Cowboy Bebop (1998–1999)

Beau Billingslea: Jet Black

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• Jet Black : Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

• Spike Spiegel : Hey, Jet, did you know that there are three things that I particularly hate?

  Jet Black : Really?

  Spike Spiegel : Kids... animals... and women with attitudes...

  Jet Black : Oh?

  Spike Spiegel : So tell me, Jet, why do we have all three of them neatly gathered in our ship?

• Jet Black : So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?

  Faye Valentine : Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.

  Jet Black : I see.

  Faye Valentine : Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.

• Spike Spiegel : Uh, listen Jet. You said "bell peppers and beef." There's no beef in here. So you wouldn't really call it "bell peppers and beef," now would you?

  Jet Black : Yes, I would.

  Spike Spiegel : Well, it's *not*!

  Jet Black : It is when you're broke!

• Jet Black : You think it's all right to leave them alone?

  Spike Spiegel : You worried about her?

  Jet Black : I just thought that she might let him go.

  Spike Spiegel : Does she have that much sympathy in her heart?

  Jet Black : Women as insistent as her tend to be the ones who get emotionally swayed by their exes.

  Spike Spiegel : Is that so?

  Jet Black : Women don't work on reason.

• Jet Black : When you and I first met, you told me something. You said that you had died once, that you had seen death. Why can't you just let it go? Forget the past.

  Spike Spiegel : There was a woman, first time I'd found someone who was truly alive. At least, that's what I thought. She was... the part of me I'd lost somewhere along the way, the part that was missing, that I'd been longing for.

• Jet Black : Betrayal may come easily to women, but men live by iron-clad codes of honor.

  Faye Valentine : You really believe that?

  Jet Black : I'm trying to, real hard.

• Jet Black : I started wailing the blues when the doctor whacked my bottom on the day I was born.

• Jet Black : I'm Jet Black, 36 years old. I'm often told I don't look 36, but you shouldn't judge people based on appearances... or on how much hair they have.