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"I promise that I will beat you one day, Hephaistion."
"(Of his father Phillip) This is the man who is going to take you from Macedonia to Persia?! He can't even make it from one couch to the next."
"I didn't cross Asia to steal this victory, Cassander." And right not my butt."
"If you were to fall Hephaestion, even if Macedonia were to lose a king I would avenge you, and follow you down to the house of death."
"You've all honored your country and your ancestors and now we come to this most distant place in Asia where across from us Darius has at last gathered a vast army, but look again at this horde and ask yourselves, who is this great king who pays assassins in gold coins to murder my father, our king in a most despicable and cowardly manner? Who is this great king Darius who enslaves his own men to fight? Who is this king but a king of air? These men do not fight for their homes. They fight because this king tells them they must. And when they fight, they will melt away like the air, because they know no loyalty to a king of slaves! But we are not here today as slaves. We are here today... as Macedonian free men! And all their arms, their numbers, their chariots and their fine horses will mean nothing in the hands of slaves. Some of you, perhaps myself, will not live to see the sun set over these mountains today, for I will be in the very thick of battle with you. But remember this, the greatest honor a man can achieve is to live with great courage, and to die gloriously in battle for his home. I say to you what every warrior has known since the beginning of time: conquer your fear and I promise you you will conquer death! Someday I promise you, your sons and grandsons will look into your eyes. And when they ask you why you fought so bravely at Gaugamela, you will answer, with all the strength of your great, great hearts: "I was here this day at Gaugamela...for the freedom...and glory...of Greece!" Zeus be with us!"
"I am not my father!"
"I've taken you farther than my father ever dreamed!"
"It's a high ransom she charges for nine months lodging in the womb."
"Stay with me tonight, Hephaestion."
"In the end, all that matters is what you've done."
"When I was a child my mother thought me divine and my father weak... which one am I Hephaistion? Weak or divine?"
"It is you that I love Hephaestion, no other."
"Were we gods we'd breach these walls to the Eastern Ocean."
"Each land, each boundary I cross, I strip away another illusion. I sense death will be the last. Yet still I push, harder and harder to reach this..."home." Where has our eagle gone? We must go on Ptolemy, until we find an end."
"Aristotle be damned! By Zeus and by all the gods, what makes you so much better than them, Cassander! Better than you really are! In you and those like you is this."
"What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment, but your contempt for a world far older than ours."
"Hephaestion loves me as I am, not "who"."
"You break my heart, you men... afraid!? Of course you have fears, we all have fears. Because no one has ever come this far before."
"You know there’s not a part of me without a scar or a bone broken by sword, knife, stone, catapult, and club. I’ve shared every hardship with all of you."
"Yes, you're right Crateros. I should have sent you veterans home sooner, and I will. The first of your shall be the Silver Shields, and then every man who has served seven years. Respected, rich, LOVED! You'll be treated by you wives and children as heroes for the rest of your lives. And enjoy a peaceful death. But you dream Crateros! Your simplicity long ended when you took Persian mistresses and children and you thickened your holdings with plunder and jewels... Because you have fallen in love with all the things in life that destroy men! Do you not see? And you, as well as I, know, that as the years decline, and the memories stale, and all your great victories fade, it will always be remembered, you left your king in Asia! Because I will go on...with my Asians!"
"Go on your way, father, rejoicing that with every step you may recall your valour."
"Men of Macedon, we're going home."
"May all those who come here after us know when they see this altar, that titans were once here."
"Don't leave me Hephaestion!"
"My poor, poor, ill-fated son."
"No one, not my vilest enemy, has ever spoken like you to me!"
"Cleitus spoke true. I am a tyrant."
"Damn your sorceress soul! Keeping me like one of your snakes! I told you not! I told you not!"
"(of Bucephalus) Who would want such a beast? I already have a wife!"
"A broken neck comes free, you fool!"
"Ahhh! He's got some Titan in him yet!"
"A king isn't born, Alexander, he is made. By steel and by suffering. A king must know how to hurt those he loves. It's lonely. Ask Heracles. Ask any of them. Fate is cruel. No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. They laugh when you rise too high and crush everything you've built with a whim. What glory they give in the end, they take away. They... They make of us slaves."
"It was a Iron Age. Blood-feuds. Fathers feared their son's treachery and would eat them."
