Take the Lead

Eddie: Damn son, what'd you do that for? She wasn't carryin' nothin', she could've opened the door her damn self.
Pierre: It's called courtesy.
Eddie: Yeah, well it makes you look like a punk ass.

Eddie: Punk ass moves like that won't get you no play around here. Trust me, I've tried it.

Pierre: Caitlin, you like dancing?
Caitlin: Yeah.
Pierre: Then you were made to dance.

Pierre: You need to dance for yourself, not for anybody else.

Pierre: In ancient times, it was believe that any man who could kill with .speed and accuracy should be able to dance with grace as well. Ballroom dancing is kings and empresis. It is the dance of strength, romance, and love.

Eddie: Look son, you're talking about a whole bunch of rich white folk, slave runners. I mean, I've never seen Martin Luther King do a waltz.

Danja: Why is that every time you want to fly something by us you claim it's got ties to Africa? But every time you get scared or mad, you blame it on African killer bees, African ebola virus, freakin West Nile fever?!

Rock: Doctor's note. Can't dance, got a heart condition.
Pierre: I see. Interesting man, your doctor. Not many physicians write notes on three hole punch paper.

Pierre: Ballroom dancing is about two bodies moving as one.

Caitlin: It's like sex on hardwood. I would kill if I could dance like that.

Eddie: Check Mr. Dulaine just getting his flirt on.

Principal Augustine: For these kids life is a fight to stay alive, and a hustle to make ends meet. Not ballroom dancing.

Pierre: To follow takes as much strength as to lead.

The Mechanic

Arthur: What I do requires a certain mindset. I do assignments on vindictive targets. Some jobs need to look like accidents. Others must cause suspicion on someone else. A select few need to send a clear message. Pulling a trigger is easy. The best jobs are the ones where nobody even knows you were there.

Harry: "Amat Victoria Curam." [Victory Loves Preparation.]

Harry: I would rather it be you, Arthur. You'll have to live with it.

Steve: What kind of person shoots someone in a wheelchair anyways?

Arthur: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Steve: Roofy. You want me to kill him, not rape him, right?

Leap Year

Anna: I'm a stager. I stage apartments for realtors. I transform ordinary spaces into something special. Most people don't know what it is they want until I show it to them and so many places need my help. Not the Davenport, of course.

Anna: Come on Charlie. You know it's not about luck, it's about preparation.

There's only one reason why people go into Duprisco's. You're going to have a better engagement ring than me, you big jerk!

Declan: Dublin is the city of chances and cheats, and backstabbin' snakes. It's where the waste of humanity collects, poisoned this family tree. I wouldn't drive you to Dublin in the life of me.

Declan: Oh, isn't yourself Louie? Can I give you a hand into the car Louie? She named her suitcase, she's a crack pot.

Declan: That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Anna: No it isn't.
Declan: Yeah it is.
Anna: No, it's a tradition. It's a romantic tradition.
Declan: It's a day for desperate women trying to trap themselves on a man who clearly doesn't want to get married. You gotta know if your man wants to propose, he'd done it already. Fact!

Anna: Are you crazy? You, know nothing about me, or Jeremy. You know what you are? You're a cynic. You're a lonely, bitter, cynic.
Declan: Better that than an idiot. 'Leap year, diddly-yi. Will you marry me, diddly-yi. I've got a suitcase called Louie, diddly-yi.'

In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty.

Declan: If your house was on fire, sixty seconds, what would you take? Would it be the chihuahua on the duvet?

Declan: Well, hundreds of years ago there was this beautiful girl called Grianne. Now, she was promised to marriage to this fellow named Fionn. He was kinda a cranky old war lord, old enough to be her father, well old enough to be her grandfather. Therefore, ploop, she wasn't in love with him. Anyway, on the night of their betrothal, whom did she meet but a handsome, young warrior Diarmuid. They fell madly in love at first sight, but what can she do? Well, she slips a sleeping potion in everyone's drinks and the pair of them run off together across the Shannon. Fionn wakes, where's Grianne, gone. Well, he goes mental, takes his army and heads off in hot pursuit, but it was the people, the people in the villages of Ireland, they took pity on Diarmuid and Grianne. They hid them in the forests, in the barns, in the castles, where they sleep one night and then they move on. Sleep was all they did, because Diarmuid, the good man that he was, was suffering the old guilt of two timing Fionn, out of respect for him, penance, you know, take it any further. Then they came to this castle, and this view. To such a view, unable to resist its beauty, here in this place, they consummated their love.

Declan: Heads I win, tails you lose.

Anna: I washing, in the shower. Getting mud off with hot water. Got a bruise there, got a bruise there.

Declan: Here's an idea: why don't you stop trying to control everything in the known universe? It's dinner. Have a little faith. It'll all work out.

Anna: It'll all work out. My dad was the king of 'it'll all work out.' Time shares in the Bahamas, mobile video stores, whatever the next big nothing was all our money went right after it. But, uh, don't worry, it'll all work out. Got me working two part-time jobs after school, us getting our house repossessed on Christmas Eve, ho, ho, ho. So you will forgive me if I don't listen.
Declan: I'm sorry. No, really, I'm sorry. Your father is someone you should be able to rely on.

