26 Memorable Quotes from One of the Most Romantic Movies of All Time: 'Dirty Dancing'
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
Between the dance moves, great '80s soundtrack and forbidden love story, Dirty Dancing is one of the most beloved romantic movies of all time. The film chronicles the romance between daddy's girl, Frances "Baby" Houseman, played by Jennifer Grey, and bad boy dance instructor, Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), and the summer they spent at Kellerman's family resort in the Catskills, New York.
Since we can't get enough of Johnny and Baby's summer romance, here are over 25 quotes from Dirty Dancing:
Johnny Castle Quotes
1. “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
2. “You just put your pickle on everybody’s plate, college boy, and leave the hard stuff to me.”
3. Johnny: "I'll never be sorry."
Baby: "Neither will I."
4. “Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don’t go into yours, you don’t go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.”
5. “No, the-the way he saved her. I-I mean, I-I could never do anything like that. That was somethin’. I mean, the reason people treat me like I’m nothin’ is because I’m nothin’."
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6. "Now, you'll hurt me if you don't trust me, all right?"
7. “Sorry for the disruption, folks, but I always do the last dance of the season. This year somebody told me not to. So I’m gonna do my kind of dancin’ with a great partner, who’s not only a terrific dancer, but somebody who’s taught me that there are people willing to stand up for other people no matter what it costs them. Somebody who’s taught me about the kind of person I wanna be. Miss Frances Houseman.”
8. "That little wimp. He wouldn't know a new idea if it hit him in the Pachenga."
9. "I don't see you fightin' so hard, Baby. I don't see you runnin' up to daddy tellin' him I'm your guy."
10. "It takes a real saint to ask Daddy."
11. "Don't put your heel down, don't put your heel down."
12. "It's not on the one, it's not the mambo. It's a feeling, a heartbeat."
13. Johnny: "What's your name, Baby."
Baby: "The first woman in the cabinet."
Johnny: "Frances, that's a grown-up name."
Frances "Baby" Houseman Quotes
14. "We’re supposed to do the show in two days, you won’t show me the lifts, I’m not sure of the turns, I’m doing all this to save your ass, what I really want to do is drop you on it!”
15. “I carried a watermelon.”
16. "That was the summer of 1963—when everybody called me Baby, and it didn't occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn't wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought I'd never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman's."
17. “Me? I’m scared of everything. I’m scared of what I saw, I’m scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.”
18. "You told me you wanted me to change the world, make it better. But you meant by becoming a lawyer or an economist and marrying someone from Harvard. I'm not proud of myself, but I'm in this family too and you can't keep giving me the silent treatment. There are a lot of things about me that aren't what you thought. But if you love me, you have to love all the things about me, and I love you and I'm sorry I let you down. I'm so sorry, Daddy. But you let me down too."
19. Baby: "You were right, Johnny. You can't win no matter what you do!"
Johnny: "You listen to me. I don't want to hear that from you, you can!"
Penny Johnson Quotes
20. "Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn't have given you maracas if He didn't want you to shake 'em."
21. "Go back to your playpen, Baby."
Lisa Houseman Quotes
22. "God, I am so sick of this rain. Remind me not to take my honeymoon at Niagara Falls."
23. "Where is my beige iridescent lipstick?"
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Neil Kellerman Quotes
24. "Last week, I took a girl from Jamie, the lifeguard. And he said to her, right in front of me, 'What does he have that I don't have?' And she said, 'Two hotels.'"
25. "I have to say it. I'm known as the catch of the county."
Jake Houseman Quotes
26. "When I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong. You looked wonderful out there."
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