Collateral (film) Quotes

Collateral (film) is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . Collateral ended in 1970.

It features Michael Mann, and Julie Richardson as producer, James Newton Howard in charge of musical score, and Dion Beebe, and Paul Cameron as head of cinematography.

Collateral (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Collateral (film) is 120 minutes long. Collateral (film) is distributed by DreamWorks Pictures.

The cast includes: [[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]] as Vincent, Jamie Foxx as Max, Mark Ruffalo as Fanning, Peter Berg as Richard Weidner, Jada Pinkett Smith as Annie, Barry Shabaka Henley as Daniel, Javier Bardem as Felix, Bruce McGill as Pedrosa, and Irma P. Hall as Ida.

Collateral (film) Quotes

Jamie Foxx as Max

• (Jamie Foxx) "Definitely not from around here."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, Lenny, what's up? It's me."
• (Lenny) "Just got off the phone with the cops. Desk sergeant called to check if you brought the cab in?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, so?"
• (Lenny) "So, aside from I hate talking to cops, they tell me you crashed the god**** cab?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "No, no, I got crashed into. I didn't --"
• (Lenny) "Do I care what, where, why? You're paying."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "It was an accident. You're not liable."
• (Jamie Foxx) "It was an accident. I'm not liable."
• (Lenny) "Bulls***. I'm making you liable. It's coming out of your god**** pocket."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "You tell him to stick this cab up his fat ass."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I can't do that, that's my boss."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "So?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I need my job."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "No, you don't."

• (Jamie Foxx) "First time in L.A.?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "No. Tell you the truth, whenever I'm here I can't wait to leave. It's too sprawled out, disconnected. You know? That's me. You like it?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "It's my home."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "17 million people. This is got to be the fifth biggest economy in the world and nobody knows each other. I read about this guy who gets on the MTA here, dies."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Oh."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices."

• (Jamie Foxx) "How long have you been doing this? In case anyone asks?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Private sector? Six years."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Uh -- you get health benefits? Pension?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "No, and no paid vacation. Quit stalling, and get in there."

• (Jamie Foxx) "My man, you all right?"

• (Jamie Foxx) "How do you like being a lawyer?"
• (Jada Pinkett Smith) "What are you, psychic?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Little bit. There's the dark pin-stripe suit, elegant, not too flashy, that rules out advertising, plus a top-drawer briefcase that you live out of. And the purse. A Bottega. Anyway, a man gets in my cab with a sword, I figure he's a sushi chef. You: Clarence Darrow."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Let her go."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Max? Why? What are you gonna do about it?"

• (Sergeant) "Put your gun down."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Get back put your hands down. Look,I gotta go."
• (Sergeant) "Put down the gun."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Stop moving. Stop moving. When did this become a negotiation?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Clap your hands together. Hold your hands together. Listen, somebody's gonna get killed if I don't go right now. Now cuff yourself. I'm going to Sixth and Fig. Call the cops."

• (Jamie Foxx) "The fat man, the penthouse guy, the jazz man. That leaves two."
• (Javier Bardem) "Can you finish?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "In six years, when have I not?"

• (Traffic Cop #2) "Hey, is this blood up here on your windshield?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, uh, yeah. I hit a deer."
• (Traffic Cop #1) "You hit a deer?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, over on, uh, it was on Slauson."
• (Traffic Cop #1) "A South Central deer?"

• (Jamie Foxx) "I can't drive you around while you're killing folks. It ain't my job."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Tonight it is."

• (Jamie Foxx) "What's with you, man?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "As in?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "As in, if somebody had a gun to your head and said, "You gotta tell me what's going on with this person over here or I'm gonna kill you. What is driving him? What is he thinking?" You know, you couldn't do it, could you? Because they would have to kill your ass because you don't know what anyone else is thinking. I think you're low, my brother. Way low."

• (Jamie Foxx) "I picked up a tail."
• (Javier Bardem) "Federal?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I don't know. You tell me. But I know this, they were onto me. I tossed the workup lists to cover your hermes faconable ass."

• (Jamie Foxx) "You're full of s***."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "I'm full of s***? You're a monument of it. You even bulls***ted yourself, all I am is taking out the garbage, killing bad people."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, well that's what you said."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "You believed me?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Then what'd they do?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "How do I know, you know? They all got that 'witness for the prosecution' look to me. Probably some major federal indictment of somebody who majorly does not want to get indicted."

