Cry-Baby (1990)
Johnny Depp: Cry-Baby
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Quotes
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Cry-Baby : That's right, Allison. My father was the "Alphabet Bomber." He may have been crazy, but he was my pop. Only one I ever had.
Allison : God. I heard about the Alphabet Bomber. Bombs exploding in the... in the airport and barber shop...
Cry-Baby : That's right. All in alphabetical order. Car wash... drug store... I used to lay in my crib and hear him scream in his sleep..."A,B,C,D,E,F,G... BOOM! BOOM!"
Allison : But your mom...
Cry-Baby : My mother tried to stop him. She couldn't even spell, for Christ's sake, but they fried her too.
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[Allison stops Cry-Baby from fondling her]
Allison : I wanna let you, but I can't, for my parent's sake, Cry-Baby. They're both dead. I'm an orphan!
Cry-Baby : I'm sorry, Allison. But no wonder we're together, honey. I'm an orphan, too.
Allison : You are?
Cry-Baby : Yes! And orphans have special needs.
Allison : Just on the outside of the shirt, okay?
Cry-Baby : Is it okay with you?
Allison : Yes. Oh, yes!
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Allison : What's the matter, Cry-Baby?
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Everything's the matter!
Allison : It's just the thunderstorm. Heat lightening. It's sexy.
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : It's not sexy! Electricity makes me insane!
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Cry-Baby : [singing] You'll be Queen, and I'll be your King / But if you leave my hive you're gonna feel my sting. / Cause you're my Queen.
Allison : [singing] You're the King.
Cry-Baby , Allison : [singing] A king Queen.
Cry-Baby : [singing] A King cry baby with my Queen by my side.
Cry-Baby , Allison : [singing] And if you mess with us man, you're gonna cry, baby, cry, baby, cry, baby, cry.
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Milton Hackett : Looks like somebody lost their laundry.
Lenora Frigid : Hello Cry-Baby. You've scorched me, man.
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Later, Lenora.
Lenora Frigid : But Cry-baby, I need a date for tonight's Jukebox Jamboree.
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Well, I'm solo, sugar.
Lenora Frigid : [offering to show her breasts] Wanna see these gunboats? I give, Cry-baby. I give bare second on the first date.
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Use your mentality and cool down!
Wanda : Yeah, Lenora, your bosoms ain't nothin'!
Hatchet-Face : Better watch it, bozo! You might catch a cold!
Pepper : My brother wouldn't touch your titties with a ten-foot pole. He likes his women bad, Lenora, not cheap!
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Ramona Rickettes : Cry-Baby, when you was a boy, you had to be the man of this family.
Uncle Belvedere Rickettes : But I taught you how to dress, didn't I, Cry-Baby?
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : You sure did, Uncle Belvedere.
Ramona Rickettes : Yeah well, you're the future now, boy. You're the only future for this god-forsaken family. And I want you to go out there tonight and sing, boy. I want you to sing your heart out! You can show him now, Belvedere. This took a lot of hubcaps, Cry-Baby.
[it's a motorcycle; everyone says "Wow"]
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Grandmother, Uncle Belvedere, you've made me the happiest juvenile delinquent in Baltimore! And guess what? I met a girl!
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Cry-Baby : I'm gonna sing tonight and thought she might like to hear it.
Mrs. Vernon-Williams, Allison's Grandmother : Baldwin, mind your manners.
Baldwin : This is what we think of your kind of music
[punches him]
Allison : How dare you hit him? You don't own me, Baldwin. I have the right to hear Cry-Baby sing.
Baldwin : Don't get all worked up honey. The punk got what he deserved.
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Hateful Guard at Maryland Training School for Boys : What's that on your face blubber boy? A booger?
Cry-Baby : Are you blind? It's a lonely tear drop!
Hateful Guard at Maryland Training School for Boys : Now, ain't that cute? It oughta go real good with your new haircut.
Cry-Baby : I ain't gettin' no haircut!
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Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : [to Mrs. Vernon-Williams] I may be a drape, but I love your granddaughter. And if that's a crime, I'll stand convicted, ma'am.
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Allison : It's really wild, but I'm-I'm afraid that I'm not gonna fit in here. You know, with your friends, and stuff.
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : You're cool, Allison. You just look square. Underneath it all, I think you're really hep.
Hatchet-Face : Well, what have we here?
Wanda : The first square to ever set foot in Turkey Point.
Pepper : Hey fine mama, welcome to the Jukebox Jamboree!
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : These are the Cry-Baby girls. That's Wanda.
Wanda : Dig it, babe. You need a new look!
Hatchet-Face : Don't you got tits? Stick 'em out, for God's sake!
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : That's Hatchet-face. She don't mean no harm.
Pepper : The first thing a Cry-Baby girl learns: our bazooms are our weapons!
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Now, Pepper's pregnant, but she can fight like a man!
Wanda : I wouldn't be caught dead in a full skirt.
Pepper : Hey girls, what do you think? Let's give Allison here a bad girl beauty makeover. You game?
