Tootsie (1982)

Dabney Coleman: Ron Carlisle

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Quotes 

• Ron Carlisle : Take ten, Tootsie.

  Dorothy Michaels : Ron? I have a name it's Dorothy. It's not Tootsie or Toots or Sweetie or Honey or Doll.

  Ron Carlisle : Oh, Christ.

  Dorothy Michaels : No, just Dorothy. Alan's always Alan, Tom's always Tom and John's always John. I have a name too. It's Dorothy, capital D-O-R-O-T-H-Y. Dorothy.

• Ron Carlisle : [after Dorothy reveals she is a man]  I *knew* there was a reason she didn't like me!

• Ron Carlisle : Gosh I'm afraid you're not right for this role though, honey, thanks for coming by.

  Dorothy Michaels : Why am I not right, Mister Carlisle?

  Ron Carlisle : I'm trying to make a certain statement here and I'm looking for a specific physical type.

  Dorothy Michaels : Mr. Carlisle, I'm an actress. I'm a character actress. I can play it any way you want. Can't you give me any idea what you're looking for?

  Ron Carlisle : Honey, I'm sure that you're a very, very good actress. It's just that you're a little too soft and genteel, you're not threatening enough.

  Dorothy Michaels : Not threatening enough? How's this, you take your hands off me or I'll knee your balls right through the roof of your mouth! Is that enough of a threat?

  Ron Carlisle : [shaken]  It's a start.

  Dorothy Michaels : Yes, I think I know what y'all really want. You want some gross caricature of a woman to prove some idiotic point, like power makes a woman masculine, or that masculine women are ugly. Well shame on the woman who lets you do that, on ANY woman that lets you do that.

  [to Rita] 

  Dorothy Michaels : And that means you, dear, Miss Marshall.

  [turning back to Ron] 

  Dorothy Michaels : Shame unto you! Macho shithead.

  [storms off] 

  Rita : Jesus!

  Ron Carlisle : What is so idiotic about power making a woman masculine?

  [reconsidering when he sees Rita] 

  Ron Carlisle : Not that that was my point...

• Ron Carlisle : You don't like me, do you? Now, I can respect that. There's not many women that I can't make like me. Why don't you like me?

  Dorothy Michaels : I don't like the way you treat Julie. I don't like the way you patronize her. I don't like the way you deceive her. I don't like the way you lie to her.

  Ron Carlisle : What do you mean?

  Dorothy Michaels : You want me to go on?

  Ron Carlisle : No, no. I know what you mean.

• Julie : I know I'm pretty and I use it. I just guess I shouldn't have gone to Dr. Brewster's office so late.

  Dorothy Michaels : Well, no, that's not true. You know, Dr. Brewster has tried to seduce several nurses on this ward, always claiming to be in the throes of an uncontrollable impulse. Do you know what?

  Ron Carlisle : Uh-oh.

  Dorothy Michaels : I think I'm gonna give every nurse on this floor an electric cattle prod, and just instruct them to just *zap* him in his badoobies.

  Julie : [Tries, unsuccessfully, to hold back a giggle] 

  Ron Carlisle : Cattle prod?

  Dorothy Michaels : Ruby? Hi, you wanna open the Yellow Pages under the section, Farm Equipment Retail...

• Ron Carlisle : Not too close!

• Ron Carlisle : Now, then, Rick, it says when she comes down to her knees, it inflames your desire. God knows, it always inflames my desire.

  [spanks Julie's bottom] 

• Ron Carlisle : Hi, honey. You don't mind, if I call you honey when we're not working, do you?

• Ron Carlisle : Look at it from my side. See, if a woman wants me to seduce her - I usually do. But then she starts pretending like I promised her something. Then I start pretending like I promised her something. I mean, in the end, I'm the one that's exploited.

  Dorothy Michaels : *Bull*shit, Ron! You know what? I understand you a lot better than you think I do.