Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Lean on Me (1989) Quiz

Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Lean on Me (1989) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie quotes from the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989).

About the movie: The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school that he is determined to improve.

1.	Which of the following famous movie quotes, is mentioned in the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.		Prologue: The town grew fast and loud. And as usual, men died faster... louder.
b.		Joe Clark: You've tried it your way for years, and your students can't even pass the State's Minimum Basic Skills Test. THAT MEANS THEY CAN BARELY READ! Now, they've given me one year to turn this place around - to get those test scores up - so that the State will not take us over to perform the task which YOU have failed to accomplish: the task of EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN! So forget about the way it used to be. This is not a damn democracy! We are in a state of emergency and my word is law! There's only one boss around here, and that's me. The HNIC. [exits] Mr. O'Malley: HNIC? Ms. Levias: Head Nigger In Charge.
c.		Everett: Are you gonna stand there philosophizing, or are you gonna buy me a drink? You're not smart enough to do both.
d.		Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Are you kidding me? I am not up to my chest in bat shit.

2.	Which of the following famous movie quotes, is mentioned in the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.		Jesse: I don't know, I think that if I could just accept the fact that my life is supposed to be difficult. You know, that's what to be expected, then I might not get so pissed-off about it and I'll just be glad when something nice happens.
b.		Glenn Michaels: Oh, I see, you guys are cynical.
c.		Dr. Frank Napier: Did you see this yet? [holding up newspaper story about Clark's fight with a former student] Dr. Frank Napier: You know, a lot of your shits comes down on my head. Joe Clark: Oh, Frank! Look, this is... Dr. Frank Napier: No, You let me talk! It's like you're a big bird with radar and I'm tired of getting hit! Joe Clark: Th... this is my fault? Dr. Frank Napier: This is nothing! I've got union lawyers threatening me and there's talk of a walk-out! Joe Clark: Well, let 'em! They're not doing anything down there anyway! Dr. Frank Napier: It is your job to... Joe Clark: None of them have a personal stake at that school! Not one! Dr. Frank Napier: The fire chief was just in here. He said it was illegal to bar those doors. Mrs. Barrett is organizing a parents' group to try and get you removed since you insulted them at that meeting the other night when you suggested they should get off welfare... Joe Clark: Oh, I didn't mean all of... Dr. Frank Napier: ...because the fact is quite a few of them need it. Joe Clark: I wasn't talking to all of them, Frank! Look, you came and recruited me, man, but you disappoint me, brother. You disappoint me! Dr. Frank Napier: The disappointment here is you! Joe Clark: Me? Dr. Frank Napier: Yes! Joe Clark: You know who I am. You've known me thirty years! You knew what I would do! You know how I operate! Dr. Frank Napier: Nigger, will you keep quiet! the fact is you're screwing up! You're alienating everybody! Look at you, you have no life! Your wife left you! Hell, I oughta walk out on you myself! Joe Clark: Well, go ahead! Bail the hell out! Dr. Frank Napier: But I said I'd back you up! Joe Clark: That's what you said, man! That's what you said! Dr. Frank Napier: I would go through the... fire with you, but you are not taking care of business! This shit you're pulling now, you've just gone plain loco! Now you suspend Darnell! What the hell was that? Joe Clark: Darnell is symptomatic of the disciplinary problems... Dr. Frank Napier: He is a good, strong, young Black teacher! So he... dumped that desk right on top of your head. Well, right on! Good for him! You will reinstate that man, you hear? And you fire Mrs. Elliott! Why? Because she didn't want to kiss your ass! I wouldn't neither! How about that? Joe Clark: Mrs. Elliott has an ego problem! Dr. Frank Napier: Well, you lost the best teacher we ever had! We couldn't get her back now if we wanted to!
d.		Maria: Do you wanna keep me company?

3.	Which of the following famous movie quotes, is mentioned in the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.		Mickey: You know, the only thing that kills the demon... is love.
b.		Joe Clark: [looks at the boys restroom, suspects Sams is hiding something] What do you got in here, Sams? Thomas Sams: You don't want to go in there Mr. Clark it stinks! [Clark grabs Sams and they go into the boys restroom]
c.		Candy: [in Vietnamese] Ooh, Casey's got a straight boyfriend! Casey: [in Vietnamese] Well, it's better than a gay husband!
d.		Valerie Solanas: Give me fifteen cents, and I'll give you a dirty word. Maurice Girodias: What's the word? Valerie Solanas: Men.

