“Can't Stop the Music” quotes
(1980)
Title Can't Stop the Music
Year 1980
Director Nancy Walker
Genre Comedy, Musical, Biography
Year 1980
Director Nancy Walker
Genre Comedy, Musical, Biography
Plot – Jacques Morali works in a record store in Greenwich Village, but he leaves the job to accomplish his dream to be a composer together with Samantha Simpson, a famous model. They select some aspiring singers and record an audition. Despite many difficulties, in the end they have success as the famous Village People.
All actors – Ray Simpson, David Hodo, Felipe Rose, Randy Jones, Glenn Hughes, Alex Briley, Valerie Perrine, Caitlyn Jenner, Steve Guttenberg, Paul Sand, Tammy Grimes, June Havoc
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“- Benny Murray: Nice ta meetcha' Miss Edwards...
- Samantha: Simpson.
- Benny Murray: Right. I've seen ya plastered all over New York, ya know?
- Samantha: Well, don't spread it around.”“- Jack Morell: Ya see, sir, my father is Jewish and my mom, she's Italian Catholic, so, got all the bases covered. Speaking of bases, when the other kids were following the baseball charts I was following the pop charts...
- Steve Waits: I think I've heard that before. Why don't you save that for the liner notes on the album.”“- Samantha: Hey Felipe, how are you feeling?
- Village People: Indian: C... C minus.
Samantha: What's the matter?
- Village People: Indian: I had to leave my feathers to be oiled. They gave me this one to wear, and it doesn't even fit right.”“Lulu, you're crazy.”
“I worked with David Merrick... on Broadway. I know about contracts.”
“Corporate thinking sucks.”
“I adore San Francisco! My favorite ex-husband lives there.”
“- Ron White: Mother! What are you doing here?
- Jack Morell: Mother?
- Samantha: Mother?
- Felipe: That's your mother?
- Samantha: Gee, she looks better than I do.”- Lulu Brecht: Oh, the Indian is hot. I go for exotic types, especially when they're half-naked.
- Samantha: Lulu!
- Lulu Brecht: You tell him I'll make up for all the indignities they suffered in "Roots".“- Lulu Brecht: Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time company comes.
- Samantha: Tacky.”“There is magic in the world.”
“- Samantha: I should have know that you could sing. But when you see someone everyday, you just don't know what they have. I mean, counting out exercise is sort of singing, right?
- Village People: Cowboy: Yeah, I think it is.”“- Village People: Leatherman: I'm from the Bronx. My name's Glenn Hughes.
- Samantha: What do you do, Glenn?
- Village People: Leatherman: I'm a toll collector at the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.
- Norma White: Do all toll collectors look like that?
- Village People: Leatherman: Just the hot ones.”“Anyone who could swallow two Snowballs and a Ding Dong shouldn't have any trouble with pride.”
“The 70s are dead and gone. The 80s are going to be something wonderfully new and different, and so am I.”
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