Strange Days (1995)

Angela Bassett: Lornette 'Mace' Mason

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Quotes 

• Mace : This is your life, right here, right now! It's real-time, you hear me, real time! Time to get real, not playback. You understand me?

• Mace : Memories are meant to fade. They're designed that way for a reason.

• Lenny Nero : Are we still friends?

  Mace : I don't know Lenny. You see, friendship is more than one person constantly doing favors for another.

• Lenny : Have you ever been in love with someone who didn't return that love?

  Mace : Yeah, Lenny, I have.

  Lenny : It didn't stop you from loving them, right? Or being able to understand them or forgive them?

  Mace : I guess.

• Lenny : [to Mace, as he slips the disc into her hand]  You see that guy over there? That's Deputy Commissioner Palmer Strickland, the sanctimonious prick who busted me out. His ass is so tight, when he farts only dogs can hear it. If there's one cop who's not dirty, it's him. Take it to him.

  Mace : You want me to trust a cop?

  Lenny : No. Trust me.

• Mace : I can't believe you had to give them the damn tape.

  Lenny Nero : Yeah I know. It was one of my favorites: me and Faith in the hot tub on my birthday.

  [Lenny takes the actual tape out of his jacket] 

  Lenny Nero : Are we impressed yet?

  Mace : Yeah... pretty impressed.

• Mace : You're some piece of work, Lenny Nero. You're just calmly backstroking along in the big toilet bowl and somehow you never let it touch you. I mean, between working vice and your current so-called occupation, you must have seen every kind of perversion. But you're just like... some teflon man, you still come out this goofball romantic.

  Lenny Nero : It's my sword and my shield, Mace.

• Mace : [Angry, to Lenny]  Don't just be usin' the time that I'm talkin' to be thinkin' 'bout what you gonna say next.

• [last lines] 

  Mace : Hey, Lenny, we made it!

  Lenny Nero : Yea, we did.

  Mace : You should get going.

  Lenny Nero : Yea, see you downtown.

  Mace : See you there.

• Lenny Nero : [remembering the exact word Iris used]  She said *"they"* - "If they get me" - *"they"*. Which means this whole, like, random sex-killer thing is bullshit, which means somebody whacked her for a reason.

  Mace : So this guy's not a psycho?

  Lenny Nero : No, Macy, he's a psycho. To do what's on that tape?... He's not a well-adjusted human being.

• Mace : Lenny, would you relax? We're not being followed. Stop being so paranoid.

  Lenny Nero : The guy had a knife, to my throat, in my living room. Relaxing might be right out, okay?

• Lenny Nero : [Mace drove the burning limo off the pier, now they're about to drown as water seeps in through the bullet holes]  Are you out of your fucking mind?

  Mace : The fire's out, isn't it?