Rochelle Quote #55

Quote from Rochelle in Everybody Hates the Laundromat

Rochelle: You know what, forget it, baby.
Julius: Huh?
Rochelle: If I buy this stuff, that means you'll have to work even harder, which means you'll be home even less. And when you do get home, I' be mad, you'll get tired of it, we'll end up in a divorce, and I'll end up with some old-ass furniture and no man. And if you think you leaving me for a White woman, you got another thing coming.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] I know you think she's doing this out of love, but watch this.
Rochelle: [sighs] What?
Julius: Hold on a minute. [to the salesman] How much for this one?
Rochelle: [kisses Julius] Can we get that one? It's just more state-of-the-art. It has the buttons and the knobs that...
Julius: I love you. We're getting that one right there.
Rochelle: Okay.
Julius: On sale.

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 ‘Everybody Hates the Laundromat’ Quotes

Quote from Rochelle

Rochelle: Oh, no, no, no, I am tired of Risky. Everything we get from him breaks down.
[flashback to Rochelle taking a foil-wrapped brick out of the oven:]
Julius: What are you doing?
Rochelle: I'm ironing.
Julius: I got you an iron from Risky.
Rochelle: It broke.
Julius: Damn, Risky.
[flashback to Rochelle holding a piece of bread above a lighter:]
Julius: What are you doing?
Rochelle: I'm making toast.
Julius: I got you a toaster from Risky.
Rochelle: It broke!
Julius: Damn, Risky.
[flashback to thirteen years ago, Rochelle and Julius standing on an apartment's fire escape:]
Julius: Are you sure?
Rochelle: Like I told you for the hundredth time, I'm pregnant. I thought you used a condom.
Julius: I did. Damn Risky.

Quote from Rochelle

Adult Chris: [v.o.] Let's just say my mother didn't have the best history with credit.
[flashback to Rochelle going to the counter with a dozen boxes of shoes:]
Rochelle: Put it on the card.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] She bought shoes, she bought clothes, she'd buy money, if they let her.
[flashback to Rochelle dumping a heap of clothes on the sales counter:]
Rochelle: Put it on the card.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] There was nothing my mother wouldn't put on a credit card.
[flashback to Rochelle at the bank:]
Rochelle: Put this on my card.
Bank Teller: Lady, you can't pay your credit card bill with your credit card.
Rochelle: What about this one?

Quote from Julius

Adult Chris: [v.o.] The only person who loved sleep more than me was my father. And right now, he's dreaming his favorite dream.
[dream sequence:]
Bank Teller: I've been working here a long time, now, and I've never seen anybody pay bills like you. What do you got, two jobs or something?
Julius: Just one.
Bank Teller: Can I help you with something else?
Julius: Can I have my three cents change?