You People (2023) Best Movie Quotes

Starring: Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lauren London, Sam Jay, Molly Gordon, Mike Epps, Nia Long, Deon Cole, Rhea Perlman, David Duchovny

OUR RATING: ★★½

Story:

Netflix comedy directed and co-written by Kenya Barris. You People (2023) centers on new couple Ezra and Amira(Jonah Hill, Lauren London), who after falling in love, find themselves confronting societal expectations and generational differences amidst their families (Eddie Murphy, Nia Long, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Duchovny) clashing cultures.

Best Quotes

Mo: Welcome to The Mo and E-Z Show. I’m Mo, and to my left is my favorite Jew with nothing to do, my boy E-Z.

Ezra: [to Shelley] First of all, can you please stop saying “I get it” and using air quotes? And second of all, when someone says, “I’m cool. I get it,” they never are cool, and they never get it. You shouldn’t have to say that.

Bubby: You won’t be able to be buried in a Jewish cemetery.
Ezra: Bubby, I love you so much, respectfully, but I’ll be dead. I don’t give a s**t where I’m buried, respectfully. You can take my ashes, and you can flush them down the urinal at Dodger Stadium, respectfully.
Bubby: Oh, so now you’re disrespecting the Dodgers?

Shelley: Okay, I’m going to scrape those tattoos off myself, and I’m going to bury you in a double-wide coffin with me. Okay, how about that?
Ezra: Sounds good.

Liza: You look like a dad who lost his kid at Coachella.
Ezra: You look like the principal of a Hebrew school version of Hogwarts.
Liza: You look like a young Hulk Hogan.

Mr. Greenwald: Got a girlfriend?
Ezra: No.
Mr. Greenwald: You say that so cavalier, like it’s a bad thing. You don’t like getting pu**y?
Ezra: Well, hearing the word pu**y come out of your mouth does make me question whether or not I like it.

Shelley: [referring to Dr. Green] Well, he hasn’t been convicted.
Ezra: Totally. In the four seconds I spoke with him, he tried to pull me in the bathroom and look at my d**k, so I’m just going to say I might support the accusers on this one.

Kim Glassman: [to Ezra, referring to his podcast] I mean, you’re a Jew from West LA. What do you know about the culture? Maybe deli culture, but…

Ezra: Honestly, I’m starting to think I’m never going to meet a woman who understands me.
Mo: Bruh, you have got to stop being so thirsty, man. It’s disgusting! I don’t think I’ve heard of a man ever who wanted to be in a relationship so badly besides Drake. And I’m talking Views Drake.

'I feel like I'm alone, on a building in Toronto, dangling my legs off, wondering what it's like to feel companionship. That's the space I'm in.' - Ezra (You People) Share on X

Ezra: I’m literally Take Care Drake. I’m at an Italian restaurant by myself with a bunch of chains, drinking Manischewitz out of a goblet, and wondering when the f*** is it my turn to feel like deep happiness and connection.

Mo: [to Ezra] You’re not even giving me Take Care Drake. You’re giving me “Houstatlantavegas” Drake. I’m talking crying over strippers, no beard, big upper lip.

Amira: I don’t really feel seen by you in any way.
Chris: All I do is see you, girl. I’m always on your social media. I’m staring at you right now. You know what? It’s like James Baldwin said. “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” I don’t have s**t to lose because I already lost you.

Don Wood: Here he is. Biggest swinging d**k in the West!
Ezra: There he is. You have a big swinging p**is yourself there, my man. The boss man.
Don Wood: You made that exchange weird, Ezra. Goddamn it. Alright. What’s done is done, right?

Ezra: [after he gets in Amira’s car] I know this seems like a racism. But it’s not. My Uber driver is a Black woman who drives a Mini Cooper. Her name is Hyacinth Ajanlekoko Butatembe. So.
Amira: Oh, wow. Okay. So I guess Hyacinth-whatever looks like me since we all look alike.
Ezra: I mean, honestly, f***ing you guys are twins.
Amira: [as Ezra shows her the photo] Oh, my God. Wait. She really does look like me.
Ezra: Yeah, this is like a 23 and Me situation. Like I want to introduce you guys. I mean, you’re better looking for sure.

