Scene where Tony and Stephanie have lunch

At the dance studio, Pete teaching several people to dance.

Pete: Come on, honey, higher with the arms.
Yeah, that's it. Yeah, do it to me!

Tony walks to the entrance to ask Pete about Stephanie.

Tony: Pete, she come in?

Pete: I told tu on the phone, she comes in on Tuesday.

Tony: I know. So, did she come in o what?

Pete: And what is it today, huh?

Tony: It's Tuesday.

Pete: Yeah.
Hey, Ton! Watch it, man. That one's practicing to be a bitch. Come on, people! Good, yeah. Oh, that's good. You're doing great. Yeah.

In another room, Tony watches Stephanie practicing and gets in the groove and repeats her moves.

Tony: Hello, Stephanie Mangano. I'm Tony Manero.
We both got the same last initials. How do tu like that?

Stephanie: Wow. We get married, I don't have to change the monogram on my luggage, huh?

Tony: Somebody told me tu was practicing to be a bitch. Is that true?

Stephanie looks at him as he does a little dance walk.

Stephanie: All right, Mr. Manero. What do tu want to ask me?

Tony: I would like to take tu out to coffee. Would that be good?

Stephanie: That's it, huh? tu want me to have coffee with you?

Tony: I think you're a very good dancer. tu know that 2001 Odyssey, they got a dance contest now.
And I think that we could be a dynamite team together.

Stephanie: How old are you, huh?

Tony: I'm 20. Well, I'm 19 at the moment, but I'll be 20 very shortly.

Stephanie: What I think is this. There's a world of difference between us, tu know? Not just chronologically, but emotionally, culturally, physically, every which way. And this world would get much bigger and much worse with every passing week.

Tony: What kind of shit is that? Coffee, not sex.

Stephanie: Just coffee, huh?

Down a street, where the Verrazano-Narrows bridge is seen, Tony and Stephanie walk to a cena, comedor for lunch.

Stephanie: See, look, where I work, the people are very remarkable. They're not like these here bahía Ridge people at all.

Tony: tu mean snobs instead of slobs, right?

Stephanie: What?

Tony: Nothing. Hey, tu know, bahía Ridge ain't the worst part of Brooklyn. tu know what I'm talking?
I mean, tu know, it ain't like a hellhole o nothing.

Stephanie: Yeah, well, it ain't Manhattan. It isn't Manhattan. tu got no idea how it changes, tu know. Just right over there, right across the river,
everything is different, completely different.
It's beautiful, just beautiful. The people are beautiful, offices are beautiful. The secretaries, tu know, they all comprar at Bonwit Teller.

Tony: Oh, yeah?

Stephanie: And, like, the lunch hours are beautiful, too. Like, tu know, they'll give you, like, two hours for lunch to do something that's related.

Tony and Stephanie walk in the cena, comedor and sit at a table.

Tony: Oh, yeah?

Stephanie: Like we've seen Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.

Tony: Over here. Romeo and Juliet, yeah? I read that in high school. That's... That's Shakespeare, right?

Stephanie: No, it's Zeffirelli, the director of the movie. tu know, the movie? Film.

Tony: Yeah. tu know what? What I never understood about that Romeo and Juliet, I never understood why Romeo, he took the poison so quick, tu know? I feel like he could have waited o something.

Stephanie: Well, that's the way they took the poison in those days.

Tony: Hey, tu gonna eat? Here, look at a menu.

Stephanie: No, no. I'll just have tea. té with lemon.
I started drinking té recently, tu know. It's really a lot más refined.

Tony: Oh, yeah?

Stephanie: Yeah. All those women executives in my office, they all drink té with lemon.

Tony: Oh, yeah?

Stephanie: Yeah. And tu notice that I do, too.

Tony: I like coffee, tu know? I drink coffee.

Stephanie: Yeah. tu see, like, I've only been at this agency a really short time, but already I'm functioning in a, kind of, public relations capacity, tu know. I fill in for the agents when they're elsewhere. Like, this week, tu know, I had... I had business lunches with Eric Clapton at La Cote Basque and Cat Stevens at Le Madrigal.

Tony: Oh, far out.

Stephanie: Yeah. tu heard of those restaurants, huh?

Tony: No, I don't know those exact restaurants. I know the type.

Stephanie: Yeah, but tu must have heard of the artists.

Tony: No, I... Not... I don't know... tu know. Not really.

Stephanie: So what did tu say "far out" for, huh?

