Flashdance (1983)

Michael Nouri: Nick Hurley

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Quotes 

• Nick : Don't you understand? When you give up your dream, you die.

• Nick : I'll bring him a doggy bag if you'll have dinner with me.

  Alex Owens : I told you, I don't think it's a good idea to go out with the boss.

  Nick : OK. Have it your way. You're fired. I'll pick you up tomorrow at eight.

• Nick : When I was a kid all I wanted was to be able to afford to eat in restaurants like this.

  Alex Owens : Were you poor?

  Nick : I was so poor I had hand-me-down lunches.

• Nick : So, what's a dancer doing working as a welder?

  Alex Owens : A girl's got to make a living.

• Pete : Number 174. 631503.

  Nick : Pete, I don't want her zip code.

  Pete : It's her Social Security number, asshole. She works for you.

• Nick : You're Alex.

  Alex Owens : I know.

  Nick : I'm Nick Hurley.

  Alex Owens : Really? I've seen your name on my paychecks.

• Alex Owens : [the next day after the ballet]  Save your money.

  Nick : I'm just buying your lunch.

  Alex Owens : [coldly]  I don't want you buying me anything! I don't want you buying me, period!

  Nick : What's your problem today?

  Alex Owens : I didn't know you were such a ballet fan. I thought you just liked it in private. How quickly they forget.

  [gets in his face] 

  Alex Owens : At the dance benefit, the blonde in the white dress. Who's the Goddamn blonde, Nick?

  [she storms off, and Nick follows] 

  Nick : Hey? Hey?

  [a pickup truck stops, separating them] 

  Nick : What the hell's going on around here? Has everyone gone crazy? Last night some idiot throws a rock through my window, and...

  Alex Owens : [cuts him off, screaming almost incoherently]  *I broke your fuckin' window!*

  Nick : What?

  Alex Owens : [calmly now]  You heard me. I smashed your stupid window.

  Nick : [incensed]  Are you crazy? Are you out of your Goddamn mind?

  Alex Owens : Maybe.

  [turns away] 

  Nick : [walks around the truck, following her again]  Cost me $170! I had to special order it!

  Alex Owens : [turns back to him while still walking]  You got the Goddamn money! Go fuck the blonde!

  Nick : She's my ex-wife! We have an agreement! I met her once a Goddamn year, and I have to take her to the stupid benefit!

  [pauses] 

  Nick : Why am I explaining myself?

  [calmly] 

  Nick : You didn't have to break my window.

  Alex Owens : [calmly]  I know. I did because it just pissed me off.

  [they then seem to make up quickly and walk off together while the other workers cheer] 

• Nick : [watching Alex eat with her fingers at a 5 star restaurant]  How's the lobster?

  Alex Owens : [seductively places more lobster in her mouth, licks her lips]  It sucks.

  Nick : Want some of mine?

  Alex Owens : [slowly pulls her middle finger out of her mouth]  I'm hungry. Thanks.

  Nick : Whatever turns you on.

  Alex Owens : What turns you on?

• Katie Hurley : Has he taken you to the steel mill yet?

  Nick : That's enough, Katie.

  Katie Hurley : He likes to go there on his first date. It was your first date, wasn't it?

  Alex Owens : Yeah, it was. As a matter of fact, I fucked his brains out.

  Katie Hurley : Ha-ha-ha. Obviously, you did. Charmed.

• Nick : [re gigantic pit bull, Grunt]  What was he before he was a dog?

• [first lines] 

  Nick : l'll tell you what. l'll give you the Cowboys and three.

  Pete : Three and a half.

  Nick : Take three, be happy.

  Pete : Three and a half. l'm ecstatic.

• Nick : Do that again.

  Alex Owens : What?

  Nick : That dance step you just did.

  Alex Owens : I can't. I was just fooling around. I'm not a dancer like that.

  Nick : What do you mean?

  Alex Owens : I never studied before. I mean, I read books and stuff and I watch; but, I've never taken dance classes. I don't know. There's just all those dancers who want to be watching each other and watching you.

  Nick : But, you dance in front of an audience at the club every night?

  Alex Owens : I know, but, it's different. I never see them. It's like - I go out there and the music starts and you begin to feel it - and your body just starts to move. I know it sounds really silly. But, something inside you just clicks - and you just take off and you're gone. It's like you're somebody else for a second. Some nights I -

  [voice breaking] 

  Alex Owens : some nights I just can't wait to get out there, just so I can disappear.

• Alex Owens : I don't need you tellin' me what to do! And I don't need to hear your shit! I'm not a baby! Now, get the hell out of here and play with your fuckin' Porsche.

  Nick : What you need is a kick in the ass!

• Nick : How about dinner?

  Alex Owens : I can't. I don't have dinner with the boss.

• Nick : If you can't be honest with yourself, how the hell are you going to be honest with me?