Footloose (1984)

Lori Singer: Ariel Moore

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• Ariel : Do you wanna kiss me?

  Ren : Someday.

  Ariel : [Gets in Ren's car]  What's this "someday" shit?

  Ren : Well, it's just I get the feeling you've been kissed a lot, and I'm afraid I'd suffer by comparison.

• Chuck : Shit, I thought only pansies wore neckties.

  Ren : See that? I thought only assholes used the word "pansy".

  Ariel : Woo, he gotcha on that one, Chuck!

  Chuck : *Shut up!* Son of a bitch is gonna pay for that!

• Reverend Shaw Moore : Were you drinking?

  Ariel : No.

  Reverend Shaw Moore : Smoking something?

  Ariel : No! I wasn't stealing, I wasn't gambling, I wasn't dancing, I wasn't reading books I'm not supposed to! I am late!

  Reverend Shaw Moore : Who were you with?

  Ariel : Ren McCormick.

  Reverend Shaw Moore : I don't want you to see him anymore.

  Ariel : Why not?

  Reverend Shaw Moore : Because I've heard he's a troublemaker.

  Ariel : Just because he hasn't lived in this town for 20 years doesn't make him a troublemaker!

  Reverend Shaw Moore : Ariel, I don't know what I'm going to do with you.

  Ariel : There ain't nothing to *do* with me, Daddy. You like it or not, this is it. It doesn't get much better.

• Ariel : I'm no saint you know. I'm not even a virgin.

  Reverend Shaw Moore : Don't you talk like that here!

  Ariel : Why not? Isn't this where I'm supposed to come to confess my sins to my preacher? In CHURCH! I ask to be forgiven! Am I?

• Ariel : How come you don't like me?

  Ren : What makes you think that I don't like you?

  Ariel : You never talk to me at school. You never *look* at me!

  Ren : Yeah, well maybe that's because if I did, your boyfriend would remove my lungs with a spoon.

• Ren : What are you doing here?

  Ariel : Watching.

  Ren : I thought I was alone.

  Ariel : Not in this town. There's eyes everywhere.

• Ariel : [to her father, the town preacher]  I just don't know that I believe in everything you believe in. But I believe in you.

• Ariel : [Shaw is busily typing in his den, Ariel is in the next room over, studying... Shaw is playing classical music in the background]  Daddy? I don't know what came over me.

  Reverend Shaw Moore : You know I can't always be with you, Ariel. I can't always look out for you.

  Ariel : [getting up and walking to the den]  What's the music?

  Reverend Shaw Moore : [preoccupied]  Oh, it's uh, I think it's Haydn. A chamber piece.

  Ariel : And that kind of music is OK?

  Reverend Shaw Moore : [somewhat defensive]  Well, it's uplifting... it doesn't confuse people's minds and bodies.

  Ariel : I don't...

  Reverend Shaw Moore : [annoyed]  What?

  Ariel : I see.

  Reverend Shaw Moore : [he calls out to her after she leaves the room]  Listen, could you tell your mother to go on to bed? I still have a lot of work to do down here.

  Ariel : I will.

  [she re-enters the den] 

  Ariel : Daddy?

  Reverend Shaw Moore : [not looking up]  What is it?

  Ariel : [disheartened]  Good night.

  Reverend Shaw Moore : Good night, honey.

• Ariel : Hey, Ren! When this hat flies in the air, you better have your butt in gear.

• Ariel : [Chuck mimics a fire engine's siren and grabs Ariel around the waist; she laughs]  You'd never guess your daddy's a fire chief!

  Chuck : You'd never guess your daddy's a minister, with them red boots.

  Ariel : My daddy *hates* me wearing these boots.

  Chuck : And you love that, don't ya?

• Rusty : [reporting back on Ren]  Okay, he hasn't dated since he's been in town, and late Friday nights...

  Ariel : Yeah?

  Rusty : ...by the light of the full moon... he, uh... breaks into churchyards and bites the heads off live chickens.