Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

Richard Pryor: Sharp Eye Washington

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• Sharp Eye Washington : Steady on the case. Steady on the case. I'm getting my thing together, too, baby, because I'm Sharp Eye Washington. Steady on the case.

• Steve Jackson : Damn, man, we trusted you. I mean, why us?

  Sharp Eye Washington : Why not you, brother?

• Sharp Eye Washington : I put my life on the line in service to you. That's right. It's a lonely, dangerous life being a private detective. All you do is risk a little money. I solve the cases, and people are after me! Look at my eye, my right eye. See how bloodshot it is? Know how it got that way? From sleeping with one eye open, baby. Life ain't easy. Always on the move, people after me with guns, looking under the hood of your car for bombs, peeking out windows, peering down hallways. ln the movies, right? The movies always got some super nigger killing some white boy in the Mafia - beating up the crooked police. That's not true and it don't help me either. And women. They all got women. Black detective in the movies always got a woman. Watch yourself. Well, I ain't had a woman in how long? Months! Months. I might as well be a monk. And that's what it's like being a detective. That's the real truth of it.