The Blues Brothers (1980)

Alan Rubin: Mr. Fabulous

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Quotes 

• Jake : [51:28]  We're putting the band back together.

  Mr. Fabulous : Forget it. No way.

  Elwood : We're on a mission from God.

• Mr. Fabulous : [49:35]  No, sir, Mayor Daley no longer dines here. He's dead, sir.

• [Trying to get Mr. Fabulous back into the band] 

  Jake : If you say no, Elwood and I will come here for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day of the week.

  [Elwood takes a huge, obnoxious bite out of his bread] 

  Mr. Fabulous : Okay, okay. I'll play. You got me.

• Mr. Fabulous : It's a fucking barn. We'll never fill it.

• Curtis : [1:36:21]  We've gotta fill this hall tonight. A lot of young children are depending on it.

  Steve 'The Colonel' Cropper : Young children? Why? What do you mean?

  Curtis : Jake and Elwood are donating the band share of the door money to pay the taxes on the St. Helen's Orphanage in Calumet City.

  Steve 'The Colonel' Cropper , Willie 'Too Big' Hall , Donald 'Duck' Dunn , Matt Murphy , Murph , Mr. Fabulous , 'Blue Lou' Marini , 'Bones' Malone : WHAT?

• Mr. Fabulous : Yes? How are your salads?

  Father : The salads are fine. It's just that we'd like to move to a new table... away from those two gentlemen.

  [Mr. Fabulous glances briefly at Jake and Elwood stuffing their faces at the table beside the family] 

  Mr. Fabulous : Why? Have they been disturbing you?

  Father : No, it's just that... well frankly, they're offensive. Smelling. I mean they physically smell... bad.

• Jake : I would like to do a favorite of the horn section. We hope it's one of yours.

  Jake , Elwood , Donald 'Duck' Dunn , 'Bones' Malone , Mr. Fabulous , 'Blue Lou' Marini : [singing]  Sometimes it's hard to be a woman, Giving all your love to just one man, And if you love him, Oh, be proud of him, Cause, after all, he's just a man...