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Strictly Ballroom Quotes (1992)
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Famous Strictly Ballroom Quotations
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While the plot of this Australian film may seem a bit familiar (The Ugly Duckling meets Dirty Dancing), the whimsical tone and superb dance sequences will make you forget the movie's predictability. Scott (Paul Mercurio) is a champion ballroom dancer who wants to dance "his own steps." Fran is the homely, beginning dancer who convinces Scott that he should dance his own steps... with her. Complicating matters are Scott's domineering mother (Pat Thompson), a former dancer herself, who wants her son to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championship (the same contest she lost years ago), and a conniving dance committee that is determined that "there are no new steps!" The dancing is enjoyable, yet not overwhelming, and the movie strives hard not to take itself too seriously (the beginning of the film is even styled as a pseudo-documentary). Strictly Ballroom, while not so subtly imparting its moral ("A life lived in fear is a life half-lived"), is a laughable romp that's sure to be a crowd pleaser. --Jenny Brown
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- Barry Fife: If you can't dance a step, you can't teach it, and if you can't teach it - we might as well all pack up and go home. With young Liz available again, you've got a chance to get your status quo vadis back... so to speak. »
- Barry Fife: There are no new steps! »
- Barry Fife: Well, of course, you can dance any steps you like! But that doesn't mean you'll...
Barry Fife: ...win. »
- Barry Fife: Where do you think we'd be if everyone went around making up their own steps?
Scott: Out of a job. »
- Charm: No you don't little miss!
Kylie: Shame on you, Miss Leachman! »
- Doug Hastings: Hard to get the films these days... it's all video, video. »
- Doug Hastings: We had the chance but we were scared. We walked away. WE LIVED OUR LIVES IN FEAR! »
- Fran: A life lived in fear is a life half lived. »
- Fran: What happened to a life lived in fear and all that stuff?
Scott: Fran...
Fran: You really are a gutless wonder!
Scott: There's a reason for this.
Fran: I don't want to hear!
Scott: Listen to me!
Fran: No!
Scott: It's hard for me too, Fran.
Fran: *Hard*? Hard? How hard do you think it's been for *me*? To get you to dance with me in the first place? Frangipannidellasqueegymop. Wash the coffee cups, Fran, how's your skin, Fran? Hard?
Scott: You don't understand.
Fran: I understand. You've got your Pan Pacifics to win, and I'm back in Beginners, where I belong. »
- Kylie: A bit of musicality, please! »
- Liz: I knew you'd come to your senses! »
- Liz: What do I want? I'll tell you what I want! I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now, and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs, and I wanna dance with YOU!'
Ken: Pam Shortt's broken both her legs, and I wanna dance with you.
Kylie: That was unexpected. »
- Liz: Where the man goes, the lady must follow... »
- Scott: I have to help Wayne with his bogo pogo. »
- Scott: I'm bored with it! »
- Scott: I'm just asking you what you think of the steps.
Liz: I don't think! I don't give a shit about them, we lost! »
- Scott: Liz...
Liz: Piss off!
Scott: Liz!
Liz: I'm not dancing with you, all right? I'm not dancing with you 'til you dance like you're supposed to! »
- Scott: Look, a beginner has no right to approach an Open Amateur.
Fran: Yeah, well an Open Amateur has no right to dance non-Federation steps, but you did, didn't you?
Scott: But that's different.
Fran: *How* is it different? You're just like the rest of them! You think you're different, but you're not, because you're just, you're just really scared! You're really scared to give someone new a go, because you think, you know, they might just be better than you are! Well, you're just pathetic, and you're gutless. You're a gutless wonder! Vivir con miedo, es como vivir a medias! »
- Scott: Not now, Dad. »
- Scott: We're telling a story. The rumba is the dance of love. Look at me like you're in love.
Scott: That's it. Good. »
- Wayne: What the hell was that all about?
Wayne: You know, with Fran?
Tina Sparkle: Fran? Wasn't she the girl that um...?
Scott: Where is she?
Scott: Fran.
Tina Sparkle: You know, the girl that fell. »
- Wayne: What's wrong with you?
Scott: That's what I've been trying to find out for the last three weeks, Wayne! What is wrong with me? What is so wrong with the way I dance? »
- Ya Ya: Listen to the rhythm. Don't be scared. »
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