'The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.' - Chris (You People) Share on X

Amira: This ain’t no Driving Miss Daisy s**t, okay?
Ezra: Okay.
Amira: Don’t kill me.
Ezra: I’m not going to kill you. Please don’t kill me.
Amira: I’m not.
Ezra: You’re the one who beat me.

Omar: What kind of name is Ezra? Is he like a third-generation civil rights activist, or keeping-the-peace a** n****?
Amira: No. He’s white.
Omar: He’s white?

Akbar: You know, I’m starting to hate the world more and more each day. You know, this place used to be our thing. Then white folks figured out that not only did Magic Johnson and Dr. Sebi figure out how to cure AIDS, but we also have delicious patties and smoothies.

Mo: Hold up. You’re dating a “Black girl” Black girl?
Ezra: I mean, I wouldn’t put it that way.
Mo: Bro, you bagged a real one? This is crazy. Wait a minute though. This is way out of your league. If this girl is what you say she is, then I’m pretty sure she smells like cocoa butter and expectations, bro.

'If you like something, you like it. I don't think anybody should be put in a box ever.' - Ezra (You People) Share on X

Ezra: This isn’t because it’s like a hot new thing. I’m not talking about a tie-dye sweatsuit. I’m talking about a person. A woman who I met, who I found interesting, who’s different than the other women that I know, so I asked her out. Who cares?
Mo: Yoh, please tell me you didn’t buy a tie-dye sweatsuit.

Amira: Oh, this is date?
Ezra: Yeah. I mean, we’re two adults, at least one of us is interested in getting to know the other one, meeting at a specific place at a designated time. And I’m pretty sure if I asked Siri, “Siri, what is a date?” That would be the exact bar she would spit back at me.

Ezra: If you like something, you like it. I don’t think anybody should be put in a box ever.
Amira: That’s real. I agree with you.

Amira: I just don’t be having sex with just anyone. So, whether you like it or not, we kind of go together now.
Ezra: Yeah, that’s crazy. I was going to say a similar kind of thing. Maybe a little less junior high, a little more mature. But, yeah. You’re my boo, come on. You already know. You’re obsessed with me.

Shelley: She’s from Guatemala. Lupita. But, you know, we’re like sisters, actually. She’s literally like family. I mean, it’s not even like work for her really.
Ezra: I’m pretty sure it’s like work for her. I don’t think Lupita’s coming all the way down here just pro bono, no money exchange, you know.

'Vegas has a knack for bringing out who people really are.' - Omar (You People) Share on X

Liza: [to Shelley and Arnold] Yeah, it’s a shame you missed out on that first wave of early gentrification. You could’ve screwed a lot of people out of their property value.

Shelley: Liza’s gay. She’s queer. She’s lesbian.
Arnold: L-G-B-T-Q.
Shelley: You got it all. Which we love and accept. “Because that is our vibe. That’s how we roll.”
Liza: I think she understands. Is she doing the air quote thing again?
Ezra: Yeah, she’s just warming up.

Shelley: Okay, so I want to put this out to the group and see how it lands.
Ezra: Oh, s**t.
Shelley: I think the police…
Ezra: [nervous] Okay!
Shelley: Are, and always have been, by the way, f***ed up towards Black people. And I, for one, hate it.

Arnold: I like your braids.
Amira: Thank you.
Arnold: Xzibit had braids.

'I feel like if you love something, as much as you want to share it with everybody, I think it's best you keep it for yourself.' - Ezra (You People) Share on X

Liza: Dad, stop.
Arnold: What?
Liza: Just like producing sound.
Arnold: I like X to the Z. What can I say?

Mo: So you’re telling me you’re about to ask their only adult daughter to marry you with this baby-a** ring, and you haven’t even met her parents? Bro. White dudes really do be out here living by their own code.

Mo: You’re going to have to make up a story or something for this, bro.
Ezra: Yeah. It is a small ring. You think her family will judge me and stuff?
Mo: I’m judging you, n****. This is terrible.

Ezra: I’m just going to be like, “It’s my grandma’s Holocaust ring.”
Mo: That’s good. That’s great.
Ezra: I mean, game over. They can’t say s**t. Once you drop the Holocaust, they’re like…

Akbar: [after meeting Ezra for the first time] So do you hang out in the hood all the time, or do you just come up here for our food and women?
Fatima: It’s a valid question.
Ezra: It is.

