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Carter: You don't know nothing about no War.
Lee:
Everybody knows War.
[singing]
Lee: Ooh! Ha! What is it good for? Absolutely
nothing, sing it again, you all!
Carter: It ain't 'you all', it's "y'all"!
Lee: Yaw.
Carter: Y'all!
Lee: Yaw!
Carter: Man you sound like
a Karate movie, y'all!
Lee: Yoll.
Captain Diel: Every now and then we
have to let the general public know that we can still blow shit up.
Carter:
You're God damn right.
Lee:
Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like
to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find
out how full of shit they are.
Carter: What the hell did you just say?
Sang:
The drop will be made tonight. The amount will be $50,000,000.
Carter: Fifty
million dollars?! Man who you think you kidnapped? Chelsea Clinton?!
Carter:
This is the United States of James Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor,
I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito!
[Lee
turns on the radio]
Lee: Beach Boys.
Carter: Oh hell no. You didn't just
touch my God damn radio!
Lee: The Beach Boys is great American music.
Carter:
The Beach Boys is gonna get you a great ass whuppin', don't you ever touch a black
man's radio, boy! You can do that in China but you can get your ass killed out
here, man.
Clive
Cod: Let me tell you something, I don't know anything about that, so you can kiss
my fat ass.
Carter: Clive, it would take me all day to kiss your fat ass.
Carter:
we've must be a misunderstanding, 'cause I was sent down here for the big case
for the kidnapping of the little girl.
Carter:
No disrespect, sir, but he's only gonna get in my way. If I'm gonna handle the
situation for you, I'm gonna have to work alone.
Agent Russ: Carter, he *is*
the situation.
Carter:
That's why I don't have no partner, that's one thing I learned from my daddy.
Lee: Your father was a policeman?
Carter: Fifteen years LAPD.
Lee:
My daddy also a policeman.
Carter: Your daddy was a cop?
Lee: Not a cop,
an officer, a legend all over Hong Kong.
Carter: My daddy a legend too all
over America. My daddy once arrested fifteen people in one night by himself.
Lee:
My daddy arrested 25 by himself.
Carter: ...My daddy once saved five crackheads
from a burnin' building, by himself.
Lee: My daddy once caught a bullet with
his bare hand.
Carter: My daddy'll kick your daddy's ass all the way from
here to China, Japan, wherever the hell you from and all up that Great Wall too.
Lee: Hey, don't talk about my father.
Carter: Don't talk about my daddy.
[Outtake]
Carter: You know that other stuff but you don't know his name?
Luke: Man,
people tell me shit...Achoo!!
Carter: What's wrong with you?
Lee:
We can hang in my crib. I will show you my 'hood.
Lee:
We both full of shit.
Carter: YOU full of shit.
Carter:
I've been lookin' for your sweet and sour chicken ass.
Lee:
Ah! Beach Boys!
Carter: Oh, hell no! You didn't just touch my goddamn radio!
Lee: The Beach Boys are great American music.
Carter: The Beach Boys gonna
get you a great ass whuppin'. Don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy! You
can do that in China but you can get your ass killed out here, man!
Carter:
This is the LAPD. We're the most hated cops in all the free world. My own mama's
ashamed of me. She tells everybody I'm a drug dealer.
Carter:
This is the United States of James Carter now. I'm the president, I'm the emperor,
I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito. Your ass belongs to me.
Waitress:
For one?
Carter: No, for two, I'm here for a meeting with Mr. Juntao.
Waitress:
I'm sorry I do not know Mr. Juntao.
Carter: Look maybe you don't understand,
I'm Mr. Juntao's lawyer, legal advisor, he got into some shit again and he told
me to come down here and I'm a very busy man, ain't got time to be down here this
late but I'm down here, my wife want me to come home, my baby is shittin' all
over the house, he needs diapers, would you please go get Mr. Juntao?
Lee:
I am not responsible for your assumption.
Carter: You full of shit, you understand
me, you full of shit.
Lee: Not being able to speak is not the same as not
speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like
to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are.
Carter:
What the hell did you just say? "I let people talk, blah blah blah"
so I'm the one full of shit?
Lee: We both full of shit.
Carter: You full
of shit.
Agent
Whitney: Well as long as we're gonna humiliate someone, might as well be LAPD.
Lee:
Whassup, my nigga?
Bartender: What did you just say?
Lee: Whassup, my
nigga.
Lee:
Leave me alone. A man like you could never understand.
Carter: A man like
me?
Lee: You are devoted only to yourself. You're a shame of being a police
officer, you dishonor your father's name!
Carter: You don't know nothing about
my father.
Lee: You said your father was a legend.
