Barry Sonnenfeld
Barry Sonnenfeld

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

Rickey Medlocke
Rickey Medlocke

My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones: [trapped on a rope bridge] Shorty!
[Indy shouts to Shorty in Chinese. Short Round, wide-eyed, nods and wraps a rope around his arm]
Short Round: Hang on lady, we going for a ride!
[Indy raises his sword, and Willie realizes]
Willie: Oh my god! Oh my God... Oh my God... Oh my God!
[wraps a rope

around her arm]
Willie: Is he nuts?
Short Round: He no nuts. He's crazy!
Indiana Jones: Mola Ram! Prepare to meet Kali... in hell!
[starts to cut the bridge with his sword]
Mola Ram: NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING! YOU FOOL!
[the rope bridge falls apart, sending Thugs to their deaths in the

crocodile-infested river below]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

[one of Mola Ram's guards is about to kill Short Round]
Indiana Jones: Wait! WAIT! He's mine!
[Indy grabs Shorty and holds him over the pit]
Indiana Jones: I'm all right kid.
[Indy winks at him]

Scary Movie
Scary Movie

Buffy Gilmore: Hey do you think the press is gonna wanna talk to us?
Brenda: Oh please. The press only wanna interview the most ignorant person they find.
Shorty: [Cut to Gail Haistorm interviewing Shorty about Drew Decker's death]
Shorty: I'm on T.V. Oh shit, first "Cops" now this. I'm gonna be a star, son.


Gail Hailstorm: So how close were you to the victim?
Shorty: Oh real close. Right 'til the roofies wore and she woke up. Then she was all talkin' 'bout pressing charges so I just pulled my tongue outta her ass and left.
Gail Hailstorm: If you could have spoken to her before she died what would your last words to her have been?


Shorty: Run bitch, run!

Scary Movie
Scary Movie

Shorty: Theres blood, guts and asses everywhere, someone's gone all crazy, son!
Bobby: We all go a little crazy sometimes.
[Bobby shoots Shorty in the chest]
Cindy Campbell: Bobby, no!
Shorty: [Lying on the ground] Oh, Cindy he got me in the lung.
[Smoke is coming out of the wound]

Shorty: Wanna hit this shit?

Hercules
Hercules

Hercules: Uh, so how'd you get stuck with the...
Meg: Pinhead with hooves? Well, you know how men are. They think "No" means "Yes" and "Get lost" means "Take me, I'm yours."
[Hercules doesn't understand]
Meg: Don't worry, maybe Shorty here can explain it to ya.

Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 2

Dwight Hartman: Let's split up.
Brenda Meeks: Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh UH! Now wait a minute, hold up! How come when anytime this scary shit happens, and we should stick together, you white people always say "let's split up"?
Theo: She's right, we should stick together.
Dwight Hartman: She's right. Okay.

[pointing to Cindy, Buddy and Theo]
Dwight Hartman: You three, follow me!
[Brenda, Shorty and Ray are left alone]
Shorty Meeks: Ain't that a bitch.
[the three of them begin to cry]
Brenda Meeks: We gonna die, y'all.