's a lot of money.

  O'Reilly : Five thousand in advance. The rest is cash on delivery - no daughter, no dough.

  Jackson : And naturally we'd operate a sliding scale, whereby if we only bring back part of your daughter, we only get part of the money.

  O'Reilly : That's enough, Jackson.

  Jackson : No, I mean if he's cut her ears off and we can't find them, we'll knock a couple thousand off the tariff. More for a limb, obviously.

  O'Reilly : Jackson.

  Jackson : Sorry.

• Jackson : I remember the good old days. All you had to do was introduce a man and a woman, Nature did the rest. Doesn't work like that anymore. Men and women, it's all gone to shit.

  O'Reilly : Sure has.

• [about to execute Robert] 

  Jackson : I commit you to His mercy.

• Jackson : We are from the Firm But Fair Eviction and Collection Agency. Now I, I have a list of certain items that we are empowered to collect under Federal and State law in lieu unpaid debts. And furthermore we are contracted to serve upon you notice of eviction from these here premises, uh, forthwith.

• [after Robert ditches O'Reilly and Jackson in a car chase, they pull up behind his car] 

  Hiker : [laughing]  No problem. Exactly as you predicted! "Quick, drive my car!"

  O'Reilly : Here's $40.

  Hiker : If you don't mind my asking, how did you know he was going to react like that?

  O'Reilly : It's our job to know things like that.

  Hiker : You mean you've done this sort of thing before?

  Jackson : [from their car]  Let's go!

  O'Reilly : [to Hiker]  You can take the car, but remember: it's stolen.

• Jackson : I hate it down here. I hate the air, I hate the food, I hate the plumbing. I ache all over. I sweat in the heat and I ache in the cold. And why can't we stay someplace decent?

  O'Reilly : Budget doesn't cover that.

  Jackson : Exactly. Why not?

  O'Reilly : You know those mysterious ways you keep hearing about, Jackson? Well, this is one of them.