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Akbar: This is your white granddaddy coming back to haunt me.
Fatima: What?
Akbar: That n**** never liked me. And it started off by him putting them strong a** genes in you that lighten up the coffee in my babies.
Fatima: Akbar, you sound ridiculous.
Akbar: Yeah. And then he planted a poison pill in my little baby girl, and it has grown into this white boy that has invited us to lunch at Roscoe’s.

Ezra: Mixed race people are really awesome. You know, you have like Mariah and Derek Jeter. And then, of course, you have the GOAT. He was mixed race.
Akbar: The GOAT?
Ezra: The Greatest of All Time.
Akbar: Yeah, I know what it means. But who are you referring to?
Ezra: Our guy, the legend. Malcolm X.
Fatima: Our guy?

Ezra: [referring to Amira] She’s not pregnant. Because we don’t even do that much stuff. And when we do, I am careful. And she’s not a prude. She knows her way around it, and I respect… And what I’m saying is, I love your daughter! I love her, and I would make a good husband.
Akbar: What in the mother of…

Ezra: I did quote Forrest Gump. Because you know who Forrest’s best friend was in the world? Bubba.
Fatima: What?
Ezra: And was Bubba Black and was Forrest white? You bet your f***ing a** they were. And you know what? It wasn’t about race. It was about shrimp, and partnership, and they made it work. And Amira and I have done a lot of the similar stuff that Bubba and Forrest did together. And now we’re here, and I just want to marry your daughter, if that’s okay.
Akbar: We never seen no f***ing Forrest Gump. Ain’t this about a b**ch?

Akbar: So you want to marry my daughter?
Ezra: Yes. Yes, I do.
Akbar: Well, Ezra, you can try.

Amira: [after Ezra’s proposed to her, referring to the ring] So what’s the story again? It’s your grandmother’s?
Ezra: Yeah, it’s my grandmother’s. She got it in the Holocaust or whatever.
Amira: But like how old is she if it’s from the Holocaust?
Ezra: It’s been a minute. I don’t know. I think she got engaged when she was like three or four years old. It was a different time, you know.

Ezra: I’m not going to work here at this address. So I’m going to like do a different place that I’m going to do the work from that’s different work.
Don Wood: Are you trying to quit on me?
Ezra: Yeah. Goodbye.
Don Wood: Pathetic. Who resigns in Helvetica?

Ezra: Your family hates me.
Amira: They just don’t know you yet, you know. And I think, look, this is going to take some getting used to for them. I mean, and can you honestly say that your family’s excited to have my Black a** in the picture?
Ezra: I think a good portion of them are. For sure.

Fatima: We should probably talk about who’s going to officiate the wedding.
Shelley: Oh, Arnold already talked to Rabbi Singer.
Arnold: Singer is in!
Shelley: Yeah, he’d be honored.
Akbar: Rabbi Singer. So you’re not going to go with an imam?
Shelley: Who’s Auntie Mom?
Fatima: There’s no Auntie Mom. It’s an “imam”.

Akbar: [referring to Louis Farrakhan] Are you familiar with the minister’s work?
Shelley: Well, I’m familiar with what he said about the Jews.
Ezra: You know what? Let’s have dinner.

Akbar: Black folks don’t really have a good relationship with boats.
Fatima: That’s very true. Or water.
Shelley: Kind of like Jews with trains, right?
Arnold: Wow. Bingo.

Akbar: Are you trying to compare the Holocaust to slavery?
Shelley: Oh, no, no, no, no. I mean, I wouldn’t do that. Although, you know, if you think about it, I think the Blacks and the Jews have a similar struggle. Yeah.
Fatima: No. So you are kind of sort of comparing the two.
Shelley: Just a little bit.
Ezra: [to Amira] Can you pass the potatoes this way?

Shelley: All I’m saying is that our people came here with nothing like everybody else.
Fatima: Actually, you kind of sort of came here with the money that you made from the slave trade.

Akbar: I don’t turn on the news every day and see people in yarmulkes getting shot by police because they was out minding their business.
Shelley: Okay. First of all, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Fatima: It’s a very uncomfortable conversation.
Ezra: Ever figure out what happened with the potatoes? An ETA on those?
Amira: I’m trying.

