American Pop (1981)

Jeffrey Lippa: Zalmie

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Quotes 

• Zalmie : Hey, Louie. I just seen the most beautiful thing I ever seen in the whole world.

  Louie : Some pre-Prohibition booze, huh?

  Zalmie : No. I seen the stripper gettin' dressed.

  Louie : A stripper gettin' dressed ain't beautiful unless she's ugly to begin with.

• [Louie and Zalmie are performing as the two halves of a dancing horse - Zalmie being the lower half] 

  Zalmie : Louie?

  Louie : Yeah?

  Zalmie : I'm 17 years-old. When's my voice gonna change already?

  Louie : It's changin'. It's changin'.

  Zalmie : I know it's changin'. When's it gonna change for good?

  Louie : What's your rush?

  Zalmie : I don't wanna be a horse's ass forever.

• Palumbo : Don't you think it's time for a wedding?

  Zalmie : How can I ask her? I don't have a cent.

  Palumbo : You should have thought of that before you got her pregnant.

  Zalmie : Who thinks at a time like that?