Dirty Dancing Movie Quotes
Johnny
Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
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Baby
Me? I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you.
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Johnny
Sorry for the interruption, folks, but I always do the last dance of the season. This year somebody told me not to. So I'm gonna do my kind of dancin' with a great partner, who's not only a terrific dancer, but somebody... who's taught me... that there are people willing to stand up for other people no matter what it costs them. Somebody who's taught me about the kind of person I wanna be. Miss Frances Houseman.
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Penny
Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn't have given you maracas if He didn't want you to shake 'em.
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Johnny
Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.
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[last lines]
Jake Houseman
I know you weren't the one who got Penny in trouble.
Johnny
Yeah.
Jake Houseman
When I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong.
[to Baby]
Jake Houseman
You looked wonderful out there.
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Robbie Gould
[sees Baby comforting Johnny]
Well, it looks like I picked the wrong sister. That's okay, Baby, I went slummin' too.
[Johnny jumps off the porch and starts beating him up]
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Baby
[finding out the Schumacher's were guilty of stealing the wallets]
So then - so then it's all right! I knew it would work out. I knew they'd have to apologize...
Baby
So I did it for nothing. I hurt my family, you lost your job anyway, I did it for *nothing*!
Johnny
No, no, not for nothin', Baby! Nobody has ever done anything like that for me before.
Baby
You were right, Johnny. You can't win no matter what you do!
Johnny
You listen to me. I don't wanna hear that from you. *You* can!
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Johnny
You just put your pickle on everybody's plate, college boy, and leave the hard stuff to me.
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Baby
Oh, yes, as a matter of fact it is. We're supposed to do the show in two days, you won't show me the lifts, I'm not sure of the turns, I'm doing all this to save your ass, what I really want to do is drop you on it!
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Johnny
[talking about Neil]
That little wimp. He wouldn't know a new idea if it hit him in the Pachenga. He wanted some new ideas? I could've *told* him some new ideas!
Baby
Well, why did you let him talk to you that way?
Johnny
What do you mean, and fight the bossman?
Baby
Yeah, tell him your ideas! He's a person like everyone else. I'm sure he'll think they're great.
Johnny
Look, I know these people, Baby. They're all rich and they're mean. They won't listen to me.
Baby
Well, then why not fight harder? *Make* them listen?
Johnny
Because, I need this goddamn job lined up for next summer!
[chuckles scornfully]
Johnny
My dad calls me today, he says - with good news - you know, he says, "Uncle Paul can finally get you in the union."
Baby
Oh, what-what union?
Johnny
The House Painters and Plasterers, local number 179, at your service.
[Baby's father, sister, and Robbie come out of the house next to the trail; Baby pulls Johnny down so they won't see them together]
Lisa Houseman
I've been thinking a lot about the Domino Theory. Now, when Vietnam falls, is China next?
[the trio passes]
Baby
I don't think they saw us.
Johnny
[getting up]
Fight harder, huh? I don't see you fighting so hard, Baby. I don't see you running up to daddy telling him I'm your guy.
Baby
I will. With my father, it's complicated. I *will* tell him, I...
Johnny
I don't believe you, Baby! I don't think that you ever had any intention of telling him. Ever.
[stalks off]
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[first lines]
Radio disc jockey
[on radio]
Hi, everybody, this is your Cousin Brucie. Whoa! Our summer romances are in full bloom, and everybody, but everybody's in love. So cousins, here's a great song from The Four Seasons.
Baby
[voiceover]
That was the summer of 1963 - when everybody called me Baby, and it didn't occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn't wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought I'd never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman's.
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Jake Houseman
Don't you tell me what to see! I see someone in front of me who got his partner in trouble and sent her off to some butcher, while he moved on to an innocent young girl like my daughter!
[silence]
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Johnny
What's your real name, Baby?
Baby
Frances. For the first woman in the Cabinet.
[laughs]
Johnny
Frances. That's a real grown up name.
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Baby
Have you had many women?
Johnny
What?
Baby
Have you *had* many women?
