Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Amanda Peterson: Cindy Mancini
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Quotes
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[Cindy to Ronald after their fake break-up]
Cindy Mancini : Whatever happens to your popularity, stay yourself, don't change to please others.
Ronald Miller : Me change? Never.
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[the girls are in Cindy's car]
Barbara : Why wouldn't we go out with Ronald. I mean he's cute and sweet...
Patty : And good...
[Cindy and Barbara stares at her]
Patty : Come on, a lady never talks.
Cindy Mancini : Well I'll have to remember that the next time I see one.
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Cindy Mancini : The moon looks different now, it's not as mysterious or romantic as before.
Ronald Miller : I'm sorry I ruined it for you.
Cindy Mancini : You didn't ruin it, you just changed it I guess.
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Chuckie Miller : You nuked my brother.
Cindy Mancini : What?
Chuckie Miller : You took him from "geek" status to "king" status to no status.
Cindy Mancini : Chuckie Miller, right? He resorted to sending his messenger boy?
Chuckie Miller : Boy? I see no boy here.
[Cindy puts powder on his face]
Chuckie Miller : You think you shut me up?
Cindy Mancini : I didn't? Well, let me try again.
[attempts to put lipstick on Chuckie]
Chuckie Miller : [leaves]
[says to his friends]
Chuckie Miller : Babe said it was good for my complexion.
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Cindy Mancini : Iris? Oh yeah, she's a big conquest. She's given more rides than Greyhound!
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Cindy Mancini : You! Even Bobby thinks we went out. Great, huh? Ha! All of you thought we were a couple. What a joke!... Ronald Miller paid me 1,000 bucks to pretend I liked him. What a deal, huh? $1,000 to go out with him for a month. This guy. Oh, God. He bought me. And he bought all of you. He was sick and tired of being a nobody. Yeah, and he said that all of you guys would worship him if we went out. And I didn't believe that. I was, like, no way! And he was right! No, leave me alone. He was right. Our little plan worked, didn't it, Ronald? The dance. That stupid dance! What a bunch of followers you guys are. I mean, at least I got... At least I got paid.
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Mrs. Mancini : First he's a geek, and then you start going out with him. Then he's a geek again. Honey, I don't know what a geek is.
Cindy Mancini : I guess, at the present time, a geek is Ronald Miller.
Mrs. Mancini : Who says?
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[Ronald walks the cool hallway for the first time and begin to talk to the girls]
Patty : Didn't you like, used to mow our lawn?
Ronald Miller : Yes, and you have the nicest pair of rhododendrons in town!
Patty : Rhodo-who's?
Cindy Mancini : Guys, I'll meet you at home.
Barbara : What did he say?
Patty : I don't care! I dig his shirt...
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Cindy Mancini : Are you high?
Ronald Miller : I want to rent you.
Cindy Mancini : You want to rent me?
Ronald Miller : Yeah. You pretend you like me and we go out for a few weeks... and that will make me popular.
Cindy Mancini : Just going out with me is not gonna make you popular.
Ronald Miller : Well I have a thousand dollars that says it will.
Cindy Mancini : I think you've mowed one too many lawns!
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Ronald Miller : What's his name, Biff?
Cindy Mancini : Don't give me that! His name happens to be Brent!
Ronald Miller : Is there a difference?
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Cindy Mancini : Guys, take a look at forehead... do you see a sign that says information?
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Patty : Cool outfit!
Barbara : What a severe suede!
Cindy Mancini : You guys, it's no big deal. Bobby sent it to me from Iowa. You know they have fine leathers down there.
Patty : Oh, yeah. The best leathers come from Rome, Paris, and Des Moines!
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Patty : Didn't you like, used to mow our lawn?
Ronald Miller : Yes, and you have the nicest pair of rhododendrons in town!
Patty : Rhodo-who's?
Cindy Mancini : Guys, I'll see you in home ec, OK?
Barbara : What did he say?
Patty : I don't care! Dig on his shirt...
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Quint : [to Ronald as he's sitting in the popular section of the cafeteria] . Aren't you in the wrong section? *Losers* are to the left!
Cindy Mancini : Then, I guess you'll be making a right.
[Quint gives her a look]
Cindy Mancini : That's the *asshole* section!
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Fran : My Mom won't let me *near* suede. Too hard to clean.
Cindy Mancini : I know. My Mom feels the same way.
