Eddie and the Cruisers - Striving for Greatness Amidst Doubt and Disagreement
Doc Robbins: [to Eddie; Eddie pushes him far back]
Are you crazy? We had the money in our hands and you blew it. You blew it!
Sal Amato:
Eddie, you're wrong! You're wrong! Now listen to me, I love you. I've known you longer than anyone else. But you're wrong. They want "On the Dark Side"! Why are we giving them some damn opera? I don't even know what you're after!
Eddie Wilson:
I want something great. I want something that nobody's ever done before!
Sal Amato:
Why? We ain't great. We're just some guys from Jersey.
Eddie Wilson:
If you can't be great, than there's no sense in ever playing music again, Sal.
Sal Amato: [to Frank]
Blame this on you. It was you! We were doing good till you came along. And you got us all screwed up!
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Eddie and the Cruisers - Conflict Over Creative Aspirations and Reality
Doc Robbins:
Damn it. What the hell are you doing?
Lew Eisen:
I've heard enough. Tell him to just relax.
Doc Robbins: [about Eddie's album]
There's nothing can't be fixed, am I right?
Lew Eisen: [to Eddie]
This won't fix, this is a disaster. You want to be a poet? Try Greenwich Village.
Doc Robbins:
Listen, Lew, another couple of weeks. We've been working for months.
Lew Eisen:
Doc, take six weeks. I still wouldn't know what to do with it.
Eddie Wilson: [angrily to Lew, with Sal and Kenny holding him back]
You want to know what you can do with it? I'll tell you what you can do with it, you son of a bitch!
Lew Eisen:
Hey! I put up ten grand, and I expect something for my money. This is what I've waiting a year for? A bunch of jerk-offs making weird sounds? You're not gonna see a red penny!
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Eddie and the Cruisers - Nerves Before a College Performance
Sal Amato:
Hey, Wordman, this shindig tonight. How are we suppose to dress?
Frank Ridgeway:
Hey, wait a minute. What is the big deal? We've played at colleges before.
Eddie Wilson:
Yeah, sure, we played at "St. Something" down in Delaware and "Fairly Ridiculous" up in Madison, but we ain't never played at no finishing school like this. This is a mistake, we don't belong here. These people are different.
Frank Ridgeway:
I'm telling you they're gonna eat us up. They're just a bunch of college kids, no better than you...
Eddie Wilson: [interrupting]
Hey! I didn't say better, I said different. You oughta remember that.
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Eddie and the Cruisers - Disagreement Over Song Tempo
Eddie Wilson: [getting ready to practice "Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes"; starts the song]
Let's get on with the music. 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4. Hold it, hold it! Wait a minute, wait a minute!
Sal Amato:
What the matter?
Eddie Wilson:
What's the matter, where you racing to, where's the fire?
Sal Amato:
No fire. That's the way the song was written, it goes that way: upbeat. What's the problem?
Eddie Wilson:
The problem is I'm just saying words. You know, you got to give me a little room so people will know what I'm singing about.
Sal Amato:
Hey, you lose the beat, people miss a step, we want them to dance.
Eddie Wilson:
Lose a beat, miss a step. What a you a moron, Sal?
Sam Amato:
Do you believe this guy?
Eddie Wilson:
Look, Sal, I like your stuff. But it just ain't what I was looking for. You understand?
Sal Amato:
Forget it, you had your mind made up before you ever started. So what am I knocking myself out for?
Eddie Wilson:
Look, I don't want to argue with you, Sal. Do you want to get another opinion on the subject?
Sal Amato:
No! Forget it.
Eddie Wilson:
Joann, what do you think?
Sal Amato:
What are you asking her for?
Eddie Wilson:
Why not ask her, she's got brain?
Sal Amato:
I don't know anything? She knows, huh? Everybody you bring into this band is an expert, except Sally. Sally's just a dumb guinea, right?
Eddie Wilson: [looking at Frank]
You dumb guinea. Hey, kid, come here.
