Dirty Dancing quotes

41 total quotes

Frances "Baby" Houseman
Johnny Castle
Multiple Characters
Penny Johnson
Stan

View Quote [voiceover] 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, 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.

View Quote Don't put your heel down, don't put your heel down, stay on the toe! Just listen to me, the steps aren't enough, feel the music.

View Quote Go back to your play pen, Baby.

View Quote I finally found a girl exactly like my mother. Acts like, dresses like her. So I brought her home. My father doesn't like her! Go figure!

View Quote It's not on the one, it's not the mambo, it's a feeling a heartbeat.

View Quote 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.

View Quote My God, it's Cleopatra. I feel like such an asp.

View Quote Now, you'll hurt me if you don't trust me, all right?

View Quote Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn't have given you maracas if He didn't want you to shake 'em.

View Quote Okay, we got horseshoes on the south lawn in 15 minutes! We've got splish-splash the water class down by the lake. We have the still life art class. We got volleyball and croquet. And for you older folks, we got sacks!

View Quote Sorry about 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; 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.