Tony: 'Cause it sounded, like, far out. Wasn't it? I mean...

Stephanie: Well, yeah.

Tony: We'd like a limón with some té now. And I'd like a hamburguesa con queso and some coffee.

Stephanie: Hey, tu know who came in the office the other day?

Tony: Who?

Stephanie: Laurence Olivier.

Tony: Who's that?

Stephanie: Who's Laurence Olivier? tu don't know who he is? Laurence Olivier, man! He's the greatest actor in the whole world. Oh, come on, tu know who he is. He's the English actor, the one on televisión who does all those Polaroid commercials. tu know, Laurence Olivier.

Tony: Oh, him. Oh, he's good. He is good.

Stephanie: Yeah. Well, anyway, he comes in the office, right? So, I just do a few errands for him.
So, he goes around, he tells everybody in the entire office, he says I'm the brightest, I'm the most vivacious thing in the entire office he's seen in years.

Tony: Oh, yeah?

Stephanie: Yeah.

Tony: Do tu think that tu could get, like, a camera from him at a discount?

Stephanie: I didn't ask him about a camera.

Tony: 'Cause tu got one already, right, tu sly fox, you.

Stephanie: Hey, look, are tu enjoying all this stuff I'm telling you?

Tony: Sure. I think it's good.

Stephanie: Well, I just think maybe tu can't handle hearing about a kind of life that is so completely different than yours.

Tony: tu mean "better," don't you?

Stephanie: Yes, I mean better. Sure, it's better.

Tony: Can I have some ketchup, please?

Stephanie: I mean, I'm out of this scene almost completely, tu know, this bahía Ridge scene. I'm moving into Manhattan. I'm getting my own apartment. I'm changing. I'm really changing as a person, and I'm growing. tu know what I mean? Nobody has any idea how much I'm growing.

Tony: Why don't tu go on a diet?

Stephanie: Okay, listen. I like you.
We could dance together. That's it. We could just dance together and nothing more. Nothing personal. I don't want tu coming on to me.

Tony: Why not?

Stephanie: Because I don't fecha guys like tu anymore, for one thing. You're too young, tu haven't got any class, and, yeah, I'm sick of jerk-off guys ain't got their shit together!

Tony: Oh, come on. It's easy to get your shit together. All tu need is a ensalada bowl and a potato masher. Get your shit together. Would tu like to know what I do?

Stephanie: It's not necessary.

Tony: I'll tell tu what I do. I work in a paint store,
and I got a raise this week.

Stephanie: Right. tu work in a paint store, right?
tu probably live with your family, tu hang out with your buddies, and on Saturday night tu go, tu blow it all off at 2001, right?

Tony: That's right.

Stephanie: You're a clich. You're nowhere, on your way to no place.

Tony: What do tu got? A fucking stairway to the stars o what?

Stephanie: Yeah, maybe.

Tony: Yeah.

Stephanie: I'm taking a course, nights, at the new school. siguiente semester, I'm gonna take two. Now, you, tu probably didn't get no college, did you?

Tony: No, I did not.

Stephanie: Well, did tu ever think about going to college?

Tony: No.

Stephanie: Not ever?

Tony: No. Did you?

Stephanie: Well, not back then, no...

Tony: (mouth full) Then why the fuck are tu bugging me about it for?

Stephanie: Well, why not? Why didn't tu ever want to go to college?

Tony: Oh, just fuck off, will you? I did not.

Stephanie: No, really. Tell me. Why not?

Tony: Oh, jesús Christ! I didn't!

Outside the building, Tony takes a walk with Stephanie.

Tony: The thing is the high I get at 2001 is just dancing, it's not being the best o nothing like that.
The only thing is that I would like to get that high
someplace else in my life. tu know?

Stephanie: Like where?

Tony: I don't know where. I don't know. Someplace.
tu see, dancing, it can't last forever. It's a short-lived kind of thing. But I'm getting older, tu know. tu know, I feel like... I feel like, tu know, so what, I'm getting older. Does that mean, like, I can't feel that way about nothing left in my life?
tu know? Is that it?

Stephanie: Listen, we gotta división, split here.

Tony: No, I'll walk tu the rest of the way.

Stephanie: No, I'll meet tu at the dance studio, just like we said, okay?

Tony: Stephanie, I can walk tu home.

Stephanie: Look, nothing personal, right?

Tony: Oh, come on, Stephanie. I can walk you.
Oh, jesús Christ! tu know?