Johnny
Baby, come on.
Baby
Tell me. I wanna know.
Johnny
No, no. Look, you've gotta understand what it's like, Baby. You come from the streets and suddenly you're up here, and these women, they are throwing themselves at ya, and they smell so good, and they really take care of themselves. I mean, I never knew women could be like that, you know? And they're so rich, they're so goddam rich, you think they must know about everything. And they're slipping their room keys in my hands, two and three times day, different women. So, here I think I'm scoring big, right? And for a while, you think, hey, they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't care about me, right?
Baby
That-that's alright, I understand. You were just using them, that's all.
Johnny
No, no that's not it. That's the thing, Baby, see it wasn't like that. They were using me.
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Robbie Gould
I didn't blow a summer hauling toasted bagels just to bail out some little chick who probably balled every guy in the place.
[Baby is pouring water into glasses for him]
Robbie Gould
A little precision please, Baby. Some people count and some people don't.
[brings out a copy of The Fountainhead from his pocket]
Robbie Gould
Read it. I think it's a book you'll enjoy, but make sure you return it; I have notes in the margin.
Baby
You make me sick. Stay away from me, stay away from my sister or I'll have you fired.
[Baby pours the jug of water on his crotch]
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Jake Houseman
[Jake gives Robbie a letter of recommendation for medical school]
Good luck in medical school, son.
Robbie Gould
I wanted to thank you for your help with the Penny situation. I guess we've all gotten into messes.
Jake Houseman
What?
Robbie Gould
I thought Baby told you. Look, I'm not sure. Penny said so, but you know with girls like that. They're liable to pin it... on any guy around.
[Jake snatches the letter back from Robbie]
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Lisa Houseman
Oh, my God. Look at that! Ma, I should have brought those coral shoes. You said I was taking too much!
Marjorie Houseman
Well, sweetheart, you brought ten pairs.
Lisa Houseman
But the coral shoes match that dress!
Jake Houseman
This is not a tragedy. A tragedy is three men trapped in a mine, or police dogs used in Birmingham.
Baby
Monks burning themselves in protest.
Lisa Houseman
Butt out, Baby.
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Johnny
It's not on the one, it's not the mambo. It's a feeling; a heartbeat.
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Stan
You know, I finally met a girl exactly like my mother - dress like her, acts like her - so I brought her home. My Father doesn't like her!
[Stan and the audience start laughing]
Stan
Go figure!
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Jake Houseman
Max, our Baby's gonna change the world.
Max
[to Lisa]
And what are you gonna do, missy?
Baby
Oh, Lisa's going to decorate it.
Robbie Gould
She already does.
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Billy Kostecki
She's knocked up, Baby.
Johnny
Billy!
Johnny
[angrily]
What's he gonna to do about it? Oh, it's *mine*, right? Right away you think it's *mine*.
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Baby
I told you I was telling the truth Daddy. I'm sorry I lied to you. But you lied too. You told me everyone was alike and deserved a fair break. But you meant everyone who was like you. You told me you wanted me to change the world, make it better. But you meant by becoming a lawyer or an economist and marrying someone from Harvard. I'm not proud of myself, but I'm in this family too and you can't keep giving me the silent treatment. There are a lot of things about me that aren't what you thought. But if you love me, you have to love all the things about me. And I love you, and I'm sorry I let you down, I'm so sorry Daddy. But you let me down too.
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Johnny
You don't understand the way it is, I mean for somebody like me. Last month, I'm-I-I'm eating Jujubes to keep alive, this month women are stuffing diamonds in my pockets. I'm bouncing on shit and quick as that I could be down there again.
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Johnny
You wanna hear something crazy? Last night I... I dreamed we were walking along and we met your father. He said, "Come on," and he put his arm around me. Just like he did with Robbie.
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Johnny
No, the-the way he saved her. I-I mean, I-I could never do anything like that. That was somethin'. I mean, the reason people treat me like I'm nothin' is because I'm nothin'.
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Neil Kellerman
I have to say it. I'm known as the catch of the county.
