“Empire Records” quotes

“- Eddie: Do you know where Harvard is?
- A.J.: It's near Boston.
- Eddie: No, I mean, do you really know where Harvard is? It's another planet man... another universe. Totally unlike the one we know. Filled with big blond guys who eat ivy and row boats.”
James 'Kimo' Wills - Eddie
Johnny Whitworth - A.J.

“I tried to kill myself with a Lady Bic. A pink plastic razor with daisies on it and a moisturizing strip.”
Robin Tunney - Debra

“- Lucas: Rap... metal... rap... metal... And Whitney Houston.
- Warren: It's for my girlfriend, okay?
- Lucas: Sure it is. You know, someone like you needs to diminish their criminal impulses, not magnify them. Maybe some jazz or some classical.”

Rory Cochrane - Lucas
Brendan Sexton III - Warren

“My dad always said that there's 24 usable hours in every day.”
Liv Tyler - Corey Mason

“- A.J.: Lucas, do you think it's possible for a person to be in love with someone else and not even know it?
- Lucas: In this life there are nothing but possibilities.
- A.J.: Well, that's good, because I have to tell Corey I love her by 1:37.
- Lucas: That's an excellent time.”
Johnny Whitworth - A.J.
Rory Cochrane - Lucas

“- A.J.: Oh, you went to Atlantic City?
- Mark: Wow! Did you win anything?
- Lucas: No. I did not win. So if you guys ever wonder if it was nice to know you, I tell you now that it was.”
Johnny Whitworth - A.J.
Ethan Embry - Mark
Rory Cochrane - Lucas

“- Warren: Who glued these quarters down?
- A.J.: I did.
- Warren: What the hell for, man?
- A.J.: I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren.”
Brendan Sexton III - Warren
Johnny Whitworth - A.J.

“- Lucas: Joe, I think it's gonna be okay.
- Joe Reaves: What makes you think that?
- Lucas: Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.”
Rory Cochrane - Lucas
Anthony LaPaglia - Joe Reaves

“Don't drop the soap, Warren.”

Coyote Shivers - Berko

“- A.J.: Joe, I need to ask your advice. Now, I know you know a lot about love and women and all that sort of thing.
- Joe Reaves: Oh yeah, my wife left me for another woman and my girlfriend forced me to leave at gunpoint. Does this qualify me?”
Johnny Whitworth - A.J.
Anthony LaPaglia - Joe Reaves

- Mark: I was thinking about, um, "Marc". How does that sound?
- Lucas: Is that with a C or with a K?
- Mark: Well, my name is with a... [checks his nametag] K, so I was thinking my band's name could be with a C. That way it's kind of that psychedelic, you know, trip thing.

Ethan Embry - Mark
Rory Cochrane - Lucas

In the immortal words of "The Doors": "The time to hesitate is through".
Rory Cochrane - Lucas

- Warren: Stop calling me Warren! My name isn't fucking Warren!
- Debra: Well you can't kill me 'cause I'm already dead. And I talked to God, and she says, "yo, wassup?" and she wants you to lose the gun.
- Warren: What? You are psycho. You're a psycho.

Brendan Sexton III - Warren
Robin Tunney - Debra