The Best 'Django Unchained' Movie Quotes

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Vote up your favorite quotes from 'Django Unchained.'

Django Unchained has some great lines, but what's the best quote from the movie? This film follow the story of one slave enlisted by a bounty hunter for quite an adventure. The western film, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, received numerous honors before it was even released on December 25, 2012. Among the accolades included Oscar nominations for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay. It also won Best Screenplay at the Golden Globe Awards.

In Django Unchained, Christoph Waltz portrays Dr. King Schultz, a German bounty hunter who operates under the guise of a dentist. Dr. Schultz wants to apprehend the Brittle Brothers but he's never seen them to know what they look like. To make his task easier, Schultz seeks out someone who is familiar with the notorious brothers and makes him a deal he cannot refuse.

That person just happens to be a slave named Django (Jamie Foxx). Django's wife was taken by the Candie Brothers some time ago so when Dr. Schultz offers freedom plus the return of his wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), Django does not say no. Together, they journey across America to hunt down the Brittle Brothers and Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), Broomhilda's owner. Samuel L. Jackson co-stars in the film.

Vote for the best Django Unchained quotes below, and for your viewing pleasure, we've also included clips from the movie to bring the lines to life (whenever possible).

  • 1
    44 VOTES

    Curiosity and Attention

    Curiosity and Attention
    Video: YouTube

    Calvin Candie: Gentlemen, you had my curiosity but now you have my attention.

    44 votes
  • 2
    49 VOTES

    I Like the Way You Die, Boy

    I Like the Way You Die, Boy
    Video: YouTube

    Django: I like the way you die, boy.

    49 votes
  • 3
    45 VOTES

    Treat Him Like the White Folks?

    Treat Him Like the White Folks?
    Video: YouTube

    Big Daddy: Django isn't a slave. Django is a free man. You understand? You can't treat him like any of these other n****s around here, cause he ain't like any of these other n****s around here. Ya got it?

    Betina: You wan' I should treat him like white folks?

    Big Daddy: No. That's not what I said.

    Betina: Then I don't know what'cha want, Big Daddy.

    Big Daddy: Yes? I can see that.

    45 votes
  • 4
    35 VOTES

    D-J-A-N-G-O

    D-J-A-N-G-O
    Video: YouTube

    Calvin Candie: What's your name?

    Django: Django, D-J-A-N-G-O, the D is silent.

    35 votes
  • 5
    19 VOTES

    Positive?

    Positive?
    Video: YouTube

    Dr. King Schultz: Positive?

    Django: I dunno.

    Dr. King Schultz: You don't know if you're positive?

    Django: I don't know what positive means.

    Dr. King Schultz: It means you're sure.

    Django: Yes.

    Dr. King Schultz: Yes, what?

    Django: Yes I'm sure it is Ellis Brittle... I'm positive he dead.

    19 votes
  • 6
    12 VOTES

    You Wanna Dress Like That?

    You Wanna Dress Like That?
    Video: YouTube

    Betina: So you're really free?

    Django: Yes

    Betina: You mean, you wanna dress like that?

    12 votes
  • 7
    70 VOTES

    Wearing Bags

    Wearing Bags
    Video: YouTube

    Unnamed Baghead: [raiding party is discussing their bags] Do we have to wear 'em when we ride?

    Big Daddy: Oh, well shitfire! If you don't wear 'em as you ride up, that just defeats the purpose!

    Unnamed Baghead: Well, I can't see in this f***in' thing!

    [takes bag off]

    Unnamed Baghead: I can't breathe in this f***in' thing, and I can't ride in this f***in' thing!

    Willard: Well f**k all y'all! I'm going home! You know, I watched my wife work all day gettin' thirty bags together for you ungrateful sons of b**ches! And all I can hear is criticize, criticize, criticize! From now on, don't ask me or mine for nothin'!

    Big Daddy: Now look. Let's not forget why we're here. We gotta kill a n****r over that hill there! And we gotta make a lesson out of him!

    Bag Head #2: Okay, I'm confused. Are the bags on or off?

