Stompin' at the Savoy (1992 TV Movie)

Jasmine Guy: Alice

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Quotes 

• Paul Rothstein : [while Alice scrubs the floors]  So, where is everybody?

  Alice : [rises from the floor and moves to the sink]  Your mother went shopping.

  Paul Rothstein : [moves forward, wrapping his arms around Alice's waist]  Alone at last.

  Alice : [recoiling from his touch]  Boy, quit! And watch where you're walking. I just scrubbed this.

  Paul Rothstein : Alice, I like you. I really like you.

  Alice : What would your mother do if she was on the other side of that door listening? Probably die. I don't know why you keep bothering me.

  Paul Rothstein : Because I like you. And it doesn't matter that you're colored.

  Alice : [tensely]  Not much it don't. I'm light, so to you that makes me better. Still colored, but better. A lot of colored people think that way too, Paul. But I don't.

• Pauline : What you know good, Alice?

  Alice : Hey, Pauline.

  Pauline : When I ask you what you know good, don't be giving me no countrified "Heeeeey!"

  Esther : Are you picking on Alice again?

  Alice : She keep it up, and she'll have me talking all "dicty" like her.

  Pauline : No one could ever call me "dicty." I just don't want you to sound like you caught the last train out of the cotton fields!

  Esther : [Rolling her eyes]  Well, everybody wasn't lucky enough to be born in the Big Apple like you, Pauline.

• Pauline : I'm gonna get sick Saturday and see about Amateur Night at the Harlem Opera House.

  Alice : That's where Ella Fitzgerald got started.

  Pauline : Well, then, I guess it's good enough for me!

  Esther : [laughing]  Yeah, but are you good enough for the opera house?

  Pauline : Would you drop dead, please?