"You dream of glory Alexander. Your mother encourages you. But there's no glory without suffering and this she will not allow."
"All your life, beware of women. They are far more dangerous than men."
"(enraged at Alexander) Get out of my palace! You're exiled, you bastard! Banished from the land. You're not welcome here! You're no son of mine!"
"All greatness comes from loss. Even you the gods will one day judge harshly."
"None will tell you this but your father: Men hate the gods! The only reason we worship any of them is because we fear worse. The Titans."
"There's only one thing better than winning a battle, son, and that's the taste of a new woman! You'll find it far sweeter than self pity."
"I'll marry the girl if I want and I'll have as many sons as I want and there's nothing you or your harpie mother can do about it!"
"By Ares chains he's got balls. I mean give the man his due, Parmenion. And lads, feast tonight for tomorrow we will dine in Hades."
"Pay attention lad, your father's still watching over you!"
"I'll toast to Bagoas. And the 30,000 beautiful Persian boys were training to fight in this great army. And to memory of Phillip, had he lived to see his Macedonians transformed into such a pretty army."
"Herakles did it by himself. Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? I mean, who planned the Asian invasion while you were being spanked on your bottom by my sister Lanike? Was it not your father? Or is his blood no longer good enough?"
"What freedom is this to bow before you?"
"Doesn't your great pride fear the gods any longer."
"I don't serve your purpose?! What was I serving when I saved your puppy-life at Gaugamela?! Were you Zeus' boy?! What if I left you to die in the dust there? You think we'd be forced now to mate with brown apes?!!!"
"Evil tyrant you are! Evil tyrant you've become Alexander."
"What about poor Parmenion?!"
"Hear what I say, guess what, false king!"
"It was said later that Alexander was never defeated, except by Hephaistion's thighs."
"All men reach and fall..."
"Alexander once said to me that we are most alone when we are with the myths."
"He was a god, Cadmus, or as close as anything I've ever seen. Tyrant, they yell so easily. I laugh; no tyrant ever gave back so much. What do they know of the world, these school boys? It takes strong men to rule. Alexander was more; he was Prometheus, a friend to man. He changed the world."
"Before him there were tribes, after him all was possible. There was suddenly a sense the world could be ruled by one king and be better for all. Eighteen great Alexandrias he built across this world."
"It was an empire, not of land and gold, but of the mind. It was a Hellenic civilization, open to all."
"Did such a man as Alexander exist? Of course not! We idolize him; make him better than he was."
"It was mad; 40,000 of us against 250,000 barbarians!"
"In Egypt and oracle in the desert had declared Alexander the true son of Zeus. It was a myth, of course. At least it started as a myth. I was there; I saw his eyes."
"(when asked if he has found his home) More and more I think it will be Alexandria."
"I never believed in his dream. None of us did. That’s the truth of his life. The dreamers exhaust us. They must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams."
"The truth is we did kill him... By silence we consented. What, by Ares, did we have to look forward to but to be discarded in the end, like Cleitus?"
"By the tenth of June, a month short of his 33rd year, Alexander's great heart finally gave up, and, as he vowed, he joined Hephaistion."
"But in his short life he achieved without doubt, the mythic glory of his ancestor Achilles, and more."
"Within hours, we were fighting like jackals for his corpse."
"(final words of the film) His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness and impatience with those who could not understand. And if his desire to unite Greek and barbarian ended in failure... what failure! His failure towered over other men's successes. I've lived... I've lived a long life, Cadmos. But the glory and the memory of man will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. And the greatest of these is the one they now... call "Megas Alexandros" - the greatest Alexander of them all."
"My king, I'm a fightin' man. I like no belly-aching, I won't tolerate it in any of my units."
"I lost many a man. Young ones, never been with a woman. Some died of disease. Some were butchered in Scythia by the banks of the Oxus. Some died good. Some just didn’t get no luck. But they died. Forty thousand I come over with eight years ago. And we march after you more than 10,000 miles. In the rain and in the sun, we fought for you. Some of us 50 battles we’ve been in. And we killed many a barbarian. And now, when I look around, how many of them faces do I see?"
"All you desire! The world is yours! Take it..."
"(Of Philip) He calls me a barbarian! He makes a mockery of Dionysus every night."
