Welcome to the ultimate collection of iconic quotes from the timeless classic, Grease. Bursting with nostalgia, humor, and a dash of teenage rebellion, Grease has etched itself into the cultural fabric since its release in 1978. From the halls of Rydell High to the sultry summer nights at the drive-in, this beloved musical encapsulates the trials and triumphs of adolescence, wrapped in a soundtrack that continues to resonate across generations.
Whether you’re a Pink Lady, a T-Bird, or simply a fan of feel-good cinema, you’ll find something to love in the memorable lines and unforgettable moments that define Grease. Join Danny, Sandy, Rizzo, and the rest of the gang as they navigate the highs and lows of love, friendship, and self-discovery against the backdrop of 1950s Americana. As you journey through these quotes, let them transport you back in time, evoking the magic and energy of a bygone era.
The only memory I have of playing the saxophone was in a school play. We put on ‘Grease,’ which is still one of my favorite movies. I played Danny, and I slid out on my knees and played a really out-of-tune ‘Blue Moon.’ Ed Skrein
John Travolta, I don’t think anybody would not jump at a chance to work with a guy like him because he’s gone from ‘Grease’ to ‘Face Off’ to, he’s gonna do ‘Dallas.’ I mean, he’s so great in his range, and he’s truly a legend and a pro in our time. Elijah Kelley
If you really taste a doughnut, it’s pretty disgusting. They taste of grease. Ruth Reichl
Before ‘Grease 2’, I was called the next Richard Gere, then after ‘Grease 2’, nobody would touch me. Maxwell Caulfield
When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. Craig Venter
I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie ‘Grease.’ Vincent Rodriguez III
If I go to a restaurant, or if I’m at an airport and people recognize me, it amazes me that most of them know me from ‘Grease.’ Frankie Avalon
My mother was a stout woman with a man’s name – Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes – no black grease by the lash line, no blue powder on the lids, eyebrows not plucked up high and thin. Charles M. Blow
I found an agent midway through my year-long run at ‘Grease’ and just started to audition. I fortunately booked ‘South Pacific’ six months after ‘Grease’ was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing. Laura Osnes
I know, for me, ‘Grease’ was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre. Jacob Artist
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. Ambrose Bierce
With messy food, or foods with a lot of sauce, you do ‘The Hunch.’ I learned it in Philly, watching the dudes in suits eat cheesesteaks. You keep your elbows above your hands because if you don’t, the grease runs down your sleeve to your elbow. Guy Fieri
With my family as my audience, I used to sing, dance, and reenact every scene from ‘Grease,’ ‘Newsies’ and ‘Les Miserables’ as many times as they would let me. Torrey DeVitto
For several years I had no idea that I had become anorexic. And I’d be at places with people I cared about, but what I was thinking about was how much extra grease was on the pizza or the calories that I knew was in that shake. Lindsey Stirling
When I was ten, I saw ‘Grease’ on stage and thought: ‘I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.’ My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there. Michelle Ryan
I was brought up on animal grease. Rita Moreno
Don’t call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. Anthony Daniels
Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease. Michelle Malkin
I remember when ‘Grease’ came out, I used to force my mum to try and grease my hair back, and it was never long enough, and literally I’d be screaming at her, ‘Do it. Just do it!’. Gerard Butler
‘Grease?’ I watch that film over and over. Rza
I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved ‘Grease’ and ‘West Side Story,’ and all those kind of movies. Sara Paxton
Man – life in general – seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence. Leonard Susskind
‘MasterChef’ delivers all the reassuring, cadenced repetition of an endless chore without any of the bothersome elbow grease. Charlie Brooker
Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs. Frankie Avalon
‘Grease’ changed my life in the most amazing way, and I’ve had such an amazing life. When things go wrong, you’ve got to believe you will get through them and focus on the positive things in your life. Olivia Newton-John
I feel like Fox did ‘Grease’ really right, I thought that was fantastic – it was so well mounted, well-executed, the performances were great, and it had a real sense of fun. Channing Dungey
I don’t spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I’m done. Chris Isaak
When ‘The Sound of Music’ aired live on NBC, 18 million people were talking about theater the next day. That’s incredible. ‘Grease’ felt like a chance for me to participate in that landscape. Thomas Kail
I don’t even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in ‘Grease.’ Scott Bakula
‘Grease’ was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it’s kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It’s the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week. Laura Osnes
Oftentimes, WWE lives in its own bubble because it is forever moving. Oftentimes, a motion picture will live in its own bubble because they have a certain amount of time to get everything done. It’s just, when you connect the two and get everything straightened out, truly, it may take a little elbow grease. John Cena
