Staying Alive (1983)

Cynthia Rhodes: Jackie

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• [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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 : 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.