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John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in Grease (1978)

John Travolta: Danny

Grease

John Travolta credited as playing...

Danny

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  • Sandy: My parents want to invite you over for tea on Sunday.
  • Danny: I don't like tea.
  • Sandy: [laughing] You don't have to drink tea.
  • Danny: I don't like parents.
  • Danny: Uh, I'm not very hungry; just gimme a double Polar Burger wit' everything and a cherry soda wit' chocolate ice cream.
  • Danny: That's cool baby, you know how it is, rockin' and rollin' and what not.
  • Sandy: Danny?
  • Danny: That's my name, don't wear it out.
  • Sandy: What's the matter with you?
  • Danny: What's the matter with me, baby, what's the matter with you?
  • Sandy: What happened to the Danny Zuko I met at the beach?
  • Danny: Well I do not know. Maybe there's two of us. Why don't you take out a missing person's ad? Or try the yellow pages, I don't know.
  • Sandy: You're a fake and a phony and I wish I never laid eyes on you!
  • Danny: Sandy!
  • Sandy: Tell me about it, stud.
  • Coach Calhoun: [Danny is trying out for wrestling and smoking a cigarette] All right, let's trying cutting it to two packs a day. Now, you have to change.
  • Danny: Well, yeah. That's why I'm here, ya know? To change.
  • Coach Calhoun: No, I mean your clothes.
  • Danny: Oh.
  • Sonny: Geez! Every teacher I got this year has flunked me at least once!
  • Doody: Yeah, and if you don't watch it, you're gonna be spending all your time in McGee's office.
  • Sonny: Yeah, well, this year, she's gonna wish she's never seen me.
  • Doody: Oh yeah? And what are you gonna do?
  • Sonny: I just ain't gonna take any of her crap, that's all. I don't take no crap from nobody.
  • Principal McGee: Sonny?
  • Sonny: Oh, hello, ma'am.
  • Principal McGee: Aren't you supposed to be in homeroom right now?
  • Sonny: I was just going for a walk.
  • Principal McGee: You were just dawdling, weren't you?
  • Sonny: Yes, ma'am.
  • Principal McGee: That is no way to start a new semester Mr. LaTierre.
  • Sonny: [in Italian] Go to Naples, all whores.
  • Principal McGee: Perhaps a session of banging erasers after school would put you on the right track.
  • Sonny: Yes, ma'am.
  • Principal McGee: Are you just going to stand there all day?
  • Sonny: Uh no, ma'am. I mean, yes, ma'am. I mean I'm just...
  • Principal McGee: Well, which is it? Yes or no?
  • Sonny: No, ma'am.
  • Principal McGee: Good! Then *move*!
  • Sonny: Yes, ma'am.
  • Danny: I'm sure glad you didn't take any of her crap, Sonny. You would've really told her off, huh?
  • Doody: [imitating McGee] Mr. LaTierre. Yes, ma'am. No, ma'am.
  • Rizzo: Hey Zuko! I've got a surprise for you.
  • Danny: Oh, Yeah?
  • Rizzo: [chuckles] Yeah
  • Danny: [throws Sandy in front of him] Sandy!
  • Sandy: Danny!
  • Danny: Wha-what are you doing here, I thought you were moving back to Australia?
  • Sandy: We were but we had a change in plans!
  • [His friends stare at Danny with a strange face and he changes moods, pretending like he doesn't care]
  • Danny: [singing] I got chills, they're multiplyin', and I'm losing control, cause the power you're supplying, It's electrifyin'!
  • Danny: You're looking good, Riz.
  • Rizzo: Eat your heart out.
  • Danny: But sloppy seconds ain't my style.
  • Danny: Hey guys, look!
  • Kenickie: Ladies and gentlemen! Dingleberries On Parade!
  • Sonny: Yeah
  • [Tom Chisum the football player gets his foot stuck in his helmet]
  • Doody: Hey, look! You really put your foot into it this time, Chisum!
  • Putzie: Yeah, try hopscotch, you hot dog!
  • Sonny: [laughter] What a gavone!
  • Doody: Gumdrops, man.
  • Danny: I don't know about these chicks.
  • Kenickie: Yeah, they're only good for one thing.
  • Sonny: Then what are you suppose to do with them for the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day?
  • Putzie: [With a serious but confused face] Is that all it takes, 15 minutes?
  • [Sonny throws a napkin ball at his face, then Doody pinches his cheek. As Kenickie reaches into Putzie's ice cream dish and steals the cherry out of it]
  • Rizzo: Where are you goin'? To flog your log?
  • Danny: Much better than hanging around here with you dorks.
  • Danny: Oh, bite the weenie, Riz.
  • Rizzo: With relish.
  • Coach Calhoun: [after Danny has failed at wrestling, basketball, and baseball] Well, you know, there are a lot of other sports that don't require any physical contact.
  • Danny: Oh, yeah? Like what?
  • Coach Calhoun: Like, uh... track!
  • Danny: Whaddaya mean, like running?
  • Coach Calhoun: Not just running! Something that needs endurance! Something that needs stamina! Like, long-distance running! Cross-country running!
  • Danny: That could be cool.
  • Sandy: [Danny is trying to make out with Sandy] No, Danny!
  • Danny: Sandy, don't worry about it, nobody's watching.
  • Sandy: Danny, get off me!
  • Danny: Come on, Sandy, what's the matter with you? I thought I meant something to you!
  • Sandy: Meant something to you! You think I'm going to stay here with you in this? this sin wagon? You can take this piece of tin!
  • [throws his class ring at him and runs away]
  • Danny: Sandy, you just can't walk out of a drive-in!
  • Danny: Why, this car is Auto-matic. Its System-matic. Its Hyyyyydro-matic. Why, its Greased Lightning!
  • [first lines]
  • Sandy: I'm going back to Australia; I might never see you again.
  • Danny: Don't... don't talk that way, Sandy.
  • Sandy: But it's true! I've just had the best summer of my life, and now I have to go away. It isn't fair.
  • [Danny starts kissing her]
  • Sandy: Danny, don't spoil it!
  • Danny: It's not spoiling it, Sandy, it's only making it better.
  • Sandy: Danny... is this the end?
  • Danny: Of course not; it's only the beginning.
  • Danny: You can't just walk out of a drive-in.
  • Danny: You've gotta make friends with the cameraman.
  • Sandy: The cameraman?
  • Danny: Yeah, his name's Ted.
  • Sandy: [singing] You better shape up, 'Cause I need a man, And my heart is set on you, You better shape up, You better understand, To my heart I must be true.
  • Danny: [singing] Nothin' left, nothin' left for me to do

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