Jungle Fever Quotes

  • Charlie Tucci: Are you fucking my sister?

    Paulie Carbone: What kind of question is that?

    Charlie Tucci: It's a good question.

  • Lou Carbone: If your mother was alive... she would turn over in her grave!

  • Lou Carbone: You hate your own father!

    Paulie Carbone: I'd like to kill you, but I don't hate you.

  • Lucinda Purify: What happened to the color TV?

    Gator Purify: Mama, I smoked the color TV!

  • Gator Purify: I swear before God... and four more white people! This is the last time!

  • Flipper Purify: There's something you should know. I'm having an affair.

    Cyrus: H-bomb! H-bomb!

    Flipper Purify: It gets worse. She's white.

    Cyrus: Nuclear holocaust!

  • [last lines]

    Flipper Purify: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

  • James Tucci: If you ever get her pregnant, Paulie...

    Charlie Tucci: Hey!

    James Tucci: I don't know why I'm thinking this because I know it's not going to happen, but if you did, I would give *you* the abortion, Paulie.

    [Charlie laughs]

    James Tucci: Then you are going to marry her!

  • Flipper Purify: Mine! Mine! Mine!

    Jerry: Ego! Ego! Ego!

  • Flipper Purify: I was curious - so I jumped on it.

    Cyrus: Literally.

  • Flipper Purify: Of course not. It is a myth. I think.

  • Frankie Botz: He stole a radio out of my fucking car!

    Vinny: How do you know?

    Frankie Botz: How do I know? He fucking tried to sell it back to me!

  • Lucinda Purify: [Gator is roughly searching though his mother's apartment looking for money, tossing aside coupons] I save a lot of money using them coupons!

  • Gator Purify: [Gator is dancing with his mother, trying to butter her up] Hey pretty lady, you remember me?

    Lucinda Purify: Say what you have to say, and go, before your father comes back!

    Gator Purify: What's the matter? You don't like my dancing anymore? You usually offer to cook me something to eat.

    Lucinda Purify: I ain't playin' with you Gator! Say what you have to say and go. And if it's money then forget it!

    [loosens herself from his grip]

    Lucinda Purify: The answer is no!

    Gator Purify: Momma, you gotta help me out. I'm sick. In order for me to get right, I need money!

    Lucinda Purify: You'd feel a whole lot better if you had a bath! Boy, the devil's got you!

  • Lucinda Purify: Lord have mercy... on your twisted soul!

  • The Good Reverend Doctor Purify: Have you lost your natural mind, as well as your soul?

  • Drew: [kicking Flipper out after his infidelity] There will be no penis between us!

Extended Reading
  • Madaline 2022-04-22 07:01:45

    Using two couples with different skin colors and opposing family backgrounds to explore whether love can overcome everything, and finally not, to explore the discrimination of the depth of skin color, and also use a radical method to show the racial discrimination in the American society at that time.

  • Kathryne 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Not only does it talk about the mutual discrimination between black and white, but it also shows all kinds of bad things between families and communities on both sides, not entirely around racial issues. The supporting role played by Samuel L. Jackson is quite the scene, as well as Halle Berry.