Zalmie Quotes in American Pop (1981)

[Louie and Zalmie are performing as the two halves of a dancing horse - Zalmie being the lower half]

Zalmie: Louie?

Louie: Yeah?

Zalmie: I'm 17 years-old. When's my voice gonna change already?

Louie: It's changin'. It's changin'.

Zalmie: I know it's changin'. When's it gonna change for good?

Louie: What's your rush?

Zalmie: I don't wanna be a horse's ass forever.

Zalmie: Hey, Louie. I just seen the most beautiful thing I ever seen in the whole world.

Louie: Some pre-Prohibition booze, huh?

Zalmie: No. I seen the stripper gettin' dressed.

Louie: A stripper gettin' dressed ain't beautiful unless she's ugly to begin with.

Palumbo: Don't you think it's time for a wedding?

Zalmie: How can I ask her? I don't have a cent.

Palumbo: You should have thought of that before you got her pregnant.

Zalmie: Who thinks at a time like that?