Christopher Tracy Quotes in Under the Cherry Moon (1986)

Christopher Tracy: If two people really loved each other, they couldn't be separated no matter what happened.

Christopher Tracy: I must have that disease, what's the name of it?

Mary: It's called Stupid.

Tricky: [mocking Christopher after he got stood up] I'll meet you at the club in two hours.

Christopher Tracy: I got waylaid.

Tricky: No, you got la-aid!

Mary: Remove this peasant from my party! Take his friend, too. I'm having trouble breathing.

Christopher Tracy: Maybe if you took off your chastity belt, you could breathe a little mo' betta!

Christopher Tracy: I love you.

Mary: [angrily] No, you don't.

Christopher Tracy: Then I hate you.

Mary: [more sincerely] No, you don't.

Christopher Tracy: Then I love you.

Mary: Define love.

Christopher Tracy: [writing something on a napkin] It's obvious that little Miss Mary has never been off the city block.

[holds up napkin, which has "Wrecka Stow" written on it]

Mary: What is that? Some new language?

Christopher Tracy: Read it. Do you know what it is?

Mary: It's nothing, you ninny. And you know it, but you won't confess it because you're such a coward.

Christopher Tracy: It is something, something you don't know, and you won't confess that because *you're* a coward!

Mary: This is silly, and you're a child!

Christopher Tracy: [taunting Mary] I go to dinner without my father's permission. Now, read it aloud so we can all hear how knowledgeable you are!

Mary: Wrecka stow.

Christopher Tracy: [laughs at Mary's pronounciation] Do you know what it is?

Mary: Wrecka stow, wrecka stow, it's nothing!

Christopher Tracy: [laughing] It is something. Come on, say it again louder.

Mary: Wrecka stow.

Christopher Tracy: Louder!

Mary: Wrecka stow! I give up. What is it?

Christopher Tracy: If you wanted to buy a Sam Cook a'blum, where would you go?

Mary: [rolls her eyes] The wrecka stow.

Mary: If you don't get out of my house, I'll have my father's guards throw you out!

Christopher Tracy: Why? 'Cause you ain't bad enough to do it yo'self?

Christopher Tracy: I ain't afraid of shit!

Tricky: You afraid of bats?

[they see bats on the roof of the restaurant they are at]

Christopher Tracy, Tricky: BATS!

[they run out, screaming]

Christopher Tracy: I do nothing professionally, I do everything for fun.

[repeated line]

Christopher Tracy: Life is a parade.

Mrs. Wellington: [Christopher writes something on a check] Fa you?

Christopher Tracy: Tell him it's Chinese.

Christopher Tracy: Why is your father such a punk?

Mary: I beg your pardon?

Christopher Tracy: Why does he shit on so many people?

Mary: You are a peasant.

Christopher Tracy: What makes me a peasant? How much money I got, or what's in my heart?

Christopher Tracy: Goodness will guide me. When love is inside me. Until then, Life's a parade!

Christopher Tracy: The more you drink, the better I sound.

Christopher Tracy: Just tell people what they want to hear and they're happy.

Christopher Tracy: She said I'm an angel, and her heart flies when she's in my arms.

Christopher Tracy: It's no fun to depend on other people for rides.

Mary: Especially not when you're used to taking them for rides the way you do.

Christopher Tracy: What do you want from me, Mary?

Mary: To know what you want from me.

Christopher Tracy: I want to take you on a trip to the moon.

Christopher Tracy: [talking about Isaac Sharon] He's a little possessive, don't you think?

Mrs. Wellington: He likes to collect things, including people.

Christopher Tracy: You must be his prized possession.