If you love musicals, In The Heights MUST be on your summer watch list. You can read our review of this vibrant, jubilant movie.
In theatres and streaming now for a limited time on HBO Max, In The Heights is a story about Usnavi, a bodega owner in Washington Heights who saves up for his dream life back in the Dominican Republic and it’s loaded with some brilliant quotes of inspiration, hope, and pizazz. We’ve curated a collection of the best In The Heights quotes.
Best Quotes from In The Heights
Sueñito, it means little dream. —Usnavi
Say it so it doesn’t disappear. —Usnavi
Washington Heights! —Usnavi and children
WARNER BROS
The streets were made of music. —Usnavi
You’re stuck to this corner like a street light. —Benny
Check 123, check 123, this is Benny on the dispatch. —Benny
Now, you’re probably thinkin: “I’m up shit’s creek! I’ve never been north of Ninety-Sixth Street!” —Usnavi
WARNER BROS
We had to assert our dignity in small ways. —Abuela Claudia
Little details that tell the world we are not invisible. —Abuela
You thirsty as hell! —Rosarios’ dispatcher
Most of the time I’m at Stanford it feels like a betrayal. —Nina
There’s no shame in waiting tables and there’s no shame in having a different path. —Kevin Rosario
You don’t tell me how much we can afford. You’re not the parent. —Kevin
WARNER BROS
That’s the roof? On the floor? —Abuela
Caramba. Buy me a bikini. —Abuela
Alabanza. —Abuela
You can take all the bruises baby you but stay in the ring. —Kevin
There’s no community for me at school. —Nina
I got searched. —Nina
The reality of an elite school. No joke, Pop. —Nina
You’re the best we’ve got Nina. If you can’t stay in the ring what does that say about us? —Kevin
Well nope on her. —Vanessa
WARNER BROS
Does your cousin dance? —Vanessa
Like a drunk Cheetah Rivera. —Sonny
You can’t keep putting your life’s work on my shoulders. —Nina
Well, you keep getting A’s baby that’s your revenge! —Kevin
Maybe Stanford isn’t a way out, maybe it’s a way back. —Nina
This is it huh? This is the moment you do better than me. —Kevin
WARNER BROS
This is like Gilligan’s ghetto island. —Carla
Since when are Latin people scared of heat? —Daniela
We are not powerless, we are powerful. —Daniela
Shhh! He’s forming an artistic opinion. —Vanessa
I did the crab in the corner. —Sonny
Let me just listen to my block. —Nina
About In The Heights
“Lights up on Washington Heights”…The scent of a cafecito caliente hangs in the air just outside of the 181st Street subway stop, where a kaleidoscope of dreams rallies this vibrant and tight-knit community. At the intersection of it all is the likable, magnetic bodega owner Usnavi (Anthony Ramos), who saves every penny from his daily grind as he hopes, imagines, and sings about a better life.
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