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Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller, and Jack Black in Tropic Thunder (2008)

Jack Black: Jeff Portnoy - Hot LZ

Tropic Thunder

Jack Black credited as playing...

Jeff Portnoy - Hot LZ

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  • [Jeff, Kirk, and Kevin have just learned Alpa is gay]
  • Jeff Portnoy: [Tied to a tree and going through cocaine withdrawals] Alpa, if you untie me, I will literally suck your dick, right now.
  • Alpa Chino: Man, I told you for the last time, I love tha pussy!
  • Jeff Portnoy: I'll cradle the balls, stroke the shaft, work the pipe, and swallow the gravy. Get it over here, buddy. Let's do this.
  • Jeff Portnoy: Hey, Radar. Elvins.
  • Kevin Sandusky: It's Kevin.
  • Jeff Portnoy: Kev - whatever the fuck, come over here. I didn't tell you, but Fatties Fart 3 is coming down the pike and there's a role in there for you if you come over and untie me.
  • Kevin Sandusky: Jeff, you're just going to have to tough it out.
  • Jeff Portnoy: Your mother's a cankerous whore!
  • Kevin Sandusky: Jesus, man!
  • Jeff Portnoy: Hey, man, remember way back when I said your mother was a cankerous whore? I'm sorry, man. I did not mean that. She's not.
  • Kirk Lazarus: You gonna focus up now, motherfucker and say it! "It's me, Tugg!"
  • Tugg Speedman: It's Me Tugg.
  • Kirk Lazarus: That's right! Now, Tugg who?
  • Tugg Speedman: Tugg who? I don't know. Who are you?
  • Kirk Lazarus: Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
  • Kevin Sandusky: What?
  • Kirk Lazarus: You a dude that don't know what dude he is!
  • Tugg Speedman: Or are you a dude who has no idea what dude he is and claims to know what dude he is...
  • Jeff Portnoy: What the fuck are you guys talking about?
  • Tugg Speedman: ...by playing other dudes.
  • Kirk Lazarus: I know what dude I am!
  • Tugg Speedman: You're scared.
  • Kirk Lazarus: I ain't scared. Scared of what?
  • Tugg Speedman: Or scared of who?
  • Kirk Lazarus: Scared of who!
  • Kevin Sandusky: Come on guys. We really need to go!
  • Tugg Speedman: Scared of you!
  • Jeff Portnoy: So, what's the plan, man? You gonna talk Vietnamese to those dudes?
  • Kirk Lazarus: No, no. Mandarin Chinese. What I can tell, it's what they're speaking down there.
  • Jeff Portnoy: How the hell do you know Chinese?
  • Kirk Lazarus: Land of Silk and Money with Gong Li. Second Globe, third Oscar. I prepped for that one by working in a Beijing textile factory for eight months.
  • Alpa Chino: Yeah... but those dudes was trained soldiers.
  • Kirk Lazarus: [cocks unloaded pistol] Yeah! And we trained actors, mothafucka! Time to man up. And I ain't gonna sugarcoat. Some of us might not even make it back.
  • Jeff Portnoy: What do you mean? Like, not on the same flight?
  • Jeff Portnoy: [to Four Leaf] You grew hands?
  • Jeff Portnoy: [shoves drugs in two guards' faces and they drop to the ground] Let's move! We only have 16 hours before they wake up!
  • Kevin Sandusky: [Kevin walks up to Jeff and causes him to spill his heroin] Hey Jeff what are you doin?
  • Jeff Portnoy: Fuckin'. Nothing man I'm eating jelly beans.
  • Kevin Sandusky: Whoa jelly beans can I have...
  • Jeff Portnoy: No you can't have any fuckin' jelly beans! You think you're the only one who gets sick when he doesn't get his jelly beans? Boundaries man...
  • Jeff Portnoy: [after Jeff catches the bat that stole his heroin] Hahaha! Now you're dead! You OD'ed!
  • [he takes a bite out of the bat]
  • Jeff Portnoy: Aaaagghh! Fucking hell!
  • Alpa Chino: What the hell? Jeff, that was a BAT, man!
  • Jeff Portnoy: I don't have any more... jellybeans.
  • Jeff Portnoy: [heading towards an ox] I need to bite its hide... and wear its stomach like a unitard.
  • Kirk Lazarus: Ain't nobody doing nothing to no one or body! Now, Mr. Portnoy is feeling a little flu-ish, don't wanna walk, put him up on that cloven-hoof animal!
  • Jeff Portnoy: [after he and his co stars are left alone with Damien in the jungle] This is bullshit! I gotta at least call my fucking assistant.
  • [Damien slaps Jeff several times]
  • Jeff Portnoy: Ow! Fucking! Jesus! Dude!
  • Damien Cockburn: You're sitting on a nest of hostile enemy V.C. Congratulations, Fats! You just got us all killed.
  • Tugg Speedman: You tell the world what happened here.
  • Kirk Lazarus: What happened here?
  • Tugg Speedman: I don't know, but you need to tell them.
  • [Tugg turns around and walks back over the bridge]
  • Jeff Portnoy: Where is he going? We're gonna fucking die!
  • Four Leaf Tayback: Laz, come on! He joined the circus. Let's go!
  • Kirk Lazarus: You've got hands? Fuck, you've got hands?
  • Jeff Portnoy: Let me tell you something. A lot of people are disrespecting me. They say that the movie's just about farts. It's about family, and f...
  • [swear word gets bleeped]
  • Jeff Portnoy: ... you! You can't do what I do.
  • Jeff Portnoy: I don't wanna die like Hendrix!
  • Kirk Lazarus: I know who I am! I'm a dude playing a dude disgused as another dude!
  • Kevin Sandusky: What?
  • Kirk Lazarus: You're a dude that don't know what dude he is!
  • Tugg Speedman: Or are you a dude who has no idea what dude he is and claims to know what dude he is...
  • Jeff Portnoy: What the fuck are you guys talking about?
  • Tugg Speedman: - by playing other dudes?
  • Jeff Portnoy: Listen you cherry fuck, you call in that snake'n nape and get us some boomboom now!
  • Jeff Portnoy: [after catching the bat that stole his drugs] Ha! You O-Ded!
  • Kevin Sandusky: [to Jeff] I got a baaaad feeling on this one there, Fats.
  • Jeff Portnoy: [as Fats] Our asses don't get fragged in this bullshit valley, first thing I'm doin' is payin' my two bucks so I can watch Brooklyn bust his cherry on a sweet little mama son's dinky-down poon-tang!
  • Kevin Sandusky: [Jeff staring at heroin] Jeff! Don't!
  • Jeff Portnoy: Doesn't matter what I do. I'll always be a screw-up no one will ever respect me.
  • Kevin Sandusky: That is not true, you're not screw-up you make so many people laugh.
  • Jeff Portnoy: They only laugh at my farts.
  • Kevin Sandusky: Jeff, we really need to go now!
  • Jeff Portnoy: This is all I deserve.
  • [Jeff grabs the pile heroin]
  • Jeff Portnoy: Let's move, we only have sixteen hours before they wake up!

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