Javier Bardem as Felix

• (Javier Bardem) "Do you believe in Santa Claus?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "No."
• (Javier Bardem) "Nor do I. Nor do I, but my children do. They are still small. But do you know who they like even better than Santa Claus? His helper, Pedro el Negro. Black Peter. There's an old Mexican tale that tells of how Santa Claus got so very busy looking out for the good children that he had to hire some help to look out for the bad children. So he hired Pedro. And Santa Claus gave him a list with all the names of all the bad children. And Pedro would come every night to check them out. And the people, the little kids that were misbehaving, that were not saying their prayers, Pedro would leave a little toy donkey on their window. A little burro. And he would come back, and if the children were still misbehaving, Pedro would take them away, and nobody would ever see them again. Now, if I am being Santa Claus, and you are Pedro, how do you think jolly Santa Claus would feel if one day Pedro came into his office and said, 'I lost the list.' How f***ing furious do you think he will get?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I think -- I think you should tell the guy standing behind me to put his gun away."
• (Javier Bardem) "What?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I said, I think you should tell him to put the gun down before I rip it out of his hand and beat his bitch-ass to death with it."

• (Javier Bardem) "Now you're here. Why?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I lost my stuff. The list."
• (Javier Bardem) "I want you to listen to me real well. Special groups put together the list of dedos."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Dedos?"
• (Javier Bardem) "Fingers, informants. Signal interceptions with voice-recognition software, surveillance. A very expensive counter-intelligence worked up that list. An important list, wouldn't you say? And you lost it?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, I'm sorry. Sorry."
• (Javier Bardem) "Sorry? 'Sorry' does not put Humpty Dumpty back together again."

• (Javier Bardem) "What do you think?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I think --"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I think you should you should tell that guy behind me to put his gun down."
• (Javier Bardem) "What?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I said I think you should tell that guy behind me to put his gun down, before I take it and beat his bitch ass with it."

[[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]] as Vincent

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Okay, look, here's the deal. Man, you were gonna drive me around tonight, never be the wiser, but El Gordo got in front of a window, did his high dive, we're into Plan B. Still breathing? Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, s*** happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I Ching? What are you talking about, man? You threw a man out of a window."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "I didn't throw him. He fell"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well what did he do to you?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "What?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "What did he do to you ?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Nothing. I only met him tonight."
• (Jamie Foxx) "You just met him once and you killed him like that?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "What? I should only kill people after I get to know them?"

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "What's your name?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Max."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Max. I'm Vincent."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "You attract attention, you're going to get people killed who didn't need to be."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Max, six billion people on the planet, you're getting bent out of shape cause of one fat guy."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, who was he?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "What do you care? Have you ever heard of Rwanda?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yes, I know Rwanda."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Well, tens of thousands killed before sundown. Nobody's killed people that fast since Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Did you bat an eye, Max?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "What?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Did you join Amnesty International, Oxfam, Save the Whales, Greenpeace, or something? No. I off one fat Angelino and you throw a hissy fit."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Man, I don't know any Rwandans."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "You don't know the guy in the trunk, either."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Most people; same job, same gig, doing the same thing 10 years from now. Us, we don't know what we are doing 10 minutes from now."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "You got ten minutes. 10:01? I drive the cab to the hospital and execute your mother on my way out of town, and don't pretend indifference."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I can't do this."

• (Lenny) "Still there? I'm talking to you. Max. Max."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "He's not paying you a damn thing."
• (Lenny) "Who the hell is this?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Albert Ricardo, Assistant U.S. Attorney, a passenger in this cab, and I'm reporting you to the D.M.V."
• (Lenny) "Let's not, oh, let's not get excited."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Not get excited? How am I supposed to not get excited? Listen, you try to extort a working man. You know god**** well your collision policy and general liability umbrella will cover the damages. And what are you trying to pull, you sarcastic prick?"
• (Lenny) "Look, I was just trying to --"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Tell it to him."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Tell him he's an asshole. Go ahead."
• (Jamie Foxx) "You're an asshole."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Tell him he pulls this s*** again, you're gonna stick this yellow cab up his fat ass."
• (Jamie Foxx) "And, and next time you pull any s***, I'm gonna -- I'm gonna have to stick this yellow cab up -- up your fat ass."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Well, that was brilliant --"

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Only thing that didn't show up is the Polish cavalry."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Don't get me cornered. You don't have the trunk space."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Red light, Max."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "You OK?"
• (Airport Man) "Yeah, I'm fine mate, don't worry about it."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "You're alive. I saved you. Do I get any thanks? No. All you can do is clam up. You wanna talk? Tell me to f*** off?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "f*** off."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Look in the mirror. Paper towels, clean cab. Limo company some day. How much you got saved?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "That ain't any of your business."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Someday? Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old. Didn't happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory and then zone out in your barco lounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life. Don't you talk to me about murder. All it ever took was a down payment on a Lincoln town car. That girl,you can't even call that girl. What the f*** are you still doing driving a cab?"

