- [last lines]
- Tony Manero: Do you know what I wanna do? You know what I wanna do?
- Jackie: What?
- Tony Manero: Strut.
- Tony Manero: You hear the way she talks? It's so intelligent, like I love it.
- Jackie: An accent doesn't make someone intelligent, Tony. If it did, you'd be Einstein.
- Carl: Is everything alright?
- Tony Manero: [defensive] Everything's fine, she's in good hands.
- Carl: Hey, what are you Allstate, pal?
- Tony Manero: Yeah, you want disability?
- Laura: Take your bloody hands off me! Don't you ever touch me again. Who do you think you're dealing with? Some little groupie that jumps when you call? Is that who you think I am? We met. I liked you. We made it. What do you think it was, true love? And you think I used you. What about you using me? Everybody uses everybody. Don't they?
- Tony Manero: Oh wow, this is a flash I can't
- [shocked, smiling]
- Tony Manero: I've never been asked to leave before.
- Laura: Oh, don't take it personally.
- Tony Manero: Well I've got to, there's nobody else here in the room!
- Tony Manero: I don't believe it! Did you see the way you said goodnight to him?
- Jackie: [laughing] Oh god, how did I say it?
- Tony Manero: It was sweet, it was like syrup. I-I-I had a cavity just listening to it.
- Mrs. Manero: Tony, why did you come here today?
- Tony Manero: I don't know, I got a lotta things on my mind.
- Mrs. Manero: Like what?
- Tony Manero: Like the way I acted around here, the way I treated everybody. I was very hard on you.
- [he pauses, not sure what to say]
- Tony Manero: I just - I just want you to know that's not me, alright? That wasn't me.
- Mrs. Manero: [she doesn't understand] What, are you kiddin' me?
- Tony Manero: No I'm apologizing to you.
- Mrs. Manero: Apologizing for what? What, that wasn't the real you back then?
- Tony Manero: Yeah... Look I just had a lotta attitude and I didn't like it.
- Mrs. Manero: [exhales] I don't believe this.
- Tony Manero: [getting mad] Well believe it!
- Mrs. Manero: Well I don't believe it, now don't get fresh with me! This - this attitude you're talkin' about: that's what got you outta this damn neighbourhood. So don't apologize, you don't have to apologize to anybody, because you must've been doing something right.
- Jesse: You wanna dance? You follow my rules! This is not a democracy! You know, you're not exactly the greatest dancer ever to hit Broadway!
- Tony Manero: I didn't think you was the musician type, I-I-I never thought that.
- Jackie: Oh come on Tony, you know he plays rhythm guitar at the club...
- Tony Manero: [cutting her off] That guy plays rhythm guitar? Oh, that's the worst! That's the absolute worst. Everybody in the world you knows you can't trust a guy who plays rhythm guitar.
- Jackie: [laughing] Oh god...
- Tony Manero: Look, underneath them curls is a pervert, I can feel it.
- Laura: [To Tony, after he protested that they had a relationship] Guys like you aren't relationships, they're exercise.
- Tony Manero: Last time I came over, I almost got brain damaged. You guys party too hard; you ought to be a tag team.
- Jackie: Look, if it happens, good. If it doesn't, it's not gonna bother me.
- Tony Manero: How could you think that way?
- Jackie: You know a woman's career as a dancer is half as long as a man's. So that means I have half as many chances as you do of making it. Right? I've gotta be real with myself.
- Laura: What did you do that for? You nearly broke my face with this door. I didn't even give you my best come-ons, and you try to mangle my face.
- Tony Manero: Well Jimmy, you see...
- Laura: Tony.
- Tony Manero: [huffy] Uh, whatever. You seem to take pleasure in treating women as if they were incredibly stupid.
- Laura: Hey look if you're mad at me, I apologize for that alright, I thought I was being sort of charming. I mean you did try to damage my head. But, look the thing is that I amazingly respect your dancing talent, alright, and I respect your womanhood. I didn't always respect womanhood, but since I moved into Manhattan I got this mature outlook on life. I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't curse. Anyway, look if you're still interested, I would like to take you out and maybe we could go someplace, relax, have a drink, maybe have some dinner and uh...
- [he notes the change in her demeanour. He smiles trying to lighten the mood]
- Laura: We got to go someplace informal because my suits are all being pressed.
- Tony Manero: [peering through her door] I just wanted to tell you, I think you're an incredible dancer.
- Laura: [smiling, then turning away] Thank you very much.
- Tony Manero: I'm a friend of Jackie Cole's, I'm Tony Manero.
- Laura: [smiling, disinterested] It's important to have friends.
- Tony Manero: [opening the door, trying to be suave] Yeah I was just saying that this morning over breakfast.
- Tony Manero: [motioning to Jackie, who leans back onto stage] I just wanted to tell you, if I don't see you again you got beautiful legs.
- Jesse: [to the dancers] You gotta improvise...
- Jackie: [giggling, to Tony] So do you.
- Jesse: [to Jackie] Listen up! If you're finished dancing, move off stage!
- Tony Manero: [whispering to Jackie] You're always causin' trouble, now get outta here.
- Fatima: Tony, come on you're late!
- Tony Manero: Oh, Fatima...
