Footloose (1984)

All he wanted to do was dance.

"I'm no saint you know. I'm not even a virgin."

"Hey, hey! What's this I see? I thought this was a party. LET'S DANCE!"

Romancing the Stone (1984)

She's a girl from the big city. He's a reckless soldier of fortune. For a fabulous treasure, they share an adventure no one could imagine... or survive.

"What did you do, wake up this morning and say, 'Today, I'm going to ruin a man's life'?"

Splash (1984)

She Was The Woman Of His Dreams - She Had Large Dark Eyes, A Beautiful Smile And A Great Pair Of Fins.

"I don't understand. All my life I've been waiting for someone and when I find her, she's... she's a fish."

"I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!"

Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)

That's all they really want!

"Stay away from him. He's a boy!"

"He's a boy and he's alive. What's there to hate?"

"Let's do it."

Out of Africa (1985)

"I'd mate for life, one day at a time."

"I had a compass from Denys.To steer by, he said. But later it came to me that we navigated differently; maybe he knew as I did not, that the earth was made round, so that we would not see the way too far ahead of us."

A Room With a View (1985, UK)

"You don't mean you're going to marry that man...I would have held back if your Cecil had been a different person. But he's the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman. He doesn't know what a woman is. He wants you for a possession, something to look at, like a painting or an ivory box. Something to own and to display. He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms. (To Charlotte) Miss Bartlett. You wouldn't stop us this time, not if you understood. It's our last chance. Do you understand how lucky people are when they find what's right for them? It's such a blessing, don't you see?...This tremendous thing has happened between us, and what it means, let me explain, it means that nothing must hinder us ever again. That's what it means. You have to understand that...Everyone has to understand"

Pretty in Pink (1986)

The laughter. The lovers. The friends. The fights. The talk. The hurt. The jealousy. The passion. The pressure. The real world.
He's crazy about her. She's crazy about him. He's just crazy.

"May I admire you again today?"

"You're ashamed to go out with me. You're terrified that your goddamn rich friends won't approve."

"If somebody doesn't believe in me, I can't believe in them."

Dirty Dancing (1987)

First dance. First love. The time of your life.

"Me? I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you."

Moonstruck (1987)

Life. Family. Love.

"Everything seems like nothing to me now against I want you in my bed. I don't care if I burn in hell. I don't care if you burn in hell. The Past and the Future is a joke to me now. I see that they're nothin'. I see they ain't here. The only thing that's here is you - and me...Come upstairs. I don't care why you come. No, that's not what I mean. Loretta, I love you. Not, not like they told you love is and I didn't know this either. But love don't make things nice, it ruins everything! It breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. We, we aren't here to make things perfect. Snowflakes are perfect, stars are perfect. Not us! Not US! We are here to ruin ourselves and, and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and, and DIE! I mean that the storybooks are bulls--t. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and, and GET in my bed. Come on, come on, come on."

The Princess Bride (1987)

Scaling the Cliffs of Insanity, Battling Rodents of Unusual Size, Facing torture in the Pit of Despair. - True love has never been a snap.

"You can't hurt me. Westley and I are joined by the bonds of love. And you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords."

Roxanne (1987)

Roxanne dreamed of a handsome, intelligent, romantic man. C.D. Bales is two out of three... but looks aren't everything!

"...He made me feel romantic, intelligent, feminine. But it wasn't him doing that to me, it was you. All these other men, Charlie, they've got flat, featureless faces. No character, no fire, no nose. Charlie, you have a big nose. You have a beautiful, great, big, flesh and bone nose. I love your nose. I love your nose, Charlie. I love you, Charlie."

Beaches (1988)

Some Friendships Last Forever

"Oh, Hillary, I'll never forget this as long as I live...You doing the laundry for me. I mean, I hate to do laundry more than anything in the whole world. I think this is probably the nicest thing anybody ever did for me. A man would never do this for you no matter how much he loved you."

"So what do you do with yourself all day, now that you're a housewife? I mean, don't you get bored sitting around the house all day?"
"No, because I don't sit around the house all day. I'm extremely busy."
"Doing what?...How do you keep busy? Doing what?"
"...I spend my time working on various charities. I'm on the board of the Junior League, the State and Homes Preservation Society, I'm a docent at the art museum..."

"...at least I belong to myself, which is more than I can say for you. I'm doing what I set out to do, remember? I'm living a life you didn't have the courage for. So don't give me 'You're not jealous'. You're so jealous you can hardly breathe." and later: Hillary: "I was jealous. I was so jealous of you I couldn't see straight! You did everything you said you were going to do, everything! And your talent, this incredible talent! I can't even yodel!"

Working Girl (1988)

For anyone who's ever won. For anyone who's ever lost. And for everyone who's still in there trying.

"You're the first woman I've seen in one of these things that dresses like a woman, not like a woman thinks a man would dress if he was a woman."

"I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?"