Ron Carlisle Quotes in Tootsie (1982)

Ron Carlisle: I'm afraid you're not right for this role. Thanks for coming by.

Dorothy Michaels: Why am I not right, Mister Carlisle?

Ron Carlisle: I'm trying to make a certain statement and I'm looking for a specific physical type.

Dorothy Michaels: Mr. Carlisle, I'm an actress. I'm a character actress. I can play it any way you want.

Ron Carlisle: I'm sure you're a very good actress. It's just that you're not threatening enough.

Dorothy Michaels: Not threatening enough? Listen, you take your hands off me or I'll knee your balls right through the roof of your mouth! Is that enough of a threat?

Ron Carlisle: [shaken] It's a start.

Ron Carlisle: [after Dorothy reveals she is a man] I *knew* there was a reason she didn't like me!

Ron Carlisle: Take, Tootsie.

Dorothy Michaels: Ron? I have a name it's Dorothy. It's not Tootsie or Toots or Sweetie or Honey or Doll.

Ron Carlisle: Oh, Christ.

Dorothy Michaels: No, just Dorothy. Alan's always Alan, Tom's always Tom and John's always John. I have a name too. It's Dorothy, capital D-O-R-O-T-H-Y.

Julie: I know I'm pretty and I use it. I just guess I shouldn't have gone to Dr. Brewster's office so late.

Dorothy Michaels: Well, no, that's not true. You know, Dr. Brewster has tried to seduce several nurses on this ward, always claiming to be in the throes of an uncontrollable impulse. Do you know what?

Ron Carlisle: Uh-oh.

Dorothy Michaels: I think I'm gonna give every nurse on this floor an electric cattle prod, and just instruct them to just *zap* him in his badoobies.

Julie: [Tries, unsuccessfully, to hold back a giggle]

Ron Carlisle: Cattle prod?

Dorothy Michaels: Ruby? Hi, you wanna open the Yellow Pages under the section, Farm Equipment Retail...

Ron Carlisle: You don't like me, do you? Now, I can respect that. There's not many women that I can't make like me. Why don't you like me?

Michael Dorsey: I don't like the way you treat Julie. I don't like the way you patronize her. I don't like the way you deceive her. I don't like the way you lie to her.

Ron Carlisle: What do you mean?

Michael Dorsey: You want me to go on?

Ron Carlisle: No, no. I know what you mean.