Moving Violations (1985)

Lisa Hart Carroll: Deputy Virginia Morris

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Quotes 

• Dana Cannon : [coming into classroom as if he were the instructor]  All right people, settle down, take your seats, thank you...

  [to kid wearing red shirt] 

  Dana Cannon : That means you too, Red.

  [to black man with dredlocks] 

  Dana Cannon : Hey man, I've got all your albums, you're the greatest! All right, everybody stand up, please! Everybody up, c'mon!

  [to Wink Barnes, who refuses] 

  Dana Cannon : You! In the back! What, you waiting for a special invitation?

  Wink Barnes : [leaning back in his chair]  You talkin' to me?

  Dana Cannon : Yes, you too! Uppity-up-up-up!

  [he rises] 

  Dana Cannon : You're gonna like this! C'mon! Now, breathe in...

  [class members take deep breath in] 

  Dana Cannon : ... blow out

  [they blow out] 

  Dana Cannon : . Breathe in, blow out. That's it. Now, shake it out

  [all wiggle] 

  Dana Cannon : Good.

  [Deputies Halik and Morris enter] 

  Dana Cannon : Now, if the women will all be so kind as to take off all their clothes, we can get things rolling.

  Deputy Halik : Sit down, Mr. Cannon.

  Dana Cannon : Wait, wait. Could it be?

  [to camera] 

  Dana Cannon : How big a coincidence is this?

  [singing song] 

  Dana Cannon : Reunited, 'cause it feels so good!

  [class collectively laughs] 

  Deputy Halik : [trying to suppress his anger]  Sit down.

  Dana Cannon : Aren't you guys in the wrong room? Shouldn't you be next door at the pro-acid rain rally?

  Deputy Halik : Mr. Cannon, we're your traffic school instructors.

  Dana Cannon : [to the others]  Is this an interesting surprise or what?

  Deputy Virginia Morris : [angrily]  Sit down before I mold your face into an ashtray.

  [as Dana sits down, Halik and Morris smile at each other fondly] 

  Dana Cannon : See? All you had to do was ask nicely.

  Deputy Halik : [to the others]  THIS will not be tolerated in this classroom! Now, I demand strict discipline.

  Dana Cannon : [to the elderly Japanese gentlemen sitting next to him]  I just love it when he gets angry like this, don't you?

  [the elderly man says nothing] 

  Dana Cannon : I thought so.

• Deputy Virginia Morris : [to the students at breaktime]  This is a 15 minute break. Not a second more.

  Scott Greeber : [walking past her]  Yes, sir.

• Deputy Virginia Morris : What is this powder?

  Dana Cannon : Fertilizer.

  Deputy Virginia Morris : [disgustedly spits it out]  Ughhhh! Shit!

  Dana Cannon : Exactly!

• Deputy Halik : I got my promotion.

  Deputy Virginia Morris : I got my period.