Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)

Joe Pantoliano: Doc Robbins

Quotes 

• Eddie Wilson : [angrily charges into the soundbooth after "Season in Hell" is abruptly cut]  What the hell are you doing?

  Doc Robbins : [to Lew, about Eddie's album]  There's nothing can't be fixed, am I right?

  Lew Eisen : This won't fix, this is a disaster.

  [to Eddie] 

  Lew Eisen : You want to be a poet? Try Greenwich Village.

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

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

  Eddie Wilson : [angrily to Lew, with Sal and Kenny holding him back]  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!

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

• Doc Robbins : [to Eddie]  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 your 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 you can't be great, than there's no sense in ever playing music again, Sal.

  [Joann follows Eddie as he leaves the studio] 

  Sal Amato : [to Frank]  Blame this on you. It was you! We were doing good till you came along. And you got us all screwed up!

• Doc Robbins : [on the phone]  We got to talk. How soon before you get your ass over here?

  Frank Ridgeway : Well, where are you?

  Doc Robbins : Right back where we started kid, Asbury Park.

• Eddie Wilson : He's got somethin' we need.

  Doc Robbins : Like what?

  Eddie Wilson : Words and music, Doc. Words and music.

• Frank Ridgeway : [after unmasking Doc]  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 give them to me. Maybe you, Wordman, maybe if she'd give them to you.

  Joann Carlino : 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.

  Joann Carlino : 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.

• Doc Robbins : Hey, Sallie, never bull shit a bull shitter. You make the music, I'll make the deals.