Flashdance (1983)

Jennifer Beals: Alexandra Owens

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• Nick : I'll bring him a doggy bag if you'll have dinner with me.

  Alex Owens : I told you, I don't think it's a good idea to go out with the boss.

  Nick : OK. Have it your way. You're fired. I'll pick you up tomorrow at eight.

• Nick : When I was a kid all I wanted was to be able to afford to eat in restaurants like this.

  Alex Owens : Were you poor?

  Nick : I was so poor I had hand-me-down lunches.

• [last lines] 

  Alex Owens : Can I start again?

• Nick : So, what's a dancer doing working as a welder?

  Alex Owens : A girl's got to make a living.

• Alex Owens : Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It's been two weeks since my last confession. I'm doing okay. Sort of. I've been thinking about sex a lot. But, you can't help thinking about sex, right? Well, you probably can.

• Nick : You're Alex.

  Alex Owens : I know.

  Nick : I'm Nick Hurley.

  Alex Owens : Really? I've seen your name on my paychecks.

• Alex Owens : [to Grunt, her dog]  So, did you get laid today?

  [Grunt makes groaning sound] 

• Alex Owens : [the next day after the ballet]  Save your money.

  Nick : I'm just buying your lunch.

  Alex Owens : [coldly]  I don't want you buying me anything! I don't want you buying me, period!

  Nick : What's your problem today?

  Alex Owens : I didn't know you were such a ballet fan. I thought you just liked it in private. How quickly they forget.

  [gets in his face] 

  Alex Owens : At the dance benefit, the blonde in the white dress. Who's the Goddamn blonde, Nick?

  [she storms off, and Nick follows] 

  Nick : Hey? Hey?

  [a pickup truck stops, separating them] 

  Nick : What the hell's going on around here? Has everyone gone crazy? Last night some idiot throws a rock through my window, and...

  Alex Owens : [cuts him off, screaming almost incoherently]  *I broke your fuckin' window!*

  Nick : What?

  Alex Owens : [calmly now]  You heard me. I smashed your stupid window.

  Nick : [incensed]  Are you crazy? Are you out of your Goddamn mind?

  Alex Owens : Maybe.

  [turns away] 

  Nick : [walks around the truck, following her again]  Cost me $170! I had to special order it!

  Alex Owens : [turns back to him while still walking]  You got the Goddamn money! Go fuck the blonde!

  Nick : She's my ex-wife! We have an agreement! I met her once a Goddamn year, and I have to take her to the stupid benefit!

  [pauses] 

  Nick : Why am I explaining myself?

  [calmly] 

  Nick : You didn't have to break my window.

  Alex Owens : [calmly]  I know. I did because it just pissed me off.

  [they then seem to make up quickly and walk off together while the other workers cheer] 

• Nick : [watching Alex eat with her fingers at a 5 star restaurant]  How's the lobster?

  Alex Owens : [seductively places more lobster in her mouth, licks her lips]  It sucks.

  Nick : Want some of mine?

  Alex Owens : [slowly pulls her middle finger out of her mouth]  I'm hungry. Thanks.

  Nick : Whatever turns you on.

  Alex Owens : What turns you on?

• Katie Hurley : You're not really a welder, are you?

  Alex Owens : Yes, I really am.

  Katie Hurley : And - and you really take your clothes off at night?

  Alex Owens : Well, I don't *really* take them off.

  Katie Hurley : Oh, I was under the impression that you did.

• Katie Hurley : Has he taken you to the steel mill yet?

  Nick : That's enough, Katie.

  Katie Hurley : He likes to go there on his first date. It was your first date, wasn't it?

  Alex Owens : Yeah, it was. As a matter of fact, I fucked his brains out.

  Katie Hurley : Ha-ha-ha. Obviously, you did. Charmed.

• Alex Owens : [throws a rock through one of Nick's windows]  *You son of a bitch!*

• Alex Owens : You call that dancing, rolling on the floor on your back?