"In my womb I carried my avenger!"
"You will be nineteen this summer and the girls already say you don't like them, you like Hephaistion more. I understand it is natural for a young man."
"Alexander, the world is yours. Take it!"
"Their skin is water. And their tongue is fire. She is your friend."
"Look at you! Look at you! You are everything he (Philip) was not. He was coarse, you are refined. He was general, you are a king. He could not rule himself...and you, shall rule the world."
"You strike me still, Alexander. You have eyes like no other. Ah, I sound as stupid as a schoolboy..."
"I found it in Egypt. The man who sold it to me said it came from a time when man worshipped sun and stars. I'll always think of you as the sun, Alexander and I pray your dream will shine on all men. I wish you a son."
"Remember the fates of the heroes. They suffered greatly."
"You're everything I care for and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite I'm so jealous of losing you to this world you want so badly."
"The generals question your obsession with Darius... they say it was never meant for you to be King of Asia."
"Sometimes, to always expect the best of everyone is arrogance."
"You're mortal. And they know it. And they forgive you because you make them proud of themselves."
"My Alexander... I remember the young man who wanted to be Achilles, and then out did him."
"To love excellence is truly to love the gods."
"Although an inferior race the Persians control at least four fifths of the known world. They rule and we sit around like frogs!"
"Excess in all things is the undoing of men!"
"If only these frogs could look outward from their favoured position in the centre, Greece could rule the world."
"When men lie together in lust, it is a surrender to the passions and does nothing for the excellence in us. Nor does any other excess, Cassander, jealousy among them. But when men lie together, and knowledge and virtue are passed between them, that is pure and excellent. When they compete to bring out the good, the best in each other, this is the love between men that can build a city-state and lift us from our frog pond."
"The east has a way of swallowing men and their dreams."
"I can only warn you, not teach you. Beware of what you dream for; the gods have a way of punishing such pride."
"Now tell me, which one of these dogs would you want to have as your wide receiver on your football team?"
"And to think that in some countries these dogs are eaten."
"Scott Donlan: She looks like a cocktail waitress on an oil rig."
"Sherri Ann Cabot: Leslie and I have an amazing relationship and it's very physical, he still pushes all my buttons. People say 'oh but he's so much older than you' and you know what, I'm the one having to push him away. We have so much in common, we both love soup and snow peas, we love the outdoors, and talking and not talking. We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about."
"Stefan Vanderhoof: If you're ever buying a shampoo sink go right to the Dutch. The French know nothing about shampooing."
"Christy Cummings: We started this magazine, "American Bitch". It's a focus on the issues of the lesbian pure bred dog owner."
"Scott Donlan: Bratwurst and shillelaghs... paging Dr. Freud."
"Fred Willard - Buck Laughlin"
"Christopher Guest - Harlan Pepper"
"Michael McKean - Stefan Vanderhoof"
"John Michael Higgins - Scott Donlan"
"Catherine O'Hara - Cookie Guggelman Fleck"
"Eugene Levy - Gerald 'Gerry' Fleck"
"Jay Brazeau - Dr. Chuck Nelken"
"Parker Posey - Meg Swan"
"Michael Hitchcock - Hamilton Swan"
"Linda Kash - Fay Berman"
"Larry Miller - Max Berman"
"Patrick Cranshaw - Leslie Ward Cabot"
"Jennifer Coolidge - Sherri Ann Ward Cabot"
"Jane Lynch - Christy Cummings"
"Bob Balaban - Dr. Theodore W. Millbank III"
"Jim Piddock - Trevor Beckwith, the Commentator"
"Ed Begley Jr. - Mark Schaefer, Hotel Manager"
"I don't like to brag, but I can suck the engine block through the tailpipe of a '58 Chevy."
"How come if God talks to Joseph Smith, he's a prophet, but if God talks to me I'm schizophrenic?"
"Maybe you could try and reach down in your Bible geek soul and be cool for just two seconds?"
"Ok asshole, the way I see it you've got a big mouth and only one arm to back it up. So's how's it gonna look when a big flamer kicks the shit out of you?"
"Dammit, what's wrong with you? You want revelations engraved in gold and angels trumpeting down from heaven. But what if this is it instead? Me telling you I love you, right here, in the snow? I think that's pretty miraculous."
