Mimi, Angel: [sung] To hand crafted beers made in local breweries, to yoa, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese. To leather, to dildoes to curry vindaloo. To huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou. Collins, Maureen: [sung] Emotion, devotion to causing a commotion. Creation, vacation... Mark: [sung] Mucho Masturbation.
(43 votes)
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Collins, Angel: I think they meant it when they said you can't buy love. Now I know you can rent it, a new lease you are my love - on life... be my life.
(40 votes)
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[Seconds after Maureen and Joanne break up and storm out of the room] Mrs. Johnson: [to Mark] Maybe now you two could get back together?
(41 votes)
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[about his parents message on the answering machine] Mark: There are times when we're dirt broke, hungry, and freezing, and I ask myself, why the hell am I still living here? [beat] Mark: And then they call. And I remember.
(39 votes)
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[sung] Mark: To days of inspiration, playing hookey, making something out of nothing, the need to express, to communicate. To going against the grain, going insane, going mad. To loving tension, no pension, to more than one dimension, to starving for attention, hating convention, hating pretention, not to mention, of course, hating dear old Mom and Dad. To riding your bike midday past the three-piece suits. To fruits, to no absolutes, to "Absolut." To choice, to the "Village Voice," to any passing fad. To being an "Us" for once, instead of a "Them." La vie Bohème.
(8 votes)
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[first lines] Mark: [after opening song] December 24th, 1989, 9 PM, Eastern Standard Time. From here on in, I shoot without a script. See if anything comes of it, instead of my old shit.
(8 votes)
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Benjamin Coffin III: [about Maureen] Still dating her? Mark: Last month I was dumped. Benjamin Coffin III: She's got a new man? Mark: Well, no. Benjamin Coffin III: What's his name? Mark, Roger: Joanne.
(7 votes)
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Collins: [sung] In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried. In bridges he burned, or the way that she died!
(6 votes)
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Joanne: This is weird. Mark: It's weird. Joanne: Very weird Mark: Fucking weird. Joanne: 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: Feel like going insane? Got a fire in your brain, and you're thinking of drinking gasoline? Joanne: As a matter of fact... Mark: Honey, I know this act: It's called... the tango Maureen.
(5 votes)
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Angel: Today for you, tomorrow for me! Tom: And you should hear her beat. Roger Davis: You earned this on the street? Angel: It was my lucky day today on Avenue A when the lady in the limousine drove my way - she said, "Darling, be a dear - haven't slept in a year! I need your help to make my neighbor's yappy dog disappear! This akita - Evita - just won't shut up! I believe if you play nonstop that pup will breathe its very last high-strung breath. I'm certain that cur will bark itself to death!"
(6 votes)
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Mimi: It's true you sold your guitar and bought a car? Roger Davis: It's true. I'm leaving now for Santa Fe, it's true you're with this yuppie scum? Benjamin Coffin III: You said you'd never speak to him again. Mimi: Not now. Maureen: Who said that you'd have any say in who she says things to at all? Joanne: Who said that you could stick your nose in other people's... Maureen: Who said I was talking to you? Joanne: We used to have this fight each night. Mark: Calm down. Joanne: She'd never admit I existed. Mark: Everyone, please! Mimi: He was the same way. He was always ''Run away! Hit the road! Don't commit!''. You're full of shit! Joanne: She's in denial. Mimi: He's in denial. Joanne: Didn't give an inch, when I gave a mile! Mark: Come on! Mimi: I gave a mile! Roger Davis: Gave a mile to who? Benjamin Coffin III, Mark: Come on, guys, chill! Mimi, Maureen: I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for, unafraid to say ''I love you''. Roger Davis: All your words are nice,Mimi. But love's not a three-way street. You'll never share real love until you love your self, I should know. Collins: You all said you'd be cool today, so please, for my sake. I can't believe he's gone, I can't believe you're going. I can't believe this family must die. Angel helped us believe in love. I can't believe you disagree. Roger Davis, Mimi, Maureen, Benjamin Coffin III, Mark, Joanne, Collins: I can't believe this is... Goodbye.
(4 votes)
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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.
(3 votes)
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Mark: [sung] How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day?
(3 votes)
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Gordon: [sung] I try to open up to what I don't know, because reason says I should have died three years ago...
(3 votes)
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Mark: This is not my bar mitzvah!
(3 votes)
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Maureen: You always said how lucky you were that we were all friends. But it was us, baby, who were the lucky ones.
(2 votes)
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Mimi: I was moving towards... this warm, white light. And I swear... Angel was there. And she looked good. And she said, "Turn around girlfriend, and listen to that boy's song. "
(2 votes)
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Maureen: [in a very slinky rubber cat suit on New Year's Eve - talking to Mark's camera] Hii-yah! Whatchoo doin', huh? Mark: [Filming her] You can take the girl outta Hicksville, but you can't take the Hicksville outta the girl.
