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Step Up (2006) More at IMDbPro »

Nora: Catch me!
[she ballerina jumps into Tyler's arms]
Tyler Gage: [he catches her and holds her] Now what?

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Nora: Okay, um, I get it. You're not gonna use me to get out of cleaning the windows, even if you were capable of dancing.
Tyler Gage: I'm not trying to get out of anything. And I know you saw me the other day.
Nora: Thank you, but, umm, I can find someone else.
Tyler Gage: [Goes to leave] Aight. I was just trying to help.
Nora: Okay, wait.
[He stops and turns around]
Nora: Catch me.
Tyler Gage: [She runs towards him and he catches her, then he lets her fall in his arms] Now what?
Nora: Um... put me down.
[He puts her down]

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Tyler Gage: I'll do it.
Nora: Do what?
Tyler Gage: I don't know, whatever y'all trying to do out here...
Nora: You wanna lift me? Are you kidding?
Tyler Gage: Does it look like I'm kidding?

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Tyler Gage: Is... is this where you kill me?

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Tyler Gage: Do I look like I own tights?

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Tyler Gage: What? I'm not late
Nora: You're not dress either... You can change at the back
Tyler Gage: I can change here...
[taking of his jacket]
Nora: I told you to bring tights
Tyler Gage: Do I look like I own tights?
Nora: Shoes?
Tyler Gage: I move better with them

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Brett Dolan: This isn't about me or Miles, Nora. It's about Tyler
Nora: No, Brett, It's about me

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Tyler Gage: [imitating opera] Figaro. Figaro. Figaaaro.

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Miles Darby: I just like to play with myself.
Lucy Avila: Oh you make it too easy.

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Nora: So are you gunna ask me to dance?
Tyler Gage: I didn't know you could dance without your tights!

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Tyler Gage: I'm fighting, for something that's real for the first time in my life!

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[last lines]
Nora: You know what this means, right?
Tyler Gage: No, what's it mean?
Nora: You're gonna have to get some tights.
Tyler Gage: Done.
[He kisses her]

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Tyler Gage: [about a dance Nora imagines] If you imagined it with dancers you should do it!
Nora: Where am I going to get dancers?
Tyler Gage: You know, you do go to a school just busting with kids in tights!

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Mac Carter: [after the girl he was making out with leaves because his little brother interrupts them] I swear to God- you must have all the recessive genes in the family!

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Mac Carter: [after Tyler gets in a fight at a party] You feel like because you're a white boy you gotta overcompensate or something?
Tyler Gage: Wow, like wow, you got me figured out, Montel
Mac Carter: Yeah, well you're the one going Jerry Springer all the time
Skinny Carter: Hey, if you're Montel and you're Jerry, then I'm like...
Mac Carter: Jenny Jones
Tyler Gage: No, like Ellen
Mac Carter: Except Ellen gets more chicks than he does!

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Miles Darby: [about Tyler and Nora no longer working together] Man I bet you've been moping around too.
Tyler Gage: [looking happy] She's been moping?
Miles Darby: I'm not saying anything
Tyler Gage: [laughing] Come on man! Tell me, have you seen a tear?

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Mac Carter: [seeing tyler teaching a bunch of people the dance he and Nora made up] Man, what is this?
Tyler Gage: It's part of my community service

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Skinny Carter: yo lemme do it this time.
[talking about stealing a car]
Mac Carter: Skin, you the look out.
Skinny Carter: But why can't I do it this time?
Tyler Gage: Can you do it?
Skinny Carter: Yeah.
Tyler Gage: Let him do it then.
Mac Carter: You know what? Here you go tough guy.
[hands him a crow bar to break into the car with]
Mac Carter: See that one right there. Go get it.
Tyler Gage: That car's got an alarm on it.
Mac Carter: I know.
Tyler Gage: [the car alarm goes off and the boys run away] Dude, I told you that alarm was gonna go off.
Skinny Carter: Wait a minute. Ya'll set me up?
Tyler Gage: You shoulda saw your face.

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[making fun of Skinny, comparing him to a talk show host]
Tyler Gage: You're like Ellen.
Mac Carter: But even she gets more girls than you!

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Camille: Guess what she bought for us. Cap'n crunch. Peanut butter Cap'n crunch. I told you she liked us.
Camille: [takes bite of cereal]
Tyler Gage: Let me get a bite of that?
Camille: Okay. One bite, just one bite.
[Tyler takes the bowl and has a huge bite]
Camille: That's the biggest bite I've ever seen! Come on! Give it back!
Tyler Gage: [Tyler takes another bite]
Camille: Get your own! I spit on that spoon!
[Tyler pushes it back]
Camille: Oh yeah, now you give it back.

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Director Gordon: And you say that he can dance?
Nora: He's... adequate.
Tyler Gage: Adequate?
Director Gordon: See. That's my concern. He's not taking this seriously.
Tyler Gage: Look, I'm sorry. It's just... ya'll are talking about dancing like it's rocket science or something.
Nora: It's just for a couple of weeks. Until Andrew gets better.
Tyler Gage: Yeah.
Director Gordon: This would be your risk Nora. It's your Senior piece.
Nora: I know.
Director Gordon: Well, don't make me regret my decision.
Nora: [talking to Tyler] 2:30 tomorrow. Bring your tights.
Tyler Gage: Tights? Wait. What?

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Director Gordon: See, that's my concern... he's not taking this seriously.
Tyler Gage: Well, I'm sorry... it's just that you guys talk about dancing like it's rocket science or something.

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Lucy Avila: [talking about Colin] He's sophisticated,a real man.
Miles Darby: Sophisticated? A real man? Yeah,his butt is gonna be surrounded by sophisticated in jail. how long you had your license? 6months? 7?
Lucy Avila: I am very mature for my age. Thank you.
Miles Darby: Oh yeah,that's great! That's so perfect for the witness stand!

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Lucy Avila: Woo! I love a man in a uniform!

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Skinny Carter: [coming back from playing a basketball game] Man, I was droppin' dimes today!
Mac Carter: Man, you tripped over your own shoes!
Tyler Gage: Twice actually, but you rolled outta the second one pretty nice, you played it off pretty cool.

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Camille: Are you going to jail?
Tyler Gage: No, I'm not going to jail, but they will have to take me to jail if you don't start knocking. Get outta here.

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Miles Darby: I left my G-4 at home.
Tyler Gage: [coughing] It's in his bag.

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Skinny Carter: So, can I still come to the party?
Mac Carter: Skinny! Hey come on!
Skinny Carter: Man, he ain't sayin' nothin' bout me. He said y'all couldn't go to the party. He didn't say nothin' bout Skinny. Nothing!
Mac Carter: Will you shut up?

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Miles Darby: Look, I can play it alright. I just prefer playin' wit myself.
Tyler Gage: Woa, what?
Lucy Avila: He makes it too easy.
Miles Darby: No, not playin' wit myself. Just listen.

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Miles Darby: If you wanna be with someone who doesn't appreciate what a good thing he's got that's 100% your business. I just thought you'd be smart enough to know you deserve better.

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Brett Dolan: When someone hands you your dreams, you take it, you don't ask questions.
Nora: I would.
Brett Dolan: You think you would.

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