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Nick: Don't you understand? When you give up your dream, you die.
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Frank Szabo: You girls eat like pigs. What happened to the diet?
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Pete: Number 174. 631503.
Nick: Pete, I don't want her zip code.
Pete: It's her Social Security number, asshole. She works for you.
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Nick: What was he before he was a dog?
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Nick: When I was a kid all I wanted was to be able to afford to eat in restaurants like this.
Alex Owens: Were you poor?
Nick: I was so poor I had hand-me-down lunches.
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Nick: I'll bring him a doggy bag if you'll have dinner with me.
Alex Owens: I told you, I don't think it's a good idea to go out with the boss.
Nick: OK. Have it your way. You're fired. I'll pick you up tomorrow at eight.
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Alex Owens: You call that dancing, rolling on the floor on your back?
Jeanie Szabo: Yes! so what, I make good money!
Alex Owens: Look at you! You call that dancing?
Jeanie Szabo: Yes!
Alex Owens: [Takes money, out of Jeanie's panties, and throws it on the wet ground in the rain] What's this shit? huh?
Jeanie Szabo: It's Mine!
[sobs]
Jeanie Szabo: Why'd you come, here?
Alex Owens: Because, you're my friend. Jerk.
[console's Jeanie, after their argument]
Jeanie Szabo: [Sobbing] I'm cold.
Alex Owens: So, am I.
[Jeanie continues crying]
Alex Owens: Come on, it's okay.
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Alex Owens: You like phone booths? You probably just like doing it in a bed, right?
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Johnny C.: Listen, come see my club. I just put this new P.A. system in - in the floor. Christ, its all lit up. Right where you're gonna dance. I just want you to see what ya gonna call home.
Alex Owens: Did you know that the smallest penis ever measured was 1.1 inches?
Johnny C.: You are some pair of cunts, you know that?
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Johnny C.: See you later Izod.
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Richie: [to himself] Hi. I'm Richie Blazik. Hi. I'm Richie Blazik. Did you hear about the Polack bank robber? He tied up the safe, blew the guard. Tied up the safe, blew the guard. Tied up the safe and blew the guard.
Jake Mawby: Hey, kid! Come here. Come here! What's the matter?
Richie: I'm nervous, Jake.
Jake Mawby: Oh.
[punches him in the gut]
Jake Mawby: Now you ain't nervous anymore! Now you're pissed off.
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[first lines]
Nick: l'll tell you what. l'll give you the Cowboys and three.
Pete: Three and a half.
Nick: Take three, be happy.
Pete: Three and a half. l'm ecstatic.
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[last lines]
Alex Owens: Can I start again?
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Jeanie Szabo: One cheese, medium. Fries. Two plain, rare. Tomato and onion. One pastrami on kaiser. Mayo, no mustard.
Richie: What's a pimple on a Polock's ass?
Jeanie Szabo: I need that BLT on rye, Richie.
Richie: A brain tumor.
[laughs]
Jeanie Szabo: Richie...
Richie: What's this?
[sticks his tongue out]
Jeanie Szabo: Come on, Richie.
Richie: A lesbian with a hard on!
[laughs]
Richie: I'm terrific, huh? You can tell me. I can take it. I'm terrific. Right?
Jeanie Szabo: Mayo, no mustard.
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Nick: You're Alex.
Alex Owens: I know.
Nick: I'm Nick Hurley.
Alex Owens: Really? I've seen your name on my paychecks.
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Nick: So, what's a dancer doing working as a welder?
Alex Owens: A girl's got to make a living.
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Alex Owens: [to her dog] So, did you get laid today?
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Nick: How about dinner?
Alex Owens: I can't. I don't have dinner with the boss.
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Hanna Long: Dreaming is wonderful; but, it won't get you closer to what you want!
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Hanna Long: Alexandra, you are 18 years old. Do it now! Do it.
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Alex Owens: Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It's been two weeks since my last confession. I'm doing okay. Sort of. I've been thinking about sex a lot. But, you can't help thinking about sex, right? Well, you probably can.
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Johnny C.: Six beautiful girls! All nude! Hi, baby. How you doin'? Five dollars! Right this way! Right here! All nude! All the time! All nude! All the time! That's right! - Cecil, look at you. Why don't you buy some threads? I'm running a class act here. You look like a one-man slum. - All nude! All the time! Right here! Live, beautiful girls! Six beautiful girls! Right here! Live! Five dollars! Right this way!
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Richie: Hey, did you hear about the Polock who locked his keys in the car? He had to use a coat hanger to get his family out.
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Johnny C.: Hey, Jeanie, you still parkin' that cook?
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[repeated lines]
Tina Tech: He didn't call.
Alex Owens: He'll call!
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Alex Owens: You know, she's really good. You ought to see her.
Frank Szabo: Yeah? She's gonna fall on her ass.
Rosemary Szabo: She's got a tough ass.
Jeanie Szabo: Yeah, I got a tough ass!