Frank Ridgeway:
Who, me?
Eddie Wilson:
Yeah, you, come here.
Eddie Wilson:
Now, you heard what we're talking about. What do you think?
Frank Ridgeway: [agreeing with Eddie]
I think he's right, I think it needs a caesura.
Eddie Wilson: [pointing to himself]
See, my way with a caesurian.
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Eddie and the Cruisers - Struggling with Loss and Performance Expectations
Eddie Wilson: [to the audience, a few days after Wendell Newton's death; walks off the stage]
The other day, I buried one of my best friends. He was the best sax player I ever heard. And they tell me I gotta come up here and entertain you people now. I don't think I'll be able to do that.
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Eddie and the Cruisers - Celebrating the Illusion of Greatness
Eddie Wilson: [looks at the mirror; smashes the mirror; shouts and claps his hands]
You actually believe that you could build a castle out of a bunch of junk. What a crock. Holy shit. What a phony. Here we are, guys. Right where we belong. You got your Edsels,... Norges,... Dumonts... and Eddie Wilson. Together at last, creating our own incredible monument to nothing! Here's to nothing, fellas! Here's to nothing!
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Eddie and the Cruisers - The Desire for Lasting Music
Eddie Wilson: [to Frank; Frank nods]
Joann was telling me you write music, thinks that might be good. I can give you a try. What I want is songs that echo. The stuff we're doing now is like somebody's bedsheets. Spread em out, soil em, ship em out to laundry, you know? But our songs... I want to be able to fold ourselves up in them forever. You understand? That's the most you'll ever get out of me, Wordman, ever.
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Eddie and the Cruisers - Exploring the Allure of the Dark Side
Eddie Wilson: [singing]
The dark side is calling now, nothing is real / She'll never know just how I feel / From out of a shadow, she walks like a dream / Makes me feel crazy, makes me feel so mean / Ain't nothing gonna save you from a love that is blind / Slip to the dark side across that line / On the dark side, oh yeah / On the dark side, oh yeah
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The Philadelphia Experiment - Navy Service and Romance Expectations
Allison Hayes:
Why'd you join the Navy?
David Herdeg:
You know the old saying: girl in every port.
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The Philadelphia Experiment - Perceptions of Television in Different Eras
Major Clark:
So, what did you think of 1984?
David Herdeg:
Television was great.
Major Clark:
You didn't see enough of it.
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The Philadelphia Experiment - Reality Check During a Television Speech
David Herdeg: [sees [[Ronald Reagan]
] giving a speech on television] Hey, I know this guy. Is this another movie?
Allison Hayes: [smiles]
No, David, it's not another movie.
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The Philadelphia Experiment - Mirage in the Desert
Jim Parker:
Isn't that - water up ahead?
David Herdeg:
No. This is a desert. And that's a mirage.
Jim Parker: [later, walking through the flooded plain]
How much longer you think this mirage is gonna last?
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The Philadelphia Experiment - Navy Back Pay Claim by David Herdeg
David Herdeg:
You know, I got it all figured out... Navy owes me 40 years back pay.
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The Philadelphia Experiment - Shifting Alliances in Global Politics
David Herdeg:
I can't believe this! Germany and Japan are our friends, and Russia's the enemy now?
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The Philadelphia Experiment - Questioning the Possibility of the Experiment
David Herdeg:
This now, this time, it's not ours. We weren't here when it happened. The experiment took place on a ship in a Philadelphia harbor. It was - 1943, October. Does this sound... crazy? You know, or is this sort of thing possible now?
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The Virgin Suicides - Reflection on Lost Connection and Change
Adult Trip Fontaine:
I liked her a lot, but it was different out on the field. I never saw her again.
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The Virgin Suicides - The Still Point of a Turning World
Adult Trip Fontaine:
She was the still point of the turning world, man.
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The Lincoln Lawyer - Questioning Morality in Legal Representation
Detective Kurlen: [to Haller in crowded elevator]
How does someone like you sleep at night with all the scum you represent?
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