Can't Stop the Music (1980)

Valerie Perrine: Samantha

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Quotes 

• Lulu : 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.

• Samantha : The '70s are dead and gone. The '80s are going to be something wonderfully new and different, and so am I.

• Norma White : Ron, dear, didn't Greenwich-Village-people-types go out with the '60s?

  Samantha : That's it! The name: Village People.

  Randy : Well, that's not a bad idea, uh, that's what we are.

  Felipe : That's where we're from.

  Jack Morell : Village People? That's fantastic! Thank you!

  Norma White : Oh, well, it does have a certain charm.

  Samantha : Village People; I can sell that.

• Samantha : How could you just up and quit your job like that?

  Ron White : Why not? I'm the lawyer for the hottest new group in show business: The Village People.

• Lulu : Oh, the Indian is hot. I go for exotic types, especially when they're half-naked.

  Samantha : Lulu!

  Lulu : You tell him I'll make up for all the indignities they suffered in "Roots."

• Samantha : Hey, Felipe, how are you feeling?

  Felipe : C... C-minus.

  Samantha : What's the matter?

  Felipe : I had to leave my feathers to be oiled. They gave me this one to wear, and it doesn't even fit right.

  Samantha : You think you've got problems? Jack needs some voices on his demo tape for tonight and I need some professional singers who will work for what I can afford to pay.

  Felipe : Professional and for free? That you ain't gonna find.

• Leatherman : I'm from the Bronx. My name's Glenn Hughes.

  Samantha : What do you do, Glenn?

  Leatherman : I'm a toll collector at the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.

  Norma White : Do all toll collectors look like that?

  Leatherman : Just the hot ones.

• Samantha : Are you really serious about singing?

  David the Construction Worker : Fanantical. Fame, fortune, platinum records... it's every boy's dream.

• Ron White : [angry tone]  Hi, I'm Ron White. Your sister sent you a cake. You're not gonna believe this, but a little old lady just robbed me!

  Samantha : Could you run that by me again?

  Ron White : A little old lady armed with a big gun held me up!

  Samantha : No kidding. So, how do you know my sister?

  Ron White : I live next door to her in St. Louis. God, she must have been 80 years old!

  Samantha : Oh, that's not my sister. She's older than I am, but not that old.

  Ron White : I'm talking about the old lady who robbed me! She got my wallet, my watch, my class ring. She even got my Phi Beta Kappa key!

  Samantha : Well, it's a good thing she didn't get the cake. I forgot to order dessert.

• Samantha : I should have known that you could sing. But when you see someone every day, you just don't know what they have. I mean, counting out exercise is sort of singing, right?

  Randy : Yeah, I think it is. It's sort of like...

  [singing] 

  Randy : Got the back bone connected to the hip bone, and the hip bone connected to the thigh bone, and the thigh bone connected to the leg bone

  [normal voice] 

  Randy : How's that? Is that a star or is that a star?

  Samantha : Bing! Tonight it is. Be at my place at 8:00. You bring the voice, and I'll bring the food... and the wine.

  Randy : You always were a great hostess, Sam.

  Samantha : Don't be fresh.

• Samantha : Merde!

  Lulu : What?

  Samantha : I dropped my contact lens in the lasagna!

  [checking her eyes] 

  Samantha : Was it mustard or relish? It was mustard. Lulu, be a darling, stick your finger in there and see if you can find it.

  Lulu : Be original, leave it in. Call it lasagna crunch!

• Benny Murray : [thick New York accent]  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.

• 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.

• Samantha : I didn't invent it. I'm just in it.

  Jack Morell : [sing-song]  I didn't invent it. I'm just in it. That's a great new theme to a new song!