Whiplash (2014) quotes

Director
Damien Chazelle.

Cast
Miles Teller.
J.K. Simmons.
Melissa Benoist.

A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential.

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than “good job”.
– Terence Fletcher

[to Connelly] HEY, FUCK OFF JOHNY UTAH! TURN MY PAGES, BITCH!
– Andrew

Nieman, you earned the part. Alternates, will you clean the blood off my drum set?
– Terence Fletcher

[Repeated line] Not quite my tempo.
– Terence Fletcher

I was there to push people beyond what’s expected of them. I believe that’s an absolute necessity.
– Terence Fletcher

For the record, Metz wasn’t out of tune. You were, Erickson, but he didn’t know and that’s bad enough.
– Terence Fletcher

You got any friends, Andy?
– Uncle Frank
No.
– Andrew
Oh, why’s that?
– Uncle Frank
I don’t know, I just never really saw the use.
– Andrew
Well, who are you going to play with otherwise? Lennon and McCartney, they were school buddies, am I right?
– Uncle Frank
Charlie Parker didn’t know anybody ’til Jo Jones threw a cymbal at his head.
– Andrew
So that’s your idea of success, huh?
– Uncle Frank
I think being the greatest musician of the 20th century is anybody’s idea of success.
– Andrew
Dying broke and drunk and full of heroin at the age of 34 is not exactly my idea of success.
– Jim
I’d rather die drunk, broke at 34 and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober at 90 and nobody remembered who I was.
– Andrew
Ah, but your friends will remember you, that’s the point.
– Uncle Frank
None of us were friends with Charlie Parker. *That’s* the point.
– Andrew
Travis and Dustin? They have plenty of friends and plenty of purpose.
– Uncle Frank
I’m sure they’ll make great school board presidents someday.
– Andrew
Oh, that’s what this is all about? You think you’re better than us?
– Dustin
You catch on quick. Are you in Model UN?
– Andrew
I got a reply for you, Andrew. You think Carleton football’s a joke? Come play with us.
– Travis
Four words you will never hear from the NFL.
– Andrew
Who wants dessert?
– Aunt Emma

I can still fucking see you, Mini Me!
– Terence Fletcher

And here comes mister gay pride of the Upper West Side himself. Unfortunately, this is not a Bette Midler concert, we will not be serving Cosmopolitans and Baked Alaska, so just play faster than you give fucking hand jobs, will you please?
– Terence Fletcher

That is not your boyfriend’s dick. Do not come early.
– Terence Fletcher

If you want the fucking part, earn it!
– Terence Fletcher

You think I’m fucking stupid? I know it was you.
– Terence Fletcher

I never really had a Charlie Parker. But I tried. I actually fucking tried. And that’s more than most people ever do.
– Terence Fletcher