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In the Heat of the Night (1967) Movie Quotes: By Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier)
They call me MISTER Tibbs! ~ Virgil Tibbs, In the Heat of the Night (1967). They've got a murder they don't know what to do with. They need a whipping boy. ~ Virgil Tibbs, In the Heat of the Night (1967). Now listen, hear me good mama. Please. Don't make me have to send you to jail... There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time. ~ Virgil Tibbs, In the Heat of the Night (1967). In the Heat of the Night (1967) Movie Quotes: By Chief Gillespie (Rod Steiger) Chief Gillespie: I got the motive which is money and the body which is dead. ~ Chief Gillespie, In the Heat of the Night (1967). I do want to thank you for offering such a powerful piece of manpower as Virgil Tibbs. ~ Chief Gillespie, In the Heat of the Night (1967). You look at bodies all the time in Philadelphia. Why can't you look at this one? ~ Chief Gillespie, In the Heat of the Night (1967). A hundred and sixty-two dollars and thirty-nine cents a week? Well boy! Sam, you take him outside but treat him nice, because a man that makes a hundred and sixty-two dollars and thirty-nine cents a week, we do not want to ruffle him! ~ Chief Gillespie, In the Heat of the Night (1967). Just once in my life, I'm gonna own my temper. I'm telling you that you're gonna stay here. You're gonna stay here if I have to go inside and call your chief of police and have him remind you of what he told you to do. But I don't think I have to do that, you see? No, because you're so damn smart. You're smarter than any white man. You're just gonna stay here and show us all. You've got such a big head that you could never live with yourself unless you could put us all to shame. You wanna know something, Virgil? I don't think that you could let an opportunity like that pass by. ~ Chief Gillespie, In the Heat of the Night (1967). In the Heat of the Night (1967) Movie Quotes: By Other Characters Got no more smile than a turnip. ~ Harvey Oberst, In the Heat of the Night (1967). Take me ten minutes to get a king size Coke and a wedge of pie. That is if that peckerwood ain't sold out yet. ~ Officer Sam Wood, In the Heat of the Night (1967). There was a time when I could've had you shot. ~ Eric Endicott, In the Heat of the Night (1967). I don't care what he is. If it wasn't for him, your impartial chief of police would still have the wrong man behind bars. I want that officer given a free hand, otherwise I will pack up my husband's engineers...and leave you...to yourselves. ~ Mrs. Leslie Colbert, In the Heat of the Night (1967). |