Antwone Fisher (2002)

Derek Luke: Antwone Fisher

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• Antwone Fisher : It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.

• Jerome Davenport : "Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone / Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own"

  Antwone Fisher : "Who will cry for the little boy, he cried himself to sleep / Who will cry for the little boy, who never had it for keeps / Who will cry for the little boy, who walked on burning sands / Who will cry for the little boy, the boy inside a man / Who will cry for the little boy, who knew well hurt and pain / Who will cry for the little boy, who died and died again / Who will cry for the little boy, a good boy he tried to be / Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me"

  Jerome Davenport : Who will cry for the little boy Antwoine?

  Antwone Fisher : I will, I always do.

• Jerome Davenport : "Regard without ill-will despite an offense." That's Webster's definition of forgiveness.

  Antwone Fisher : Why do I have to forgive?

  Jerome Davenport : So you can get on with your life.

• Jerome Davenport : [last "question"]  Are you hungry, sailor?

  Antwone Fisher : [last "conversation starter"]  I could eat, sir.

• Antwone Fisher : Where's your wife?

  Jerome Davenport : She couldn't make it. Sends along her congratulations. A small gift for you.

  [hands Antwone a book] 

  Antwone Fisher : [reads book cover]  The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Thank you sir.

  Jerome Davenport : You're welcome.

• [Antwone's all-purpose conversation starter] 

  Antwone Fisher : I could eat.

• Jerome Davenport : Where'd you spend your childhood?

  Antwone Fisher : Cleveland.

  Jerome Davenport : Parents still live there?

  Antwone Fisher : I never had any parents.

  Jerome Davenport : They deceased?

  Antwone Fisher : I never - I never had parents.

  Jerome Davenport : That would make you a medical miracle, Seaman Fisher. Where you from?

  Antwone Fisher : I'm from under a rock.

  [pause] 

  Jerome Davenport : Okay!