Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Patrick Dempsey: Ronald Miller
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Quotes
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Ronald Miller : Nerds, jocks. My side, your side. It's all bullshit. Its hard enough just trying to be yourself.
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[Ronald washes Cindy's car]
Ronald Miller : You can do anything you want, anything you put your heart and mind into!
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[Cindy to Ronald after their fake break-up]
Cindy Mancini : Whatever happens to your popularity, stay yourself, don't change to please others.
Ronald Miller : Me change? Never.
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[Talking to Cindy outside her house]
Ronald Miller : I need to talk to you. Every time I call you're either taking a bath, washing your hair or you're out of the country. That was a good one, by the way.
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Cindy Mancini : The moon looks different now, it's not as mysterious or romantic as before.
Ronald Miller : I'm sorry I ruined it for you.
Cindy Mancini : You didn't ruin it, you just changed it I guess.
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Quint : [to Ronald] Oh, Return of the Living Dred.
Ronald Miller : [walks over with a bat] Why don't you lay off?
Quint : Why don't you go back where you belong, hose head.
Ronald Miller : Take your hands off Kenneth or I'll break your arm. Your pitching arm.
Quint : Oh yeah? Don't make me laugh, lawn boy.
Ronald Miller : Let go. NOW!
[slams the table with the bat]
Quint : [Let's Kenneth go]
Ronald Miller : You broke your arm once before, remember? You fell out of our tree house. Kenneth picked you up and we carried you 12 blocks to the hospital.
Kenneth Wurman : Yeah, you cried all the way.
Ronald Miller : We were all friends then, remember? And now you want to end his life because he's talking to Patty on your side of the cafeteria. Oh man, that's stupid. I know cuz that's where I wanted to be. On your side, with your crowd. But I messed up. See, I tried to buy my way in. But Kenneth, he's not trying to buy anybody. He's just trying to make friends *being* *himself*. Cools, Nerds, your side, my side, man it's all bullshit. It's just tough enough to be yourself.
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Ronald Miller : I'm going to a party. John Richmond's, with Cindi Mancini.
Chuckie Miller : Cindi Mancini? Senior, captain of the cheerleaders, most beautiful girl in the history of this county?
Ronald Miller : That's her. Well, I'm late, gotta bolt.
Chuckie Miller : Bolt? Something stinks in suburbia.
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Ronald Miller : I just think it would be more fun to party with those guys our senior year... go to the games...
Kenneth Wurman : We go to ALL the games.
Ronald Miller : We sit in the visiting section Kenneth... at our own school.
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Patty : [after taking off her top] I bet you've never seen two like these before.
Ronald Miller : Well, my parents do have cable.
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[Ronald walks the cool hallway for the first time and begin to talk to the girls]
Patty : Didn't you like, used to mow our lawn?
Ronald Miller : Yes, and you have the nicest pair of rhododendrons in town!
Patty : Rhodo-who's?
Cindy Mancini : Guys, I'll meet you at home.
Barbara : What did he say?
Patty : I don't care! I dig his shirt...
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[Patty seducing Ronald in the car]
Patty : Are you into long distance relationships?
Ronald Miller : No.
Patty : Now, then why don't you reach out and touch someone?
[puts his hands on her breasts]
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Ronald Miller : [Ronald reading Cindy's poetry] "Someday my wish is for him to hold me in his arms, in a sea of deep blue, together at last, together as two", ohhh that's beautiful, I didn't know you were a poet.
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Barbara : You guys are so into bodily functions!
Patty : I mean, it's not like that takes any skill.
Ronald Miller : Oh, I don't know. For him, it's like an art form.
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Ronald Miller : Oh! You-- You demolished me New Year's Eve. But see-- I realize you did me a favor. You brought me back to reality. All I ever wanted to do was get close to you. And then, when I finally got there, it wasn't me anymore.
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Cindy Mancini : Are you high?
Ronald Miller : I want to rent you.
Cindy Mancini : You want to rent me?
Ronald Miller : Yeah. You pretend you like me and we go out for a few weeks... and that will make me popular.
Cindy Mancini : Just going out with me is not gonna make you popular.
Ronald Miller : Well I have a thousand dollars that says it will.
Cindy Mancini : I think you've mowed one too many lawns!
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Chuckie Miller : What we have here is something I Just learned called the law of supply and demand. I shall supply you this remote control, but I'm going to demand, say, uh, two bucks.
Ronald Miller : Wrong! That is not how the economic theory works.
Chuckie Miller : Look, I learned it in seventh grade, not Harvard.
Ronald Miller : Okay, let me give you the theory of relativity. Either you put on Bandstand now, or I have one less relative.
Chuckie Miller : I'll put on Bandstand Just for you
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Ronald Miller : What's his name, Biff?
Cindy Mancini : Don't give me that! His name happens to be Brent!
Ronald Miller : Is there a difference?
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[Dinner conversation at the Millers on report card day]
Ronald Miller : Here is the primate example. You raise a doll-chopping homicidal maniac, and what do you do every time you see him? You give him money. Great!
Chuckie Miller : Chillin!
Rons Dad : Shut up, Chuck!
Chuckie Miller : I was talking to Ma!
Rons Mom : Shut up, Chuck!
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Ronald Miller : You ignored the Donald Miller geek for seventeen years, now you want to ride the Ronnie Miller express!
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Ronald Miller : We do have a lot of great memories but be honest... wouldn't you like to be popular?
Kenneth Wurman : And have to be in a clique... no.
Ronald Miller : What happened to us? We were all friends in elementary.
Kenneth Wurman : That's because we were all forced to be in the same room together. But, hey, Junior high, high school. Forget it. Jocks became Jocks. Cheerleaders became cheerleaders. We became us. I like us.
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Ronald Miller : Cards are for retards.
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Patty : Didn't you like, used to mow our lawn?
Ronald Miller : Yes, and you have the nicest pair of rhododendrons in town!
Patty : Rhodo-who's?
Cindy Mancini : Guys, I'll see you in home ec, OK?
Barbara : What did he say?
Patty : I don't care! Dig on his shirt...
