The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"King Kong ain't got shit on me"
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- Nominees recited: 'King Kong ain't got shit on me', noted as an ad lib, 'man the fuck up', 'finish that shit', 'all that jelly no toast', 'it ain't checkers' and about a hundred others; it has got to be the King Kong one.
- The 'I'm the police, I run shit here, you just live here' speech is recited through to the King Kong line; a Ringer column by Shea covered the whole speech; the ad-lib is admired as pushing a scene that was not going far enough, and 'I'm the zigzag man' from the car is a good random one among many great Denzel pop-offs.
- In the appended interview excerpt, the actor reports people throwing 'Jake, you got the money, Jake?' and 'King Kong ain't got nothing on me' at him pretty much daily, putting it in his top three.