My So-Called Life Quotes

Angela: [voiceover] There's something about Sunday night that really makes you want to kill yourself...And that creepy '60 Minutes' watch that sounds like your whole life ticking away.

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Katimski: What kind of girl is Shakespeare describing here? Is she the most beautiful girl?
Brian: No.
Katimski: Is she a goddess? Physically perfect? The kind of girl who stops traffic when she walks down the street?
Brian: [laughs] No.
Katimski: So he's not in love with her?
Jordan: Yeah. He is.
Katimski: Why is that? Why is he in love with her? What is it? What is it about her?
Brian: She's not just a fantasy. She's got, like, flaws. She's real.

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Angela: [voiceover] I couldn't stop thinking about it -- the like, fact of it. That people had sex. That they just had it. That sex was this thing people had. Like a rash, or a Rottweiler. Everything started to seem, like, pornographic or something. Like, Miss Krzyzanowski had sex. So does Mr. Katimski. They both have sex. They could have sex together, like right now. I am, like, the sickest person.

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Jordan: [to Angela, about sex] It's accepted! It's what you're supposed to do! Unless you're like...abnormal?

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Brian: My parents have a vibrator. It sounds like a lawnmower.

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Angela: [voiceover] Sometimes someone says something really small and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart.

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Angela: [voiceover] People always say how you should be yourself. Like yourself is this definite thing, like a toaster or something. Like you know what it is, even. But every so often, I'll have, like, a moment when just being myself, and my life, like, right where I am, is, like, enough.

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Counselor: Rayanne, you've been sober for over a month! It's time you get a support system in place.
Rayanne: I already have a support system!
Counselor: Really? Who?
Rayanne: Well, Rickie. Angela.
Counselor: This, this Angela? Isn't she the one you said you feel distant from these past few weeks?
Rayanne: Well, she got herself a guy, but it's nothing to worry about.
[pulls out lollypop]
Rayanne: Lolly?

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Rayanne: I can take care of myself, okay?! So just leave me alone!
Angela: What's wrong? I thought she gave up drinking?
Rickie: She's drunk.

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Amber: You don't have to go to school today.
Rayanne: No, I want to. Poor Rickie probably had, like, 40 heart attacks.

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Rayanne: Boy, people get swept up in this Christmas thing, huh?
Angela: You mean you don't?
Rayanne: Yeah, but my mom and I like to wait... for stuff to go on sale.

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Patty: Oh, a Christmas card from the Levettis?
Graham: So?
Patty: Well, I finally took them off the list! We haven't laid eyes on them since Danielle started solids, and now out of nowhere they send this?
Graham: Patty, it's a greeting card, not a dead fish.

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Danielle: It's not fair. Angela got a new bike when she was eleven.
Graham: What do you do? Keep like running tally of everything we bought for Angela?
Danielle: Well, yeah.

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Danielle: Do we have to keep talking about religion? It's Christmas.

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Sharon: Krakow, this is when people need the helpline, okay? People get so stressed over this holiday stuff, they experience actual symptoms of depression, or whatever. Like, total helplessness and despair. And, like, loss of appetite, or whatever.

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Sharon: [voiceover] I resolve to never again have sex with Kyle, or anyone, again, unless I really love and respect them.
Kyle: [voiceover]... to spend more time with the dog, and Sharon.
Katimski: [voiceover] ... um, give up coffee, there, that's an easy one.
Brian: [voiceover] I resolve to stop obsessing over Angela Chase.
Danielle: [voiceover] ... to badger Mom into letting me wear make-up.
Rickie: [voiceover] ... to find some place where I like really, belong.
Rayanne: [voiceover] ... to stop drinking, but this time, like, really stop.
Patty: [voiceover] I resolve to be less judgmental, less critical, to lighten up! And above all, to be more supportive, and less suspicious. [about Graham] No matter how much it seems like he's hiding something.
Graham: [voiceover] ... to tell Hallie Lowenthal once and for all that I'm not going into restaurant business with her... And to stop all those long talks with her after class.

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Angela: [voiceover] What I was thinking, as like a New Year's resolution, is to stop getting so caught up in my own thoughts, 'cause I'm like way too introspective. I think... But what if not thinking turns me into this shallow person? I better rethink this becoming less introspective thing. Okay, so I'll stay introspective, but I do resolve to stop doing Jordan Catalano’s homework.

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Angela: [voiceover] I loved Jordan Catalano so much, and talked about him so much, and thought about him so much, it was like he lived inside me. Like he had taken possession of my soul, or something. And then one day...I got over him! [Angela dances and sings to "Blister In The Sun"]

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Angela: [voiceover] It was like Jordan Catalano had been surgically removed from my heart... and I was free.

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Angela: Where is the tape Brian?!
Brian: Tape-what tape?
Angela: Don't play dumb with me! You know! THE tape!

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Rayanne: I've never really hurt somebody this bad before... Hard to believe ! I mean, but I guess you can't hurt somebody this bad, unless you really matter to them

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Rayanne: You lost nothing Angela, You lost nothing you lost a lousy selfish friend and a guy you never really had, you lost nothing, I lost a really good friend. I lost everything.

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Danielle: [voiceover] My life is different people kicking me out of different rooms.

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[Kyle and Warren are listening through the door]
Kyle: Brian Krakow has Rayanne Graff chained to a bed
Rayanne: [talking about key for handcuffs] Brian, you idiot, that's not gonna fit It's too big!
[Guys outside snicker]

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Brian: [voiceover, writing a love letter on behalf of Jordan] Dear Angela, I know in the past I've caused you pain and I'm sorry. And I'll always be sorry 'till the day I die. And I hate this pen I'm holding because I should be holding you. I hate this paper under my hand because it isn't you. I even hate this letter because it's not the whole truth. Because the whole truth is so much more than a letter can even say. If you want to hate me, go ahead. If you want to burn this letter, do it. You could burn the whole world down. You could tell me to go to hell; I'd go, if you wanted me to. And I'd send you a letter from there. Sincerely, Jordan Catalano.

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Rickie: Brian, did you do something... or something?? What did you do?
Brian: I wrote this letter... to her.
Rickie: Oh my God, and she thinks he wrote it.

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Patty: It's always tempting to lose yourself with someone who's maybe lost themselves. But eventually, you want reality.

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Rickie: Uh, Delia? Maybe we should, uh, go somewhere sometime?
Delia: Okay.
Rickie: You know, like, uh, to a movie or something.
Delia: I'd like that.
Rickie: 'Cause, um, I, I really think that we'd be good together.
Delia: Okay, but um, you're gay, right?
Rickie: Well, I, you know, I, I-
Delia: Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't-
Rickie: No, it, it, it's okay.
Delia: That came out so rude.
Rickie: No, uh, see I, I try not to, um, no, I, I don't like, uh... Yeah, I'm gay. I just don't usually say it like that.
Delia: And how do you usually say it?
Rickie: I don't usually say it. I mean, I've actually never said it... out loud.
Delia: I'm honored.
Rickie: Uh, Delia, If i were attracted to girls, I'd be attracted to you.

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Angela: Brian, I need to talk to you. Rickie said you wrote my letter.
Brian: Well, maybe he meant that I like proofread it.
Angela: You proofread a love letter?!
[pause]
Angela: Well, its obviously a total lie!
Brian: No, I meant every word. I mean the person who wrote it meant every word...
Angela: Brian?
Brian: I didn't write it! Forget about the letter!
Angela: [looking at him in a new light] How?
Brian: But you, like, liked it right? I mean, it made you feel good, or whatever?
Angela: Yeah.

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