Carter: My father was
a legend. My father was killed making a routine traffic stop in broad daylight
by some punk who didn't want no ticket. His partner was supposed to get out of
the car and back him up but never did. My father was just as devoted as you, and
now he's dead, and for what? A traffic ticket and some punk, you tell me what's
the honor in that.
Lee: You believe your father wasted his life, that he died
for nothing?
Carter: Prove me wrong.
Carter:
It is not my job to be jumping on and off of buses, I don't do that, I am not
Carl Lewis!
Carter:
How long this flight?
Lee: Fifteen hours.
Carter: Fifteen hours? What
are we gonna do for fifteen hours?
Lee: [Puts on head phones and begins to
sing] Huh! War! Uh! Good God "yaw."
Carter: Oh, hell no! Stewardess!
Get me another seat!
[Meeting
Lee at the airport]
Carter: Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective
Carter. Do you speaka any English? Do you understand the words that are coming
out of my mouth?!?
[Lee just smiles]
Carter: I cannot believe this SHIT!
First I get a bullshit assignment, now Mr. Ricearoni. Doesn't even speak American.
C'mon, man, my ride over here. Put your bag in the back.
[Lee pauses]
Carter:
PUT YOUR BAG IN THE BACK!
[Lee hands the bag to Carter]
Carter: No, no,
no, you put your own shit in the back! I'm not a skycap!
Carter:
I'm gonna kick your ass and then I'll take your ass to jail.
[Carter
is riding in a tow truck pulling up to the Consulate]
Carter: Hey y'all see
a little Asian dude about this height with a steering wheel on his arm?
Guard:
Go screw yourself.
Carter: What did you say?
Guard: I said go screw yourself.
Carter: You take your little sensitive ass up there and let me in. Get out
of the way! Don't make me get up out of this truck! Man when I get up in there
I'm slappin' somebody, I don't play that.
[Carter
has ordered Chinese takeout.]
Carter: Damn, Chin, this is some greasy shit.
You ain't got no better food, like some chicken wings, some baby back ribs, some
fries or something?
Lee: Chinese food, no soul food here!
Carter: I didn't
say nothin' 'bout no soul food, I said you got some better food. I don't want
that greasy shit. How you gonna sell a big box of grease?
Carter:
First Class, I like this, this is tight.
Steward: Can I take your jacket,
sir?
Carter: My jacket? No, no, you can take this bag though.
Agent
Warren Russ: Carter, we're impressed with the great job you did yesterday, so
when you get back there's gonna be an FBI badge waiting for you.
Carter: You
serious? I don't know what to say. It's like a dream come true. I got an idea
though, I got an idea. Why don't y'all take that badge and shove it up your ass.
All up in your ass. I'm LAPD.
[Walks towards the plane]
Agent Whitney:
Bitch.
[Carter
has just been booted in the head.]
Carter: ... which one of y'all just hit
me?
Carter:
I don't want no partner, I don't need no partner and I ain't never gonna have
no partner. Did Kojak have a partner?
Tania Johnson: Yeah the fat guy.
Carter:
Well he wasn't ever with him. Did Columbo have a partner?
Tania Johnson: Captain
Diel ordered me to go with you on that bust because you needed bomb squad back
up but once again you screwed me and you screwed yourself.
Captain
Diel: You destroyed half a city block!
Carter: That block was already messed
up.
Captain Diel: And you lost a lot of evidence!
Carter: You still got
a little bit left.
Carter:
How would we even recognize Juntao, none of us never saw him.
Lee: I have,
he killed my father.
Carter:
How would we even recognize Juntao, none of us never saw him.
Lee: I have,
he killed my "partner"
Carter:
Don't act like you don't know nothing, i'll take all your ass to the jail, right
now if I don't get the answers. Ok. You think i am a fool, you are playin' me
like a fool, Ok. Ok.... Lee go outside it's gonna be a little dangerous in here.
Carter:
I'm lookin' out for you when I reach the top. I'm gonna make you mayor.
Captain
Diel: I'd rather you didn't.
Carter:
C'mon! You got everybody excited about something being blowed up, and look at
your little punk British ass.
[Carter
has snatched a guard's gun.]
Carter: Hahahahaha! You didn't know I could do
that, did you? Put your hands up! Put your hands up! I ain't gonna kill you this
time. I'm just gonna kick your ass!
[Carter kicks the guard and knocks him
out with the gun.]
Carter: You tell your friends about me.
Lee:
Why would they not want my help?
Carter: Because they don't give a damn about
you! They don't like you! I don't like you!
Lee: I don't care! I'm here for
the girl!
Carter: The girl don't like you!
Captain
Diel: [on the phone with FBI] Even if I had an extra man, who would want such
a bullshit assignment? It's a disgrace to me! It's a disgrace to my department!
It's a disgrace to...
[Carter enters the office]
Captain Diel: Dan, I'm
sending someone right over.