best Dirty Dancing quotes and lines

Publish date: 2024-06-11

In the film he played Johnny Castle, a dance instructor who wins the affection of young holiday maker Frances "Baby" Houseman, played by Jennifer Grey.

Their sparky exchanges helped propel the film to the top of the Box Office charts, netting hundreds of millions of pounds worldwide.

Here are a selection of Swayze's most famous lines from the film. Which others do you recall?

1) "Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame."

2) "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

3) "Now, you'll hurt me if you don't trust me, all right?"

4) "You don't understand the way it is, I mean for somebody like me. Last month, I'm eating Jujubes to keep alive, and this month, women are stuffing diamonds in my pocket, I'm balancing on s--- as quick as that, I could be down there again."

5) "You just put your pickle on everybody's plate, college boy, and leave the hard stuff to me."

6) "Look, you've gotta understand what it's like Baby, you come from the streets and suddenly you're up here, and these women are throwing themselves at ya, and they smell so good, and they really take care of themselves, [getting dressed] I mean I never knew women could be like that, you know? And they're so rich, they're so goddamn rich, you think they must know about everything. And they're slipping their room keys in my hands, two and three times day, different women. So here I think I'm scoring big and for a while you think, hey, they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't care about me, right?"

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