The Wiz (1978)

Nipsey Russell: Tinman

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• Tinman : The genius who created me only took care of my dashing good looks, my razor sharp wit and my irresistible attraction to the wrong women.

• Scarecrow : Now I'll never get my brain!

  Tinman : Nor my heart.

  Lion : Or my courage

  Dorothy : But you don't need them now because you've had them all the time. Scarecrow, you're the one who figured out how to find the yellow brick road and how to destroy Evillene, and every smart move we've made, didn't you? Lion, you wouldn't even give up when Evillene strung you up by your tail. And, Tin Man, you have more heart than anyone I've ever known.

  Tinman : [hopeful]  Honest?

  Dorothy : Yeah, you never needed anything from the fake wizard, anyway.

• Scarecrow : Barnum said there's a sucker born every minute.

  Tinman : I was there when he said it, but I never thought I'd be one of them.

• [repeated line] 

  Tinman : TEENY! TEENY!

• Lion : Mamma would be so proud - goin' to see da WIZ!

  [preens] 

  Lion : My momma used to say ta me, Fleet -...

  Tinman , Scarecrow , Dorothy : FLEET?

  Lion : That's my name: Fleetwood Coupe de Ville!

  Tinman , Scarecrow , Dorothy : [snickers] 

  Lion : Momma had high ideals...

  Tinman : Yeah!

  Lion : - Y'know what I mean?

  Tinman : Yeah!

  [Lion and Tin Man high-five] 

  Tinman : Ha hah!

• Scarecrow : Stay right there.

  Tinman : [stuck underneath a big heavy round tin-woman]  Don't worry, I wasn't planning any promenades.

• Tinman : It was a sad day. There's not much amusement to the closing down of an amusement park.

• Dorothy : He must really be in shock!

  Tinman : Oh, what I wouldn't give to be in shock! Just Once!

• Scarecrow : I'll think about you all the time, Dorothy!

  Tinman : And I'll miss you... every day. Even if I had to go back to that junk pile... even as teeny's seat cushion... I wouldn't mind... because I have known... real love.

  [cries] 

  Dorothy : Aww... don't rust yourself now.

  [wipes away the tears] 

• Lion : [Strung up by his tail in Evilene's lair]  Don't give her the slippers, Dorothy!

  Evillene : Is this enough for you? No? Well, how about your metal friend over there?

  Tinman : [a giant piledriver begins to flatten him]  Don't worry, Dorothy! I'm just an empty shell! This doesn't hurt me!

• Dorothy : Hello?

  Tinman : [after Dorothy cannot find his heart in his chest]  Nobody home in Soulville.

• Tinman : Hurry hurry hurry, step on up and save a life!

• Lion : Lion is playing with his tail and then says They kicked me out on IOBK

  Tinman : What is IOBK?

  Lion : Incapable of being King

• Dorothy : There. How does that feel?

  Tinman : But that's the whole tragic point, my friends.

  [singing] 

  Tinman : What wouId I do, If I could suddenly feel? And to know once again, That what I feel is real...

• Tinman : *Free* from your posterior prison, you hulking she-devil. Don't hear you laughin' now.

• Tinman : l'm in a little bit of a squeeze, brother. Can you give me a hand?

• Tinman : You're not just flimflamming an old flimflammer, are you?

• Tinman : [singing]  Slide some oil to me, l'm beginning to feel just fine, Slide some oil down my throat, And let me lubricate my mind...

• Tinman : Slide some oil to me./ Let it trickle down my spine./ If you don't have STP, / Crisco will do just fine.

• Tinman : Stop the music! Stop the music!

  Dorothy : Really? You need more oil?

  Tinman : No! That beast! He's checkin' us out!