Coyote Ugly Quotes

Violet: I'm not lost. Somebody just moved my street.


Kevin: Just for the record, I was only staring at your arse for the first 15 minutes!


Cammie: I'm Cammie, the Russian tease.
Violet: Violet, the Jersey nun.
Cammie: We all play our little parts. That one's Rachel, the New York bitch. Only Rachel really is a bitch, and I really am a tease.
Lil: Cammie, you can only be a tease if you stop sleepin' around, babe.
Cammie: Yeah, I keep forgetting that part!


Girl: Can I ask you something?
Lil: What?
Girl: What does Coyote Ugly mean?
Lil: Did you ever wake up sober after a one night stand, and the person you're next to is lying on your arm, and they're so ugly, you'd rather chew off your arm then risk waking 'em? That's coyote ugly.
Girl: My God. Well, why would you name your bar after something like that?
Lil: Oh, 'cause Cheers was taken.


Rachel: Hey Lil... do we serve water with our whiskey?
Lil: Only water I serve has got barley and hops in it. Hey everybody, do we serve water in this bar?
Everybody: Hell, no H2O!


Violet: Hi. I'm Violet Sanford. I just recently moved to New York and was wondering if you'd give my tape to one of your artists.
Wendy: Violet, that is so cute! Now lemme tell you about me. My name is Wendy and I first moved to New York when I was 21 to be a dancer, but I broke my big toe and then I got knocked up by this actor who dumped me to join the Peace Corps, so for the last 16 years I been raising my daughter all by myself and then two weeks ago, she tells me that she is a bisexual and that she hates me more than any person on this planet.
[chuckles]
Wendy: Now tell me how I can help you, please, because I am dying to make *your* dreams come true.


Violet: Cammie, I think I just fell in love with you.
Cammie: Oh Violet, I'm not a lesbian. I played in the minors but never went pro.
Violet: That's *not*, what I meant.


Rachel: Hey, hey! This is not a gas pump, son. *smooch* Wait your turn!


Customer: What do you have then?
Lil: Jim, Jack, Johnny Red, Johnny Black, and Jose; all my favorite men. You can have it any way you like it, as long as it comes in a shot glass.


Lil: That's Rachel, you can learn a lot from her.
Violet: She just cut off some guy's ponytail.
Lil: Yeah, the court ordered her to take anger-management classes after she pummeled a customer for grabbing her ass. They gave her probation, I gave her a raise. Cheers!


Cammie: Hello? A naked girl in Army Boots? Easy play to call.


Lil: Okay, everybody, shut up! I'd like you to meet my new girl, whose name is... Jersey! Jersey, is an ex kindergarten teacher, and a former nun, who just escaped from the convent, and is tired of being the only virgin in New York City! Would anyone like to buy her a drink?


Rachel: All right, who's gonna be dancing on this bar? I wanna see your bras.


Zoe: Is this a church meeting or is this a bar? Make some noise!


Violet: I don't mean to press my luck, would you mind telling me why you're hiring me?
Lil: Because, the average male is walking around with a toddler inside his pants, a two year old right there inside his dockers.
Violet: Men have two year old children in their pants - that's why your hiring me?
Lil: You look like a kindergarden teacher. The kids will love it.
Violet: Sorry I asked.


[Kevin kisses Violet then start to walk away]
Kevin: Have a nice day!
Violet: Have a nice day?
Kevin: Yeah, I panic, I didn't know what else to say!


Violet: So... what do you want?
Kevin: It's 3 in the morning, I want what every guy wants. Breakfast!


Violet: You always said I could grow up to be anything.
Bill Sanford: I never said "Songwriter in New York."


Lil: Let me guess: Piedmont, North Dakota.
Violet: South Amboy, New Jersey.
Lil: Same thing.


Lil: I'm married to that bar. Hell I'd sleep there, if I had the guts to walk around barefoot.But thats me you know. I'm the original coyote. Just a small town gal trying to make it in the big bad city.
Violet: Small town gal?
Lil: Piedmont, North Dakota. Tell anyone that, and I'll kill ya.


Violet: I'm a songwriter, is there someone here I can talk to about my songs?
Bartender: I've been a struggling sax player for 12 years. What can I get you from the bar?


Violet: Look, I've never had anyone stare at my ass for half an hour before, so I'm going to say goodnight, and I'm hoping you're going to say it back.


Violet: Look, are you really the owner? Cause I've had a rough couple of days so the last thing I need is some waitress on a power trip wasting my time.
Lil: You start Friday night.


Violet: Oh, I get it, we don't talk about you right? Its a big secret. Come on, Kevin, let's play a game. I'm gonna guess why you left Australia. You were in jail? No that's not it. You have a wife and three kids in Sydney, am I getting warm? Come on, Kevin, I don't have alot of time why'd you run away from home?
Kevin: I didn't have a home! Is that what you wanted to hear? I don't have a family. I mean that's the big secret! Are you happy? Huh? Are you going to feel sorry for me now? Are you gonna hold me close while I tell you I had to switch homes every 2 years? I had a bad childhood, big deal. I don't need your sympathy! Cause I'm here and I'm living on my two feet like I wanted to that was my dream. At least I had a little bit of dignity.
Violet: And I didn't, thats it?
Kevin: Well unzip the pants a little, unbutton the blouse a little, show a little bit of flesh. I think you can figure it out.


Kevin: [following Violet] Wanna play a game?


Violet: I want my tape.
Manager: Hey, O'Donnell no dates in the kitchen.
Violet: I'm not staying... I just want my tape.
Kevin: Did you write all those songs?
Violet: You listened to my tape?
Kevin: No, of course not, that would be an invasion of privacy.
[singing]
Kevin: Baby you're the right kind of wrong.
Violet: Go ahead. Laugh it up. Because nothing you say is gonna bother me.
Kevin: I was just trying to tell you I like your music. Do you always take compliments this well?


Violet: You collect comic books? That's so cute.
Kevin: It's not cute... it's very rugged and manly.


Violet: Kevin, this place is my job!
Kevin: It's a goddamn sandbox for you to stick your head in!
Violet: What is that supposed to mean?
Kevin: The place is a joke, okay? They don't come to watch you sing, they come to watch girls shaking it on a bar!


Bill Sanford: Put some pepper spray in your purse. Even if you're not sure, just start spraying.


Gloria: We should have dinner sometime!
Bill Sanford: I'm locking my doors.


Guy: Shake it! Shake it!
Rachel: [scowls]
Lil: Don't do it Rachel, he's a big guy and you're still on probation.
Rachel: Don't worry, those classes are really paying off!
[slams the back of her fist into the guy's face]


Violet: [On seeing Rachel, Cammie & Zoe for the first time] You know those girls?
Romero: Yeah. They're here every morning. Winding down. They'd have to in their line of work.
Violet: Are they hookers?
Romero: No.
[passes Violet a matchbook]
Romero: Coyotes.


Lil: I told ya not to break the rules.
Violet: What are you talking about?
Lil: I'm talking about you and your boyfriend making a scene in my bar. I'm talking about a friend of mine inside with a broken nose. The rules were simple Jersey. I fired girls for a lot less.
Violet: So what I can't have a boyfriend now what kind of stupid shit is that?
Lil: Hey, this place is my home. And I'm not willing to risk it over your personal life. Its business, plain and simple.
Violet: This is not business. I work my ass off for you and you're supposed to be my friend!
Lil: I never said I was your friend. I'm your boss and you knew the rules like everybody else.
Violet: Will you stop with the rules. Its a bar for christ sakes!
Lil: [hands Violet her guitar] Then what are you so upset about?