Memorable Quotes from Dirty Dancing (1987)
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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Penny: Go back to your playpen, Baby.
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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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Johnny: No, I mean the way he saved her. I mean, I... I could never do anything like that. That was somethin'. The reason people treat me like I'm nothin' is 'cause I'm nothin'.
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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. But cousins, here's a great song from The Four Seasons.
Baby: [narrating] 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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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: Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
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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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Johnny: Now, you'll hurt me if you don't trust me, all right?
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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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Baby: I carried a watermelon.
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Johnny: just put your pickle on everybody's plate college boy and leave the hard stuff to me.
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Lisa Houseman: I've been thinking about the Domino Effect. Now, if Vietnam falls, does that mean China's next?
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Max: You know if it wasn't for this man I would be standing here dead.
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Baby: Have you had many women?
Johnny: What?
[laughs]
Baby: Have you HAD many women?
Johnny: No, No
Baby: [jumps out of bed]
Johnny: Look, you've gotta understand what its like baby, you come from the streets and suddenly your up here, and these women are throwing themselves at ya, and they smell so good, and they really take care of themselves,
[getting dressed]
Johnny: I mean I never knew women could be like that, you know? And their 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 and for a while you think hey they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't care about me, right.
Baby: That's alright, I understand you were just using them that's all
[looks depressed]
Johnny: No, no that's not it that's the thing see baby it wasn't like that, they were using me
[Baby kisses him and they fall back on to the bed]
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Baby: So they FIRED you, because of me!
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Marjorie Houseman: [while watching Baby dance] I think she gets it from me.
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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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Stan: My god it's Cleopatra. I feel like such an asp.
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Johnny: I'm gonna do my kind of dancin' with a great partner, who's not only a terrific dancer; 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.
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Robbie Gould: I didn't spend all summer long toasting 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.
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Baby: You make me sick. Stay away from me, stay away from sister or I'll have you fired
[Baby pours the jug of water on his crotch]
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Johnny: Yeah it takes a real saint to ask Daddy
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Johnny: Don't put your heel down; don't put your heel down
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Johnny: Its not on the one its not the mambo its a feeling a heartbeat
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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 lift, I'm not sure of the turns I'm doing all this to save your ass when what I really want to do is drop you on it
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Johnny: You don't understand the way it is, I mean for somebody like me. Last month I'm eating Jujubes to keep alive, and this month women are stuffing diamonds in my pocket, I'm bouncing on shit and quick as that
[clicks his fingers]
Johnny: I could be down there again.
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Penny: Johnny, what are you doing?
Johnny: Don't worry about Max; I'll tell him your grandma died.
Penny: How many times have you told me never to get mixed up with them?
Johnny: [long silence] I know what I'm doing, Penny.
Penny: You listen to me; you've got to stop it, now.
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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.
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Jake Houseman: Max, our Baby's going to change the world.
Max: [to Lisa] And what are you going to do, missy?
Baby: Oh Lisa's gonna decorate it.
Robbie Gould: I think she already does.
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Lisa Houseman: God, I'm so sick of this rain. Remind me never to take my honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
Marjorie Houseman: So, you go to Acapulco.
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Lisa Houseman: Oh, my God. Look at that! Ma, I should have brought my 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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Lisa Houseman: Where is my beige iridescent lipstick?
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Baby: You were right Johnny, you can't win no matter what you do!
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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.
Jake Houseman: [to Baby] You looked wonderful out there.