"I mean, LA is a city where everyone dances with one eye on the door, like we're all waiting for something better to walk in. But would we ever recognise it if we did? It might be nice to stop circling. it might be nice to stop equating sex with a handshake. It might be nice to have it mean something."
"Could be worse, could be raining. Oh yeah: it IS raining."
"When I first came to Los Angeles, it looked like just this mass of dots, all jumbled and disconnected. ...It was pretty disorienting."
"Look at yourself. You're so pretty and colorful on the outside, but inside you're nothing but fluff. You're like a walking, talking marshmallow Peep!"
"I can't believe what I was about to do, when there is nothing, Christian, nothing about you that is not skin-deep."
"When I was a little kid, I use to put my face right up to them, you know, um, and I was just amazed because it was just this mass of dots, I think life is like that sometimes. But I like to think that, from God's perspective, life, everything - even this... it makes sense. It's not just dots. And instead we're all connected, and it's beautiful and it's funny and it's good. From this close we, we can't expect it to make sense, right now."
"We're colours and whites - we don't mix."
"[after having sex with Christian] Well, I'm already going to Hell for kissing you, so I may as well take the scenic route."
"[confronting his mother] What if it's not something I've done? What if it's who I am?"
"Sometimes it all still feels like a mass of dots. But more and more these days, I feel like we're all connected. And it's beautiful... and funny... and good."
"Fuck you, I'm Donna Reed on a stick."
"[On Mormons] Oh, honey, you do not want to let them get into your psyche. You start off listening to Amy Grant, but then, before you know, it's 3am and you got your Visa card and you're giving it to that scary bitch on TV with the lavender hair."
"Aaron prays, Christian plays. Opposites attract."
"Steve Sandvoss — Elder Aaron Davis"
"Wes Ramsey — Christian Markelli"
"Rebekah Johnson — Julie Taylor"
"Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Elder Paul Rider"
"Khary Payton — Andrew"
"Class: so, uh, where were we? Romantic poetry. Shakespeare. Talented. English. Dead."
"This is my Peter - uh, my friend Peter. We just met at the, uh, intersexual... homosection... INTERSECTION!"
"I just came out! At my wedding!"
"I need a heterosexual male, CODE RED!"
"[Yelling outside the bar after Howard won't marry her because he is gay and after Peter Malloy turns down her advances because he is also gay] Is everybody gay? Is this The Twilight Zone?"
"Excuse me, are we a little teapot?"
"For God's sake, don't shake that booty!"
"Think of John Wayne, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold doesn't dance, he can hardly walk."
"Truly manly men do NOT dance."
"Well, how did you do... prissy boy?"
"Glenn Close: [at the Academy Awards] This is Cameron's first nomination and he's in extremely good company. Tonight he joins fellow best actor nominee Paul Newman for "Coot", Clint Eastwood for "Codger", Michael Douglas for "Primary Urges" and Steven Seagal for "Snowball in Hell"."
"Cameron: Maybe I should thank someone else. Someone who's really been there, someone who taught me a lot, about poetry and Shakespeare, and just, y'know, stayin' awake, man. Someone who's just an overall great guy, a great teacher... to Howard Brackett from Greenleaf, Indiana! And he's gay. Y'know, I've been thinking alot about this night, and I've decided to dedicate this whole night to a great, gay teacher. Mr. Brackett, WE WON!"
"Frank Brackett: [about Cameron] He used to mow our lawn. Never again."
"Peter Malloy: A teacher in trouble. A town under siege. A journey to the heartland. Stay tuned."
"Berniece: I need that wedding. I need some beauty and some music and some placecards before I die. It's like heroin."
"Reporter: Should gays be allowed to handle fresh produce?"
"Sonja: I don't have time. I promised to do that photo shoot this afternoon. I have to shower and vomit!"
"Ava Blazer: [after one of the girls announces that she's gay] You can't be gay! You're a tramp!"
