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Quotes from the movie The Commitments
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The Irish are the blacks of Europe. Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. The Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin.
Jimmy Rabbitte


Say it once and say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud.
Jimmy Rabbitte


Is this the band then? Betcha U2 are shittin' themselves.
Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.


And there's these three girls with the band, I've had lustful thoughts about all of them.
Steve Clifford


What do you think, Jimmy, they'll be eatin' chips out of our knickers?
Natalie Murphy


The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once and say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud.
Jimmy Rabbitte


I'd like to introduce you to the hardest-workin' band in the world. On bass, Derek "Meatman" Scully. On piano, Steven "Soul Surgeon" Clifford. Dean "Mr Nipple" Fay on sax. Joey "The Lips" Fagan on trumpet. Our gorgeous chanteuses are Bernie, Imelda, and Natalie. Deco "Deep Throat" Cuffe on vocals. On lead guitar, Outspan "Fender bender" Foster. Finally, on drums, Mickah "Don't Fuck With Me" Wallace. Ladies and gentlemen, The Commitments.
Jimmy Rabbitte


I never pictured God with a fat gut and corset singing "My Way" at Caesar's Palace.
Jimmy Rabbitte


We have to be "the" something. All the great sixties bands were "The Somethings".
Jimmy Rabbitte


From what i heard, the fella she's marrying hardly knows her.
Jimmy Rabbitte


And there's these three girls with the band, I've had lustful thoughts about all of them.
Steve Clifford


What do you think, Jimmy, they'll be eatin' chips out of our knickers?
Natalie Murphy


Hasn't got the voice of a pig though. Joey says it belongs to God.
Natalie Murphy


Well if you weren't the manager, would you?
Natalie Murphy


Mr. Rabbitte, you've been collecting unemployment benefit for two years. Are you trying to tell me you can't get a job?
Unemployment Official


Well, I saw everyone else lining up, so, uh.... I thought you were sellin' drugs.
Failed Drug Buyer


Well, Ray's thinking of putting an exclamation mark after the second "and." Says it'd look deadly on the posters.
Derek


You don't like it? You think it should go at the end?
Outspan Foster


There's a band around called "Free Beer". Always draws a big crowd.
Outspan Foster


If I'm gonna front this band, I like the sound of "Deco."
Deco


"Deco the bus conductor." Is that "top-Deco" or bottom-Deco"?
Billy


I'm tellin' ya it's coming, so keep your Vaseline handy.
Billy