My So-Called Life Season 1 Episode 1

Angela: I thought you were on my side.
Graham: I'm not on anyone's side.
Patty: Graham. Grow up. Choose a side.

Graham: Is this girl's mother going to be there?
Angela: No. No, Rayanne lives by her wits. In an alley.

Angela (voice over): My mother's adopted. For a while, she was looking for her real parents. I guess that's what everyone's looking for.

Guy #1: How old are you guys? You guys wanna go somewhere?
Rayanne: (To Angela) Do you?
Angela: I dunno.
Guy #2: There's really young, isn't that like kidnapping or something?

Angela: Look how thin yours are.
Rickie: Tino, where are you?
Rayanne: But yours are really little.
Angela: But they're fat, they're like fatter.
Rayanne: Rickie loves cuter feet!
Rickie: Me?
Rayanne: Let's trade shoes.

Rickie: Where is Tino?
Rayanne: He'll be here, okay? Haven't you ever waiting for anything?
Rickie: Yeah, for my life to start.

Brian: Hey Chase.
Angela: Get out of here, Krakow.
Brian: Um, you're breaking like 14 different laws. You looked better before.
Angela: Like I'm devastated.
Brian: Like I am. Oh, look at me, I'm way cool. I'm off with my way cool friends to sniff floor wax. That's right, cover that zit.
Angela: Want me to do yours?
Brian: Oh, that hurt.

Danielle: So, there's this movie on tonight, I really wanna watch. It's
about this girl. She gets these obscene phone calls. It's like her job.

Sharon: So, um, so tell me what I did, Angela. I mean, I mean, I would really like to know.
Angela: Nothing. It's not something that you--
Sharon: So you just drop your oldest friend for no reason? I mean, just tell me what I did.
Angela: I can't. It's not like one thing, it's not like that.
Sharon: Okay, great. So, just, never speak to me again. Real mature Angela.
Angela: No, I want to speak to you. I never wanted--
Sharon: No, forget it!... God, you and your hair. Did Patty, like, hemorrhage first time she saw it?
Angela: In a sense.
Sharon: Well, I have to say... I hate it.

Rayanne: So there's this rave tonight, okay, at that club, Let's Bolt. Tino can get us in. Guaranteed, Jordan Catalano will be there.
Angela: Rayanne.
Rayanne: What? It's perfect, and you don't even have to think of anything to say to him because no one can hear anybody. I think lard's my favorite food group.

Angela: You should see what they call chili con carne at school. First of
all, it's just beans.
Graham: Well that's not chili con carne.
Angela: I know.
Graham: Con carne. With meat.
Angela: I know.
Graham: I think it's the lack of meat that's destroying America.

Angela: It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or
something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when
you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you? And, I mean, this whole thing with yearbook it's, like, everybody's in this big hurry to make
this book, to supposedly remember what happened, but it's not even what
really happened, it's what everyone thinks was supposed to happen. Because
if you made a book of what really happened, it'd be a really upsetting
book.

Ms. Mayhew: So how would you describe Anne Frank?
Angela: Lucky.
Ms. Mayhew: Is that supposed to be funny, Angela? How on earth could you make a statement like that? Anne Frank perished in a concentration camp. Anne Frank
is a tragic figure. How could Anne Frank be lucky?
Angela: I don't know. 'Cause she was trapped in an attic for three years
with this guy she really liked?

Rayanne: So Rickie, Angela's in love with Jordan Catalano. We have to help her.
Angela: Rayanne!
Rayanne: Oh, come on, I can tell Rickie. You gotta come to Tino's tonight. He'll be there.
Angela: He doesn't even know me. Am I making a fool of myself?
Rayanne: I don't know. Rickie, give us the male's perspective.
Rickie: Don't you love how he leans?

Danielle: (About Sharon's book) I found it. Well don't thank me or anything.
Angela: Get out of my room.

Rayanne: You want to have sex with him.
Angela: Who?
Rayanne: Who? Jordan... Catalano. Come on! I'm not gonna tell anyone, just admit it.
Angela: I just like how he's always leaning against stuff. He leans great. Well, either sex or a conversation. Ideally both.

Angela (thinking): I'm in love. His name is Jordan Catalano. He was held back... twice. Once I almost touched his shoulder in the middle of a pop quiz. He's always closing his eyes, like it hurts to look at things.

Graham: (About Angela) Patty, it could be a lot worse.
Patty: I know.
Graham: I mean she could be cutting class, doing drugs, having sex... like we did.
Patty: I never cut class. And you never had sex in high school.