"Kevin Kline - Howard Brackett"
"Joan Cusack - Emily Montgomery"
"Tom Selleck - Peter Malloy"
"Matt Dillon - Cameron Drake"
"Debbie Reynolds - Berniece Brackett"
"Wilford Brimley - Frank Brackett"
"Bob Newhart - Tom Halliwell"
"Gregory Jbara - Walter Brackett"
"Shalom Harlow - Sonya"
"Shawn Hatosy - Jack"
"Zak Orth - Mike"
"Lauren Ambrose - Vicky"
"Alexandra Holden - Meredith"
"Graduating from PA is no Academy Award, if you know what I mean. Look, it is better than real school. Like, its free and you don't get raped in the hallways; but, its still small change. I'm just killin' time here. Waitin' for my opportunity. Might be in a movie or a Broadway musical. But, it's comin'! I keep my eyes open. I read "Backstage", "Show Business" and "Variety". You see, I do the whole thing. Dancing's just the tip of this iceberg. A friend of my sister's, she tells fortunes and stuff. She says I'm doing my last dance on this dark little planet. So, its gotta be spectacular, you know. How bright our spirits go shooting out into space, depends on how much we contributed to the earthly brilliance of this world. And I mean to be a major contributor!"
"I'm about as flamboyant as a bagel."
"I HATE Ralph Garci! I must remember this feeling and use it in my acting!"
"I'm always worried maybe people aren't going to like me when I go to a party. Isn't that crazy? Do you ever get a kind of a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when you dread things? Gee, I wouldn't want to miss a party for anything, but, every time I go to one, I keep feeling like the whole world's against me."
"Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it?"
"I's young, I's single, and I loves to mingle!"
"Shirley: It's just not fair. I didn't wanna come here, anyway. This school sucks. You done me a favour, shithead. You saved me four fuckin' years from this ass-lickin' school. You're lookin' at one happy lady. Who wants to go to a fuckin' school to learn to dance, anyway?"
"Mr. Farrell: There are 50,000 people walking around calling themselves actors and maybe 500 are making a living at it. Most of those do commercials to pay the rent. The rest wait tables, clean other people's apartments, living on welfare and hope. And don't think talent's enough to get you through. You've gotta have a strong technique, a good agent, and, most of all, a thick skin; because, now you're part of an underprivileged minority and you're going to suffer."
"Fame! I'm gonna live forever/ I'm gonna learn how to fly (high!)/ I feel it coming together/ People will see me and cry!"
"Remember. Remember. Remember my name."
"If they've really got what it takes, it's going to take everything they've got."
"Remember my name..."
"Study, drill and technique do not stifle the talent, they free it."
"Irene Cara - Coco Hernandez – Drama, Music and Dance"
"Lee Curreri - Bruno Martelli – Music"
"Laura Dean - Lisa Monroe – Dance"
"Antonia Franceschi - Hilary Van Doren – Dance"
"Paul McCrane - Montgomery MacNeil – Drama"
"Barry Miller - Ralph Garci/Raul Garcia – Drama"
"Gene Anthony Ray - Leroy Johnson – Dance"
"Maureen Teefy - Doris Finsecker – Drama"
"Albert Hague - Mr. Shorofsky – Music"
"Anne Meara - Mrs. Sherwood – English"
"Joanna Merlin - Ms. Berg – Dance"
"Jim Moody - Mr. Farrell – Drama"
"Debbie Allen - Lydia – Dance"
"Eddie Barth - Angelo Martelli, Bruno's father"
"Boyd Gaines - Michael"
"Tresa Hughes - Naomi Finsecker, Doris's mother"
"Steve Inwood - François Lafete"
"Richard Belzer - Catch a Rising Star M.C."
"Bill Britten - Mr. England"
"Isaac Mizrahi - Touchstone"
"Sal Piro - Rocky Horror M.C."
"Michael DeLorenzo - Principal dancer"
"Meg Tilly - Principal dancer"
"Roll up, roll up! The Vestal Virgins versus the Sabine women. A glorious rape in colour."
"Here comes Messalina. Girls, tend your fires. Or she'll be in by the back door."
"I don't know why you fancy boys so much, Anthony. You're worse than a Greek. They're okay for a quick one. But I can't wait for Rome and a real woman."
"His beauty is enhanced by his anger. It is his anger which is divine. His punishments are like Christ's promise. He takes me in his arm and caresses my bleeding body. I want to be with him. I love him."
