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"The Tempts Without David Ruffin are nothin’ but a group in SEARCH of a David Ruffin!"

(and other great lines from the mini-series)

by Karyl and Ivory

(photos by karyl)

Hey, this photo doesn’t belong to me, I am just using it for fun. If you wanna use it, contact MANNING PR

 

Some of our other favorite lines include:

"How y’all be?"

"I’m kinda friskaaaay!"

"Al to your left, your left, no your other left." (submitted by "Paulchris")

"We gotta give the folks somethin’ to watch while we’re singin’ so sweet." "Oh man it be pillin’ up in here today."

"Lord have mercy, if y’all ain’t five of the handsomest men in Detroit." "Ya’ll don’t even need to sing, just parade back and forth."

"You mean like the wrist watch?"

"If you were down to your last dollar, would you buy this record or a sanwich?" "SANDWICH!" (submitted by "Paulchris")

"I ain’t really ate nothin’ since last year."

"I used to know this family down in Birmingham that used to eat clay for dinner, Red River clay." "They used to have some of that down in Mississippi to, wudn’t too bad with some hot sauce."

"What you mean complicated, you not doin’ it!"

"I’ve been to church." "Yeah, like once or twice?"

"I don’t need no money, fortune or fame. I got all the riches baby, one man can claim." (now I realize the movie can’t claim that one, but since those words are some of the most beautiful in history, I just had to include them.)

"We gonna be friends, good friends!"

"Hurtin’ the group? I’m the best thing that ever happened to this damned group! . . . Ain’t nobody commin’ to see you Otis! You wish you could work it the way I do, but you can’t, ‘cause there is only one David Ruffin! And without him, the Tempts ain’t nothin’ but a group in SEARCH of a David Ruffin! Matter of fact, I been thinkin’ maybe we should call the group, ‘David Ruffin and the Temptations’ Yeah, that sound good to me. Y’all beggin me not to leave you, ‘and I refues to let you go’ Yeah, ‘David Ruffin and the Temptations’ what da ya say?"

"Fellas, you know I’m just kiddin’ right? You know me, you know how I always be kiddin’! Yo fellas we’ze successful now, you too uptight, lighten up, enjoy the fruits! I’ll see you at rehearsal. I’m a be there on time. I’m a be there before y’all! Bye! Thanks for commin’ over! He he, they tickle me, they believe me."

"You ain't even being unreasonable, baby. Martha Reeves AND the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson AND the Miracles, Jr. Walker AND the All-Stars." "Hey, David Ruffin and... what's they name?" (courtesy "O.D.P.M.")

"Y’all is stupid! Y’all ain’t nothin without me! I MADE yo asses! . . .Y’al’ ungrateful son of a bitches!" 

"Blue....baby!"

HE AINT ME! HE AIN’T NO DAVID RUFFIN! WITHOUT DAVID RUFFIN, Y’ALL AIN’T NOTHIN! THE TEMPTS WITHOUT DAVID RUFFIN ARE SOME FAKE ASS TEMPTS! HEAR ME? YOU’RE A FAKE IMITATION WITHOUT DAVID RUFFIN!

"You ever been a part of something bigger than yourself? It’s a beautiful thing doc."

"Paul's gonna be gone and THAT'S your boy! . . . .You'd better leave before you get fired!"

"Pretty soon, there’s going to be more ex-Temptations than Temptations. You better think about that."

"Oh come on now, you can’t run away from me. I’m not some thief or some thug. I just want to talk to ya."

"Unless it’s Ivory commin’ to give me my sponge bath I’m sleepin’"

  • To which Karyl replied, "IVORY! You WISH you could give him a sponge bath! yea......"

    • "Ain’t nothin’ wrong with my phone . . . .I told ya."

    "I wasn’t fired I quit."

    "We the voices, and you know they want the voices."

    "In that case I ain’t gonna be there."

    "A lot of times it was that ‘being special’ that made them hard to work with but I loved every one of them like my own brother and I always will. . . . Temptations forever."

     

    Although it’s not in the movie, Karyl just loves this line the REAL David said. ""SOMETIMES PEOPLE WANT TO TRAVEL ONE CERTAIN WAY, SOMEONE ELSE WANTS TO TRAVEL ANOTHER WAY. I GUESS YOU HEARD ABOUT THE LIMOUSINE WITH THE GLASSES AND EVERYONE ELSE WAS RIDING IN A STATION WAGON, SO I GUESS THAT WASN'T APPROPRIATE....BUT THEY COULD HAVE ROLLED WITH ME IF THEY WANTED TO!"

     

    Here are some of "Voice Master Mel 9"'s favorite lines.

    By Otis

     

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