    Robert: I think... we all think the bag was a nice idea. But - not pointin' any fingers - they coulda been done better. So, how 'bout, no bags this time - but next time, we do the bags right, and then we go full regalia.

    [all agree]

    Big Daddy: Wait a minute! I didn't say 'no bags'!

    Bag Head #2: But nobody can see.

    Big Daddy: So?

    Bag Head #2: So, it'd be nice to see.

    Big Daddy: Goddammit! This is a raid! I can't see! You can't see! So what? All that matters is can the f***in' horse see? That's a raid!

    70 votes
  • 8
    25 VOTES

    What's Not to Like?

    What's Not to Like?
    Video: YouTube

    Dr. King Schultz: How do you like the bounty hunting business?

    Django: Kill white folks and they pay you for it, what's not to like?

    25 votes
  • 9
    23 VOTES

    Exactly The One I'm Looking For

    Exactly The One I'm Looking For
    Video: YouTube

    Dr. King Schultz: What's your name?

    Django: Django

    Dr. King Schultz: Then you'd exactly the one I'm looking for.

    23 votes
  • 10
    15 VOTES

    Why Don't They Rise Up

    Why Don't They Rise Up
    Video: YouTube

    Dr. King Schultz: [after Calvin Candie brings a box into his dining room and takes a human skull out of it] Who is your little friend?

    Calvin Candie: This is Ben. He's a old Joe that lived around here for a long time. And I do mean a long damn time. Old Ben here took care of my daddy and my daddy's daddy, till he up and keeled over one day. Old Ben took care of me. Growing up the son of a huge plantation owner in Mississippi puts a white man in contact with a whole lot of black faces. I spent my whole life here right here in Candyland, surrounded by black faces. And seeing them every day, day in day out, I only had one question. Why don't they kill us? Now right out there on that porch three times a week for fifty years, old Ben here would shave my daddy with a straight razor. Now if I was old Ben, I would have cut my daddy's goddamn throat, and it wouldn't have taken me no fifty years to do it neither. But he never did. Why not? You see, the science of phrenology is crucial to understanding the separation about two species. In the skull of the African here, the area associated with submissiveness is larger than any human or other sub-human species on planet Earth. If you examine this piece of skull here, you'll notice three distinct dimples. Here, here and here. Now if I was holding a skull of a... of an Isaac Newton or Galileo, these three dimples would be in the area of the skull most associated with creativity. But this is the skull of old Ben, and in the skull of old Ben unburdened by genius, these three dimples exist in the area of the skull most associated with servility.

    15 votes
  • 11
    7 VOTES

    Alexander Dumas

    Alexander Dumas
    Video: YouTube

    Calvin Candie: White cake?

    Dr. King Schultz: I don't go in for sweets, thank you.

    Calvin Candie: Are you brooding 'bout me getting the best of ya, huh?

    Dr. King Schultz: Actually, I was thinking of that poor devil you fed to the dogs today, D'Artagnan. And I was wondering what Dumas would make of all this.

    Calvin Candie: Come again?

    Dr. King Schultz: Alexander Dumas. He wrote The Three Musketeers. I figured you must be an admirer. You named your slave after his novel's lead character. If Alexander Dumas had been there today, I wonder what he would have made of it?

    Calvin Candie: You doubt he'd approve?

    Dr. King Schultz: Yes. His approval would be a dubious proposition at best.

    Calvin Candie: Soft hearted Frenchy?" Dr. King Schultz: "Alexander Dumas is Black.

    7 votes
  • 12
    17 VOTES

    I Need Your Help

    I Need Your Help
    Video: YouTube

    Dr. King Schultz: Do you know what a bounty hunter is?

    Django: You kill people and they give you a reward.

    Dr. King Schultz: That and they are big on that reward… I need your help. I'm looking for the Brittle Brothers however I don't know what they look like, but you do. Don't you?

    Django: They caught my wife and they sold her but I don't know where they took her.

    Dr. King Schultz: That means we visit every plantation until we find them and once the final Brittle Brother lies dead in the dust, I agree to give you your freedom and I'll take you to rescue your wife.

    Django: Where we going?

