Richard Pryor credited as playing...
Jo Jo Dancer • Alter Ego
- Jo Jo Dancer: I haven't been real honest with you, either. I got some stuff I gotta tell you. I'm gonna be honest, starting today.
- Jo Jo Dancer: White people don't make no noise when they fuck. The only people who make noise is the hillbillies: "Yahoo!"
- Jo Jo Dancer: I been watchin' television, you know. And I work as a comic. I know I'm pretty good, Pop. I mean, I don't want to clean up hog guts the rest of my life.
- Father: He ain't shit. He's nothin' but an old tired-ass white boy tellin' some tired-ass jokes.
- Jo Jo Dancer: Pop, he knows a lot of stuff. He's been in it 25 years. I mean, he's been to Paris. He knows Count Basie! He named off all the people he knew in show business, man.
- Father: He wouldn't know shit if he fell in it.
- [first lines]
- Jo Jo Dancer: You know, I asked myself, man. I said, "Jo Jo, what in the fuck is wrong with you? Why can't you enjoy life?" And I found out I've always felt *different*. You know what I'm sayin'? I just never felt like I belonged, like I wasn't the same as everybody else. And everybody feels that way, right?
- Jo Jo Dancer: The chorus girls backstage, I was talking to them. I asked them, "Do you ladies sing?" They said, "Yes." I said, "Do you know a minuet?" They said, "No. We don't even remember the men we laid."
- Johnny Barnett: Here, take this. Take that. That'll help you relax.
- Jo Jo Dancer: What's this?
- Johnny Barnett: It'll help you relax. Take it. It ain't gonna hurt ya.
- Jo Jo Dancer: She's gonna get her money. We ain't slaves. I ain't no motherfuckin' slave, man. No! Bull shit! No! I'm gettin' the money.
- Johnny Barnett: Hey, can I give you a little advice, Jo?
- Jo Jo Dancer: Yeah!
- Johnny Barnett: You know, sometimes you step on your own jokes, you're going so fast. But you, you're a comic. And timing is everything. See, timing is *very* important to a comic.
- Arturo: Yeah, t-t-t-t-t-timing timing.
- Jo Jo Dancer: Why don't you just get up on them drunk-ass legs and get the fuck out? If you can't get out on them legs, try them big-ass titties. You can bounce out on them.
- Jo Jo Dancer: Hey, what's the name of your organization? "Pussy Now"?
- Dawn: That was really crass. You know, you're kind of a chauvinist.
- Jo Jo Dancer: What? What's a chauvinist?
- Dawn: A chauvinist is somebody who thinks with their dick.
- Jo Jo Dancer: [looks down at his crotch] You hear that, Jack? You got brains.
- Dawn: You like to think with your dick?
- Jo Jo Dancer: All right. Okay. You read Malcolm X, okay? You think you know about him. I know Malcolm X. I know what he's talking about. I am black.
- Dawn: So what? I mean, that's not all you are. I mean, it's not all I see when I look at you. Anybody could be black. I could be black.
- Jo Jo Dancer: You could be black? You're fuckin' crazy. You're Snow White, okay? You're not Angela Davis. And I mean it. You're white. I mean, the Klan comes walking' through that goddam door now and you're gonna holler, "Rape!"
- [Dawn slaps Jo Jo]
- Jo Jo Dancer: Bitch, you're crazy. You're crazy.
- Jo Jo Dancer: This is Dawn.
- Cliff: How do you do? My name's Clifford Miles, like in Miles Davis, huh? Well, listen, we're having a party up at my house in the Hills and I'd like to invite you.
- Madelyn: Yeah. We'll just lay around, do a little blow, and have some laughs.