Save the Last Dance (2001)

Sean Patrick Thomas: Derek

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• Derek : Stepps ain't no square dance.

  Sara : That's okay. I'll dance in circles, probably around you.

• Derek : Do you get along with your dad? You tight and shit?

  Sara : Yeah, we're tight and shit. Our DNA matches.

• Derek : Ain't nobody watchin' you but me.

• Derek : So was that a good night as in, "I'll bust a cap in your ass if you ever darken my doorstep again?"

  Sara : No! No, I would never - um, bust a cap in your ass.

• Sara : Screw you. I'm brilliant *and* cool.

  Derek : You're not quite there yet.

• [about Malakai] 

  Sara : So you're not down with the things he does, but you're still down with him? That makes perfect sense. I understand.

  Derek : He's my friend, Sara. You don't have to understand.

• Derek : You can do it. Sara, you were born to do it.

• Sara : [from the trailer]  What I want is to wake up and see my mom again.

  [tearfully] 

  Sara : It was my stupid dream... and all she wanted was for it to come true.

  Derek : [reassuringly]  And I bet she would still want it to come true.

• Sara : A lot of people read them.

  Derek : People like who? Like you?

  [pause] 

  Derek : Didn't think so.

• Derek : Come on, act like you a nasty bitch.

• Derek : Let's put some S-E-X in those H-I-Ps!

• Derek : Yeah, but six months here gotta be better than six up the juvie.

  Malakai : Yeah, they got girls in here.