Xanadu (1980)
Gene Kelly: Danny McGuire
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Quotes
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Danny McGuire : Hey, do you like Glenn Miller?
Sonny : Do you like rock 'n' roll?
Danny McGuire : I love rock 'n' roll.
Sonny : I love Glenn Miller.
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Danny McGuire : I've been known to twinkle a toe or two.
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Danny McGuire : Don't tell anyone, but I'm nervous.
Kira : What about?
Danny McGuire : I haven't had a club opening since... 1945. Wow.
Kira : Then just pretend it's 1945 all over again.
Danny McGuire : [looks fondly at Kira] I don't have to pretend. It *is* 1945 all over again.
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Sonny : [Sonny hears a clarinet being played, and goes to investigate, finding Danny McGuire sitting on some rocks] Hey mister, what are you doing up there?
Danny McGuire : Hope you don't mind a little noon-time music, kid. A little lunch time serenade.
Sonny : Oh, I don't mind. It's kinda nice. But I was just wondering where they laid out the body. I mean, you got something a little more upbeat?
Danny McGuire : Sure!
[Plays a short, lively upbeat piece]
Danny McGuire : Better?
Sonny : [chuckles] Well, at least it's faster!
Danny McGuire : [chuckles] Here, gimme a hand kid.
Sonny : Sure.
Danny McGuire : Boy oh boy, they sure don't make rocks like they used to!
Sonny : Want some popcorn?
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Danny McGuire : Kid can you imagine it?
Sonny : Imagine what?
Danny McGuire : A bandstand. Right over there in that corner. And a big band, like in the 40's
Sonny : Nah, nah, nah. Bandstands went out with running boards. Over there. A great rock 'n' roll band. This is the 80's!
Danny McGuire : Real smooth dancers... wild trombone... the band decked out in tuxedos.
Sonny : Six guys wearing electric orange... synthesizer... heavy precussion... electric guitar.
Danny McGuire : Lots of glamour. Everybody dressed in elegance and style.
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Sonny : You ever think about going back into music?
Danny McGuire : Oh, only about 20 or 30 times a day.
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Danny McGuire : [after Sonny drives off of the edge of the pier] You're a real Errol Flynn, kid... what else do you do?
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Danny McGuire : Malone and McGuire, sounds like a Vaudeville act.
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Danny McGuire : Kira, I want you to promise me one thing.
Kira : Anything!
Danny McGuire : On opening night, I get the first dance.
Kira : Okay.
Sonny : You're gonna dance?
Danny McGuire : Oh, I've been known to twinkle a toe or two.
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Sonny : Dreams die.
Danny McGuire : No. No, no, no. Not by themselves. We - we kill them!
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Kira : In Xanadu, did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree...
Danny McGuire : "Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea." Yes, Xanadu.
Kira : I'm Kira.
Danny McGuire : Yes, Kira. But...
Kira : But?
Danny McGuire : Don't I know you?
Kira : I don't think so.
Danny McGuire : Are you sure? Because...
Kira : Because?
Danny McGuire : Never mind.
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Danny McGuire : You know, I used to be in the music business, but now I'm what you might call retired. It's a refined name for bum.
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Danny McGuire : Well, where ever it is you go, let's go!
