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Uptown Girls Quotes

Uptown Girls is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Uptown Girls ended its run in 1970.

It features Fisher Stevens as producer, Joel McNeely in charge of musical score, and Michael Ballhaus as head of cinematography.

Uptown Girls is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Uptown Girls is 92 minutes long. Uptown Girls is distributed by MGM Distribution Co..

The cast includes: Dakota Fanning as Ray, Brittany Murphy as Molly, Brittany Murphy as Molly Gunn, Jesse Spencer as Neal, Heather Locklear as Roma Schleine, Donald Faison as Huey, and Marley Shelton as Ingrid.

Uptown Girls Quotes

Dakota Fanning as Ray

  • (Dakota Fanning) "I think we got ourselves a Grammy."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "You're a spastic hyena."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Do you see her anywhere? News flash: you're not gonna. Not unless you schedule an appointment, or hang around her bedroom door at 3 in the morning. In the meantime you're working for me."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Is that so?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Uh-huh."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "News flash, Mussolini: I quit."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Swinging door."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "If you refuse to have a nice time with me, I'm going to have fun by myself."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Freestyle is for moronic little kids and hippie freaks."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "It's fun."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Are you still moping over that disgusting guy? Other people always let you down. Why don't you forget them and do something for yourself?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Like what?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "I don't know. Something you're good at. And I don't mean shopping."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Maybe some of us aren't good at anything."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Every grown-up is good at something. Oh, my bad. I don't see any grown-ups around here."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "What's so great about being a grown-up anyway? So I can turn out like you?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "You're scared."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Take it back."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "What are you doing?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Have you gone mad? There is never, ever an excuse for hitting another person. What is going on?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "She was laughing at me because her "au pair" said that my new nanny was a slutbag whore."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "When you work for me, you leave when I say you can leave."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "For you information, I do no work for you. I am employed by you mother."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Oh yeah? Take a look around. Do you see her anywhere? News flash: you're not gonna. Unless you make an appointment with her assisstant or hang around her bedroom door at 3 o'clock in the morning. So in the meantime -- you're working for me."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Why are you buttering a plastic scone?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Why are there plastic scones when we have real food on the table? Huh?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "I know you have trouble reading something as simple as a sign on the door, Gooey Huey. So let me help you. This is the ladies' room."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "You can have your job back, you know."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "I don't think so. You and I, we're gonna be friends. Okay?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Grownups never stay friends with kids."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "I don't see any grownups around here."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "I do."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "I'm not going anywhere, especially with you."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Oh, yes you are. We are going to sit in giant teacups and spin round and round in circles until we puke."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Are you on crack?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "We're gonna have fun."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "She always does this to me, she's not coming. Ow."
  • (Heather Locklear) "Well, if you would stop wiggling your ass, it wouldn't have fallen off in the first place."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Some fairy tales are true, most of there stories we make up to help us deal with real life; it all depends on your point of view, but here are the facts -- there was once a princess, who lived in a castle, high above the streets of an enchanted kingdom. The king and queen were long gone but they left her with a treasure, that she would stay a princess forever. On the eve of her 22nd birthday a great celebration was planned --"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Other people always let you down. Why don't you forget them and do something for yourself?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Like what?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "I don't know. Something you're good at."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "And I don't mean shopping."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Maybe some of us aren't good at anything."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Every grownup is good at something."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "My bad. I don't see any grownups around here."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "What's so great about being a grownup anyway? So I can turn out like you?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "You're scared."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Sometimes when Mu hears people walking by outside the door, he gets this funny expression and runs into the bathroom, like he thinks they're coming to get him."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "That's how you look."
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Every story has an end. But in life, every ending is just a new beginning."

Marley Shelton as Ingrid

  • (Marley Shelton) "Tibet is a country, Molly, not contact information. Why not add "Earth" in case someone needs to know where Tibet is? This is not a resumé."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "It shows I'm a people person."
  • (Marley Shelton) "Who pays your bills?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Bob."
  • (Marley Shelton) "Bob who?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "I don't know. My parents' guy Bob."
  • (Marley Shelton) "Oh, my God. This place is beyond its normal grotesque. It's post-nuclear."