Akbar: [to Arnold] When my grandmother was picking cotton, your grandfather’s picking feet.

Ezra: I love that four hours ago you became a devout Muslim.
Amira: For sure.
Ezra: Your dad’s not even that Muslim! He heard “Fight the Power” once and changed his name from Woody to Akbar.

Amira: I got to go to sleep. I started my period, and it’s just been hell.
Ezra: Yeah, I’m worried too, because I haven’t gotten my period in like thirty-five years. I should see a doctor or something.

Akbar: [referring to Ezra becoming a podcaster] How are you going to support my daughter by following a dream? Do you have like some dream Bitcoin, or a dream 401k, or some s**t?
Ezra: I don’t have a dream 401k. But I am going to give it everything I have.
Akbar: You’re going to give it everything you’ve got? That sounds like some white boy s**t. “I’m going to give it everything I’ve got.”
Ezra: Yeah, I see it. I can handle the jokes like that, for sure.
Akbar: I’m not joking.

Barber: [to Akbar and Ezra] You and your pigment-challenged friend have a seat there.

Barber Patron: [referring to Ezra] Hey, Ak, what’s up with White Cuzz?

Ezra: Am I White Cuzz?
Akbar: Well, I’m not.
Barber Patron: Hey, yoh, White Cuzz.
Ezra: I’m White Cuzz, for sure.

Akbar: Langston Hughes Park. You mentioned that you play there all the time. Although a pretty extensive Google search, and literally every single person I asked about it never heard of it.
Ezra: No, for sure. For sure. Google’s been like, definitely being weird. And that’s been like issues for me, so. I would take it to the Genius Bar on that one.

Akbar: Yeah. Hey. “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.”
Ezra: That’s good.
Akbar: That’s Langston Hughes.
Ezra: I know, dude. I say that s**t all the time. That’s my email signature.

Mo: Black people and white people will never be cool. Period.
Ezra: What the f*** are you talking about?
Mo: The truth, dawg.
Ezra: You’re my best friend, and my business partner.
Mo: Yeah, that’s how powerful this s**t is, bro.

Mo: For Black people in this country, white dudes are the cheater. And we’re the chick who can’t move on. No matter how bad we want to, we can’t forget what y’all did, and what y’all are still doing.

Demetrius: So we have a Tron type of wedding, but a hood Tron, you know. Keep it less expensive by having LED light suits instead of the regular suits. Have it in the hood, having real people doing real things in the Tron world.

Demetrius: I’ll bring the suits. I got forty hood Tron suits, and they light up. All of them work. It’s going to be great.
Becca: And you have forty of them?
Demetrius: Forty of them. Anybody outside of y’all wedding, more than forty people, then that’s on y’all. I wouldn’t bring them because they couldn’t fit in the suit. They going to look weird without being in a suit.

Akbar: Hey, what’s your boy’s name again?
Mo: My name’s Mo, and I have titties.
Akbar: Oh, I’m sorry, bro. Sister. Mo.

Akbar: Hey, did you know that Mo had titties?
Omar: Yeah, they’re on her chest.

Akbar: [referring to crashing Ezra’s bachelor party] We going to just go down there and make sure he don’t have no fun.
Omar: That is very low class of you. But I cannot lie. That is a good plan. You know, Vegas has a knack for bringing out who people really are.

Akbar: [referring to Vegas] Hey, you s**t on yourself last time you was here? You s**t your slacks?
Ezra: Yes, but not from cocaine. It was from Chipotle.

Ezra: It’s okay to accept help from someone who loves you.
Amira: That’s really easy for you to say because that’s how life has worked for you. That’s not how it works for me.

Akbar: My name is Akbar Mohammad, bro.
Uncle EJ: Oh, man. Mama named you Woody. I’m calling you Woody.
Akbar: Yeah, Mama didn’t give birth to no fake-Versace-wearing, PPP-loan-scamming career criminal, but here we are.

Uncle EJ: [referring to Ezra] He look like an AmEx, standing here with his hair slicked back.

Mo: To my best friend Ezra, who’s kind and thoughtful, but for whatever reason didn’t think to sit me on the Black side of the table, which just aesthetically makes sense, you know.

