The Best Jet Black Quotes

Spike: Uh, listen Jet. You said "bell peppers and beef." There's no beef in here. So you wouldn't really call it "bell peppers and beef," now would you?
Jet: Yes, I would.
Spike: Well, it's *not*!
Jet: It is when you're broke!

Ed: This is the father person!
Jet: Huh? You mean your father?
Spike: You have a father?

Jet: Betrayal may come easily to women, but men live by iron-clad codes of honor.
Faye: You really believe that?
Jet: I'm trying to, real hard.

Spike: Hey, Jet, did you know that there are three things that I particularly hate?
Jet: Really?
Spike: Kids... animals... and women with attitudes...
Jet: Oh?
Spike: So tell me, Jet, why do we have all three of them neatly gathered in our ship?

Spike: There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.
Jet: Yeah, it's a good story.
Spike: I hate that story.
Jet: Huh?
Spike: I never liked cats, you know that.
Jet: Oh yeah. That's right.
[They laugh hysterically]

Jet: [after Faye makes a mistake] Shit! Rotten babe!
Faye: I heard that!

Jet: There's nothing as pure and cruel as a child.

Spike: You said "bell peppers and beef." There's no beef in here. So, you wouldn't really call it "bell peppers and beef" now, would you?
Jet: Yes I would.
Spike: Well, it's not!
Jet: It is when you're broke, all right?
Spike: What happened to the million woolong reward we got for that last guy?
Jet: The repair bill for the cruiser you wrecked... and the one from the shop you trashed... and the medical bill from the cop you injured... KILLED THE DOUGH!

Jet: I started wailing the blues when the doctor whacked my bottom on the day I was born.

Ed: Ahhh that's the wrong one.
Spike: Huh?
Ed: You got a VHS.
Spike: Huh?
Ed: It won't play Beta.
Spike: Huuuh?

Spike: Ever heard this story?
Jet: Huh?
Spike: There once was a tiger-striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived & lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he really didn't care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat which meant he was free. He met a white female cat & the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed & the white cat grew weak & died of old age. The tiger-striped cat cried a million times, & then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.
Jet: Yeah. That's a good story.
Spike: I hate that story.
Jet: Huh?
Spike: I never liked cats, you know that.
Jet: Oh yeah, that's right.
[Spike and Jet begin laughing together]

Jet: I'm Jet Black, 36 years old. I'm often told I don't look 36, but you shouldn't judge people based on appearances... or on how much hair they have.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.

Jet: You think it's all right to leave them alone?
Spike: You worried about her?
Jet: I just thought that she might let him go.
Spike: Does she have that much sympathy in her heart?
Jet: Women as insistent as her tend to be the ones who get emotionally swayed by their exes.
Spike: Is that so?
Jet: Women don't work on reason.

Jet: Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

Spike: [Spike gets into his Swordfish II ship] I'm gonna go look.
Jet: You're not!
Spike: I'm gonna go look for *my* woman. You can go look for the other one.
Jet: So you're not gonna help me, are you? That's it! You've really gone too far. Then don't come back, there won't be a place for you.
[Spike then puts his coat in the cockpit of his ship]
Spike: That's your call, pal.
[Jet grunts]
Spike: Anyway, at least you won't be lonely now, not with your weird roommates.
Jet: My roommates? That's why you've been staying here? You're being stupid! It's been three years since I teamed up with you, but I never knew you had such ridiculous ideas about this thing. What a joke! And I thought you were the one who was lonely!
Spike: I'm glad we cleared that up.
Jet: Good riddance!
[walks off, Spike gets into ship]
Jet: At least I'll be able to keep some food in the place now!
[Spike inserts engine key]
Jet: I never did understand you, right to the very end!
Spike: I don't understand, either.

Jet: When you and I first met, you told me something. You said that you had died once, that you had seen death. Why can't you just let it go? Forget the past.
Spike: There was a woman, first time I'd found someone who was truly alive. At least, that's what I thought. She was... the part of me I'd lost somewhere along the way, the part that was missing, that I'd been longing for.

Jet: Turn back. You told me when we first met... that you were a man who had already died once. Just forget the past, okay?
Spike: There was a woman. For the first time in my life, I saw a woman that was truly alive. That's what I believed. She was a piece of me I had lost. She is my other half that I had longed for.

Spike: Are you still in pain?
Jet: [pause] Have you heard this story? A man injures his leg during the hunt. He's in the middle of the savannah, with no means to treat the wound. The leg rots and death approaches. The last minute he's picked up by an airplane. He looks down and sees a land of pure white below him, glistening in the light. It's the summit of a snow-capped mountain, the mountain is Kilimanjaro. As he gazes down he feels the life flowing out of him and he thinks, 'That's where I was headed...
Spike: And?
Jet: I hate stories like that. Men only think about the past right before their death. As if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.