Brittany Murphy as Molly Gunn

  • (Brittany Murphy) "Rise and shine, Ophelia."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "The last time I saw my mom and dad, I was eight going on nine -- eight years, six months, and three days -- almost as old as you are. They were going on tour and leaving me behind for the first time, because they didn't want me missing any more school, and they came to my room to say goodbye and I wouldn't open the door, so they left. I fell asleep and then the next thing I know, my nanny was waking me up in the middle of the night telling me their plane had crashed."
  • (Lorraine Schleine) "You're lucky -- that you were mad. See, when you're mad you don't miss people and if you stay mad, it's like you never knew them at all -- that way you don't have to feel sucky about it -- You were lucky --"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "I wasn't mad, I was confused -- everyone was talking, talking, talking at me and I couldn't understand a word they were saying, and then their voices became a blur and soon I couldn't even recognize their faces; they were like these blobs and they started to grow fangs and their eyes became green and I knew I had to run away. So I packed my knapsack, got on the train, and looked up at the map and decided I wanted to live on Coney Island. I thought it would be -- you know -- a real island. That I thought I could hide there like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin, but imagine my surprise -- The teacups were the only ride they would let me on by myself, so I got on it and I started spinning around and 'round and 'round. But I feel like I am still there -- spinning 'round and 'round and 'round -- and the ride won't stop -- You were right, Ray, I am scared. But you're scared too. You're scared as I am and I thought that maybe if we could go together --"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "As my best friend, it is your duty not to lie to me."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Got a girl, Tony?"
  • (Limo Driver) "Not one that could fit into this dental floss."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Excuse me, Thumbelina, but you're still a little underage to be clubbing, aren't you?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "You're a little overage to be wearing a lampshade in your hair. Bright idea?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "You're supposed to put the cream in before the sugar."
  • (Lorraine Schleine) "I'm not having cream. I can't gain weight."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Look at the one-hit wonder that slut turned out to be --"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Isn't doing the dishes what the maid is supposed to be for?"
  • (Lorraine Schleine) "She doesn't know how to dry without leaving spots."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "You don't know how to dry without destroying the environment. For every roll of paper towels you waste, a tree in the rain forest dies."
  • (Lorraine Schleine) "I'm gonna die of botulism from the germs on that gunky towel, you tree-loving hippie."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "I'm so sorry, Mrs Schleine."
  • (Heather Locklear) "Thank you for coming, Miss Gunn."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Are you kidding? Nothing could keep me away at a time like this."
  • (Heather Locklear) "Last week's pay and a month's severance."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Severance?"
  • (Heather Locklear) "We're letting you go."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "We?"
  • (Heather Locklear) "That's right. Me and Ray. We. Goodnight, Miss Gunn."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "I'm sorry, but I'm not leaving without an explanation."
  • (Heather Locklear) "I don't know what's been going on between you and my daughter, but she has made it clear that she never wants to see you again."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "She must be going out of her mind with grief."
  • (Heather Locklear) "Actually, she's taking it rather well. I was at my staff meeting when I got the news about my husband. I came home to find Ray doing her homework. She's been very calm and level-headed about this whole affair."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "You call that taking it well? Do you know what etage your daughter's at in ballet? Or that she was banned from her science class for stealing a formaldehyde pig so she could give it a proper burial? The tea set you got her -- it's exquisite and beautiful, but do you know how she likes to have her tea, how many lumps -- one,two -- cream,sugar?"
  • (Heather Locklear) "And the point of your little tirade is --"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "You're right. You don't know what goes on between me and Ray because you don't know very much about your own daughter."
  • (Heather Locklear) "I know my daughter well enough to respect her wishes."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "You don't give her respect. You give her whatever she asks for so you don't have to deal wit her. She's eight years old. She is not twenty-eight. Please remember that the next time you show her some respect."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Give me five more minutes baby, and I'll rock your world."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Fine. I'll live off water and sunshine."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "This is so 80's it makes my hair poof."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "That's your dad?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Was. Now he's a vegtable. And soon he'll be nothing."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "That's your dad?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "Was. Now he's a vegtable. And soon he'll be nothing."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "That's kinda harsh --"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "It's a harsh world."
  • (Lorraine Schleine) "Fruit punch? Why don't you just drink cyanide? At least it's quick."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Damn."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "This is your room?"
  • (Dakota Fanning) "There's no fooling you, is there?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "It's so --"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "orderly."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "I was just out shopping in the neighborhood."
  • (Jesse Spencer) "At midnight?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "It's the city that never sleeps."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Kid, have you ever been to a shrink?"
  • (Lorraine Schleine) "Since I was three."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "So, what do ya think?"
  • (Donald Faison) "What is it?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "It's a tutu, silly --"
  • (Donald Faison) "For what? A midget?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "No, it's for a little girl named Ray. Her year-end recital is coming up and the costumes are so boring, so I'd thought I'd surprise with something spectacular --"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "This sounds like the soundtrack to something you'd slit your wrists to."

Jesse Spencer as Neal

  • (Jesse Spencer) "Molly, I came here to see you."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "For what?"
  • (Jesse Spencer) "I haven't been able to write a single decent song since we last saw each other. Molly, I'm sorry. I was trying to take a step forward, but I took two steps backward instead."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Why don't you take one step sideways? Then we can stop doing this silly little dance."
  • (Jesse Spencer) "We have to talk."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Those are the four most hateful words in English."
  • (Jesse Spencer) "What on God's earth is that?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Mu."
  • (Jesse Spencer) "Don't you mean oink?"
  • (Brittany Murphy) "No, "Mu" means "pork" in Thai. He was going to be my curry diner one night in Bangkok, but we fell in love."
  • (Jesse Spencer) "I'm sorry, I was trying to take a step forward, but I took two steps backward instead."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Why don't you take one step sideways? Then we can stop doing this little dance. Okay?"
  • (Jesse Spencer) "When I'm not ready, you hunt me down. When I try and make it work, you're not interested."
  • (Brittany Murphy) "Ever since we met, it's about what I'm doing wrong -- but I'm not the one with the problem. You are, you and your selfishness. All you do is take. I've got nothing for you right now, so -- maybe it's time to start thinking about someone other than yourself."

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