“Dirty Dancing” quotes
(1987)
Title Dirty Dancing
Year 1987
Director Emile Ardolino
Genre Drama, Romance, Music
Year 1987
Director Emile Ardolino
Genre Drama, Romance, Music
Plot – The Houseman family - father, mother and two girls - go to the East Coast to spend a quiet holiday. Here, the sixteen-years-old Baby Houseman gets a little bored. One evening, while the hotel guests dance, Baby discovers the area designed for the staff, where the personnel perform wild dances. The boss and animator is a handsome young man, Johnny Castle, who works as a dancing-master for the hotel guests with his partner Penny Johnson. The young Baby is fascinated by the warmth and rhythms of those dances. Meanwhile Penny, impregnated by a waiter, decides to have an abortion, but she risks to die because of the unskillful intervention of a swindler. Baby, who already asked his father to lend her $250 to help Penny, still counts on him to save her, because he is a doctor. The two girls become friends without jealousy - for Penny the dancing-master is just a loyal co-worker - because love blossoms between Baby and Johnny. Moreover, Baby replaces Penny quite well in the mambo that the new couple performs in a special number at a hotel. Later Johnny, who is deeply in love with Baby, gets fired because his relationship with the girl gets discovered, but the last day of the holidays Johnny goes back to the hotel to see Baby again and together they perform a wild mambo.
All actors – Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston, Jane Brucker, Kelly Bishop, Lonny Price, Max Cantor, Charles 'Honi' Coles, Neal Jones, 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow, Wayne Knight, Paula Trueman, Alvin Myerovich, Miranda Garrison, Garry Goodrow, Antone Pagan, Thomas Cannold, M.R. Fletcher, Jesus Fuentes, Heather Lea Gerdes, Karen Getz, Andrew Charles Koch, D.A. Pauley, Doriana Sanchez, Jennifer Stahl, Jonathan Barnes, Dwyght Bryan, Tom Drake, John Gotz, Dwayne Malphus, Clifford Watkins, , Stamati Arakas, Emile Ardolino, Darren W. Conrad, Lori Janney, Karen Kaster, Jonathan Reed
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“I carried a watermelon.
[realizes what she just said]
I carried a watermelon?”“- Baby Houseman: 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.”“- 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.”“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!”
“I've been thinkin' about the Domino Effect. Now, if Vietnam falls, what does that mean China's next?”
“- Jake Houseman: Max, our Baby's gonna change the world.
- Max Kellerman: [to Lisa Houseman] And what are you gonna do, missy?
- Baby Houseman: Oh, Lisa's going to decorate it.
- Robbie Gould: She already does.”“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.”
“- 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 Houseman: Monks burning themselves in protest.”“Now, you'll hurt me if you don't trust me, all right?”
“Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn't have given you maracas if He didn't want you to shake 'em.”
“The reason people treat me like I'm nothin' is because I'm nothin'.”
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