Before ‘Grease,’ John Travolta was a big star from ‘Welcome Back Kotter’… but that’s not where I met him. I met him at unemployment when we first moved to California. Didi Conn
I did sing in another film called ‘Empire Records’ which is a cult film. ‘Grease 2’ is also a cult film. You either love it or just think the original was better. Maxwell Caulfield
You don’t need to have Asperger’s to feel bewildered in a culture that relies so heavily on inconsequential chit-chat to grease the wheels of day-to-day life. Lynn Coady
I’d done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with ‘Grease’ in Auckland. Russell Crowe
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It’s got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease. Illinois Jacquet
Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that’s what our whole country is based on. It’s amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he’s basically just protein. Ira Glass
My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents’ house and sing ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to ‘Grease.’ Zoe Kravitz
Everyone knows what crappy food is: high grease, high fat… or what clean eating is. They just make excuses not to do it. Robert Whittaker
To me the thing with ‘Grease’ was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing. Benicio Del Toro
I grew up watching ‘Grease,’ and ‘Grease 2.’ I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I’d love the challenge now. J. D. Pardo
You win football games by first getting possession and then running 3- and 5-yard plays. Not by Hail Mary passes. Common sense, elbow grease, and keeping a positive attitude. Greg Gianforte
When I’m marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else’s, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done. Ava DuVernay
Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, ‘Do not sing one song from Grease.’ That’s all I was telling my brain at all times: ‘Do not sing Hopelessly Devoted. Don’t do it.’ Caroline Rhea
I took ‘Grease’ to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like ‘Angels in America.’ But I backed myself into a corner with ‘Grease,’ and it took me 17 years to get out. Billy Porter
But I’m tone deaf – window-shattering tone deaf. I can’t sing for the life of me. I can’t sing or dance, so no remake of ‘Grease’ for me! Dev Patel
I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing ‘Grease’ songs and ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn’t a plan. Zoe Kravitz
I didn’t really start going to see a lot of musicals and live theater probably until I was in seventh or eighth grade, maybe my first year of high school, and by that time I’d probably seen ‘Grease’ twice a year every year of my life. Thomas Kail
I was a little boy who watched ‘Solid Gold’ every week and wanted to be a ‘Solid Gold’ dancer. And I would do very in-depth reenactments of ‘Grease 2’ and ‘West Side Story’ with my sister Natalie in our garage. I was a very theatrical kid. Andrew Rannells
When my wife Kathy and I were first married she was just learning how to cook. She had a limited menu of homemade meals that consisted mostly of lasagna, baked chicken and a killer salad dressing (it substituted bacon grease for olive oil, so it really could be a killer). Steve Doocy
I don’t think auditioning will ever faze me again after the ‘Grease’ TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn’t seen until 6 P.M. Laura Osnes
One-pot meals make a lot of sense… because so much of what people hate about cooking is really the cleanup, the mess, the grease. Tom Douglas
‘Dirty Dancing’, ‘Grease’, those were the movies that I used to watch over and over and over at my grandma’s house when I was a little girl. I just remember watching them, and I always wanted to be Sandy, and I wanted to be Baby. I wanted to be the girl who’s lifted in the dance, and she’s beautiful and all those things. Kathryn McCormick
The first book I remember loving was ‘Grug and the Big Red Apple.’ The first film I saw in the cinema was ‘Grease.’ Markus Zusak
Me personally, I took out bread and I took out grease foods. Jae Crowder
I let the whole ‘Grease’ experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It’s taken a lot of work and perseverance. Laura Osnes
Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease. Joe Green
‘Grease’ is an awesome movie. I wish they’d make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it. Kyrie Irving
I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease. Peter Gallagher
I put ?150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back ?1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success. Jeffrey Archer
I never thought that ‘Grease’ would be a smash. I turned it down at first. Frankie Avalon
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers. Janet Yellen
When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player. Leigh Steinberg
I once sang ‘Summer Nights,’ from ‘Grease,’ at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who’s a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar – while I got stuck playing Sandy. Hugh Jackman
I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little ‘Time After Time’. I can do a little ‘Grease Lightning’. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it’s a lot of fun. Kristen Bell
‘Grease’ is the most successful thing I’ve ever been part of. It spans generations. Frankie Avalon
I’ll never forget the first moment I stepped on a Broadway stage. It was in Grease, and I knew it was momentous. My parents were there, and I got into a cab with them afterward and started crying. Helene Yorke
