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
  • Onie 2022-03-21 09:02:49

    3.5 The mutual attraction between the interracial men and women at the heart of the film is completely unconvincing. It seems that the director is just using the relationship as a starting point and an excuse to explore the topic of apartheid (some of the dialogue is extremely honest and thorough), and the various characters surrounding the lovers.

  • Antonina 2022-03-25 09:01:16

    Spike Lee brings together two very different themes, but never finds a good connection (especially at the end), there are some good points of view in the film, but as a whole, the film The internal fragmentation is still too serious.