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Tom Berenger in The Substitute (1996)

Ernie Hudson: Rolle

The Substitute

Ernie Hudson credited as playing...

Rolle

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  • Principal Claude Rolle: Two of your students are in the nurse's office talking a lawsuit right now.
  • Shale: Why, is the nurse a lawyer?
  • Principal Claude Rolle: Power perceived is power achieved.
  • Principal Claude Rolle: You don't teach history anymore Smith. You ARE history!
  • Mr. Darrell Sherman: You're sellin' out your own people, motherfucker!
  • Principal Claude Rolle: Sell out? You know what I see when I look at you, Darrell? I see me. I see me when I was young and stupid. Young man, I'm just doing you a favor.
  • Mr. Darrell Sherman: You're a liar!
  • Principal Claude Rolle: [calmly] I know. It upset me too.
  • Principal Claude Rolle: [Holding Shale at gunpoint] Who you working for, Shale? Who you working for?
  • Shale: Myself.
  • Principal Claude Rolle: Yeah, right! A great teacher. You're a mercenary. You're in it for the money like everybody else!
  • Shale: It was never about the money.
  • Principal Claude Rolle: It's always about the money! If it's not about the money, what the hell else is there?
  • Shale: I'd try to explain it to you Claude, but there's just some things that can't be taught.
  • [Shale overpowers Rolle and kills him]

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