John Travolta credited as playing...
Tony Manero
- [last lines]
- Tony Manero: Do you know what I wanna do? You know what I wanna do?
- Jackie: What?
- Tony Manero: Strut.
- Tony Manero: You hear the way she talks? It's so intelligent, like I love it.
- Jackie: An accent doesn't make someone intelligent, Tony. If it did, you'd be Einstein.
- Carl: Is everything alright?
- Tony Manero: [defensive] Everything's fine, she's in good hands.
- Carl: Hey, what are you Allstate, pal?
- Tony Manero: Yeah, you want disability?
- Tony Manero: Oh wow, this is a flash I can't
- [shocked, smiling]
- Tony Manero: I've never been asked to leave before.
- Laura: Oh, don't take it personally.
- Tony Manero: Well I've got to, there's nobody else here in the room!
- Mrs. Manero: Tony, why did you come here today?
- Tony Manero: I don't know, I got a lotta things on my mind.
- Mrs. Manero: Like what?
- Tony Manero: Like the way I acted around here, the way I treated everybody. I was very hard on you.
- [he pauses, not sure what to say]
- Tony Manero: I just - I just want you to know that's not me, alright? That wasn't me.
- Mrs. Manero: [she doesn't understand] What, are you kiddin' me?
- Tony Manero: No I'm apologizing to you.
- Mrs. Manero: Apologizing for what? What, that wasn't the real you back then?
- Tony Manero: Yeah... Look I just had a lotta attitude and I didn't like it.
- Mrs. Manero: [exhales] I don't believe this.
- Tony Manero: [getting mad] Well believe it!
- Mrs. Manero: Well I don't believe it, now don't get fresh with me! This - this attitude you're talkin' about: that's what got you outta this damn neighbourhood. So don't apologize, you don't have to apologize to anybody, because you must've been doing something right.
- Tony Manero: I don't believe it! Did you see the way you said goodnight to him?
- Jackie: [laughing] Oh god, how did I say it?
- Tony Manero: It was sweet, it was like syrup. I-I-I had a cavity just listening to it.
- Tony Manero: So what you're sayin' is, I've always been this bastard, but it's all right, 'cause, like, it comes natural to me?
- Mrs. Manero: Yeah, somethin' like that, yeah.
- Tony Manero: Yeah?
- Mrs. Manero: Yeah. Yeah. Double yeah.
- Tony Manero: I didn't think you was the musician type, I-I-I never thought that.
- Jackie: Oh come on Tony, you know he plays rhythm guitar at the club...
- Tony Manero: [cutting her off] That guy plays rhythm guitar? Oh, that's the worst! That's the absolute worst. Everybody in the world you knows you can't trust a guy who plays rhythm guitar.
- Jackie: [laughing] Oh god...
- Tony Manero: Look, underneath them curls is a pervert, I can feel it.
- Tony Manero: In case you don't know this, I used to be pretty incredible myself when I lived in Brooklyn.
- Laura: Really? What happened?
- Tony Manero: I moved to Manhattan.
- Tony Manero: Well, if I don't see you anymore, nice meeting you, and nice being insulted by you.
- Laura: My pleasure.
- Tony Manero: Last time I came over, I almost got brain damaged. You guys party too hard; you ought to be a tag team.
- Jackie: Look, if it happens, good. If it doesn't, it's not gonna bother me.
- Tony Manero: How could you think that way?
- Jackie: You know a woman's career as a dancer is half as long as a man's. So that means I have half as many chances as you do of making it. Right? I've gotta be real with myself.
- Tony Manero: [peering through her door] I just wanted to tell you, I think you're an incredible dancer.
- Laura: [smiling, then turning away] Thank you very much.
- Tony Manero: I'm a friend of Jackie Cole's, I'm Tony Manero.
- Laura: [smiling, disinterested] It's important to have friends.
- Tony Manero: [opening the door, trying to be suave] Yeah I was just saying that this morning over breakfast.
- Tony Manero: [motioning to Jackie, who leans back onto stage] I just wanted to tell you, if I don't see you again you got beautiful legs.
- Jesse: [to the dancers] You gotta improvise...
- Jackie: [giggling, to Tony] So do you.
- Jesse: [to Jackie] Listen up! If you're finished dancing, move off stage!
- Tony Manero: [whispering to Jackie] You're always causin' trouble, now get outta here.
- Fatima: Tony, come on you're late!
- Tony Manero: Oh, Fatima...
- Fatima: Why are you late?
- Tony Manero: [smart-alecky] Well my Rolls got towed away.
- Fatima: [annoyed] Don't play, we've got people here.
- Tony Manero: [charming] Fatima, if I gave a million dollars would you still be mad at me?
- Fatima: Sure.
- Tony Manero: [smirking incredulously] You would? Still? That's a lovely dress you got on, I can see the
- [motioning to her cleavage]
- Tony Manero: mmm, sexy.
- [She's unimpressed. Tony gives up]
- Tony Manero: . Fatima, nothing's workin' today, here, here's a quater
- [hands her the coin]
- Tony Manero: There's the down payment on that million dollars.
- Fatima: Think I won't keep it? I will keep it.
- [She walks away]
- Tony Manero: [smirking] I know you will take it.