4.	Which of the following famous movie quotes, is mentioned in the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.		Joe Patroni: You chickened out on me! I told you I wanted all the power you got! Capt. Benson: Full throttle and this plane would be standing on its nose. Joe Patroni: You might fly these things but I take them apart and put them back together again. If you had any guts we'd be on the runway by now. Capt. Benson: You felt it vibrating? Another 10 seconds and we'd have had structural damage. Joe Patroni: Who do ya think you're talking to, some kid that fixes bicycles? I know every inch of the 707! Take the wings off this and you could use it as a TANK! This plane is built to withstand anything... except a bad pilot. Capt. Benson: You might tell your mechanic that I've got three million miles in the air. Joe Patroni: And two and a half feet into the ground
b.		Mrs. Elliott: I would love to stay and chat, Mr. Clark, but I've a concert in New York in two weeks and I would like to be prepared. Joe Clark: What? Mrs. Elliott: Prepare. You do know what prepare means, don't you? It means ready, capable and up to your job. Joe Clark: What concert, Mrs. Elliott? Mrs. Elliott: The one at Lincoln Center. We do one every year. Joe Clark: Until now. As of this moment, your little concert is cancelled. Mrs. Elliott: What? Joe Clark: CANCELLED! You do know what cancelled means, don't you? Called off! Terminated! Mrs. Elliott: WHY? Those children have worked too hard! Joe Clark: And for not telling me! Mrs. Elliott: I filed a form in your office! Why don't you talk to... Joe Clark: And for RANK insubordination! You have insulted my intellegence, my authority... Mrs. Elliott: You're the one that always comes to pick on me! I'll tell you what! You're a bully, you're a despicable man and I've got nothing more to say to you! Joe Clark: Let's just accommodate that, Mrs. Elliott! YOU'RE FIRED! Mrs. Elliott: You need a psychiatrist! Joe Clark: GET OUT! Mrs. Elliott: All right, fine! Fired? YOU WILL HEAR FROM MY LAWYER!
c.		Jonah Baldwin: Talk to her, dad. She's a doctor. Sam Baldwin: Of what? Her first name could be Doctor.
d.		[bumping into a proproom skeleton] Officer Mulligan: Oh, another crooner.

5.	Which of the following famous movie quotes, is mentioned in the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.		Lester Bangs: The Doors? Jim Morrison? He's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet. Alice Wisdom: I like the doors. Lester Bangs: Give me the guess who. They got the courage to be drunken buffoons, which makes them poetic.
b.		Maxine, Little Girl at Audition: Please wait don't send my brother to the chair, don't let him burn, please please warden please
c.		Katie: I've got myself railroaded into a stud poker game!
d.		Joe Clark: I don't have time for Mrs. Elliott's problem! Dr. Frank Napier: You better make time! Joe Clark: We are being crucified by a process that is turning blacks into a permanent underclass here, Frank. A permanent underclass! [Dr. Napier turns away from him and puts some papers in his briefcase] Joe Clark: See! See, nobody wants to talk about that! NOBODY! Mrs. Elliott's missionary zeal about Mozart has nothing to do with our problem. Nothing! What good is Mozart going to do a bunch of children who can't go out and get a job? Dr. Frank Napier: Joe, your personal battles are gonna cost us the war. Worry about the test scores. Joe Clark: WHAT THE HELL YOU THINK I'M WORRIED ABOUT? Dr. Frank Napier: END OF DISCUSSION! You will write a formal apology! Joe Clark: I will what? Dr. Frank Napier: A formal apology for your treatment of Mrs. Elliott and Darnell and for your vicious and thoughtless insults to the women of this community! You will kow tow. You will step and fetch! Joe Clark: If you think that I'm gonna... Dr. Frank Napier: [slams briefcase shut] Get used to it! It's the WAY OF THE WORLD! If you're so hot on discipline, then goddammit [pounds on briefcase] Dr. Frank Napier: start by accepting mine because contrary to popular opinion, I'M THE HEAD NIGGER IN CHARGE! [He grabs his briefcase and heads for the door] Dr. Frank Napier: Come on, let's get something to eat. Joe Clark: [following him to the door and walking out with him] You really think you bad, don't you?

6.	Which of the following famous movie quotes, is mentioned in the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.		Uncle Rico: What about your girlfriend? Kip: Well, things are getting pretty serious right now. I mean, we chat online for, like, two hours every day so I guess you could say things are gettin' pretty serious.
b.		Cobb: [Cobb and Paden meet Tyree as he's being released from jail] Hey, Tyree, look who's here. Our old riding buddy. I invited Paden to join us, but he's not havin' any. [laughs] Tyree: [Tyree gets on his horse and rides up to Paden] Where's the dog? Cobb: [to Paden] You owe me thirteen dollars. Yah! [rides away with Tyree and others] Paden: Thirteen. Bad luck.
c.		Kaneesha Carter: Mr. Clark don't play!
d.		J. Jonah Jameson: [referring to Eddie and Peter] You want a staff job, and you want a staff job, anybody care about what I want? Hoffman: [opens Jameson's office door and quickly answers] I do. J. Jonah Jameson: [calmly] Shut up. Get out.

