My So-Called Life (TV Series)

Pilot (1994)

Claire Danes: Angela Chase

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• 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. Because if you made a book of what really happened, it'd be a really upsetting book.

• Angela : I'm in love. His name is Jordan Catalano. He was let 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.

• Ms. Mayhew : How could Anne Frank be lucky?

  Angela : I don't know. 'Cause she was stuck in an attic for three years with this guy she really liked?

• Angela : Things were getting to me. Just how people are. How they always expect you to be a certain way. Even your best friend.

• Angela : My dad and I used to be pretty tight. The sad truth is, my breasts have come between us.

• Jordan : This doesn't seem like a Friday.

  Angela : It's Thursday.

  Jordan : Oh. Are you sure?

  Angela : Yesterday was Wednesday, so...

  Jordan : Oh... Right.

  Angela : So, that's how I know.

• 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, like, 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?

• 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.

• Angela : Lately, I can't even look at my mother without wanting to stab her repeatedly.

• Angela : My dad thinks every person in the world is having more fun than him. Which could be true.

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

• Angela : Everybody's an act. Including you.

• Angela : Like with boys, how they have it so easy. How you have to pretend that you don't notice them... noticing you.

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

• Angela : These guys started hitting on us.

  Brian : What? Like sexual harassment?

  Angela : Like guys.

• Angela : My mother's adopted. So for a while, she was looking for her real parents. I guess that's just what everyone's looking for.

• Angela : School is a battlefield... for your heart.