Can't Stop the Music (1980)
Valerie Perrine: Samantha
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Quotes
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Samantha : The '70s are dead and gone. The '80s are going to be something wonderfully new and different, and so am I.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Samantha : Are you really serious about singing?
David the Construction Worker : Fanantical. Fame, fortune, platinum records... it's every boy's dream.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!