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Nancy McKeon, Kim Fields, Mindy Cohn, Charlotte Rae, and Lisa Whelchel in The Facts of Life (1979)

Pamela Adlon: Kelly Affinado

Small But Dangerous

The Facts of Life

Pamela Adlon credited as playing...

Kelly Affinado

Quotes10

  • Jo Polniaczek: Kid you're in this store and you're breathing, one of those things has gotta change.
  • Kelly Affinado: Mrs. Garrett, are you gonna let her threaten me like that?
  • Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: Why not? She's good at it.
  • Kelly Affinado: You called me a smurf and a twerp, it got me mad!
  • Jo Polniaczek: Well if you're mad at me, you take it up with me! You don't extort money from my friends!
  • Kelly Affinado: I can't take up anything with you, you don't talk to me! You just call me names and take off!
  • Jo Polniaczek: Well, what do you care what I call you? What do you care what anyone calls you? You are what you are, and what you are is a smurf and a twerp!
  • Kelly Affinado: I remember the first time I saw you. You were working at the motorcycle shop last year.
  • Jo Polniaczek: When were you there?
  • Kelly Affinado: I was there with my dad. He was trying to get his golf cart fixed.
  • Jo Polniaczek: Oh yeah, that guy. He was the one who stripped his gears in a sand trap. How come you remembered me?
  • Kelly Affinado: Are you kidding? In the ten minutes that I was there you fixed an engine, you drained a crankcase, and you tossed a six foot biker out on his tattoo!
  • Jo Polniaczek: All in a day's work.
  • Kelly Affinado: If you can outrun rats you can outrun a guy wearing 50 pounds of leather.
  • Tootie Ramsey: Rats?
  • Kelly Affinado: Every kid needs a pet.
  • Kelly Affinado: You guys aren't giving me a chance.
  • Natalie Green: Why should we, so you can make fools out of us some more, so we can entertain you? Why don't you just get cable?
  • Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: Do you promise?
  • Kelly Affinado: I bet to you a promise is a heavy number isn't it?
  • Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: You better believe it.
  • Kelly Affinado: I want to talk to you!
  • Blair Warner: Sure, what do you want to talk about? School? What courses are you taking this year?
  • Kelly Affinado: Can the courses talk, Barbie doll! We gotta talk business.
  • Blair Warner: Not if you're going to call me 'Barbie doll' we don't.
  • Natalie Green: How old are your brothers and sisters?
  • Kelly Affinado: 12, 10, 9.
  • Tootie Ramsey: I just love big families.
  • Kelly Affinado: [continuing] 8, 6, 6, they're the twins, and 3.
  • Natalie Green: Wow, don't your parents have a TV set?
  • Kelly Affinado: That's the same thing the welfare lady asked.
  • Tootie Ramsey: Welfare lady?
  • Kelly Affinado: Oh hey, it's nothing bad, my dad didn't run out on my mom or nothing, he just hasn't worked in 2 years.
  • Kelly Affinado: [to Mrs. Garrett] What am I supposed to do? My parents are out all the time and I'm stuck in that apartment. I've already raked in a million on Tron. I just wanted to have a place to, like, hang out.
  • Kelly Affinado: It's not so bad, we all live in one room, we all eat out of one pot, we all sleep in one bed, poverty keeps you close.

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