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Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas in Save the Last Dance (2001)

Quotes

Save the Last Dance

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  • Sara: You know, Snook, you talk a lot of shit for someone who never says anything.
  • Chenille: You can't help who you love, Derek. You're not supposed to.
  • Sara: Asshole.
  • Chenille: Who? Because in this crowd you're going to have to be a bit more specific.
  • Derek: Stepps ain't no square dance.
  • Sara: That's okay. I'll dance in circles, probably around you.
  • Sara: We spend more time defending our relationship than actually having one.
  • [Chenille picks up Sara's backpack off the ground and Sara turns around, confused]
  • Chenille: That's how easy it is to give to charity around here. Don't put your shit on the floor.
  • Derek: Do you get along with your dad? You tight and shit?
  • Sara: Yeah, we're tight and shit. Our DNA matches.
  • Sara: You know what? Derek and I like each other; and if you have a problem with that, then screw you.
  • [after Sara and Nikki's fight]
  • Nikki: It ain't over, bitch.
  • Sara: I don't even know why it started, bitch.
  • Chenille: You need to take off that fifth grade dance-lookin' top.
  • Sara: It's from The Gap!
  • Chenille: It's country, and you look country in it!
  • Chenille: Quit it, Nikki.
  • Nikki: Excuse me, I ain't walkin' on eggshells just 'cause you brought the Brady Bunch to the negro club.
  • Sara: Then you must be in the wrong spot because I'm pretty sure there aren't any negroes here.
  • Chenille: Ooh!
  • Sara: [sobbing] I just want someone there who loves me.
  • Roy Johnson: [looks up] I love you.
  • Kenny: Don't blame me; I didn't want any of this!
  • Chenille: What? 'Cause I did? I climbed on top of myself and got myself pregnant?
  • Sara: [talking to her dad] It's not that I hate you; it's just that I miss her.
  • Derek: So was that a good night as in, "I'll bust a cap in your ass if you ever darken my doorstep again?"
  • Sara: No! No, I would never - um, bust a cap in your ass.
  • Sara: There's only one world, Chenille.
  • Chenille: That's what they teach you. We know different.
  • Chenille: They call him Snookie because Fool was taken.
  • Derek: Ain't nobody watchin' you but me.
  • Chenille: [to Kenny's back] Go 'head... Leave! That's what you're good at! Your son ain't seen nothing but your back since he was born!
  • Sara: Screw you. I'm brilliant *and* cool.
  • Derek: You're not quite there yet.
  • Chenille: I saw you workin' it out there tonight, girl!
  • Sara: Oh, yeah... slammin'!
  • Chenille: Ah-huh! Later!
  • Kenny: How you doin'?
  • Chenille: Why don't you ask how your son is doing? That's a line you haven't tried in a while.
  • Kenny: Why you always gotta jump off on me like that?
  • Chenille: Why you gotta be like you are?
  • Kenny: Ah, come on, you know you wanna dance with me. That's what you came here for, to yell at me, and to dance with me.
  • Sara: It's about me and him, not about us and other people.
  • Derek: You can do it. Sara, you were born to do it.
  • Malakai: This is an A and B conversation, so C yourself out of it.
  • Sara: [from the trailer] What I want is to wake up and see my mom again.
  • [tearfully]
  • Sara: It was my stupid dream... and all she wanted was for it to come true.
  • Derek: [reassuringly] And I bet she would still want it to come true.
  • Snookie: I'm free Saturday night.
  • Chenille: Why, is your hand busy?
  • [about Malakai]
  • Sara: So you're not down with the things he does, but you're still down with him? That makes perfect sense. I understand.
  • Derek: He's my friend, Sara. You don't have to understand.
  • Chenille: And this is Diggy. She thinks she's down.
  • Diggy: Excuse me? I am down, okay?
  • Sara: I am such a dork!
  • Malakai: I'm not you, Derek. I can't do nothin' but what I'm doin'. I can't go to Georgetown with a 10.0 GPA, operatin' on people, doin' brain surgery or whatever the hell you're goin' to be doin'.
  • Chenille: Too many little boys thinkin' they thugs.
  • Sara: A lot of people read them.
  • Derek: People like who? Like you?
  • [pause]
  • Derek: Didn't think so.
  • Derek: Come on, act like you a nasty bitch.
  • Derek: Let's put some S-E-X in those H-I-Ps!
  • Derek: Yeah, but six months here gotta be better than six up the juvie.
  • Malakai: Yeah, they got girls in here.
  • Sara: We have an audience.
  • Snookie: They call me Snook, the coochie crook.

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