See that's what it takes to be married for forty four years. The kiss. Always kiss like it's the first time, and the last time.

Bride: May you never steal, lie, or cheat. But if you must steal, then steal away my sorrows. And if you must lie, then lie with me all the nights of my life. And if you must cheat, then please, cheat death. Because I couldn't live a day without you. Cheers!

Declan: Listen. Bob. You're not in America now. You're in Ireland. So, have a drink, and shut up.
Anna: I was just trying to help.
Declan: Help? That's hilarious. The woman who was so desperate to make her way to Dublin to make the most important decision of her life based on some ridiculous tradition, which frankly is a load of old poo, so, thank you, Bob, it's not I who needs the help. Okay?
Anna: It is not a load of poo. It's romantic.

Anna: You know what you are? You are a beast. You are a real beast. And I cannot stand you. But you know what, I am on to you. All your beastliness, it's an act. It's a great, big, massive, cover up. You... you growl and you snap but you are in... you're in pain. You've got a, um, got a big thorn in your beastly paw. Like a lion, a lovely, lovely lion.

Do I like it? I want to throw you out your own window and take it.

Anna: When my sixty seconds came around I thought, I had everything that I wanted but nothing that I needed. But what I think I need is here and I came all this way to see if you might think so too, and if you do, well I don't have any plans past that which is new for me. So, Declan O'Callahan, and I should probably learn your middle name, here is my proposal. I propose we not make plans, I propose we give this thing a chance and let it work out how it works out. So what do you say? Do you want to not make plans with me?

When In Rome

Beth: Yeah, I remember, Brady, really clearly when you broke up with me in the Applebee's.

Brady: You made me realized it doesn't matter how hard someone works as long as you love them.

Joan: When you know you don't need proof you just know.

Beth: We wait our whole lives for some perfect guy to come sweep us off our feet. Well guess what, he's not coming!

Beth: Each one of you is a desperate wish for love that is never going to come true. So I'm saving you, and saving you. You, I don't give a damn about but I am saving you. And you, and I'm saving you.

Hey Nick, how long are you going to take? We watched Roots while you were gone.

What do you think would win in a fight: a whale or a silver back gorilla?

Gail: I'm Gail, like a gale force wind. I took on that name because it's the most powerful force in the natural world, for shaping and eroding the earth... whoosh, you can feel it.

Time flies, but magic flies faster.

Beth: I used to come here with my parents when I was a little girl. I thought this place was magic. My father told me that the roof was made of glass so that God could see the paintings from up in Heaven.

Beth: Every time I've ever put myself out there, I've gotten hurt. Every time. It's like I meet a guy and I think it's great and anyone else would just be thinking about how much greater it's going to get. But I'm constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Nick: Well, you do know lightning strikes once in a while, Beth. Trust me, I know.
Beth: I wish I could believe that.
Nick: You can. No shoes are going to drop Beth. This is real. I'm real.

Nick: Ever since I saw you in the fountain something changed in me. I can't eat, I can't sleep, I can't do anything without thinking about you. I don't know what is going on with me, Beth, but I want to know what is going on with you. You seem to think all these guys are under a crazy spell or something and that I'm one of them. But I'm not. This is real, okay? And I ran all the way up 5th Avenue in a lightning storm because I wanted to tell you that...
Beth: You love me?
Nick: I never said I loved you.
Beth: You didn't. No, you don't.
Nick: No, no. I just never said it. You said it, and I w anted to say it, but, uh...
Beth: Okay you go. You say it or just say it if you want to say it.
Nick: Look, the only spell that I'm under is yours. I'm in love with you Beth.

Dad: Elizabeth Ann, honey, you cannot learn from my mistakes. You're gonna have to go out there and make your own. Now, you could get your heart broken or you could have the greatest love affair the world has ever known. But you're not gonna know unless you try.
Beth: But what if there was a guarantee that you'd never get hurt?
Dad: Baby, the passion is in the risk. It's like I always say, if you're gonna be a bear...
Beth: Be a grizzly.

Priest: Marriage is like-a all contracts that a-two enter in the eyes of a-Father Almighty. If there's anybody here who has-a reasons that-a Beth and-a Nicholas should-a not get married today, speak now or forever hold onto your peaces. Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? It could be anybody, you don't have to know them to speak up.

Beth: You think you're pretty funny, don't you? You enjoy watching me go crazy? Did you have fun watching my life turn upside down because of love? Because I did.

Nick: I have a question. Why do you keep giving me back my poker chips?
Beth: Because you deserve to have it back. You threw it in the fountain and wished on love and I don't want to keep it anymore.
Nick: No I didn't.
Beth: You didn't? Then who did?
Nick: I have no idea.
Beth: Then this is all real?
Nick: How's this for real.

Win A Date With Tad Hamilton

Pete: Sure, heaven is only a mouse click away.

Angelica: One day Pete, one day, I know the answer to that question will be, "You, Angelica." "You are the object of my desire."