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "If you open that trunk, they go inside."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Lets go."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Hey, why don't you just take the cab?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Take the cab?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, you take it. I'll; I'll chill. I'll; I'll just chill. They don't even know who's driving these things half the time anyway. They never check or anything. Okay -- so -- just; just take it. You, me --"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "You promise not to tell anybody right?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah -- yeah -- yeah -- promise."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Get in the f***ing car."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Max, I do this for a living."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Guy gets on the subway and dies. Think anybody'll notice?"

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "There's no good reason, there's no bad reason to live or to die."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Then what are you?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "I'm indifferent."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Of all the cabbies in L.A. I get Max, Sigmund Freud meets Dr. Ruth."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Get with it. Millions of galaxies of hundreds of millions of stars, in a speck on one in a blink. That's us, lost in space. The cop, you, me -- Who notices?"

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Flowers?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "It's the money. Won't mean a thing to her."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "She carried you in her womb for nine months. If you can buy flowers, buy flowers."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Limos, huh?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Don't start."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Hey, I'm not the one lying to my mother."
• (Jamie Foxx) "She hears what she wants to hear. I don't disillusion her."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Yeah, right. Maybe she hears what you tell her."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Whatever I tell her is never good enough anyway. It's always been that way. So whats at El Rodeo?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Just drive."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "They project onto you their flaws. What they don't like about themselves, their lives, whatever. They rank on you instead."
• (Jamie Foxx) "How do you know?""

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "They project onto you their flaws, what they don't like about themselves. I had a father like that."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Mothers are worse."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Wouldn't know. My mother died before I remember her."
• (Jamie Foxx) "What about your father?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Hated everything I did. Got drunk, beat me up. In and out of foster homes, that kinda thing."
• (Jamie Foxx) "And then?"
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "I killed him. I was twelve."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "I'm kidding. He died of liver disease."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, I'm sorry."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "No, you're not."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Take comfort in knowing you never had a choice."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Lady Macbeth. Leave the seats. The light's green. We're sitting here."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Asshole."
• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "You no longer have the cleanest cab in La-La Land. You gotta live with that. Focus on the job. Drive."

• ([[Richard T. Jones][Tom Cruise]]) "Someday my dream will come. One night you'll wake up and you'll discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you and it never will. Suddenly you are old, didn't happened and it never will, 'cause you were never going to do it anyway."

Barry Shabaka Henley as Daniel

• (Barry Shabaka Henley) "I mean, everybody and their momma knew you don't just come up and talk to Miles Davis. I mean, he may have looked like he was chilling, but he was absorbed. This one hip couple, one of them tried to shake his hand one day. And the guy says, "Hi, my name is -- " Miles said, "Get the f*** outta my face, you jive motherf***er, and take your silly bitch with you.""

Jada Pinkett Smith as Annie

• (Jada Pinkett Smith) "Well, how many cabbies do you know get you into an argument to save you money?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "If there were two of us I'd have to kill the other one. I don't like competition."

• (Jada Pinkett Smith) "-- Go Ahead. Say it."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Say what?"
• (Jada Pinkett Smith) "No, say it. You we're right, your way was faster."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Ah, I got lucky with the lights."

Bruce McGill as Pedrosa

• (Bruce McGill) "What's up? Why do you want to know about our case?"
• (Mark Ruffalo) "Any unusual activity tonight?"
• (Bruce McGill) "Like what?"
• (Mark Ruffalo) "That relates to a series of murders in Wilshire Central or West Hollywood?"
• (Bruce McGill) "All quiet on the western front. Various people are asleep. Various people are awake. They come and go in cars, pickups, taxis. Other than that, we watch the air move."

Mark Ruffalo as Fanning

• (Mark Ruffalo) "Ramon went through that window -- splat. Glass here, then tires rolled over it."
• (Peter Berg) "Maybe he jumped."
• (Mark Ruffalo) "Sure -- he's depressed so he jumps four stories out of a window onto his head. "Wow, that feels better." Picks himself up. "Now I think I'll go on with the rest of my day.""

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