Clockers (1995)
Harvey Keitel: Rocco Klein
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Quotes
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Det. Rocco Klein : Errol. I thought you were dead.
Errol Barnes : I was. I came back.
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham : What the fuck you tryin' to say? All black people look alike at nighttime or somethin'?
Det. Rocco Klein : I can't even tell you guys apart in the day.
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham : You got jokes.
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Jesus at Hambones : My mother called me Jesus, my father called me Jesus. You call me Jesus.
Det. Rocco Klein : All right, Jesus Christ.
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Det. Rocco Klein : [to Strike] I been inside your bald pea brain since you were born. Twenty fuckin' years! You don't play me, I play you!
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Det. Rocco Klein : Fuck Rodney. Yo thinks he's gonna okey-doke me. He's goin' down, Larry. Down for the fuckin' count.
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Det. Rocco Klein : Tyrone, you're a good kid, but it's tough growin' up in the projects. Drugs, crime, peer pressure. You know what that means, peer pressure'?
Tyrone : Yes.
Det. Rocco Klein : I hear you're real intelligent. Don't your friends make fun of you - when you get straight A's, speak correct English, attend school, go to classes, don't hang out? Don't they call you white boy? Don't they call you soft because you ain't hanging with them hard? I know they do. All you want to do is the right thing.
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Rodney : Rocco Klein... Rocco Klein, you know, I've always wanted to ask you... you Italian, you a jew? I mean, what are you? You can't make up your mind?
Det. Rocco Klein : Me?
Rodney : Yeah, you.
Det. Rocco Klein : I'm from the lost black tribe of Israel, the Yos.
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Det. Rocco Klein : I read you like a Marvel fuckin' Spiderman comic book.
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Det. Rocco Klein : This cocksucker is an innocent man!
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Det. Rocco Klein : You clocking?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham : Nah.
Det. Rocco Klein : How long you been clocking?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham : What is you, deaf? I don't hustle.
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Jo-Jo : What are you gonna do for me?
Det. Rocco Klein : Nothin' you don't already do for yourself.
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Det. Rocco Klein : [suspects Victor took the fall for Strike] - You're the fuckin' king snake. You're a low-down, cold-blooded evil junkyard nigger like I've never seen.
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Larry Mazilli : Was he clockin'?
Det. Rocco Klein : I don't know.
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Det. Rocco Klein : Bing, bing, bing! Ricochet Rabbit.
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Det. Rocco Klein : If he worked for Rodney, he definitely was clockin'.
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Det. Rocco Klein : I'm Rocco Klein, DA's Homicide Squad. You got a minute?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham : Homo-side.
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Det. Rocco Klein : You know what Alzheimer's is?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham : What? Some kind of beer?
Det. Rocco Klein : Wise guy.
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Jo-Jo : I busted these four yuppie dickheads from Connecticut over at Ahab's. They drove down in Daddy's Benz to cop.
Det. Rocco Klein : So fuckin' what?
Jo-Jo : I'm gonna use them to pinch that motherfuckin' shine head Rodney. I got him set up.
Det. Rocco Klein : You got Rodney set up?
Jo-Jo : I have that fuckin' Yo set up just like in the movie.
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham : Why was you so gung-ho about all this shit, man? Most cops... Brothers killin' other brothers aint no big thing. Blasé, blasé. What made you care about me, my brother Victor, Darryl Adams, Tyrone? Huh? What made you give a shit?
Det. Rocco Klein : If I ever see you again... I'll book you on charges of criminal solicitation and conspiracy to commit murder. I'll let Andre beat you down again, then pick up Rodney on the same charges and I'll make sure you two share the same cell, the same fuckin' bed. Do you understand me clearly?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham : Yeah, I understand you clearly.