“The Breakfast Club” quotes

“- Claire Standish: Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular. Everybody loves me so much at this school.
- John Bender: Poor baby.”
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish
Judd Nelson - John Bender

“- Richard Vernon: What if your home... what if your family... what if your dope was on fire?
- John Bender: Impossible, sir. It's in Johnson's underwear.”
Paul Gleason - Richard Vernon
Judd Nelson - John Bender

“- Claire Standish: You know, you look a lot better without all that black shit under your eyes.
- Allison Reynolds: Hey, I like all that black shit... Why are you being so nice to me?
- Claire Standish: Because you're letting me.”
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish
Ally Sheedy - Allison Reynolds

“- John Bender: You get along with your parents?
- Andrew Clark: Well, if I say yes I'm an idiot, right?
- John Bender: You're an idiot anyway. But if you say you get along with your parents, well, you're a liar too.”
Judd Nelson - John Bender
Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark

“- Andrew Clark: Oh, I have problems?
- Allison Reynolds: You do everything everyone tells you to do and that is a problem.
- Andrew Clark: Okay, fine, but I didn't dump my purse out on the couch and invite everyone into my problems.”
Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark
Ally Sheedy - Allison Reynolds

“- Andrew Clark: What happened to you?
- Allison Reynolds: Why? Claire did it... What's wrong?
- Andrew Clark: Nothing's wrong... it's just so different, you know? I can see your face.
- Allison Reynolds: Is that good or bad?
- Andrew Clark: It's good.”

Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark
Ally Sheedy - Allison Reynolds

“- John Bender: Sushi?
- Claire Standish: Rice, raw fish, and seaweed.
- John Bender: You won't accept a guy's tongue in your mouth, and you're going to eat that?
- Claire Standish: Can I eat?
- John Bender: I don't know. Give it a try.”
Judd Nelson - John Bender
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish

“The bizarre thing is that I did it for my old man. I tortured this poor kid because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about how when he was in school and all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right?”
Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark

“- Allison Reynolds: I'm a nymphomaniac.
- Claire Standish: Lie.
- Brian Johnson: Are your parents aware of this?
- Allison Reynolds: The only person I told was my shrink.
- Andrew Clark: And what did he do when you told him?
- Allison Reynolds: He nailed me.”
Ally Sheedy - Allison Reynolds
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish
Anthony Michael Hall - Brian Johnson
Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark

“- Andrew Clark: What do you need a fake I.D. for?
- Brian Johnson: So I can vote.”
Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark
Anthony Michael Hall - Brian Johnson

“- Brian Johnson: You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...
- Andrew Clark: And an athlete...
- Allison Reynolds: And a basket case...
- Claire Standish: A princess.”
Anthony Michael Hall - Brian Johnson
Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark
Ally Sheedy - Allison Reynolds
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish

“We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.”
Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark

“- Claire Standish: Why didn't you want me to know that you are a virgin?
- Brian Johnson: Because it's my business, my personal business.
- John Bender: Well, Brian, it doesn't sound like you're doing any business.”
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish
Anthony Michael Hall - Brian Johnson
Judd Nelson - John Bender

“Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.”
Judd Nelson - John Bender

“Stupid, worthless, no good, goddamn, freeloading son of a bitch. Retarded, big mouth, know-it-all, asshole, jerk.”

Judd Nelson - John Bender

“I'm not a winner because I want to be one. I'm a winner because I've got strength and speed... kinda like a racehorse. It's about how involved I am in what's happening to me.”
Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark

“I have just as, many feelings as you do and it hurts so much when someone steps all over them.”
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish

“- John Bender: What do you guys do in your club?
- Brian Johnson: Well, in physics we... we talk about physics, properties of physics.
- John Bender: So it's sorta social, demented and sad, but social. Right?”
Judd Nelson - John Bender
Anthony Michael Hall - Brian Johnson

“- Richard Vernon: What did you wanna be when you were young?
- Carl: When I was a kid, I wanted to be John Lennon.”
Paul Gleason - Richard Vernon
John Kapelos - Carl

“- Claire Standish: You know why guys like you knock everything?
- John Bender: Oh, this should be stunning.
- Claire Standish: It's because you're afraid.”
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish
Judd Nelson - John Bender

“- Allison Reynolds: Your middle name is Ralph, as in puke, your birth date's March 12th, you're 5'9 and a half, you weigh 130 pounds and your social security number is 049380913.
- Andrew Clark: Wow. Are you psychic?
- Allison Reynolds: No.
- Brian Johnson: Well, would you mind telling me how you know all this about me?
- Allison Reynolds: I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ally Sheedy - Allison Reynolds
Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark
Anthony Michael Hall - Brian Johnson

“I don't have to run away and live in the street. I can run away and I can go to the ocean, I can go to the country, I can go to the mountains. I could go to Israel, Africa, Afghanistan.”
Ally Sheedy - Allison Reynolds

“- Andrew Clark: Why do you have to insult everybody?
- John Bender: I'm being honest, asshole. I would expect you to know the difference.”
Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark
Judd Nelson - John Bender