Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

Patrick Dempsey: Ronald Miller

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• Ronald Miller : Nerds, jocks. My side, your side. It's all bullshit. Its hard enough just trying to be yourself.

• [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.

• [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.

• [Ronald washes Cindy's car] 

  Ronald Miller : You can do anything you want, anything you put your heart and mind into!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Patty : [after taking off her top]  I bet you've never seen two like these before.

  Ronald Miller : Well, my parents do have cable.

• [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...

• [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] 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• 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

• 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?

• [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!

• Ronald Miller : You ignored the Donald Miller geek for seventeen years, now you want to ride the Ronnie Miller express!

• 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.

• Ronald Miller : This is supposed to be the biggest year of our lives. The Prom, the parties, Homecoming... We're supposed to have memories.

  Kenneth Wurman : Memories? We're allowed plenty of memories. Yearbook committee, video parlour, card games on Saturday nights...

  Ronald Miller : Cards are for retards.

• 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...