Angela Bassett: Tina Turner
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Tina Turner : [Walks up to the hotel counter bruised and bloodied] I need to speak with your manager.
Hotel Clerk : Yes ma'am, right away. George!
Tina Turner : [George turns around] I'm... I'm Tina Turner. My husband and I just had a fight. I'm suppose to open at the Academy tonight. I have 36 cents and a Mobil card, but if you would give me a room, I SWEAR I will pay you back.
[She starts removing her jewelry]
George (the Ramada Inn Manager) : No, no, no, that won't be necessary. Ms. Turner, I'd... I'd be honored, really. We'll take care of you.
Tina Turner : Thank you.
George (the Ramada Inn Manager) : Nick, let's give Ms. Turner a room.
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Ike Turner, Sr. : $750,000 she's gonna cost me. What I got left, I got... I got... I got... I got some clothes, I got some jewelry. Uh, the rest I got tied up in investments. I ain't got nothing else.
[Ike puts on his sunglasses in the courtroom]
Judge : Please instruct your client to remove his sunglasses. This is a courtroom.
Ike Turner, Sr. : Well, hold on, you don't got to instruct me to do nothing.
[Ike removes his sunglasses]
Anna's Lawyer : Your Honor, in order to expedite this matter, my client would like to make an oral motion amending her petition for divorce, revoking any financial claims.
Judge : I want you to be very sure about this. It means you're going to walk out of here with absolutely nothing.
Tina Turner : Except my name. I'll give up all that other stuff, but only if I get to keep my name. I've worked too hard for it, your Honor.
Ike Turner, Sr. : The name is mine! The name got my daddy's blood on it! If she wanna go, she can go wherever she wanna go, but the name belongs to me!
Judge : Mr. Turner!
Ike Turner, Sr. : No, no, no... look here now!
[Bailiff puts his hand on Ike's shoulder]
Ike Turner, Sr. : Hey, hey, hey... get your hand off me, man!
Judge : Mr. Turner...
Ike Turner, Sr. : Now look, she want to go, she can go! That's fine! She can go, but the name stays home!
[Judge bangs the gavel]
Ike Turner, Sr. : The name stays home!
Judge : As Mrs. Turner has decided to drop all claims, I hereby grant her divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. Mr. Turner will retain all publishing rights, royalties, all real property, clothing, jewelry, and all other assets. Mrs. Turner will retain the use of her stage name.
[Judge bangs the gavel]
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Ike Turner, Sr. : Hey, Anna Mae, where you goin'? I need to get some sleep!
Tina Turner : Go straight to hell, Ike!
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Tina Turner : I just believe that anything is possible. You know, anything. Now, it took me a long time to get Ike out of my system. And now that I've done that, I'm ready. I'm ready and I know what I want.
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Tina Turner : [to the audience] You know, every now and then, I think you might like to hear something from us nice and easy. But there's just one thing: we never, ever do nothing nice and easy, we always do it nice and rough. So we're gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy, and then we're gonna do the finish rough. That's the way we do Creedence Clearwater's "Proud Mary".
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Tina Turner : In Buddhism, we do a chant called nam myoho renge kyo and what that signifies is that everything in our life is cause and effect. If there's anything within you that needs to be changed, you do it. You change it.
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Ike Turner, Sr. : What's wrong with you? Talking to me like that?
Ike Turner, Sr. : [pushing her] What you say?
Tina Turner : [at her breaking point] Don't start with me, I ain't in the mood today, alright?
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Ike Turner, Sr. : You thought you was gonna get away from me. You thought a nigga like me was gonna let you get away from me. You can't get away from me. I'm in here. Now you act like you don't even know me.
Tina Turner : Yeah I know you, Ike. I know you real well.
Ike Turner, Sr. : All right then. You know me so well...
Ike Turner, Sr. : [places a gun on her table] Tell me what I'm gonna do now. Tell me, I can't hear you. You ain't got all that mouth now, huh? Talk to me Anna. Talk to me, I can't hear you.
Tina Turner : Is that supposed to scare me, huh?
[Ike is caught off guard]
Tina Turner : Oh yeah. What you gonna do? I don't know, Ike. Do what you wanna do, I don't care. Let me tell you what I'm gonna do. I got a room full of people coming to see me, Ike, you hear? Coming to see me. So what are you going to do, huh? Shoot me? Pistol whip me?
[as Ike remains silent and teary-eyed, Tina leaves]
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Zelma Bullock : Now, Anna Mae, I know I wasn't around. But believe me, you were too young to know what was going on with your daddy and me.
Tina Turner : Did Alline understand? She ain't that much older then me.
Zelma Bullock : Now, don't think you're going to come live in my house and make me feel bad. You're gonna have to pull your own weight, girl. This ain't just some party town, you hear?
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Jackie : [after being hit by Ike for defending Tina] Fuck you, Ike! I'm outta here. You ain't got to hit me but once!
Tina Turner : Jackie, it's alright!
Jackie : It's not alright unless the motherfucker piles on you! If you had any sense, you'd get outta here, too.
Ike Turner, Sr. : [throws Jackie's bag at her] If you had any sense, you'd get the fuck out of here!
Jackie : [to Ike] KISS MY ASS!
[to Tina]
Jackie : You're a dead woman if you stay here!
Ike Turner, Sr. : And don't let me catch you around in my house either! Come on, sit down and eat some cake, Anna Mae.
