Rent (2005)

Tracie Thoms: Joanne Jefferson

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• Mimi , Joanne : I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had! Someone to live for, unafraid to say I love you.

• Mark : Where'd you learn to tango?

  Joanne : With the French Ambassador's daughter in her dorm room at Miss Porter's. And you?

  Mark : With Nanette Himmelfarb, the Rabbi's daughter, at the Scarsdale Jewish Community Center.

• Maureen : You know what, Miss Ivy League? I can't take much more of this. This obsessive, compulsive, control-freak, paranoia.

  Joanne : What?

  Maureen : I didn't pierce my nipples 'cause it grossed you out. I didn't stay at the Kink Club last night because you wanted to go home.

  Joanne : You were flirting with the woman in rubber.

  Maureen : There will always be women in rubber flirting with me! Give me a break!

• Mark : [sung]  The opposite of war isn't peace!

  Joanne : What is?

  Mark : It's creation!

• All : [sung]  No other road / No other way / No day but today

  Mimi , Joanne , Maureen : [sung]  I can't control / My destiny

  Mark , Roger , Collins , Angel , Benjamin Coffin III : [sung]  Will I lose my dignity / Will someone care

  Mimi , Joanne , Maureen : [sung]  I trust my soul / My only goal / Is just to be

  Mark , Roger , Collins , Angel , Benjamin Coffin III : [sung]  Will I wake tomorrow / From this nightmare

  Mimi , Joanne , Maureen : [sung]  Without you / The hand gropes

  Mark , Roger , Collins , Angel , Benjamin Coffin III : [sung]  There's only now / There's only here

  Mimi , Joanne , Maureen : [sung]  The ear hears / The pulse beats

  Mark , Roger , Collins , Angel , Benjamin Coffin III : [sung]  Give in to love / Or live in fear

  Mimi , Joanne , Maureen : [sung]  Life goes on / But I'm gone

  Mark , Roger , Collins , Angel , Benjamin Coffin III : [sung]  No other path / No other way

  Mimi , Joanne , Maureen : [sung]  'Cause I die / Without you / I die without you

  Mark , Roger , Collins , Angel , Benjamin Coffin III : [sung]  No day but today / No day but today

  Mimi , Joanne , Maureen : [sung]  I die without you / I die without you

  Mark , Roger , Collins , Angel , Benjamin Coffin III : [sung]  No day but today / No day but today

  Mimi , Joanne , Maureen : [sung]  I die without you / I die without you

  Mark , Roger , Collins , Angel , Benjamin Coffin III : [sung]  No day but today / No day but today

  All : [sung]  NO DAY BUT TODAY!

• Joanne : [about Maureen]  She cheated...

  Mark : She cheated.

  Joanne : Maureen cheated...

  Mark : Fucking cheated.

  Joanne : I'm defeated, I should give up right now.

  Mark : Gotta look on the bright side with all of your might...

  Joanne : I'd fall for her still, anyhow.

  Joanne , Mark : When you're dancing her dance you don't stand a chance. Her grip on romance makes you fall.

  Mark : So you think, "Might as well - "

  Joanne : Dance a tango to Hell.

  Joanne , Mark : At least I'll have tangoed at all.

• Collins , Mark , Maureen , Mimi , Joanne , Angel , Roger Davis : To people living with, living with, living with... not dying from disease. Let he among us without sin be the first to condem La Vie Boheme.

• Joanne : Take me for what I am!

  Maureen : A control freak!

  Joanne : Who I was meant to be!

  Maureen : A snob yet over attentive!

  Joanne : and if you give a damn!

  Maureen : A loveable droll geek!

  Joanne : Take me baby or leave me!

  Maureen : And anal retentive!

• Mark : Has she ever pouted her lips and called you Pookie?

  Joanne : Never.

  Mark : Have you ever doubted a kiss or two?

  Joanne : This is spooky.

• Collins , Mark , Maureen , Roger , Mimi , Joanne : No day but today!

• Joanne : [sung]  This is weird.

  Mark : [sung]  It's weird.

  Joanne : [sung]  Very weird

  Mark : [sung]  Fucking weird.

  Joanne : [sung]  I'm so mad that I don't know what to do. Fighting with microphones, freezing down to my bones, and to top it all off, I'm with you!

  Mark : [sung]  Feel like going insane? Got a fire in your brain, and you're thinking of drinking gasoline?

  Joanne : [sung]  As a matter of fact...

  Mark : [sung]  Honey, I know this act: It's called the Tango: Maureen.

• Joanne : [sings]  Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?

• Joanne , Collins , Mark , Angel , Mimi , Maureen , Roger , Benjamin Coffin III : All Its time now to sing out, though the story never ends. Lets celebrate remember the year of the life of friends. Remember the love.

  Joanne : You got to, you got to remember the love.

  Collins , Mark , Angel , Mimi , Maureen , Roger , Benjamin Coffin III : Remember the love.

  Joanne : You know that love us a gift from up above.

  Collins , Mark , Angel , Mimi , Maureen , Roger , Benjamin Coffin III : Remember the love.

  Joanne : Share love, give love, spread love.

• Joanne : [sung]  Did you swoon when she walked through the door?

  Mark : [sung]  Every time, so be... cautious.

  Joanne : [sung]  Did she moon over other boys?

  Mark : [sung]  More than moon.

  Joanne : [sung]  I'm getting nauseuous.

• Mark : [as they Tango]  It's hard to do this backwards.

  Joanne : You should try it in heels.

• Mark : [teasing her]  Pookie!

  Joanne : [looks at him, annoyed]  Shut up!

• Joanne : Didn't give an inch, when I gave a mile!

  Mark : Come on!

  Mimi : I gave a mile!

  Roger : Gave a mile to who?

• Mark : Actually... I feel great now.

  Joanne : I feel lousy.

• Mark : I just sold my soul.

  Joanne : Yeah, for $3000 a segment!

• Joanne : [sung]  She cheated!

  Mark : [sung]  She cheated!

  Joanne : [sung]  Maureen cheated!

  Mark : [sung]  Fucking cheated!

• Joanne : [sung]  Measure your life in love!

• Joanne : Didn't give an inch when I gave a mile!