    17 votes
  • 13
    9 VOTES

    Silver-Tongued Devil

    Silver-Tongued Devil
    Video: YouTube

    Django: Hey there, trouble-maker.
    [Broomhilda faints]
    Dr. King Schultz: You silver-tongued devil you.

    9 votes
  • 14
    6 VOTES

    The 'D' Is Silent, Hillbilly

    The 'D' Is Silent, Hillbilly
    Video: YouTube

    Billy Crash: D-jango, you Black son of a bitch!

    Django: The 'D' is silent, hillbilly.

    6 votes
  • 15
    6 VOTES

    Sheriff Bill Sharp

    Sheriff Bill Sharp
    Video: YouTube

    Dr. King Schultz: My name is Dr. King Schultz, and like yourself, Marshall, I am a servant of the court. The man lying dead in the dirt, who the good people of Daughtrey saw fit to elect as their sheriff, who went by the name of Bill Sharp, is actually a wanted outlaw by the name of Willard Peck, with a price on his head of 200 dollars. Now, that's 200 dollars, dead or alive.

    Marshall Gill Tatum: The hell you say!

    Dr. King Schultz: I'm aware this is probably disconcerting news. But I'm willing to wager this man was elected sheriff sometime in the last 2 years. I know this because 3 years ago, he was rustling cattle from the B.C. Corrigan Cattle Company of Lubbock, Texas. Now this is a warrant, made out by circuit court Judge Henry Allen Laudermilk of Austin, Texas. You're encouraged to wire him. He'll back up who I am, and who your dear departed sheriff was. In other words Marshall, you owe me 200 dollars.

    Django: I'll be damned.

    6 votes
  • 16
    6 VOTES

    A Good Bit of Fun

    A Good Bit of Fun
    Video: YouTube

    Calvin Candie: Gentlemen, come on over. We got us a fight going on that's a good bit of fun.

    6 votes
  • 17
    11 VOTES

    Walkin' in the Moonlight

    Walkin' in the Moonlight
    Video: YouTube

    Django: You better listen to your boss, white boy.

    Billy Crash: Oh, I'ma go walkin' in the moonlight with you.

    Django: You wanna hold my hand?

    11 votes
  • 18
    8 VOTES

    You Gentlemen Have Two Choices

    You Gentlemen Have Two Choices
    Video: YouTube

    Dr. King Schultz: Now as to you poor devils? So as I see it, when it comes to the subject of what to do next, you gentlemen have two choices. One: once I'm gone, you could lift that beast off the remaining Speck, then carry him to the nearest town. Which would be at least 37 miles back the way you came. Or Two: You could unshackle yourselves, take that rifle, put a bullet in his head, bury the two of them deep, and then make your way to a more enlightened area of this country. The choice is yours. Oh, and on the off chance there are any astronomy aficionados amongst you, the North Star is that one. Tata.

    8 votes
  • 19
    7 VOTES

    Southern Hospitality

    Southern Hospitality
    Video: YouTube

    Calvin Candie: Stephen, when you get through showing them to their rooms, go fetch Hildi. Get her cleaned up and smellin' real nice and send her over to Dr. Schultz's room.

    Stephen: Actually, Monsieur Candie sir, there's something I ain't told you about yet.

    Calvin Candie: What?

    Stephen: Uh, Hildi 'in the hot box.

    Calvin Candie: Well what's she doin' there?

    Stephen: What you think she doin' there, in the hot box? She been punished!

    Calvin Candie: Well what did she do?

    Stephen: She run off again.

    Calvin Candie: Jesus Christ, Stephen! How many people run away while I was gone?

    Stephen: Two

    Calvin Candie: Well when did she go?

    Stephen: Last night. They brung her back this morning.

    Calvin Candie: How long she been in the box?" Stephen: "How long you think she been in there? All damn day! And the little bitch got ten more days to be in there.Calvin Candie: Take her out.

    Stephen: Take her out? Why?

    Calvin Candie: Because I said so, that's why! Dr. Schultz is my guest. Hildi is my n*****. Southern hospitality dictates I make her available to him."

    Stephen: "But Monsieur Candie, she run off.

