Doc Robbins quotes from Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)

Doc Robbins

There's nothing can't be fixed, am I right?

This won't fix, this is a disaster. [to Eddie] You want to be a poet? Try Greenwich Village.

Doc Robbins

Lew, listen, another couple of weeks. We've been working for months.

Doc, take six weeks. I still wouldn't know what to do with it.

Eddie Wilson

You want to know what you can do with it? I'll tell you what you can do with it, you son of a bitch!

Hey! I put up ten grand, and I expect something for my money. This is what I've waiting a year for? A bunch of jerk-offs making weird sounds? You're not gonna see a red penny!

Doc Robbins

Are you crazy? We had the money in our hands and you blew it. You blew it! [Eddie pushes him far back]

Sal Amato

Eddie, you're wrong! You're wrong! Now listen to me, I love you. I've known you longer than anyone else. But you're wrong. They want "On the Dark Side"! Why are we giving them some damn opera? I don't even know what you're after!

Eddie Wilson

I want something great. I want something that nobody's ever done before!

Sal Amato

Why? We ain't great. We're just some guys from Jersey.

Eddie Wilson

If we can't be great, than there's no sense in ever playing music again, Sal.

Sal Amato

Blame this on you. It was you! We were doing good till you came along. And you got us all screwed up!

Frank Ridgeway

Why did you do this?

Doc Robbins

Shortcuts, kid. I never could do things the easy way.

Frank Ridgeway

Doc, why this little game and the car business?

Doc Robbins

I figured Joann had the tapes, I knew she wasn't gonna gove them to me. Maybe you, Wordman, maybe if she'd give them to you.

What would you do if you had the tapes, Doc?

Doc Robbins

Try me, just try me. I have it made. For once in my life, I'd bring home a winner... I'd like that.

I once asked Eddie why he kept you around. You know what he said? He said, "Doc's a dreamer, and the world needs dreamers."

Doc Robbins

He was the only real friend I ever had.