Swing Shift (1984)

Christine Lahti: Hazel Zanussi

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Quotes 

• Hazel : Hey, buddy, who do you think you are?

  Moon Willis : I'm gonna' tell you who I am: I'm Moon Willis, and I've been workin' in this damn place for 12 long years, this is *my* parking space and I ain't about to lose it to a bunch of fly-by-night women like you! Huh-uhh... You don't belong here! None of ya'!

• Kay Walsh : I was in love!

  Hazel : Shut up!

• Hazel : [singing]  I wasn't thinking about romance, I didn't even give love a chance, I didn't believe that dreams came true, And suddenly I saw you...

• Hazel : Look, all you gotta say is, "Listen, you big ape. You ever pull that on me again, I'll slap your ears off."

• Kay Walsh : Come on. What are you gonna do? You're off tomorrow. You're gonna sit at home? What are you gonna do?

  Hazel : Oh, I thought I could whip up a batch of victory fudge.

• Hazel : Peewee, where'd you get that dress? The museum?

  Kay Walsh : No good, huh?

  Hazel : You got a swell shape, sweetheart. Why are you afraid to show it?

  Kay Walsh : Jack doesn't like revealing things.

  Hazel : So? Let him wear it.

• Kay Walsh : Who would have thought this would happen to us?

  Hazel : So, what are we gonna do about this?

  Kay Walsh : We'll all be friends. What else?

• Hazel : You're on your own, sweetheart.

  Kay Walsh : There's a word for you.

  Hazel : Just stay away from me!

  Kay Walsh : Only I can't say it. Oh, yes, I can. Whore!

  Hazel : Did you call me a whore?

  Kay Walsh : Yeah. Did you see anybody else I could be speaking to?

  Hazel : You're the whore, sweetheart.

  Kay Walsh : You're a bigger whore!

• Hazel : [final lines]  Kay.

  Kay Walsh : Hazel.

  [both hug and cry] 

  Kay Walsh : We showed 'um didn't we.

  Hazel : Boy, did we ever.

• Lucky Lockhart : So what about you? You like good music?

  Hazel : You addressing me?

  Lucky Lockhart : Correct.

  Hazel : You're barking up the wrong tree, mister.

  Lucky Lockhart : My mother always said someday I'd meet a wonderful girl like you.

• Biscuits Toohey : Something in our life keeps bringing you and me together, huh? I'm shipping out tonight.

  Hazel : Tonight?

  Biscuits Toohey : Yeah. I'm glad, though. Because now I can tell you I'm sorry. For Frankie, the broads, the promises, everything. I messed up real bad with you, Hazel.

  Hazel : You talk like you're going to die or something.

• Hazel : What about you, Jack, and Lucky? That made a real pretty picture, Kay.

  Kay Walsh : That was me and Jack and Lucky! This is me and you and Lucky!

  Lucky Lockhart : All right, that's it. You two don't need me.

• Second Interviewer : Swing shift, 60 cents an hour.

  Hazel : Swing shift?

  Second Interviewer : Swing shift: four to midnight. Okay?

  Hazel : [sarcastically]  Great.