“American Pop” quotes

(1981)
Movie American Pop
Title American Pop
Year 1981
Director Ralph Bakshi
Genre Drama, Music, Animation
All actors – Ron Thompson, Mews Small, Jerry Holland, Lisa Jane Persky, Jeffrey Lippa, Roz Kelly, Frank DeKova, Rick Singer, Elsa Raven, Ben Frommer, Amy Levitt, Leonard Stone
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  • “- The Blonde: Are you crazy?
    - Tony: Yeah, I'm crazy. I'm crazy in love with your blue eyes... and your corn-silked hair. Your corn-silked hair. I'll never eat corn again without thinkin' about you. Canned corn, candy corn, popcorn, Crackerjacks! You're the prize in my box! And my box is this country. It's all tinfoil on the outside. Corn and...” (continue)
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    Lynda Wiesmeier - The Blonde
    Ron Thompson - Tony
  • “- Musician: You got the coke, daddy-o?
    - Pete: What do I look like, man? A soda fountain?
    - Musician: Hey, what else you got there?
    - Pete: Songs.
    - Musician: You scorin' songs now too?
    - Pete: Givin' 'em away, a song an ounce.
    - Musician: By who?
    - Pete: Me!
    - Musician: You can keep the songs, man.
    - Pete: I will keep the coke too!”

    Ron Thompson - Pete
    [Tag:drugs, music]
  • “- Palumbo: Don't you think it's time for a wedding?
    - Zalmie: How can I ask her? I don't have a cent.
    - Palumbo: You should have thought of that before you got her pregnant.
    - Zalmie: Who thinks at a time like that?”

    Ben Frommer - Palumbo
    Jeffrey Lippa - Zalmie
  • “- Zalmie: Hey, Louie. I just seen the most beautiful thing I ever seen in the whole world.
    - Louie: Some pre-Prohibition booze, huh?
    - Zalmie: No. I seen the stripper gettin' dressed.
    - Louie: A stripper gettin' dressed ain't beautiful unless she's ugly, to begin with.”

    Jeffrey Lippa - Zalmie
    Jerry Holland - Louie
    [Tag:nudity, ugliness]
  • “- Man: How do you feel?
    - Tony: Like a fuckin' M&M: dig my thin candy shell.”

    Ron Thompson - Tony
    [Tag:feeling, wound]
  • “- Man: How come my dishes are dirty?
    - Tony: Dirty?
    - Man: Dirty.
    - Tony: Well, them poor dumb little bastards. They never learned the power of positive thought.”

    Ron Thompson - Tony
  • “- Zalmie: I'm 17 years-old. When's my voice gonna change already?
    - Louie: It's changin'. It's changin'.
    - Zalmie: I know it's changin'. When's it gonna change for good?
    - Louie: What's your rush?
    - Zalmie: I don't wanna be a horse's ass forever.”

    Jeffrey Lippa - Zalmie
    Jerry Holland - Louie
    [Tag:growth, voice]
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