Akbar: You don’t usually know who the man is that you’re giving your daughter away to. Usually. But I consider myself fortunate, because I think I kind of do know who Ezra is. And he’s not a drunken, drugged-out, dream-chasing whore monger, who surrounds himself with a bunch of racist degenerates. I didn’t get that guy. I got this guy.

Akbar: [to Ezra] I know you. I’ve known you from the very start. I had your number from day one. And for the life of me, I do not know why my daughter continues to go down this path with you. There’s one thing that I’m crystal clear on, is that you are absolutely, positively, unequivocally not the right the guy for my daughter. Period.

Ezra: You’re like the cooler to my life, and I don’t know why. Because the truth is all I’ve ever done is love your daughter, wholly and completely. And she loves me, and we want to marry each other. And you just decided before you even met me that you hated me. And then once you met me, you put all your energy just towards like smoking me out, or trying to prove I don’t belong around Black people, or that I’m a researcher and not a witness.

Ezra: And it did teach me one thing that you were right about.
Akbar: And what’s that?
Ezra: I will never, ever, ever know what it’s like to be a Black person in this country. But I do know what an a**hole is.

Amira: [to Shelley] It doesn’t matter how many books you read, or how many documentaries that you watch, because at the end of the day, I won’t just be Amira to you. I’ll always be Amira, the Black token daughter-in-law, and that’s ignorant.

Amira: [to Ezra] You know, your family, my family, the whole thing, I don’t know if it’s supposed to be this hard. And if I’m being honest, I just… Oh, God, I don’t have it in me. I’m so sorry.

Ezra: I’ve been thinking about something you said.
Mo: N****, if I had a dollar for every time I heard that one.
Ezra: You’re extremely unlikable. You know that, right?

Ezra: No, what’s bothering me is, for a second, I believed you were wrong. That there was hope for us. For the future. That when two people from two different walks of life came together, they could get by on their compassion for one another, and their curiosity, and their love.

Ezra: But at the end of the day, when it comes to Black and white people, I don’t think love is enough. There’s too many other outside factors. Whether it be your friends, or your family, people can’t accept what they don’t understand. Whether it’s right is one thing, but factually, it’s true. We really do live in two worlds. There’s no escaping it.

Ezra: I’ll always be an outsider. Which is why, as f***ed up as this sounds, I feel like if you love something, as much as you want to share it with everybody, I think it’s best you keep it for yourself.

Uncle EJ: Look, I’m not saying it’s right, but you did your s**t back in the day. You remember they came out with the Cold Blooded Rick James album?
Akbar: No, I don’t remember the Cold Blooded Rick James album.
Uncle EJ: Okay, but coke do. Man, we loved that album. That was the only time I felt related to you.

Akbar: [to Ezra] I been riding your back from the moment we first met, and I’m sorry. Because you didn’t deserve that. It’s just I couldn’t handle the fact that you weren’t what we ever thought Amira would bring home. And, you know. And I never ever thought that I could see my reflection in you. But I do. And you’re a good man. And a hustler. And most importantly, we both love Amira very much, and we’ll do anything to make her happy.

Shelley: I just hope that you accept my apology, because I do apologize on behalf of all white people. Except for the racist ones, the actual racist ones. And on behalf of all Jewish people. Except for Aunt Mitzi because…
Ezra: Yeah, she’s racist.
Shelley: She’s actually racist. She’s a horrible human being. But really mostly on behalf of me, Shelley Cohen of Brentwood, California. I am so sorry, Amira, because I love you, and you are not a toy. I see you as the real, powerful, individual person that you are.

Rabbi: Blessings to all who are present to witness Ezra and Amira unite their lives in marriage. Two hearts as one. Ezra and Amira, you choose each other to build a home, not of brick and mortar, but a home and haven in your hearts together. May it be fulfilled each day as you are on this beautiful journey of love.
Omar: [as Ezra kisses Amira] Just a little heavy on the tongue.
Liza: Most white people do.

Shelley: Mr. and Mrs. Cohen.
Akbar: Mr. and Mrs. Mohammad-Cohen.
Shelley: Yep.
Akbar: Ain’t that a b**ch!

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