When I go into ‘You’re the Worst,’ I’m very glammed up, and my hair and makeup is va-va-voom. Now what I’m having fun with in ‘Grease’ is, honestly, I go to rehearsals with zero makeup. When I get pimples, I get excited about it, like ‘Yay! It helps the character!’ The frumpier and uglier and grosser, the better with Jan. Kether Donohue
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. Josh Billings
When I did ‘Grease,’ I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows. Laura Osnes
Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, ‘How are you?’ Well, you don’t want to know. And, frankly, I don’t want to tell you. So I just say, ‘Fine,’ and you go, ‘Fine.’ And off we go. Mike Yaconelli
I was Danny Zuko in ‘Grease,’ and I was in the musical ‘Sweet Charity’ and then in the musical ‘On the Twentieth Century.’ They were great. I mean, singing isn’t really my strong suit, but I just really enjoyed it. Sebastian Stan
I’d always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn’t be professional. Gaylord Perry
Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut. Paloma Elsesser
My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought ‘Grease’ was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it. Lindsay Mendez
Being on ‘Grease: Live’ was a massive mile marker. It ultimately led me to ‘Hamilton.’ Jordan Fisher
I grew up with two sisters, and we owned three movies: ‘Grease,’ ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ and ‘Grease 2.’ And you can only watch ‘Wonderful Life’ in the last half of the year. So I don’t remember a time when I didn’t know ‘Grease.’ Thomas Kail
She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times! Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I remember this time I worked with Linda Evangelista on a shoot for Richard Avedon. I just put grease on her face, and it was beautiful. Francois Nars
The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart – and here’s why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary – to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship. Joyce Brothers
‘Grease Live!’ was… it was a chore! It was interesting: one of, if not the most, magical television experience I’ve had in my career, where the people are concerned. Jordan Fisher
The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish. Sheherazade Goldsmith
It’s a phenomenon how ‘Grease’ is so popular; it really is. Didi Conn
In my experience as a therapist and as a friend, it seems that the majority of the breakup resources available are for women and not men. Women, who tend to be more vocal about their emotional struggles, are the squeaky wheel that gets the grease from friends, from online communities, from books, and from therapeutic approaches. Emily V. Gordon
Higher SAT scores mean better college matriculation rates. So it’s no wonder that private schools in ultra-competitive environments would grease the qualifying process as much as possible. Eliot Schrefer
A lot of people say to me, ‘Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?’ And I think, ‘You know, ‘West Side Story’ did it very cleverly, in a different way.’ But if you look at ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ ‘Titanic,’ ‘Avatar,’ ‘Grease,’ ‘Brokeback Mountain’… they’re all ‘Romeo and Juliet’ stories. Kelly Asbury
Grease is the only cure for a hangover. Cameron Diaz
The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John’s Pizzeria. Mark Feuerstein
I kind of feel like I’ve been eating professionally for a long time. I’ve tasted everything. If there’s a sausage, you know what? I know exactly what it tastes like. I love them all. But right now it’s more important for me to not have all that grease and fat in my body. Duff Goldman
In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch ‘Grease,’ ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘The Sound of Music’ a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called ‘The Anatomy of a Recipe.’ To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with ‘anatomical faults,’ where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans. Bee Wilson
Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the first place. Sheherazade Goldsmith
Avoid the ‘squeaky wheel gets the grease’ habit of overreacting to the loudest feedback. The first time you hear a particular piece of feedback, treat it like a clue and do some investigating. Find out how deep it goes – maybe it stops at the surface and won’t be an issue, maybe not. Neil Blumenthal
‘Grease’ was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music. Jason Moore
I’m so happy with ‘Grease’ and ‘Xanadu,’ particularly because of the music in both films. Olivia Newton-John
Well, once I did ‘Grease,’ everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein – you know, popcorn movie. Randal Kleiser
I was in ‘Grease’ on Broadway, toured with ‘Wicked,’ was off Broadway a couple of times and have been a part of numerous readings and workshops. Helene Yorke
My first crush was on John Travolta in ‘Grease.’ Hilary Duff
While my husband and I were still just dating, we courted over Popeyes fried chicken. What better way to really get to know someone than by getting elbows-deep in biscuit crumbs and chicken grease? Sohla El-Waylly
I used to have this jersey, it was a Kenyon Martin jersey, with a little grease stain on it, I didn’t think anyone else could see it. I looked down to my jersey and I was like, ‘OK, I’m good.’ Next thing I know I’m seeing all these pictures of myself with a big ol’ grease stain. Paul Wall