“10 Things I Hate About You” quotes
(1999)Plot – Two female students, the Stratford sisters: Bianca is cute and well liked, Kate, the eldest, has a temper and keeps away any boy who’s interested in her. Papa Stratford imposed a family rule that says that Bianca can go out at night only when her sister will do so too, a prospect that seems far off. So Bianca, in the attempt to unblock the situation, designs a complex plan where Kate will meet Patrick, a boy whose reputation is as bad as Bianca’s. Patrick is then hired by Bianca’s pretender to court and seduce Kate so to make her go out. Things actually work out and seem to go well until the moment Kate accidentally finds out led astray.
All actors – Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz, Andrew Keegan, Susan May Pratt, Gabrielle Union, Larry Miller, Daryl Mitchell, Allison Janney, David Leisure, Greg Jackson, Kyle Cease, Terence Heuston, Cameron Fraser, Eric Riedmann, Quinn Maixner, Demegio Kimbrough, Todd Butler, Dennis Mosley, Bianca Kajlich, Nick Vukelic, Ben Laurance, Aidan Kennedy, Jelani Quinn, Jesse Dyer, Aaron Therol, Carlos Lacamara, Joshua Thorpe, J.R. Johnson, Wendy Gottlieb, Brian Hood, Travis Muller, Ari Karczag, Laura Kenny, Alice Evans, Jesper Inglis, Nick Brown, Monique Powell, Brian Mashburn, Kay Hanley, Michael Eisenstein, Michelle Babin, Tim Bennett, Shelsie Blake, Gil Junger, Daniel Kountz, Alisa Mackay, Katy Magnuson, Amber Matthews, Joshua Mosley, Bridget O'Neill, Tommy Snider, Jay Zorich
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“Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want. Go for it.”
“Alright, wait a minute. No drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos, no piercings, no ritual animal slaughters of any kind. Oh, God, I'm giving them ideas.”
“- Katarina Stratford: You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know?
- Bianca Stratford: I happen to like being adored, thank you!”“Just 'cause you're beautiful, that doesn't mean that you can treat people like they don't matter.”
“Romantic? Hemingway? He was an abusive, alcoholic misogynist who squandered half of his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers.”
“- Bianca Stratford: There's a difference between like and love. Because, I like my Skechers, but I love my Prada backpack.
- Chastity: But I love my Skechers.
- Bianca Stratford: That's because you don't have a Prada backpack.”“- Katarina Stratford: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you screw up, you know?
- Patrick Verona: Yeah, I know. But then, you know, there's always drums, and bass, and maybe even one day a tambourine.”“- Katarina Stratford: You are amazingly self-assured, has anyone ever told you that?
- Patrick Verona: I tell myself that every day, actually.”“Now, I know Shakespeare's a dead white guy, but he knows his shit, so we can overlook that.”
“- Patrick Verona: Some asshole paid me to take out this really great girl.
- Katarina Stratford: Is that right?
- Patrick Verona: Yeah, but I screwed up. I, um, I fell for her.”“I know how difficult it must be for you to overcome all those years of upper middle-class suburban oppression. Must be tough. But the next time you storm the PTA crusading for better lunch meat, or whatever it is you white girls complain about, ask them why they can't buy a book written by a black man!”
“- Katarina Stratford: I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to other people's expectations instead of my own?
- Patrick Verona: So you disappoint them from the start and then you're covered, right?”“You're 18, you don't know what you want. And you won't know what you want 'til you're 45, and even if you get it, you'll be too old to use it.”
“- Walter Stratford: Do you know what happens at proms?
- Bianca Stratford: Yes. We'll dance, we'll kiss, we'll come home. It's not quite the crisis situation you imagine.
- Walter Stratford: Kissing? That's what you think happens? I've got news for you. Kissing isn't what keeps me up to my elbows in placenta all day long.”“What's there is a snotty little princess wearing a strategically planned sundress to make guys like us realize we can never touch her, and guys like, uh, Joey realize they want to. She, my friend, is what we will spend the rest of our lives not having.”
“You know fathers don't like to admit it when their daughters are capable of running their own lives. It means we've become spectators.”
- Cameron James: What'd she say?
- Michael Eckman: "Hates him with the fire of a thousand suns". That's a direct quote.“- Chastity: Mr. Stratford, it's just a party!
- Walter Stratford: And hell is just a sauna.”
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