Boys Don't Cry (1999)

Chloë Sevigny: Lana Tisdel

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Quotes 

• Lana : Shut up. That's your business. Look, I don't care if you're half monkey or half ape, I'm gettin' you out of here.

• Lana : What were you like... before all this? Were you like me, like a GIRL girl?

  Brandon : Yeah... like a long time ago... but then I guess I was just like a boy girl, then I was just a jerk.

• Lana : God, I hate my life.

  Lana's Mom : [drunk on the sofa]  Lana?

  Brandon : I hate your life, too.

• [John and Tom have pulled Brandon's pants down to show Lana that her boyfriend is biologically female, but Lana refuses to acknowledge it] 

  Lana : Leave him alone!

  John Lotter : HIM? HIM?

• Lana : No.

  Brandon : Why not? You're beautiful.

  Lana : Come over here.

• Lana : [to Brandon]  Who are you?

• Brandon : Lana, you are one cranky girl.

  Lana : Yeah, well, you'd be cranky, too, Mister I'm Going To Memphis Graceland Tennessee, if you were stuck in a town where there's nothing to do but go bumper skiing and chase bats every night of your evil fucking life.

• Lana Tisdel : MOM, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

  [to Candace] 

  Lana Tisdel : How could you tell them?

  Tom Nissen : We called work. We know you weren't there.

  Lana Tisdel : Why is he talking to me?

  [to Tom] 

  Lana Tisdel : What are you, my dad?

  [to everyone] 

  Lana Tisdel : Why are y'all staring at me?

  [tries to close the door] 

  Lana Tisdel : Go away. You're gross. You're horrible people! Get out of my room!

  Lana's Mom : Honey, we are all worried about you. We're just trying to save you.

  Lana Tisdel : You got a sick way of showing it.

• Lana : I mean, you don't have to be sober to weigh spinach.