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"Sexy evil Hamlet."

"Grasshopper" is Cliff's name for slinky, sexy, tall girls who are all elbows and kneecaps. He calls them that because when they wrap their long legs and gangly arms around you, it's like fucking a grasshopper.
But Cliff thinks the idea of fucking a grasshopper is sorta sexy. So for him, it's a term of endearment.

It's like that old expression, the only people who don't like riding horses are cowboys.

While everybody in the stunt community knows Cliff Booth is Rick Dalton's stunt double, it's not the thing he's most known for.

"Sexy little me"

Marta might not have loved her husband, but as Tina Turner was later to sing, "what's love got to do with it?"

When Charlie drove out from San Francisco to Los Angeles, it was with the purpose of getting his music published, his songs recorded with him singing them, landing a recording contract, and then finally becoming a rock-and-roll star. This whole being a spiritual leader to a bunch of zonked-out kids and a guru to a harem of runaway girls was just supposed to be something he did in the meantime.

"Any actor claiming to do anything, except saying lines other people wrote, is full of fucking shit. And most of them can't even fucking do that!"

"I'm the devil, and I've come here to do the devil's business."

After Cliff became a widower, he never had another serious relationship with a woman for the rest of his life. He fucked girls. He took advantage of all that free pussy/free love that was floating around in the late sixties. But no serious girlfriends and definitely no wives.