The Color Purple (1985)

Danny Glover: Albert

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• Celie : [lunging towards Albert with a knife]  I curse you. Until you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble!

  Sofia : Don't do it Mrs. Celie. Don't trade places with what I been through.

  Shug : Come on, Celie, let's go to the car.

  Sofia : He ain't worth it, he ain't worth it.

  Albert : Who you think you is? You can curse nobody. Look at you. Your black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman, you're nothing at all!

  Celie : Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!

  Grady : It's been a pleasure meeting all of you. Good-bye.

• Harpo : Who this, Pa? Who this?

  Albert : The woman that shoulda been yo' mammy.

• Shug : [after telling Albert that she and her husband are leaving]  Celie is coming with us.

  Albert : What?

  Shug : Celie is coming with us to Memphis.

  Albert : Over my dead body.

  Shug : You satisfied? That what you want?

  Albert : [to Celie]  NOW What's wrong with you?

  Celie : You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.

• Albert : Celie! I don't use this kind of grease! This grease for sloppin' hogs! It ain't for no hair!

• Albert : You ever hit her?

  Harpo : No, sir.

  Albert : How you expect her to mind? Wives is like children. You have to let them know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do it better than a good sound beating. Sofia thinks too much of herself. Needs to be taken down a peg or two.

• Albert : Young women no good these days. Got their legs open for every Tom, Dick and Harpo.

• Albert : Yeah, you know, Grady, we done had the best.

  [laughs] 

  Grady : It's true.

  Albert : Yeah, we done had the best. You had her your way. I had her mine.

  [laughs] 

  Albert : But we had her! We had her! Let's us drink to having some Shug.

• Albert : Hot diggity-dog! I'm coming, Shug! It's sugarbaby!

• Albert : You got a fever? I didn't come here for you to take all day to shave me. Get the molasses out of your ass!

• Albert : The longer I'm married to you, the slower and dumber you get. Your ass is as slow as I ever seen it before.

• Albert : Look at you! You're black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman! You're nothing at all!

• Albert : Shug got talent. She can sing. And she got spunk and she can talk to anybody. She can stand up and be noticed. But, what you got? You're ugly. You're skinny. You're shaped funny. You're too scared to open your mouth to people. All you fit to do is be Shug's maid.