"Barney James - Severus"
"Neil Kennedy - Maximus"
"Leonardo Treviglio - Sebastian"
"Richard Warwick - Justin"
"Donald Dunham -Claudius"
"Daevid Finbar - Julian"
"Ken Hicks - Adrian"
"Lindsay Kemp - Dancer"
"Steffano Massari - Marius"
"Janusz Romanov - Anthony"
"Gerald Incandela - Leopard Boy"
"Robert Medley - Emperor Diocletian"
"There's me going to bed every night worried because you had to share a bed with Ste, and all the time you were... you turned a seventy minus one."
"No, I know what you need... a shooting."
"Homosexuality is a sin. Homosexuals are doomed to spend eternity in Hell. If they wanted to change, they could be healed of their evil ways. If they would turn away from temptation, they could be normal again if only they would try and try harder if it doesn't work. These are all the things I said to my son Bobby when I found out he was gay. When he told me he was homosexual, my world fell apart. I did everything I could to cure him of his sickness. Eight months ago my son jumped off a bridge and killed himself. I deeply regret my lack of knowledge about gay and lesbian people. I see that everything I was taught and told was bigotry and de-humanizing slander. If I had investigated beyond what I was told, if I had just listened to my son when he poured his heart out to me, I would not be standing here today with you filled with regret. I believe that God was pleased with Bobby's kind and loving spirit. In God's eyes kindness and love are what it's all about. I didn't know that each time I echoed eternal damnation for gay people, each time I referred to Bobby as sick and perverted and a danger to our children. His self esteem and sense of worth were being destroyed. And finally, his spirit broke beyond repair. It was not God's will that Bobby climbed over the side of a freeway overpass and jumped directly into the path of an eighteen-wheel truck, which killed him instantly. Bobby's death was a direct result of his parent's ignorance and fear of the word gay. He wanted to be a writer. His hopes and dreams should not have been taken from him but they were. There are children, like Bobby, sitting in your congregations. Unknown to you they will be listening as you echo "amen", and that will soon silence their prayers. Their prayers to God for understanding and acceptance and for your love. But your hatred and fear and ignorance of the word gay will silence those prayers. So, before you echo "amen" in your home and place of worship, think. Think and remember, a child is listening."
"To all the Bobbys and Janes out there, I say these words to you as I would my own precious children: Please don't give up hope on life, or yourselves. You're very special to me, and I'm working very hard to make this life a better and safer place for you to live in. Promise me you'll keep trying. Bobby gave up on love; I hope you won't. You are always in my thoughts."
"They should love the son no matter what the sin. Hey, that's good, I'm gonna start my own Bible!"
"I'm gonna suck your cock like the inside of a ripe mango."
"Ripe mango, take two..."
"Constance Money - Misty Beethoven"
"Jamie Gillis - Dr. Seymour Love"
"Calvin Culver (aka Casey Donovan) as Jacque Beudant, art dealer"
"Jacqueline Beudant - Geraldine Rich"
"Gloria Leonard - Barbara"
"Terri Hall - Tanya"
"Mark Margolis - unhappy man"
"[after splitting an associate's head with an axe] I loved this man like a brother. He was a dear friend and partner to me... so I took no joy in that. But just think, if I can do this to someone I love, imagine what I can do with someone I hate! So, the American FBI declares war on us? Then war it is."
"[talking to his dog Arthur at a dog park] Go and have experiences with your own people. I'll be right here. I'm a human. I'm not a dog. And you're a Jack Russell, and that's a breed. Your personality was created by this guy John Russell, who was a hunting enthusiast in the 1800's. And he bred your ancestors for their stamina and their courage for the hunt. You think you're you and you want to chase the foxes, but... other people planted that in you years ago, and now, somewhat arbitrarily you're considered very cute by us humans. And we keep breeding you not to- not to chase foxes, but to be cute. And we put you in television shows, and movies, and- And you're chasing tennis balls because they're as close to a fox as you're gonna get."
"[talking to Anna on the phone who uses beeps to talk] I've always wanted to have a phone call with someone who doesn't talk."
"Ewan McGregor - Oliver"
"Christopher Plummer - Hal"
"Mélanie Laurent - Anna"
"Goran Višnjić - Andy"
"Mary Page Keller - Georgia"
"China Shavers - Shauna"
"Cosmo - Arthur"
"Don't open the door for any gas men. Unless you think either one of us would be interested."
"I like guys a lot, but I'm not going to waste my time with some guy that doesn't see things the way I do... I mean do you really need this guy?"
