American Graffiti quotes

View Quote Voice: Curt?
Curt: Yes, yes, this is Curt. Who are you?
Voice: Who are you expecting?
Curt: Do you drive a white T-bird?
Voice: A white '56. I saw you on Third Street...
Curt: Who are you? Do you know me?
Voice: Of course.
Curt: How do you know me?
Voice: It's not important.
Curt: It's important. It's important to me. You're the most beautiful, exciting thing I've ever seen in my life and I don't know anything about you. Listen, listen, listen, uh, uhm, uh, could we meet someplace?
Voice: I cruise Third Street. Maybe I'll see you tonight.
Curt: No, I don't think so.
Voice: Curt...
Curt: Tell me your name, at least tell me your name.
Voice: Goodbye, Curt.
Curt: Wait a minute. Wait a second. [She hangs up.]

View Quote Wendy: Hey, did you know that my ex is going to become a Presidential aide? Yeah, and uhm, it's a secret so don't tell anybody, but his greatest ambition is to shake hands with President Kennedy. [To Curt] How do you suppose you're gonna do that, wishy-washy, at J.C.?
Curt: Well, uh, maybe I've grown up. Maybe I changed my mind.
Wendy and Bobbie: [in unison] Doubt it!
Wendy: Maybe you don't think you can do it!

View Quote [After Steve tells Terry he can use his car while he is away at school]
Steve: Only 30 weight Castrol-R...Now I've written the tire pressure and stuff on a pad in the glove...
Terry: I don't know what to say. I'll love and protect this car until death do us part. This is a superfine machine.

View Quote [After John orders her to stay on her side] Don't worry, I won't rape you.

View Quote [to Carol] I-I don't think that I can control myself any longer tonight... All night you've been sitting there and you've been so sexy and it's been so hot out here - and I can't wait any longer. [She gives in and reveals her address]

View Quote [to John] You're an ogre. Just like my father. He won't let me stay out late or play records, or anything.

View Quote [to Kip] Bobbie here is madly in love with you and trembles at the sight of your rippling biceps.

View Quote Hey, I got a dedication here that's for a friend of the ol' Wolfman. And he wants me to play the next song for a blonde young lady in a Thunderbird. A white T-bird, you understand? Now my friend's name is Curt and he wants to talk to you out there, baby. So you meet him at Burger City, or you can phone Diamond 3132. Now he's a friend of mine, you hear, and little girl, you better call him, or the Wolfman gonna get ya.

View Quote Hi cousin, how's your bod?

View Quote I ain't goin' off to some god-damned fancy college. I'm stayin' right here. Havin' fun as usual

View Quote I just love listening to Wolfman. My Mom won't let me at home because he's a Negro. I think he's terrific. Do you know that he just broadcasts from a plane that flies around in circles all the time? Do you believe that's true?

View Quote Listen, you got any more of those secret agent spy-scopes?... the secret agent spy-scope, man. That pulls in the moon, the sky and the planets... and the satellites and the little bitty space men?

View Quote Maybe if it's the Goat Killer, he'll get somebody and we'll see the whole thing.

View Quote Oh I can't believe it. Feels so good 'cause you're sixteen.

View Quote Oh no, not me. Not old Carol. The night's young and I'm not hittin' the rack till I get a little action.