  Jeanie Szabo : Yes! so what, I make good money!

  Alex Owens : Look at you! You call that dancing?

  Jeanie Szabo : Yes!

  Alex Owens : [takes money out of Jeanie's panties, and in the rain, throws it on the wet ground]  What's this shit? Huh?

  Jeanie Szabo : It's mine!

  [sobs] 

  Jeanie Szabo : Why'd you come, here?

  Alex Owens : Because, you're my friend. Jerk.

  [consoles Jeanie, after their argument] 

  Jeanie Szabo : [sobbing]  I'm cold.

  Alex Owens : So am I.

  [Jeanie continues crying] 

  Alex Owens : Come on, it's okay.

• Alex Owens : [crying]  Bless me Father for I have sinned. Its been a long time since my last confession. I want - I want so much.

• Alex Owens : You like phone booths? You probably just like doing it in a bed, right?

• Alex Owens : You know, she's really good. You ought to see her.

  Frank Szabo : Yeah? She's gonna fall on her ass.

  Rosemary Szabo : She's got a tough ass.

  Jeanie Szabo : Yeah, I got a tough ass!

  Frank Szabo : It's not her ass I'm worried about.

• Nick : Do that again.

  Alex Owens : What?

  Nick : That dance step you just did.

  Alex Owens : I can't. I was just fooling around. I'm not a dancer like that.

  Nick : What do you mean?

  Alex Owens : I never studied before. I mean, I read books and stuff and I watch; but, I've never taken dance classes. I don't know. There's just all those dancers who want to be watching each other and watching you.

  Nick : But, you dance in front of an audience at the club every night?

  Alex Owens : I know, but, it's different. I never see them. It's like - I go out there and the music starts and you begin to feel it - and your body just starts to move. I know it sounds really silly. But, something inside you just clicks - and you just take off and you're gone. It's like you're somebody else for a second. Some nights I -

  [voice breaking] 

  Alex Owens : some nights I just can't wait to get out there, just so I can disappear.

• Alex Owens : I don't need you tellin' me what to do! And I don't need to hear your shit! I'm not a baby! Now, get the hell out of here and play with your fuckin' Porsche.

  Nick : What you need is a kick in the ass!

• Johnny C. : Listen, come see my club. I just put this new P.A. system in - in the floor. Christ, its all lit up. Right where you're gonna dance. I just want you to see what ya gonna call home.

  Alex Owens : Did you know that the smallest penis ever measured was 1.1 inches?

  Johnny C. : You are some pair of cunts, you know that?

• Alex Owens : My father, he loves music. This one time, he took us all to the symphony. My whole family. It was supposed to be this really big deal. At first I didn't like if very much. I mean, there's nothing really to do with your feet and there's nothing really to look at. It's boring! And I was ready to nod out or something. He said to me, "If you close your eyes, you could see the music." You can, too. Did you ever try? See the music? Come on, try. Close your eyes. Well?

• Nick : How about dinner?

  Alex Owens : I can't. I don't have dinner with the boss.

• [repeated lines] 

  Tina Tech : He didn't call.

  Alex Owens : He'll call!

• Richie : You know, one of these days I'm gonna be like, you know, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin. Until that day comes...

  Alex Owens : You'll just keep stealing all their material.

• Alex Owens : [after Jeanie's fall on the ice]  It's gonna be okay.

  Jeanie Szabo : All that time and practice. A waste! It was a Goddamn waste of time!

  Alex Owens : Come on. It was not. It wasn't.

  [as Jeanie's father enters:] 

  Alex Owens : You went out there, didn't you? At least you had the guts to try.

  Frank Szabo : [sits down next to them, doesn't really know what to say to his depressed daughter]  How you doing, sport?

  Jeanie Szabo : I'm sorry, Daddy.

  Frank Szabo : I love you more than I've ever loved anything in my whole life. Aw,

  [shrugs] 

  Frank Szabo : you bounce pretty good.