Baby
I'm sure you are.
Neil Kellerman
But last week, I took a girl from Jamie, the lifeguard. And he said to her, right in front of me, "What does he have that I don't have?" And she said, "Two hotels."
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Johnny
Now, you'll hurt me if you don't trust me, all right?
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Lisa Houseman
Where is my beige iridescent lipstick?
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Johnny
Don't put your heel down; don't put your heel down!
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Lisa Houseman
I've decided to go all the way with Robbie.
Baby
Oh, Lisa, no. Not with someone like him.
Lisa Houseman
Do you think if we came back here for a our tenth anniversary, it would be free?
Baby
It-it's just wrong this way. It should be with someone - it should be with someone that you sort of love.
Lisa Houseman
Oh, come on. You don't care about me. You wouldn't care if I humped the entire army... as long as they were on the right side of the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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Johnny
Sure Neil. No problem. We'll end the season with the pachenga.
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Penny
Go back to your playpen, Baby.
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Johnny
Yeah, it takes a real saint to ask Daddy.
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Lisa Houseman
God, I am so sick of this rain. Remind me not to take my honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
Marjorie Houseman
So, you go to Acapulco, it'll be fine.
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Penny
Johnny, what are you doing?
Johnny
Don't worry about Max; I'll tell him your grandmother died, or somethin'.
Penny
How many times have you told me never to get mixed up with them?
Penny
You listen to me; you've gotta stop it, now.
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Billy Kostecki
[Watching Penny and Johnny dance]
You'd think they were a couple, wouldn't ya?
Baby
Well, aren't they?
Billy Kostecki
Naw, not since we were kids.
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Max
[During the song about Kellerman's, just before it's interrupted by Johnny Castle]
You and me, Tito. We've seen it all, eh? Bubbah and Zeda serving the first pasteurized milk to the boarders. Through the war years, when we didn't have any meat. Through the Depression, when we didn't have anything. Lots of changes, though, Max. It's not the changes so much this time. It's that it all seems to be ending. You think kids want to come with their parents and take fox-trot lessons? Trips to Europe, that's what the kids want. Twenty-two countries in three days. It feels like it's all slipping away.
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Stan
My God, it's Cleopatra. I feel like such an asp.
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Baby
Who's that?
[they look over at Johnny and Penny dancing]
Neil Kellerman
Oh, them. They're the dance people. They're here to keep the, uh, guests happy.
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Johnny
Just put your pickles on the platem college boy. Leave the hard stuff to me.
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Max
I want you girls to know if it were not for this man, I'd be standing here dead.
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Jake Houseman
I won't tell your mother about this. Right now, I'm going to bed. And take that stuff off your face before your mother sees you.
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Marjorie Houseman
It's his first real vacation in six years, Max. Take it easy.
Max
Three weeks here, it'll feel like a year.
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Max
[to the Houseman Family]
This Danish is pure protein.
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Neil Kellerman
So is everyone gonna be in the show?
Jake Houseman
No. We're leaving tomorrow so we can miss the weekend traffic.
Marjorie Houseman
But Jake, we're payed up til Sunday.
Lisa Houseman
Daddy, I'm not gonna miss the show. I was suppose to sing in it.
Jake Houseman
I said we're leaving tomorrow.
Marjorie Houseman
Why would you wanna leave so early?
Jake Houseman
It was just a thought. We can stay if you want. So, Lisa, what we're you planning on singing?
Lisa Houseman
I'm not sure. What do you think I should sing, Daddy?
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Marjorie Houseman
Look at all of this leftover food. Are there still starving children in Europe?
Baby
Try Southeast Asia, Ma.
Marjorie Houseman
Right.
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Max
Well, if it isn't the entertainment staff...! Listen, wise-ass, you got your own rooms. Dance with the daughters. Teach 'em the mambo, the cha-cha, anything they paid for. But that's it! That's where it ends.
[Johnny looks down]
Max
No funny business, no conversations, *and keep your hands off!*
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