"I want you to be with me, I want you to marry me, I want you to love me the way that I love you."
"You don't tell a woman that you love her and then two days later bring Romeo over to sleep with him."
"You have to pick one person and make it work."
"Freud didn't know DICK about women."
"I want to look at you and not feel so hurt by you."
"Head up, young person."
"I'm simple, that's why I teach first grade."
"Don't fix your life so that you're left alone right as you come to the middle of it."
"One shouldn't be too hard on oneself when the object of one's affection returns the favor with rather less enthusiasm than one might have hoped."
"I enjoy gay people, but I just have a slight problem with my pregnant sister being in love with one of them."
"Sidney Miller: If I wasn't happily married and you weren't my wife's stepsister, I'd have an affair with you in a second."
"Sidney Miller: I swear, I'm hotter than a goat in China."
"Dr. Robert Joley: We're too young to settle for a twin-bedded friendship."
"A love story that could only happen between best friends."
"Sometimes The Most Desirable Relationship Is The One You Can't Have"
"Jennifer Aniston - Nina Borowski"
"Paul Rudd - George Hanson"
"John Pankow - Vince McBride"
"Allison Janney - Constance Miller"
"Alan Alda - Sidney Miller"
"Tim Daly - Dr. Robert Joley"
"Joan Copeland - Madame Reynolds"
"Steve Zahn - Frank Hanson"
"Nigel Hawthorne - Rodney Fraser"
"Kali Rocha - Melissa"
"Gabriel Macht as Steve Casillo"
"Sarah Hyland as Molly"
"Hayden Panettiere - Mermaid"
"Liam Aiken - Nathan"
"Bruce Altman - Dr. Goldstein"
"Daniel Cosgrove - Trotter Bull"
"Samia Shoaib - Suni"
"Audra McDonald - wedding singer"
"Lauren Varija Pratt as Sally"
"Salem Ludwig - Mr. Shapiro"
"Antonia Rey - Mrs. Ochoa"
"John Roland - TV Anchor"
"Rosanna Scotto - TV Anchor"
"Kevin Corrall - Louis Crowley"
"Kia Goodwin - Juliet"
"My name is Dedee Truitt. I'm sixteen, and this is Creve Coeur, Louisiana... which is French, I think, for like, 'fucked heart'."
"If you think I'm just plucky and scrappy and all I need is love, you're in over your heads. I don't have a heart of gold and I don't grow one later, OK? But relax. There's other people a lot nicer coming up - we call them "losers.""
"My mother was the kind of mother who always said she was her daughter's best friend. Whenever she did, I thought, "Great! Not only do I have a shitty mother, but my best friend's a loser bitch!""
"Rule one of sex: a person can do anything for ten minutes if they don't breath in."
"Seems like everybody's having sex but me. Good for them. It's not that I'm against sex. I mean, it was clever of God or evolution or whatever to hook the survival of the species to it because we're gonna screw around no what. It was a smarter thing to pick than say... the instinct to share your toys or return phone calls. We'd have died out like eons ago. But on the minus side, god... all the attachment that goes with it. It's like this net. Sex always ends in kids or disease, or like, you know, relationships. That's exactly what I don't want. I want the opposite of all that. Because it's not worth it, not really, is it? When you think about it? [cut to montage of memories of heart-warming relationship scenes] OK, so maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's not all shit. Maybe... God damn it. I thought the whole idea was I know what happens next. I'll tell you one thing... I'm not gonna go back to Bill's house and be this big changed person for you. I told you right off I don't grow a heart of gold. And if I do, which is, like, so unlikely... give me a break and don't make me do it in front of you. Come on, guys, go, okay? [looking at the camera angrily] GO! I'll give you this much, though... I never was the same again after that summer."
"[Refusing heterosexual sex with Dedee] I've never tried communism, but I know I wouldn't like that. It's the same thing. Or grits."
"Girl Student: This is America, and we're Christians here - aside from a few Jewish people who were just born that way - and I can tell you one thing: Jesus Christ and his apostles were certainly not into "man-on-man action," which is how they describe it on their porno videos, which, I am proud to say, Blockbuster does not carry. Um, I work there and it's very family... [pause] Plus, that religion John Travolta belongs to."
