Brown Sugar (2002)

Sanaa Lathan: Sidney 'Syd' Shaw

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• Dre : It's when you talk like that, that's what makes me think that you're jealous.

  Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : What?

  Dre : Yes. Jealous!

  Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : [throws a cookie on the table]  No wonder you two are married, you're both crazy! Look here, contrary to what you and your wife may think, I don't spend my nights thinkin' about you, okay?

  Dre : Shh! Lower the voice.

  Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : I got a man who's fine, intelligent, successful, and gives it to me on a very, very regular basis and the s**t is the bomb!

  Dre : So! I don't care what -

  Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : Dre I need you to be happy for me. I need you to be there for me, just like you asked of me. So - so I can have tea and eat cucumber sandwiches with the crust cut off!

  [throws more cookies on the table in frustration] 

• Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : [narrating]  So, what is the difference between rap and hip-hop? It's simple. It's like the difference between saying you love somebody and being in love with somebody.

• Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : What just happened was the most amazing, most fulfilling, most exhilarating... 5 minutes I've ever had in my life.

  Dre : 10 minutes.

  Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : 7

  Dre : 9

  Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : Okay, 8, whatever.

• Dre : One minute you talkin' about you-you want things to change and the next minute you talking about you want things to stay the same.

  Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : I do want things to change, I just don't like *how* things have changed. And and and... and I didn't know this is how it would turn out.

  Dre : And that's why we need to look *back*. Okay, 'coz if we look back, then it will make us see things, the mistakes we've made, things that we never knew were there before. And if we just... can *stop*, then maybe we can find that thing that we both know is missing and build on that.

  Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : Are we st... are we still talking about hip-hop?

  Dre : That's all we've ever talked about.

• Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : I'm getting married, you're still married and we just got busy.

• Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : Let's Have Sex Now.

  Kelby Dawson : Yeah. Let's.

• Francine : Look, you need to catch a man but you not dangling a right bait.

  Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : I look fine. You dangle enough for the both of us.

• Sidney 'Syd' Shaw : [narrating]  I don't have to pretend with hip-hop... and hip-hop doesn't have to pretend with me.