Pete: Okay, this is how I know. If at any point in your date he says he doesn't really like watching sports, he's just trying to sleep with you. Oh, if he claims to love animals, then he's really just trying to sleep with you. Guys are guys, Rosie. Rich or poor, famous or grocers. Just do me one favor, okay? Guard your carnal treasure.

Kathy: Remember everything. Remember how he smells, but not just vaguely. I want good, solid similes. For example, he smells like a forest on the first day of spring...

Pete: Guard your carnal treasure!

Rosalee: Your films will stand the test of time.

Rosalee: Yikes-a-bee.

Rosalee: Shake-a-doo.

Kathy: I bet they are in her hotel room, straining for breath, his manhood yearning to be free, her hands running over the ripples in his abdomen, her perfect bosom crying out in ecstasy...

Rosalee: And to me, wonderfulness too. And to you, only the self same good wishes. You know what I'm saying?

Rosalee: The limo door swung open, my foot hit the ground, and I turned to take one last look at Tad, at those eyes, at that smile, and then, regretfully, I headed back to the hotel.
Pete: Please tell me we're done now.
Rosalee: We're done.
Pete: Wow. I cannot remember a time before you started telling that story.

Kathy: At which point, Tad, if you're going back to the airport, I'll ride with you and by the Route 73 clover leaf, I will have given myself to you in ways you've only read about in the drug store.

Pete: Kathy, he's not her type.
Kathy: No, rich, famous, handsome, ass like cement. You are absolutely right.

Tad: Rosalee, nobody is nobody. I'm following my gut. Sometimes you have to do that even if what you're doing seems crazy. Because in the gap between what prudence says we should do and what our heart tells us we must do, well, Rosie, there in lies our humanity.
Rosalee: That's from the Road to El Dorado.
Tad: Well, you really are a big fan, aren't ya?
Rosalee: Is that how you get women? You steal lines from your own movies.
Tad: Not anymore.
Rosalee: I hope not because I would serious shoot a hole in your credibility.
Tad: The truth is, that when we were on our date, you said something that really resignated with me, you said you were sure I had my priorities straight, but here's the thing. I don't, I really don't. My entire life since I was a teenager was about becoming successful and famous and this thing that I am. and you were right, it's unsatisfying. I need a positive influence. I need somebody with solid and substantial qualities who seems to understand life and how to live it in a good and happy way, like you. Just want to be around you. Just want some of that goodness to rub off on me.

Pete: He wants your goodness to rub off on him...?

Pete: There's innocent, there's child-like, and then there's just asking for it. Look he wants your goodness to rub off on him. He wants your ass to rub off on him is more like it.

Rosalee: You look so sad there.
Tad: Give me a break. I just lost my wife and my goat.

Rosalee: I am going to kill that Pete, bring him back to life, and then kill him again!

Tad: What happened here tonight was a force of nature. Two people set out to be friends but nature would have none of it. Nature wanted them to be more. And nature is going to let that tomorrow.

Kathy: Rosie, were Tad's pectorals light to the touch? Are they warm yet firm like...

Pete: Rosie, he's from Malibu, California. Okay, the only thing they grow there are breasts.

Pete: I want Rosie to be happy so I've got to ask you a couple of question. Do you know how long she keeps her hair in straight mode and how long she keeps it curly? Or why her favorite necklace is a starfish clasp? Do you even know she has six different smiles? One when something flat out makes her laugh. And one when she's laughing out of politeness. But there's one when she makes plans. One when she makes fun of herself. One when she's uncomfortable. And one, one when she's talking about her friends. She is more of a treasure than you could possibly know. She's not just some wholesome, small town girl, wholesome like good for you, breath of fresh air. Tad, she is a wonderful person with a huge heart. And the kind of beauty that a guy sees once, ya know. Once. So Tad, if there is even a chance that you could break her heart, please just for her sake, walk away man.

Angelica: So how much do you love her? Is it love, is it big love, or is it great love? Well love you get over in two months, big love two years, but great love, great love changes your life. Oh my god, it's great love.

Angelica: If you feel it and you don't do everything in your power to reach for it, you're basically slapping life in the face.

Angelica: As my father told me when I told him I'd never get that job in a bar, "Honey, your odds go up when you file an application."

Pete: I'm up against Tad Hamilton.
Angelica: You are Tad Hamilton. Don't you see? Everybody's Tad Hamilton to somebody, Pete. Rosalee is Tad Hamilton to you. You're Tad Hamilton to me.

Rosalee: Do you think it's possible to love someone your whole life and never really realize it until something happens and makes you see?

Angelica: When great love is rejected, Rosalee, something inside a man dies. So all he can do is run away. He can meet the girl he loves second most. Unless... unless you can get to him before he closes the book on you. But once it's closed, it's closed. It's finished. It's gone. Dead. It's crushed. It's beaten. It's buried. It is lost for all of time.

Rosalee: You have five smiles, Pete. One when you think someone's an idiot. One when you think someone's really an idiot. One when you're getting all dressed up. One when you're singing Barry White. And one, when you're looking at me.