7.	Which of the following famous movie quotes, is mentioned in the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.		Mariana: Is there hot coffee? Juan: Yes, fresh made. Mariana: Bring me the pot. [Mariana pours the coffee in Mike's lap, then hits him with the pot] Mariana: Now we're even, asshole.
b.		The Instructor: In the beginning, there was man. And for a time, it was good. But humanity's so-called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption. Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise.
c.		Corey Flood: Did you sleep with her? Lloyd Dobler: I admit nothing. D.C.: Lloyd, it's us. Corey Flood: Look at his face. He did the deed. D.C.: You're an inspiration, Lloyd. You should go on the 700 Club or something.
d.		Joe Clark: This is an institution of learning, ladies and gentlemen. If you can't control it, how can you teach? Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm!

8.	Which of the following famous movie quotes, is mentioned in the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.		Joe Clark: The Lord said, do whatever you have to do. And he didn't say "Joe, be polite."
b.		Alan Garner: You hear that? The baby's name is Tyler. Phil Wenneck: Yeah, I thought he looked more like a Carlos too, bud.
c.		Sunny: Like my new coat? Don't I look like a flapper?
d.		Laura Wilson: No toothbrush. Only books. Adrian Helmsley: You know, when I was a kid, my dad was on the road a lot. He would give me a box full books, call me every night and quiz me. I'd get an ice cream cone for every book I read, so I was a fat kid. Laura Wilson: I find that very hard to believe. Adrian Helmsley: No, it's true. My high school career was 2,000 books and zero girlfriends. Laura Wilson: I didn't even kiss a boy till I was in college. They were all to scared of my dad.

9.	Which of the following famous movie quotes, is mentioned in the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.		Tamis: [pouting] Don't make me upset, or I'll never marry you.
b.		Leonna Barrett: [at the demonstration outside City Hall] ... Children, you have my word that we will get you what Eastside High deserves: a GOOD principal! Thomas Sams: We don't WANT a "good principal!" We WANT Mr. Clark! Leonna Barrett: You may THINK you know what you want, but... [the students applaud wildly, seeing that Clark has just walked up behind Barrett, unnoticed by her]
c.		Herb: [to himself, about Putnam] My white boy's one crazy motherfucker!
d.		Alice Gold: Art, that thing under my nose is getting bigger. Arthur Gold: That's your mouth.

10.	Which of the following famous movie quotes, is mentioned in the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.		Officer Hinch: [looking at a candy box with a human heart inside] Think I waited too long to retire. Burke: You and me both, Hinch. Who did this? Officer Hinch: Harry Warden. Burke: Harry Warden's in a coma. Officer Hinch: Guess he woke up.
b.		Kaufman: [Kaufman gets in his private underground limo, while his driver opens the garage door] Careful when you open that door. [Big Daddy appears, and attempts to get into the limo. His driver sees this, and runs out the garage door, leaving Kaufman in the limo] Kaufman: Get back here, you bastard! You've got the fucking keys!
c.		Joe Clark: [Clark's roof-top pep-talk to Thomas Sams] The problem with teenagers today is you don't know nothing. The problem with being a teenager is you think you know better than those who have been down that road you're traveling. Have you told your father what happened to you? You haven't? No guts, huh? You're afraid of what he might say to you. Thomas Sams: My father doesn't live with us anymore, sir. Joe Clark: Oh, is that it? You just go around feeling sorry for yourself? Get out of here, boy; you're wasting my time! Thomas Sams: Please, sir. I have to get back in school, somewhere. I can't just go home and tell my mother I got thrown out of school. Joe Clark: Boy, what have you been thinking about all this time, and why should I believe you now? Thomas Sams: Because I'll do better, sir. I'll go to class and do all my work and... Joe Clark: And what else? Why don't you just jump off the roof, right here and now? That's what you really want, isn't it? Yes, you do. You smoke crack, don't you, boy? Don't you smoke crack? Yeah, I thought so. And you know what that does to you? You don't? It kills your brain cells, son. It kills your brain cells! Now when you're destroying your brain cells, you're doing the same thing as killing yourself. You're just doing it slower! Now, I say if your wanna kill yourself, don't fuck around with it, do it expeditiously! Go on and jump! JUMP! Thomas Sams: No! I don't wanna jump! Joe Clark: ...You're quite sure about this, are you? Thomas Sams: ...That's why I haven't jumped already, sir. Joe Clark: Maybe. All right, Sams, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do: I'm gonna go back on my own word and let you into my school again. But you're not gonna get a moment's rest. I'm gonna be on your case every minute - just waiting for you to slip up THIS MUCH, so I can toss you right back out. Do you understand me? Do you? Thomas Sams: ...You think I don't appreciate this at all, sir. Joe Clark: ...We'll see. Alright, let's get back downstairs. Come on. [they do so]
d.		Dr. Owen Fletcher: You're a rational person. You're a trained psychiatrist. You know the difference between what's real and what's not. Dr. Kathryn Railly: And what we say is the truth is what everybody accepts. Right, Owen? I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.

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