Bad Boys (1983)

Jim Moody: Gene Daniels

Quotes 

• Gene Daniels : My name is Gene Daniels. Call me Mr. Daniels, I like that, don't call me anything else.

• Gene Daniels : If you think you're hip, you're not. If you were you wouldn't be here.

• Gene Daniels : Hey, Horowitz, stand up, man. You read this to the class.

  [hands Horowitz a newspaper article] 

  Horowitz : Youth killed in robbery attempt. A youth died Saturday from gunshot wounds received in an attempted holdup of a liquor store. Police said Warren Jerome of Chicago was shot twice in the abdomen by the proprietor of the High Jay liquor store on Kimball Avenue, after brandishing a pistol and demanding money. Jerome died undergoing surgery at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Hospital.

  Horowitz : [looking up at Mr. Daniels]  So?

  Inmate #1 : So what? Who the fuck is Warren Jerome?

  Inmate # 2 : Who the fuck cares?

  Inmate # 3 : Really. Who the fuck cares?

  Viking Lofgren : Shut up!

  [Class falls silent] 

  Gene Daniels : Yeah, Viking, tell them who Warren Jerome was.

  Viking Lofgren : That was Tweety, you assholes.

  [the other inmates are speechless] 

• Gene Daniels : [inmates begin laughing in class because others demonstrate poor reading skills]  Hey, look, this is nothing to laugh at. Now, maybe if some of you could read, you wouldn't be in here. You ever think about that?

  Gene Daniels : Look, you think of yourself as a moron, you can't feel that good about yourself, now, can you?

  Gene Daniels : I just got back the results of that literacy test you took, that reading test. You should be in the third grade.