Frank Szabo: It's not her ass I'm worried about.
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Richie: Did you hear about the Polock that died drinking milk? The cow fell on him.
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Richie: There was a Polish terrorist. You know, they sent him to blow up a car and he burned his lips on the exhaust pipe.
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Richie: You know, one of these days I'm gonna be like, you know, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin. Until that day comes...
Alex Owens: You'll just keep stealing all their material.
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Alex Owens: My father, he loves music. This one time, he took us all to the symphony. My whole family. It was supposed to be this really big deal. At first I didn't like if very much. I mean, there's nothing really to do with your feet and there's nothing really to look at. It's boring! And I was ready to nod out or something. He said to me, "If you close your eyes, you could see the music." You can, too. Did you ever try? See the music? Come on, try. Close your eyes. Well?
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Nick: Do that again.
Alex Owens: What?
Nick: That dance step you just did.
Alex Owens: I can't. I was just fooling around. I'm not a dancer like that.
Nick: What do you mean?
Alex Owens: I never studied before. I mean, I read books and stuff and I watch; but, I've never taken dance classes. I don't know. There's just all those dancers who want to be watching each other and watching you.
Nick: But, you dance in front of an audience at the club every night?
Alex Owens: I know, but, it's different. I never see them. It's like - I go out there and the music starts and you begin to feel it - and your body just starts to move. I know it sounds really silly. But, something inside you just clicks - and you just take off and you're gone. It's like you're somebody else for a second. Some nights I - some nights I just can't wait to get out there, just so I can disappear.
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Johnny C.: How come you don't go up there and dance? You look like you could dance real good.
Jeanie Szabo: I'm practicing.
Johnny C.: Yeah? You know how to do the horizontal mambo?
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Alex Owens: [the next day after the ballet] Save your money.
Nick: I'm just buying your lunch.
Alex Owens: [Coldly] I don't want you buying me anything! I don't want you buying me period!
Nick: What's your problem today?
Alex Owens: I didn't know you were such a ballet fan. I thought you just liked it in private. How quickly they forget.
[Gets in his face]
Alex Owens: At the dance benefit, the blonde in the white dress. Who's the God damn blonde, Nick?
[She storms off and Nick follows]
Nick: Hey? Hey?
[a pickup truck stops, separating them]
Nick: What the hell's going on around here? Has everyone gone crazy? Last night some idiot throuws a rock through my window, and...
Alex Owens: [Cuts him off, screaming almost incoherently] I BROKE YOUR FUCKIN WINDOW!
Nick: What?
Alex Owens: [More calm] You heard me. I smashed your stupid window.
Nick: [Incensed] Are you crazy? Are you out of your Goddamn mind?
Alex Owens: Maybe.
[Turns away]
Nick: [Walks around the truck, following her again] Cost me $170! I had to special order it!
Alex Owens: [Turns back to him while still walking] You got the Goddamn money! Go fuck the blonde!
Nick: She's my ex-wife! We have an agreement! I met her once a Goddamn year, and I have to take her to the stupid benefit!
[pauses]
Nick: Why am I explaining myself?
[Calmly]
Nick: You didn't have to break my window.
Alex Owens: [calmly] I know. I did because it just pissed me off.
[They then seem to make up quickly and walk off together while the other workers cheer]
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Nick: [watching Alex eat with her fingers at a 5 star restaurant] How's the lobster?
Alex Owens: [seductively places more lobster in her mouth, licks her lips] It sucks.
Nick: Want some of mine?
Alex Owens: [slowly pulls her middle finger out of her mouth] I'm hungry. Thanks.
Nick: Whatever turns you on.
Alex Owens: What turns you on?
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Katie Hurley: You're not really a welder, are you?
Alex Owens: Yes, I really am.
Katie Hurley: And - and you really take your clothes off at night?
Alex Owens: Well, I don't *really* take them off.
Katie Hurley: Oh, I was under the impression that you did.
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Katie Hurley: Has he taken you to the steel mill yet?
Nick: That's enough, Katie.
Katie Hurley: He likes to go there on his first date. It was your first date, wasn't it?
Alex Owens: Yeah, it was. As a matter of fact, I fucked his brains out.
Katie Hurley: Ha-ha-ha. Obviously, you did. Charmed.
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Nick: If you can't be honest with yourself, how the hell are you going to be honest with me?
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Alex Owens: I don't need you tellin' me what to do! And I don't need to hear your shit! I'm not a baby! Now, get the Hell out of here and play with your fuckin' Porsche.
Nick: What you need is a kick in the ass!
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Alex Owens: [crying] Bless me Father for I have sinned. Its been a long time since my last confession. I want - I want so much.
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Woman at Hanna Long's: [to Alex, referring to Hanna] She died.
[after a pause]
Woman at Hanna Long's: Yesterday.
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Alex Owens: [Throws a rock through one of Nick's windows] YOU SON OF A BITCH!
Flashdance Quotes
Extended Reading