Graham: (About Angela) Tell her not to walk around in a towel. Okay?
Patty: You can tell her.
Graham: No, I can't. If I could tell her, I would tell her. You tell her. Or get her a bigger towel.

Patty: (To Angela, Rayanne, and Rickie) So... okay. I'm leaving now. Uh, well, not the house, the room.

Rickie: You're Angela's mom?
Patty: Yes, I am. That's true.
Rickie: I like your house.
Patty: Thank you. Who are you?

Angela: See this guy, like...
Rayanne: Robbed our bus... tickets. And um... You know my sister and I, we're twins.
Angela: No, were not the kind of twins that look alike.
Rayanne: We just finish each other's--
Angela: Sentences.
Rayanne: (To Angela) That was cool.
Both: How did we do that?

Angela: Okay, so maybe he's bi. Who cares? His cousin can still drive.

Angela: So I started hanging out with Rayanne Graff. Just for fun. Just 'cause it seemed like if I didn't, I would die or something. Things were getting to me. Just how people are. How they always expect you to be a certain way, even your best friend... Like with boys, how they got it so easy. How you have to pretend... you don't notice them... noticing you.

Graham: (To Angela) Wait, don't tell me... there's something different.
Danielle: I would never dye my hair red.
Angela: It's not red, it's crimson glow.
Graham: Oh. Well, I can see it now. The social world, wild parties, Axel Rose...
Angela: (Thinking) My dad thinks every person in the world is having more fun than him. Which could be true.

Rickie: If you were about to do it, okay, what would you want the other person to say, like, right before?
Rayanne: This won't take long.
Rickie: No, seriously.
Rayanne: Do I know you?
Rickie: No, for real. Like, romantic.
Angela: You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you.
Rayanne: "It hurts to look at you?"
Rickie: How'd you think of that?
Rayanne: Where would it hurt?
Rickie: I really like that.
Rayanne: Well I'm gonna tell Jordan.

Angela: (Thinking) My parents keep asking how school was. It's like saying, "How was that drive-by shooting?" You don't care how it was, you're lucky to get out alive.

Graham: I mean it's her hair.
Patty: Exactly. (To Angela) And we'll always be able to spot you... in a crowd.
Angela: (Thinking) Lately I can't even look at my mother without wanting to stab her... repeatedly.

Angela: (Thinking) I cannot bring myself to eat a well-balanced meal in front of my mother. It just means too much to her. I mean, if you stop to think about, like, chewing... what it really is? How people just do it, like, in public.

Patty: So it is you.
Angela: I had my hair dyed.
Patty: Oh, you had it dyed. I thought it had died of natural causes.

Brian: You're not stupid, don't act like it. It's a stupid act.
Angela: (To Brian) Everybody's an act. Including you.

Angela: (Thinking) My dad and I used to be pretty tight.
Graham: Um, how's school?
Angela: I'm starting to like Anne Frank.
Graham: Is she a sophomore too?
Angela: No, she's dead.
Graham: Oh, right.
Angela: Anne Frank Dad.
Graham: Oh, right! I meant, I mean... Okay, uh, don't stay up too late.
Angela: (Thinking) The sad truth is, my breasts have come between us.

Angela: Cafeteria is the embarrassment capital of the world. It's like a prison movie.

Angela: Seeing a teacher's actual lunch is, like, so depressing. Not to mention, her bra strap.

Angela: Like cheerleaders...Can't people just cheer on their own?...Like to themselves?...

Angela: School is a battlefield for your heart. So when Rayanne Graff told me my hair was holding me back, I had to listen. 'Cause she wasn't just talking about my hair. She was talking about my life.

Girl: Rayanne, you are so full of it!
Rayanne: Oh, please! Ask Rickie, it was wicked. It was-- Hey girlfriend!
Rickie: Hey Angela!
Rayanne: Ask Angela, she was there. Angela, tell her...
Rickie: We hung out. And these guys, they tried to pick them up.
Rayanne: It was totally wicked, am I right?
Rickie: And the cops came.
Rayanne: I am telling you, we had a time. Didn't we? Didn't we have a time?
Angela: (Smiling) We did. We had a time.

1st bathroom girl: Wait, so what's fat-free?
2nd bathroom girl: When something's, like, free. Of fat.
3rd bathroom girl: Well, what's the difference between fat-free and, like, nonfat?