Save the Last Dance (2001)

Julia Stiles: Sara

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• Sara : You know, Snook, you talk a lot of shit for someone who never says anything.

• [after Sara and Nikki's fight] 

  Nikki : It ain't over, bitch.

  Sara : I don't even know why it started, bitch.

• Derek : Stepps ain't no square dance.

  Sara : That's okay. I'll dance in circles, probably around you.

• Derek : Do you get along with your dad? You tight and shit?

  Sara : Yeah, we're tight and shit. Our DNA matches.

• Chenille : You need to take off that fifth grade dance-lookin' top.

  Sara : It's from The Gap!

  Chenille : It's country, and you look country in it!

• Sara : We spend more time defending our relationship than actually having one.

• Sara : Asshole.

  Chenille : Who? Because in this crowd you're going to have to be a bit more specific.

• Sara : You know what? Derek and I like each other; and if you have a problem with that, then screw you.

• Chenille : Quit it, Nikki.

  Nikki : Excuse me, I ain't walkin' on eggshells just 'cause you brought the Brady Bunch to the negro club.

  Sara : Then you must be in the wrong spot because I'm pretty sure there aren't any negroes here.

  Chenille : Ooh!

• Sara : [sobbing]  I just want someone there who loves me.

  Roy Johnson : [looks up]  I love you.

• Sara : There's only one world, Chenille.

  Chenille : That's what they teach you. We know different.

• Sara : [talking to her dad]  It's not that I hate you; it's just that I miss her.

• Chenille : I saw you workin' it out there tonight, girl!

  Sara : Oh, yeah... slammin'!

  Chenille : Ah-huh! Later!

• Derek : So was that a good night as in, "I'll bust a cap in your ass if you ever darken my doorstep again?"

  Sara : No! No, I would never - um, bust a cap in your ass.

• Sara : Screw you. I'm brilliant *and* cool.

  Derek : You're not quite there yet.

• Sara : It's about me and him, not about us and other people.

• [about Malakai] 

  Sara : So you're not down with the things he does, but you're still down with him? That makes perfect sense. I understand.

  Derek : He's my friend, Sara. You don't have to understand.

• Sara : [from the trailer]  What I want is to wake up and see my mom again.

  [tearfully] 

  Sara : It was my stupid dream... and all she wanted was for it to come true.

  Derek : [reassuringly]  And I bet she would still want it to come true.

• Sara : A lot of people read them.

  Derek : People like who? Like you?

  [pause] 

  Derek : Didn't think so.

• Sara : I am such a dork!

• Sara : We have an audience.