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Saturday Night Fever (1977) More at IMDbPro »

Tony Manero: Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.

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Tony Manero: You make it with some of these chicks, they think you gotta dance with them.

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Doreen: Can I wipe your forehead?

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Stephanie: Nice move. Did you make that up?
Tony Manero: Yeah, well I saw it on TV first, then I made it up.

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[commenting on Tony's four dollar raise in salary]
Frank Sr: Four dollars? You know what four dollars buys today? It don't even buy three dollars!

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Connie: So, are you as good in bed as you are on that dance floor?
Tony Manero: You know, Connie, if you're as good in bed as you are on the dance floor, then you're one lousy fuck.
Connie: Then how come they always send me flowers the next morning?
Tony Manero: I dunno. Maybe they thought you was dead.

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Tony Manero: Oh fuck the future!
Fusco: No, Tony! You can't fuck the future. The future fucks you! It catches up with you and it fucks you if you ain't planned for it!

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Tony Manero: You assholes almost broke my pussy finger!

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[in the PG rated version]
Tony Manero: I gotta have an afternoon off, and I'm taking it.
Fusco: If you do, you're fired.
Tony Manero: I'm DOIN' it!
Fusco: Then you're FIRED!

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Tony Manero: She can dance, you know that? She's got the wrong partner of course, but she can dance.
Joey: So then why don't you ask her?
Tony Manero: Fuck you.
Joey: Which position?

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Tony Manero: If you put your dick in a spic, does it get bigger than a nigger?

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Tony Manero: There's ways of killing yourself without killing yourself.

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Tony Manero: Are you a nice girl or are you a cunt?
Annette: Can't I be both?
Tony Manero: No. It's a decision a girl's gotta make early in life, if she's gonna be a nice girl or a cunt.

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Tony Manero: You know, you and I got the same last initial.
Stephanie: [Sarcastically] Wow. Does that mean when we get married I won't have to change the monogram on my luggage?

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Annette: Ain't ya gonna ask me to sit down?
Tony Manero: No, 'cause you would do it.
Annette: Bet you'd ask me to lay down.
Tony Manero: No, you would not do it.

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Tony Manero: Why are you such a cock-tease?
Stephanie: Don't you call me no goddam cock-tease!

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Tony Manero: Al Pacino! Attica! Attica! Attica!

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Girl in Disco: [Tony Manero makes his way onto the dancefloor at 2001 Odyssey, dancing with two girls] Kiss me.
[Tony ignores her request]
Girl in Disco: KISS ME!
[Tony kisses her]
Girl in Disco: Ohh, I just kissed Al Pacino!

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Frank Manero Jr.: Tony, the only way you're gonna survive is to do what you think is right, not what they keep trying to jam you into. You let 'em do that and you're gonna end up in nothing but misery!

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Joey: Hey Tony, Double J's been in the car twenty-five minutes with some chick!
Tony Manero: So?
Joey: So, I can't get the selfish prick out!
Tony Manero: [to Annette] These guys can't do nothin' without me.

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Stephanie: I'm sick of guys who ain't got their shit together!
Tony Manero: Well, all ya need is a salad bowl, and a potato masher,
[he mimics stirring in a bowl]
Tony Manero: and you got your shit together!

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Tony Manero: I knew you'd piss on it. Go on, just piss on it alright. A raise says like you're good, you know? You know how many times someone told me I was good in my life? Two! Twice! Two fuckin' times! This raise today, and dancing at the disco!
[Gets up and walks out of the room]
Tony Manero: You sure as fuck never did! Asshole!

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Bobby C.: My girlfriend, she loves the taste of communion wafers.

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Tony Manero: You know what Gus, I feel like breaking your broken legs!

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Tony Manero: Hey, you know you assholes almost broke my pussy finger.
Gus: Oh yeah, you wouldn't know which one it was.

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Double J.: [to a girl he just got done having sex with] What did you say your name was?

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Bobby C.: I have a friend. He's a very good friend, and he got a girl pregnant. And I wanted to know: if you had to make a choice between getting an abortion and having to get married, what would you do?
Stephanie: Well, who would I have to marry?
Bobby C.: You'd have to marry me.
Stephanie: I think I'd get an abortion.

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Flo Manero: [to Tony as he walks in the house] Where you been?
[he doesn't answer]
Frank Sr: Your mother wants to know where you been. Where you been?
Flo Manero: Your father's askin' ya! Where you been?

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Double J.: [as he watches Bobby C. fall] "God gave His only son."

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Tony Manero: [walks into clothing store after seeing silk shirt in window] You do lay-away?
Haberdashery Salesman: As long as it doesn't turn into a ten-year mortgage.
Tony Manero: [hands salesman some cash and prepares to leave] I want that shirt in the window.
Haberdashery Salesman: Wait, let me get you a receipt.
Tony Manero: [still walking out] I trust you.
Haberdashery Salesman: No... DON'T trust me!

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