Rochelle Quote #516

Quote from Rochelle in Everybody Hates New Year's Eve

Rochelle: Peaches, I don't have to give you a reason.
Peaches: Rochelle, you know what? My parole officer said I am proof that the system works. I am a new me. I have learned from my mistakes. I have paid my debt to society.
Rochelle: And you want to open a new line of credit with my child.
Peaches: Well, if not yours, then whose? Mine? She got to go with me. Now, how am I supposed to feel improved and empowered by that?
Rochelle: Peaches, this is not about you.
Peaches: Yes, it is. You not not letting him go with somebody else.
Rochelle: Peaches, it's dangerous down there.
Peaches: Rochelle, don't you think I know that? That's why I got Malvo coming.
Rochelle: Oh, that's nice. Another ex-convict!
Peaches: Ex! Ex, Rochelle. That means "former." "Used to be. " "Not currently." And you know what? This is what's really, 'cause it makes me... and I'm gonna be upset about this now. If you won't let me move on, then it's only a matter of time before I become an accomplice all over again. Now, do you want that on your head?

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 ‘Everybody Hates New Year's Eve’ Quotes

Quote from Mr. Omar

Adult Chris: [v.o.] I tried Mr. Omar.
Mr. Omar: I'm sorry, Chris, I can't take you. For an undertaker, New Year's Eve is like the day before the after Christmas sale. People act like drunken fools tonight, and dead tomorrow. Tragic, tragic!

Quote from Julius

Julius: Jermaine Jackson got kicked out of the Jacksons. He didn't jump off a bridge.
Reporter: Julius, you're a real hero. You saved a life, but more importantly, you got traffic moving again. Back to you at the studio.
Julius: The Chicago Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908. They didn't jump off a bridge. James Earl Jones lost the Oscar for his performance in The Great White Hope. He didn't jump off a bridge.
Reporter: No.
Julius: Trevor Berbick got knocked out by Mike Tyson in less than five minutes. He did not jump off a bridge.
[watching TV :]
Rochelle: Oh, my God, your father's a star.
Chris: Wow!
[back:]
Julius: Did he jump off a bridge? No.
Reporter: Well, Julius, you're just full of--
Julius: Remember that movie, Top Gun?

Quote from Julius

Adult Chris: [v.o.] Back on the bridge, a man was suicidal and my father wanted to kill him.
Julius: What are you doing up here, man? Do you know you got traffic backed up all the way to exit the Lincoln Tunnel? It's New Year's Eve! People are trying to get home.
Morris: I can't do anything right.
Julius: So you think you can fix that by jumping off a bridge?
Morris: Give me one good reason I shouldn't.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] He shouldn't have said that.
Julius: What if everybody who ever had a problem jumped off a bridge? Geraldine Ferraro could've been our country's first female Vice President, but her party lost. She didn't jump off a bridge. Nelson Mandela's been in jail for over 20 years. He didn't jump off a bridge. Ivan Lendl got stomped by Boris Becker at Wimbledon. Didn't jump off a bridge. Trevor Berbick, he got knocked out by Mike Tyson in less than five minutes. He didn't jump off a bridge! Jermaine Jackson got kicked out of the Jacksons.