"Christina Ricci - Dedee Truitt"
"Ivan Sergei - Matt Mateo"
"Martin Donovan - Bill Truitt"
"Lisa Kudrow - Lucia De Lury"
"Lyle Lovett - Carl Tippett"
"William Lee Scott - Randy Cates"
"Johnny Galecki - Jason Bock"
"Colin Ferguson - Tom De Lury"
"I'm just like you. For the most part, my life is totally normal. My dad was the annoyingly handsome quarterback who married the hot valedictorian. And no, they didn't peak in high school. I have a sister I actually like, not that I'd ever tell her that, and last year, and 200 episodes of Chopped ago, she decided she wanted to be a chef, which means we're pretty much all her test subjects now. And then there's my friends. Two of them I've known since pretty much the beginning of time, or at least kindergarten. One of them, I just met a few months ago, but it feels like I've known her forever. We do everything friends do. We drink way too much iced coffee, watch bad '90 movies and hang out at Waffle House dreaming of college and gorging on carbs. So, like I said, I'm just like you. I have a totally, perfectly normal life. Except I have one huge-ass secret."
"There's a really thin line between laughing with someone and laughing at someone. And you are that line."
"I've been thinking about why I haven't come out yet. Maybe it's because it doesn't seem fair that only gay people have to come out. Why is straight the default? Or maybe it's because I can't be sure this whole "being gay" thing is forever. Or maybe it's that there's not that much of high school left and part of me wants to hold on to who I've always been just a little longer. And then, when I go to college in Los Angeles, I'll be gay and proud, I promise. I'm not sure who I'm promising. I'll keep ruminating."
"Simon means "the one who hears" and Spier means "the one who sees", so you put that all together and pretty sure that means I was just destined to be up in everybody's business."
"I'm gay. And I don't want you guys to think anything different. I'm still me."
"I came out to my entire family on Christmas. It didn't go great. And I've been avoiding my friends the whole break for all sorts of reasons. Change is exhausting. I feel like there's nowhere to hide from all the newness of everything."
"I don't care if you didn't think that my coming out was gonna be a big thing, Martin. Look, you don't get to decide that. I'm supposed to be the one that decides when and where and how and who knows and how I get to say it, that's supposed to be my thing! And you took that away from me."
"Dear students of Creekwood High School, as anyone with a half-decent data plan already knows, a recent post on this very website declared that I was gay. The delivery left something to be desired, but the message is true. I am gay. For a long time, I was killing myself to hide that fact. I had all these reasons. It was unfair that only gay people had to come out. I was sick of change. But the truth is, I was just scared. At first I thought it was just a gay thing. But then I realized, no matter what, announcing who you are to the world is pretty terrifying, because what if the world doesn't like you? So I did whatever I could to keep my secret. I hurt the best, most important people. And I want them to know that I'm sorry. I am done being scared. I'm done living in a world where I don't get to be who I am."
"I know that you've been pretending for so long it's hard to believe you can stop."
"Sometimes, I feel like I'm stuck on a Ferris wheel. One minute I'm on top of the world, and the next I'm at rock bottom. Over and over, all day long, because a lot of my life is great, but nobody knows I'm gay."
"I think I'm the kind of person who is destined to care so much about one person, it nearly kills me."
"Sorry to interrupt, but I have something to say that's a little more important than the national anthem. No offense, America."
"Nick Robinson — Simon Spier"
"Kathrine Langford — Leah Burke"
"Alexandra Shipp — Abby Suso"
"Jorge Lendeborg Jr. — Nick Eisner"
"Keiynan Lonsdale - Bram Greenfeld"
"What Jimmy didn't know was that Ralph was sick. A sickness that was not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious: a sickness of the mind. You see, Ralph was a homosexual… a person who demands an intimate relationship with members of their own sex."
"He probably never realized until too late that he was riding in the shadow of death. But sometime that evening, Mike Merritt traded his life for a newspaper headline."
"Public restrooms can often be a hangout for the homosexual."
"So, no matter where you meet a stranger, be careful if they are too friendly if try to win your confidence too quickly and if they become overly personal. One never knows when the homosexual is about. He may appear normal, and it may be too late when you discover he is mentally ill. So keep with your group, and don't go off alone with strangers unless you have the permission of your parent or teacher."