Cool Runnings (1993)

Malik Yoba: Yul Brenner

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Quotes 

• Yul Brenner : Look in the mirror, and tell me what you see!

  Junior Bevill : I see Junior.

  Yul Brenner : You see Junior? Well, let me tell you what I see. I see pride! I see power! I see a bad-ass mother who don't take no crap off of nobody!

• Yul Brenner : How about I beat your butt right now?

  Sanka Coffie : How about I draw a line down the middle of your head so it looks like a butt?

• Yul Brenner : Say whatever it is that you want 'cause you're just like every other fool on the island. You're going nowhere, Sanka, and you're thrilled to death about it. But you see me? You see me? I'm different, 'cause I know exactly where I'm going and after I, Yul Brenner, win the Olympics and become famous I'm going to leave the island and live right down there.

  [Pulls out picture of Buckingham Palace] 

  Sanka Coffie : [laughing] 

  Yul Brenner : What are you laughing about? What are you laughing about?

  Sanka Coffie : That's Buckingham Palace. You plan on living there, you're going to have to marry the Queen.

  Junior Bevill : Yul, that's where the Queen of England lives.

  Sanka Coffie : Face it, Yul Brenner you can start calling yourself Madonna but you're still going to end up in an outhouse shanty like every other dock working nobody.

  Junior Bevill : Mm, says who?

  Sanka Coffie : Says me, rich boy. What do you know about it?

  Junior Bevill : Well, I know my father started off in a one room hut. Now he lives in one of the biggest homes in Kingston.

  Sanka Coffie : Well, he ain't your father.

  Junior Bevill : He doesn't have to be. All he has to do is know what he wants and work hard for it. And if he wants it bad enough, he'll get it. Look, believe me, Sanka the more Yul Brenners we got making it in this world the better off this world will be, especially for Jamaicans. Go ahead, Yul Brenner. Go get your palace.

• [Yul and Junior are in the hotel room, getting ready to go to a bar; there's a knock on the door. Yul goes to open it, finding Sanka dressed in a maid's uniform, carrying a feather duster] 

  Sanka Coffie : Maid Service, sir! Would you like your bed turned down? Mint? Perhaps I could dust your head!

  Yul Brenner : Whatever is wrong with you is no little thing.

• Junior Bevill : Seeming to you nobody likes us?

  Yul Brenner : We're different. People are always afraid of what's different.

• Yul Brenner : [prior to the final race]  Hey, Dreadlocks! Let me kiss your lucky egg!

• Josef Grul : Hey, Jamaica! Watch out for Number Twelve turn. Scary, ja?

  Derice Bannock : What's his problem?

  Irv : He's Josef Grul. He's one of the best drivers in the world.

  Yul Brenner : Yeah, he's one of the biggest ASSHOLES in the world, too.

• [Junior's father comes to bring him back] 

  Junior Bevill : Father, when you look at me, what do you see?

  Whitby Bevil - Sr. : I don't have time for games. Junior.

  Junior Bevill : Tell me what you see, please!

  Whitby Bevil - Sr. : All right, I'll tell you what I see. I see a lost little boy, who's lucky to have a father who knows what's best for him.

  Junior Bevill : No, no, no, no, you don't know what's best for me, Father. I am not a lost little boy, Father. I am a man, and I'm an Olympian. I'm staying right here.

  Yul Brenner : [watching]  Junior Bevil. You bad-ass mother.

• [Junior marches up to Josef Grul and spins him around] 

  Junior Bevill : Now, you look! I will not be talked to that way! So you'd better come up with a damn good apology or else!

  Josef Grul : ["is that so?"]  Or else what?

  [punches him on shoulder] 

  Junior Bevill : [taken aback a bit]  Ow.

  Josef Grul : Huh, Jamaica? "Or else" what?

  [pushes Junior to floor and then gets down in his face] 

  Josef Grul : Come on, Jamaica say something!

  [Two big feet come into view. Grul looks up] 

  Yul Brenner : No problem, mon.

  [Yul punches Josef Grul in the face; the whole bar then goes crazy with fighting] 

• [before their first practice run] 

  Sanka Coffie : You want to kiss my egg?

  [holds the egg in front of Yul's face] 

  Yul Brenner : [looks at the egg, disgustingly]  I'm not kissing no egg.

  Sanka Coffie : Suit yourself.

  [kisses the egg] 

• Yul Brenner : Remember, this doesn't mean that I like you.

• Yul Brenner : [the guys start climbing into the bobsled]  Don't touch me!

  Sanka Coffie : Hey, Baldie, get off my foot!

  Yul Brenner : Don't touch me!

• [repeated line] 

  Yul Brenner : Don't touch me!

• Yul Brenner : Hurry up, mon. I have a dead grandmother that moves faster than you.

• Yul Brenner : You're crowding me, slinky head.

• [the team are finishing painting their sled and drinking Cokes in bottles] 

  Derice Bannock : Fellas, here's to followin' your dreams.

  Yul Brenner : [as they clink bottles]  Yes, man. Follow your dreams.

  Irv : I said it to your father and I'll say it again: sprinters make the best bobsledders.

  Derice Bannock : Here's to sprintin'!

  [They clink bottles again]