    Calvin Candie: Christ, Stephen! What is the point of having a n***** that speaks German if you can't wheel 'em out when you have a German guest? Now I realize it is an inconvenience! Still, you take her ass out.

    Stephen: Yes sir… Ya'll done heard the man! Get her ass up outta there! Go! Get her over there and get her cleaned up and bring her back over here to, uh, Doctor… What did you say your name was? Shoots?

    Dr. King Schultz: Schultz

    Stephen: Schultz

    7 votes
  • 20
    6 VOTES

    I'm Curious

    I'm Curious
    Video: YouTube

    Calvin Candie: What's your name, boy?

    Dr. King Schultz: His name is Django Freeman.

    Calvin Candie: Hmph, where'd you dig him up?

    Dr. King Schultz: A fortunate turn of events brought Django and myself together.

    Calvin Candie: I've heard tell about you. I heard you been telling everybody that Mandingos ain't damn good ain't nothing that nobody is selling is worth buying. I'm curious, what makes you such a Mandingo expert?

    Django: I'm curious what makes you so curious.

    Butch Pooch: What did you say, boy?

    Calvin Candie: Calm down, Butch. No offense given, none taken.

    Dr. King Schultz: Monsier Candie, I'd appreciate if you'd direct your line of inquires at me.

    Calvin Candie: One… You do not have anything to drink. Can I get you a tasty refreshment?

    Dr. King Schultz: Yes! I'll have a beer.

    Calvin Candie: Wonderful. Roscoe, a beer for the man with the beard and I will have a Polynesian Pearl Diver. Do not spare the rum.

    6 votes
  • 21
    5 VOTES

    They Playing Your Ass

    They Playing Your Ass
    Video: YouTube

    Stephen: They playin your ass for a fool, is what I'm talkin' bout. They ain't here for no muscle bound Jimmie, they here for that girl.

    5 votes
  • 22
    4 VOTES

    A German Story

    A German Story
    Video: YouTube

    Dr. King Schultz: It's a German story. There's always a mountain.

    4 votes
  • 23
    7 VOTES

    Getting Dirty

    Getting Dirty
    Video: YouTube

    Django: You mind telling me what they hell you're doing?

    Dr. King Schultz: I've confirmed Broomhilda's at Candyland.

    Django: You sure it's her?

    Dr. King Schultz: He didn't call her by name but there's a young lady with whip marks on her back and speaks German. Now while it's not wise to assume, this instance, I think it's pretty safe. Point being, don't get so carried away with your retribution. You lose sight of why we're here.

    Django: You think I've lost sight of that?

    Dr. King Schultz: Yes I do! Stop antagonizing Candie.

    Django: I'm not antagonizing, I'm intriguing him.

    Dr. King Schultz: You're yelling abuse at these poor slaves.

    Django: I recall the man who had me kill another man in front of his son and he didn't bat an eye. You remember that?

    Dr. King Schultz: Of course I remember.

    Django: What you said was, that this is my world and in my world you gotta get dirty. So that's what I'm doing. I'm getting dirty.

    7 votes
  • 24
    7 VOTES

    Why Do You Care

    Why Do You Care
    Video: YouTube

    Django: Why you care what happens to me? Why you care if I find my wife?

    Dr. King Schultz: Well frankly, I've never given anybody their freedom before. And now that I have, I feel vaguely responsible for you. Plus, when a German meets a real life Sigfried, that's kind of a big deal. As a German, I'm obliged to help you on your quest to rescue your beloved Broomhilda.

    7 votes
  • 25
    4 VOTES

    You're Scary

    You're Scary
    Video: YouTube

    Stephen: You said you ain't know him.

    Broomhilda: Huh?

    Stephen: I said, 'You said you ain't know him.'

    Broomhilda: I don't.

    Stephen: Yes, you do.

    Broomhilda: Mister Stephen, I don't.

    Stephen: Why is you lying to me?

    Broomhilda: I ain't.

    Stephen: Then why is you cryin'?

    Broomhilda: You scaring me.

    Stephen: Why is I'm scarin' you?

    Broomhilda: Because you're scary.

    4 votes