Step Up Quotes

Nora: OK, um, I get it. You're not going to use me to get out of cleaning the windows, even if you were capable of dancing.

Tyler Gage: I'm not trying to get out of anything. And I know you saw me the other day.

Nora: Thank you, but, um, I can find someone else.

Tyler Gage: [Goes to leave] Aight. I was just trying to help.

Nora: Okay, wait.

[He stops and turns around]

Nora: Catch me.

Tyler Gage: [She runs towards him, he catches her, then he lets her fall in his arms] Now what?

Nora: Um, put me down.

[He puts her down]

Tyler Gage: I'll do it.

Nora: Do what?

Tyler Gage: I don't know. Whatever y'all trying to do out here.

Nora: You want to lift me? Are you kidding?

Tyler Gage: Does it look like I'm kidding?

Tyler Gage: What? I'm not late.

Nora: You're not dressed either. You can change at the back

Tyler Gage: I can change here.

[taking off his jacket]

Nora: I told you to bring tights.

Tyler Gage: Do I look like I own tights?

Nora: Shoes?

Tyler Gage: I move better with them.

Brett Dolan: This isn't about me or Miles, Nora. It's about Tyler.

Nora: No, Brett, It's about me.

Nora: So are you going to ask me to dance?

Tyler Gage: I didn't know you could dance without your tights!

[last lines]

Nora: You know what this means, right?

Tyler Gage: No, what's it mean?

Nora: You're going to have to get some tights.

Tyler Gage: Done.

[He kisses her]

Tyler Gage: [about a dance Nora imagines] If you imagined it with dancers you should do it!

Nora: Where am I going to get dancers?

Tyler Gage: You know, you do go to a school just busting with kids in tights!

Mac Carter: [after the girl he was making out with leaves because his little brother interrupts them] I swear to God you must have all the recessive genes in the family!

Skinny Carter: Recessa what?

Mac Carter: [after Tyler gets in a fight at a party] You feel like because you're a white boy you got to overcompensate or something?

Tyler Gage: Wow, like wow, you got me figured out, Montel.

Mac Carter: Yeah, well you're the one going Jerry Springer all the time.

Skinny Carter: Hey, if you're Montel and you're Jerry, then I'm like...

Mac Carter: Jenny Jones.

Tyler Gage: No, like Ellen.

Mac Carter: Except Ellen gets more chicks than he does!

Miles Darby: [about Tyler and Nora no longer working together] Man I bet you've been moping around too.

Tyler Gage: [looking happy] She's been moping?

Miles Darby: I'm not saying anything.

Tyler Gage: [laughing] Come on man! Tell me, have you seen a tear?

Mac Carter: [seeing Tyler teaching a bunch of people the dance he and Nora made up] Man, what is this?

Tyler Gage: It's part of my community service.

Skinny Carter: Yo let me do it this time.

[talking about stealing a car]

Mac Carter: Skin, you the look out.

Skinny Carter: But why can't I do it this time?

Tyler Gage: Can you do it?

Skinny Carter: Yeah.

Tyler Gage: Let him do it then.

Mac Carter: You know what? Here you go tough guy.

[hands him a crow bar to break into the car with]

Mac Carter: See that one right there. Go get it.

Tyler Gage: That car's got an alarm on it.

Mac Carter: I know.

Tyler Gage: [the car alarm goes off and the boys run away] Dude, I told you that alarm was gonna go off.

Skinny Carter: Wait a minute. Y'all set me up?

Tyler Gage: You should have saw your face.

Camille: Guess what she bought for us? Cap'n Crunch. Peanut Butter Cap'n Cunch. I told you she liked us.

Camille: [takes bite of cereal]

Tyler Gage: Let me get a bite of that?

Camille: Okay. One bite, just one bite.

[Tyler takes the bowl and has a huge bite]

Camille: That's the biggest bite I've ever seen! Come on! Give it back!

Tyler Gage: [Tyler takes another bite]

Camille: Get your own! I spit on that spoon!

[Tyler pushes it back]

Camille: Oh yeah, now you give it back.

Director Gordon: And you say that he can dance?

Nora: He's adequate.

Tyler Gage: Adequate?

Director Gordon: See. That's my concern. He's not taking this seriously.

Tyler Gage: Look, I'm sorry. It's just y'all are talking about dancing like it's rocket science or something.

Nora: It's just for a couple of weeks. Until Andrew gets better.

Tyler Gage: Yeah.

Director Gordon: This would be your risk Nora. It's your Senior piece.

Nora: I know.

Director Gordon: Well, don't make me regret my decision.

Nora: [talking to Tyler] 2:30 tomorrow. Bring your tights.

Tyler Gage: Tights? Wait. What?

Nora: I found a rehearsal partner. So now I won't miss a beat when Andrew gets back.

Nora's Mom: Your applications arrived from Cornell and Brown. I put them on your bed. Remember our deal, Nora. If you don't get a job from the showcase you go to school in the fall.

Lucy Avila: [talking about Colin] He's sophisticated. A real man.

Miles Darby: Sophisticated? A real man? Yeah, his butt is gonna be surrounded by sophisticated in jail. How long you had your license? 6 months? 7?

Lucy Avila: I am very mature for my age. Thank You.

Miles Darby: Oh yeah, that's great! That's so perfect for the witness stand!

Skinny Carter: [coming back from playing a basketball game] Man, I was dropping dimes today!

Mac Carter: Man, you tripped over your own shoes!

Tyler Gage: Twice actually, but you rolled out of the second one pretty nice, you played it off pretty cool.

Camille: Are you going to jail?

Tyler Gage: No, I'm not going to jail. But they will have to take me to jail if you don't stop knocking. Get out of here...

Miles Darby: I left my G-4 at home.

Tyler Gage: [coughing] It's in his bag.

Skinny Carter: So, can I still come to the party?

Mac Carter: Skinny! Hey come on!

Skinny Carter: Man, he ain't saying nothing bout me. He said y'all couldn't go to the party. He didn't say nothing bout Skinny. Nothing!

Mac Carter: Will you shut up?

Miles Darby: Look I can play it all right? I just prefer playing with myself.

Tyler Gage: Whoa, what?

Lucy Avila: He makes it too easy.

Miles Darby: No, not playing with myself. Just listen.

Brett Dolan: When someone hands you your dreams, you take it. You don't ask questions.

Nora: I would.

Brett Dolan: You think you would.