(2 votes)
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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.
(2 votes)
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Roger Davis: [sung] All your words are nice Mimi but love's not a three-way street.
(2 votes)
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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.
(2 votes)
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Collins: Gentlemen, our benefactor on this Christmas day, whose charity is only matched by talent, I must say... a new member of the Alphabet city avant-garde... Angel Dumott Schunard!
(2 votes)
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Mimi: Would you light my candle?
(2 votes)
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Mark: [sung] The opposite of war isn't peace! Joanne: What is? Mark: It's creation!
(2 votes)
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Mark: [Pointing to Maureen] Mucho masturbation!
(2 votes)
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Mark: [throwing music posters into the fire] The music ignites the night with passionate fire! Roger Davis: [adding Mark's screenplays to the blaze] The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit!
(2 votes)
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Mimi: [sung] Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
(1 vote)
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Mimi: [sung] In the evening I've got to roam, can't sleep in this city of neon and chrome.
(1 vote)
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Maureen: [sung] Every single day I walk down the street, I hear people say, "Baby, so sweet." Ever since puberty, everybody stares at me. Boys, girls, I can't help it, baby.
(1 vote)
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Roger: [sung] Oh the wax it's Mimi: Dripping. I like it between my Roger: Fingers! I figured. Oh well, goodnight!
(1 vote)
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Mark: How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day? Headlines, breadlines blow my mind, and now this deadline - eviction or pay... rent! Roger: How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong, though they once sounded right and rare? When the notes are sour, where is the power you once had to ignite the air? Mark: We're hungry and frozen... Roger: Some life that we've chosen! Mark, Roger: How we gonna pay, how we gonna pay, how we gonna pay... last year's rent!
(1 vote)
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Life Cafe Waiter: So that's 5 Miso soups, 4 seaweed salads, 3 soy burger dinners, 2 tofu dog platters and one pasta with meatless balls. Roger: Ew. Collins: It tastes the same. Maureen: [Rolls eyes] If you close your eyes!
(1 vote)
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Roger: So why choose fear? Gordon: I'm a New Yorker... fear's my life!
(1 vote)
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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.
(1 vote)
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Collins: Getting dizzy!
(1 vote)
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Mark: [sung] Christmas. Christmas eve, last year. How could a night so frozen by so scalding hot? How can a morning this mild be so raw? Why are entire years strewn on the cutting room floor of memory; when single frames from one magic night forever flicker in close-up on the 3D IMAX of my mind? [stops singing] Mark: That's poetic. [pauses] Mark: That's pathetic.
(1 vote)
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Roger Davis: [sung] But who Mark, are you? Mark has got his work, they say Mark lives for his work, and Mark's in love with his work... Mark hides in his work. Mark: From what? Roger Davis: [sung] From facing your failure, facing your loneliness, facing the fact you live a lie. Yes you live a lie, tell you why! You're always preaching not to be numb, when that's how you thrive. You pretend to create and observe when you really detach from feeling alive. Mark: [sung] Perhaps because I'm the one of us to survive.
(1 vote)
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Mark: I feel like I just sold my soul. Joanne: Yeah, for $3000 a segment!
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Roger Davis: Find the one song before the virus takes hold, glory, like a sunset. One song to redeem this empty life! Time flies, and then no need to endure anymore! Time dies.
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Maureen, Mimi, Joanne: I die without you.
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Maureen: [sung] I've gotta get outta here! It's like I'm being tied to the hood of a yellow rental truck being packed in with fertilizer, and fuel oil. Pushed over a cliff by a suicidal Mickey Mouse. I've gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta find a way... to jump over the moon.
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Joanne: [sung] She cheated! Mark: [sung] She cheated! Joanne: [sung] Maureen cheated! Mark: [sung] Fucking cheated!
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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!
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Mimi: [sung] Where all the scars from the "nevers" and "maybes" die!
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Mark: [sung] To love attention, no pension, to more than one dimension, to starving for attention hating convention hating pretension, not to mention of course, hating dear old Mom and Dad.
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Mark: How do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart? It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out till you're torn apart - rent! Tenants, Roger: How can you connect in an age where strangers, landlords, lovers, your own blood cells betray? What binds the fabric together when the raging, shifting winds of change keep ripping away? Benjamin Coffin III: Draw a line in the sand and then make your stand... Roger: Use your camera to spar! Mark: Use your guitar! Mark, Tenants, Roger, Benjamin Coffin III: When they act tough, you call their bluff. Mark, Tenants, Roger: We're not gonna pay... we're not gonna pay... Mark, Tenants, Roger: We're not gonna pay... last year's rent! This year's rent! Next year's rent! Rent, rent, rent, re-ent, rent! We're not gonna pay rent! Mark, Tenants, Roger: Cause everything is rent!
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