Allison : Sure! Think I got what it takes?
Hatchet-Face , Wanda , Pepper : Whoa ho ho!
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : You got it, Allison. You got it raw!
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Baldwin : You think you're a big man, Cry-Baby, but you're lower than your dead father! And guess who pulled the switch on that jerk? My grandpappy, that's who! And every Christmas since, my whole family gathers together and he retells the story of the day he electrocuted your daddy, and we just laugh!
Hatchet Face : Let me punch his ugly face!
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : It's okay, Hatchet. You're beautiful, baby. But I'll take care of this maggot! Do you know how to play the automobile game called Chicken?
Baldwin : Sure! My car and your jalopy! We head toward one other at full speed. First one to turn the wheel before we smash is a chicken!
The Judge : Is that legal?
Mrs. Vernon-Williams, Allison's Grandmother : Stop this insanity!
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : I got some new rules, sucker! How 'bout you and me on top of the car?
Baldwin : [hesitates] I'm man enough, you big cry baby!
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : That's "Mr. Baby" to you! Fellas of the press, this chicken race tonight is for my daddy. And I'd like to sing something in his memory. Something hill-billy... something colored!
[Baldwin groans]
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Something my daddy would have loved!
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Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Allison, I'm sorry to get you locked up! But tonight, well, you were the coolest date I ever had!
Allison : But Cry-Baby, who was that girl? Why didn't you tell me you already had a lady friend?
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : That Lenora ain't nothing to me! I swear on my daddy's grave! I'm burning inside to touch you, baby!
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Cry-Baby : [singing] # Well I ain't here 'cause I drive too fast. / And I'm too young to have a criminal past. / Some good behavior would be alright / But I don't seem to qualify. / I'm just out for a little fun / But I'm guilty until I'm twenty one / I guess I'm doing time for being young #
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Cry-Baby : [singing] High school hell cats.
Pepper , Hatchet Face , Milton Hackett , Allison , Wanda : [singing] On our own.
Cry-Baby : [singing] High school hell cats.
Pepper , Hatchet Face , Milton Hackett , Allison , Wanda : [singing] Almost grown.
Cry-Baby : [singing] Come on pick a fight, we wish you would. I love being bad cause it sure feels good. Oh-oh!
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Lenora Frigid : [to the reporters] Boy, do I have a story for you!
Reporter : How does it feel to be a juvenile delinquent?
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : It feels good, man! I've never been so happy in my life!
[Lenora runs up and throws her arms around Cry-baby right before he's taken away]
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Lenora, you filthy hag! I wouldn't let you shine my boots! Allison's my girl! A-L-L-I-S-O-N fellas!
Reporter : When did he propose?
Lenora Frigid : Just last night. You see, I'm pregnant with his child. Well, you know that Cry-baby is an orphan. He wants his baby to have a real family... the family that he himself never had.
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Cry-Baby : [singing] I had my first cigarette before I could walk / And I was strumming this guitar before I could talk, Cause I'm the King.
Hatchet-Face , Wanda , Pepper , Milton Hackett , Allison : [singing] King Cry Baby.
Cry-Baby : [singing] Yeah, I'm the King.
Hatchet-Face , Wanda , Pepper , Milton Hackett , Allison : [singing] King Cry Baby.
Cry-Baby : [singing] Oh, I'm the King.
Hatchet-Face , Wanda , Pepper , Milton Hackett , Allison : [singing] King Cry Baby.
Cry-Baby : [singing] A King Cry Baby with a tear in my eye / If you mess with the King you're gonna cry, baby, cry, baby, cry, baby, cry.
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Cry-Baby : [singing] # Now, I can't let the right thing stand in my way / Someday, baby, I'll know better / Right now making her pay #
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Cry-Baby : [singing] # The woman want a Cadillac, she don't want no man / I used to have a woman, said she loved me so #
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Cry-Baby : I can sing pretty good.
Mrs. Vernon-Williams, Allison's Grandmother : 'Well,' not 'good.' Haven't you *ever* heard of the English language?
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Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Mrs. Vernon-Williams, I hear you're havin' a talent show at your charm school today.
Mrs. Vernon-Williams, Allison's Grandmother : I can barely imagine what *you* would call music.
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Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : [singing] Hold me, baby, Squeeze me, Never let me go...
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Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Been to Turkey Point before?
Allison : My Grandmother wouldn't let me. She calls it the Redneck Riviera.
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Ramona Rickettes : And now, the baddest baby of them all, the man you came here fer, the big boo-hoo, the terrible teardrop, ladies and gentlemen, my grandson, Cry-Baby!
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : [singing] Well, one for all and all for one, And all we want is to have some fun...
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Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : One single, salty tear is all that they will ever suck out of this Cry-Baby.
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Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : [singing] Teardrops are falling, Out of my eyes, Teardrops are falling, I wonder why, Teardrops are falling...
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Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Nobody's going to turn me Square, Dupree. I want my girl, I want my family, and I want my gang. Thanks for the tattoo.