- Fatima: Why are you late?
- Tony Manero: [smart-alecky] Well my Rolls got towed away.
- Fatima: [annoyed] Don't play, we've got people here.
- Tony Manero: [charming] Fatima, if I gave a million dollars would you still be mad at me?
- Fatima: Sure.
- Tony Manero: [smirking incredulously] You would? Still? That's a lovely dress you got on, I can see the
- [motioning to her cleavage]
- Tony Manero: mmm, sexy.
- [She's unimpressed. Tony gives up]
- Tony Manero: . Fatima, nothing's workin' today, here, here's a quater
- [hands her the coin]
- Tony Manero: There's the down payment on that million dollars.
- Fatima: Think I won't keep it? I will keep it.
- [She walks away]
- Tony Manero: [smirking] I know you will take it.
- Tony Manero: I got a job on Broadway.
- Mrs. Manero: You got a job on Broadway? Doing what?
- Tony Manero: Dancing! Don't you remember? I dance.
- Mrs. Manero: Hey, no nudity, I hope. Tony, keep your clothes on. You hear me! You hear me?
- Jackie: Come on, Tony. Don't play this competition thing with me.
- Tony Manero: Oh, competition. Just because you're in a show and I'm not. That's a competition thing.
- Jackie: Yeah.
- Tony Manero: That ain't competition.
- Jackie: Well, what is it?
- Tony Manero: Envy.
- Fred: Looks like some of your groupie friends are here tonight.
- Tony Manero: Who?
- Fred: Those "things," those friends of yours.
- Tony Manero: Them? They're acquaintances.
- Fred: So how about sharin' the wealth?
- Tony Manero: What am I, your booking agent, or what?
- Fred: So you don't wanna share? Who cares? I don't need your hand-me-downs anyway.
- Tony Manero: Come on. We're dancin', you love it. Okay, once again. Five, six, seven, eight! Look in the mirror at yourselves. You got attitude, you got strength. You got - attitude. Come on. Molly, watch your line. Be proud. You're dancers! You love dancin'! That's it. We got potential here. We got real potential.
- Tony Manero: In case you don't know this, I used to be pretty incredible myself when I lived in Brooklyn.
- Laura: Really? What happened?
- Tony Manero: I moved to Manhattan.
- Tony Manero: I'd like to get together with you and maybe talk some time. Might that be possible?
- Laura: About what?
- Tony Manero: About how incredible you are.
- Laura: Thank you. But I do already know that.
- Tony Manero: If you appreciate me and I appreciate you, how about let's gettin' together and we could appreciate each other?
- Laura: Appreciate?
- Tony Manero: Yeah, like for many hours.
- Tony Manero: Well, if I don't see you anymore, nice meeting you, and nice being insulted by you.
- Laura: My pleasure.
- Jackie: Look, if you're hot over somebody, I don't want to always hear about it.
- Tony Manero: I just respect her dancin', that's all!
- Jackie: [sarcastically] Yeah.
- Jesse: What we're having here is a conceptual interpretation problem. Which is easy to overcome if you just forget the fact that you're dancers working for a couple of bucks! You're translators of body language. That's all dancing is, it's body language. So don't waste my time going through the motions of emotions. You gotta *feel* what the hell you're doing here.
- Jackie: [singing] You pulled it out, From under me, You bring me love, Now can't you see, You pulled it out, From under me...
- Tony Manero: When you dance, oh, man! I - I could watch you for hours, really! I mean, it's like watchin' smoke move or somethin'.
- Laura: I know.
- Tony Manero: What can I say?
- Jackie: No. No, you don't have to say anything.
- Tony Manero: But now, don't say that. Because when you say that, I know that you want me to say somethin'.
- Jackie: [singing] Watchin' all our dreams, Start to fade, Fadin' away, A moment gone, Is gone forever...
- Jackie: I'll see you later.
- Tony Manero: Don't go talkin' to strangers, now.
- Jackie: Tony, nobody's stranger than you are.
- Tony Manero: Why did we even start this thing up, huh?
- Laura: Start - look, you came to me, remember?
- Tony Manero: You didn't do nothin', right? It was just me.
- Laura: Whatever.
- Tony Manero: You know, I bought you a ticket for the show. Twenty-six bucks.
- Mrs. Manero: [impressed] Ooh.
- Tony Manero: I'm a hotshot now.
- Tony Manero: I know I treat you bad and I got terrible manners; but the people I grew up with had terrible manners. After a while, you gotta know some of this rubs off on ya. Look, I'm tellin' you that there's a gentleman inside there that is dyin' to get out.
- Tony Manero: So what you're sayin' is, I've always been this bastard, but it's all right, 'cause, like, it comes natural to me?
- Mrs. Manero: Yeah, somethin' like that, yeah.
- Tony Manero: Yeah?
- Mrs. Manero: Yeah. Yeah. Double yeah.
- Jesse: If you had half a brain in that thick skull of yours, you'd stop worrying about trying to change other people - and start worrying about changing yourself!
- Jesse: When you step in front of that audience tonight, just remember: You're not one of them. You dance for them. Don't dance for yourself, Tony.
- Tony Manero: I know, and I want you to know, that I coulda never done this tonight without knowin' you.
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