Quotes
 Steff: Money really means nothing to me. Do you think I`d treat my parents` house this way if it did? Principal: If you give off signals that you don`t want to belong, people will make sure that you don`t.
Iona: Does he have... strong lips?
Andie: How can you tell?
Iona: Did you feel it in your knees?
Andie: I felt it everywhere.
Iona: Strong lips.
[laughs]
Iona: I know I`m old enough to be his mother, but when the Duck laid that kiss on me last night, I swear my thighs just went up in flames! He must practice on melons or something.
Steff: I`ve been out with a lot of girls at this school. I don`t see what makes you so different.
Andie: I have some taste.
Duckie: May I admire you again today?
Duckie: This is a really volcanic ensemble you`re wearing, it`s really marvelous!
Duckie: What now?
Andie: Bed.
Duckie: Yours or mine? Ours?
Blane: You said you couldn`t be with someone who didn`t believe in you. Well I believed in you. You just didn`t believe in me. I love you... always.
Andie: I just want them to know that they didn`t break me.
Blane: How are you doing?
Andie: Why haven`t you called me?
Blane: Oh, I got nailed for the stable thing. I guess the groom saw us. It`s against the rules.
Andie: I called you three times and i left messages.
Blane: Yeah? Well I didn`t get them. My family... they`re irresponsible about that stuff, you know?
Andie: I waited for you this morning.
Blane: Yeah? Where?
Andie: Parking lot. I saw you and I thought you saw me.
Blane: No.
Andie: What about prom, Blane?
Blane: Andie, I`m having a bad day. Can we talk later?
Andie: No. What about prom?
Blane: Why don`t we meet after school?
Andie: No! What abot prom?
Blane: Andie, come on.
Andie: Just say it.
Blane: What?
Andie: Just say it. I wanna hear you say it.
Blane: Andie, please, all right?
Andie: I wanna hear you say it.
Blane: A month ago, I asked somebody else and I forgot.
[Andie pushes him against a locker]
Andie: YOu`re a liar! You`re a filthy, fucking, no-good liar. You don`t have the guts to tell me the truth. Just say it!
Blane: I`m not lying.
Andie: Tell me!
Blane: What do you want to hear?
Andie: Tell me!
Blane: What?
Andie: You`re ashamed to be seen with me.
Blane: No, I am not!
Andie: You`re ashamed to go out with me. You`re terrified that you`re goddamn rich friends won`t approve.
[Andie hits Blane]
Andie: Just say it!
[Andie hits him again]
Andie: Just tell me the truth!
Blane: You don`t understand that it has nothing at all do with you.
[Andie runs away]
Blane: [wipes a tear] Andie!
Duckie: Good Morning! Welcome to another day of higher education!
Duckie: I`m off like a dirty shirt.
Andie: You know your talking like that just because I`m going out with Blane
Duckie: His name is Blane? Oh! That`s a major appliance, that`s not a name!
Duckie: You know what an older women does for me?
Iona: Changes your diapers?
Duckie: Touché.
Andie: What are you doing?
Duckie: I had to use the powder room, so I figured I`d come in the back.
Andie: I`m sure there are bathrooms all over the place!
Duckie: I`m not nine, Andie, I know that.
Andie: Were you here long?
Duckie: No, no! Three, four... hours.
Duckie: We don`t have none of this stuff in the boy`s room! Wait a minute! We don`t got none of this... we don`t got doors on the stalls in the boy`s room, we don`t have, what is this? What`s this? We don`t have a candy machine in the boy`s room!
Andie: I don`t know what I`m doing!
Iona: Wishful make-upping!
Andie: May I admire you?
Duckie: If you wish!
Andie: If somebody doesn`t believe in me, I can`t believe in them.
Blane: You couldn`t buy her, though, that`s what`s killing you, isn`t it? Stef? That`s it, Stef. She thinks you`re shit. And deep down, you know she`s right.
Duckie: This is an incredibly romantic moment, and you`re ruining it for me!
Duckie: It`s the end of the month, they`re out of toilet seat covers!
Andie: Well, not nothing. I mean, I kissed him...
Iona: Anywhere interesting?
Steff: That girl was, is, and always will be nada!
Duckie: It`s called a sense of humor - you should get one - they`re nice.
Steff: Andie, you`re a bitch.
Duckie: Well, that`s very nice. I`m glad. Well here`s... here`s the point, Andie. I`m not particularly concerned with whether or not you like me, because I live to like you and... and I can`t like you anymore. So... so when you`re feeling real low and... and dirty, don`t look to me to pump you back up `cause... `cause... `cause maybe for the first time in your life I WON`T BE THERE!
Iona: Andie, hon. Listen, it`s after 7:00. Don`t waste good lip gloss.
Duckie: [as he is leaving Andies` room with a juice box in hand] Drinking and driving don`t mix.
Duckie: That`s why I ride a bike.
Iona: [finishes stapling records to the window display] Applause, applause, APPLAUSE.
Duckie: God, Andie, I`d`ve died for you!
Blane: How you doin’?
steff: Why don`t you go to take a shower, you look like shit.
Andie: You know, it`s so insane that someone you`ve never met, never talked to can be your enemy.
Bouncer at CATS: Love`s a bitch, Duck. Love`s a bitch.
Andie: So what do you want to drink?
Duckie: Oh you know, beer, scotch, juice box... whatever.
Duckie: Yo man! Next time, I kick your ass!
Steff: [arguing With Blane] What`s her name... Eddie?
Trivia
Filmed in the same L.A. high school where Grease (1978) was made.
The original ending to this film depicted Duckie getting the girl. However, the test audiences said they would have preferred to see Blane win Andie`s heart. Additionally, Molly Ringwald was sick during the filming of the ending and John Hughes wasn`t satisfied with the editing. He was also concerned that audiences would take the original ending as a message that poor people and rich people don`t belong together.
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# The Rave-Ups are the band playing in the club scene. Star Molly Ringwald was apparently a fan of their music and her sister had a child with one of the band members. Also, in Sixteen Candles (1984), "The Rave-Ups" is scrawled on the notebook Molly`s character is carrying while walking down a corridor after study hall.
"If You Leave", performed by Andy McCluskey, was not the original song Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark had composed for this movie. Their song "Goddess of Love" was the original composition, but it did not fit when the ending was changed.
The movie is dedicated to Alexa Kenin and Bruce Weintraub. Kenin, who played Jena, was murdered in New York just after the movie was released.
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# When the ending was re-shot, all of the principal actors had to be called back. Andrew McCarthy had already lost a substantial amount of weight and shaved his head for a new role in a New York play called "The Boys of Winter". Although he wore an auburn wig, he`s noticeably more gaunt in the re-shot scenes.
There are two bands performing in the club that Andie frequents. One is The Rave-Ups, performing "Rave Up/Shut Up" and the other band is The Talkback, which performs the song "Rudy".
This is Molly Ringwald`s favorite among her own films.
Anthony Michael Hall turned down the role of Duckie.
"Simon" is played by Dweezil Zappa and there is a sign inside the Trax music store that says "Dweezil" is the Pick of the Week. He was also Molly Ringwald`s boyfriend at the time.
The book Andie hands to Blaine the second time he comes into Trax is "In His Own Write" by John Lennon.
Robert Downey Jr. was almost cast as Duckie when the ending had Andie getting together with Duckie. Per Molly Ringwald, this ending may have stuck if Downey won the role because he didn`t give her the "brother vibe" Jon Cryer did.
Howard Deutch`s directorial debut.
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Molly Ringwald
(as Andie Walsh)
with Andrew McCarthy
(as Blane McDonnagh)
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