Ridgemont Quotes

#1. People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#2. The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.

Judd Apatow

#3. I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Edward Furlong

#4. My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

Eric Stoltz

#5. I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

Camille Paglia

#6. Was there some kind of law about drop-kicking assholes in the face? Probably. They always had laws against things that needed to be done.

Francesca Zappia

#7. Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.

Francesca Zappia

#8. No, you're not a bad person," he said. "And Richter isn't a bad person, and I'm not a bad person. We're just people, and people sometimes do stupid things.

Francesca Zappia

#9. Do you do this all the time?' he asked.

'No,' I said. 'Just today.'

He smiled.

Francesca Zappia

#10. I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.

Francesca Zappia

#11. Our neighbors turned to stare at us, because Miles Richter laughing was one of those things that the Mayans had predicted would signal the end of the world. He wasn't particularly loud about it, but it was Miles laughing, a sound no mortal had ever heard before.

Francesca Zappia

#12. You know a school is run by stuck-up sons of bitches when it doesn't even have a bike rack.

Francesca Zappia

#13. Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. There is no force in high school more powerful than one person's blunt disagreement.

Francesca Zappia

#15. In a weird way, it felt like he belonged here. He belonged in the land of phoenixes and witches, the place where things were too fantastic to be real.

Francesca Zappia

#16. The only thing missing was Miles. But he was probably circling somewhere, destroying villages and hoarding gold in his mountain lair.

Francesca Zappia

#17. People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.

Delia Parr

#18. Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#19. People saw what they expected to see. It was one of the basic truisms of life.

Julia Quinn

#20. I'm a complete control freak. We worked a lot on the pace and where to put the silences. We choreographed the gestures and movements. We had a lot of rehearsals and a lot of takes. Also, there's something special that comes out of those two actors: he's water and she's fire.

Eran Kolirin

#21. Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?'

'Oh God, Charlie, she's letting you read again! You went straight to the paranormal section, didn't you?

Francesca Zappia

#22. Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.

Francesca Zappia

#23. You are creative. Your creativity may be in a deep sleep, but it is there. All you have to do is wake it up and put it to use.

Kevin Eikenberry

#24. I stood there looking stupid, because that's what I do when I'm accused of something I didn't do. Forget making a case or, you know, denying that I'd done it.

Denying hadn't helped me in the past.

Francesca Zappia

#25. I wished I had put more cherries on that slice. The whole jar of cherries. I could watch him eat a whole jar of cherries.
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, what was happening to me?

Francesca Zappia

#26. It kind of felt like she was kicking me in the gut, and every kick said
I don't want you.
I don't need you.
I don't love you.

Francesca Zappia

#27. I didn't have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn't say I hated people who did, because that's just about everyone. I didn't hate them. They didn't live in my world.

But that never stopped me from wishing I lived in theirs.

Francesca Zappia

#28. Dear Asshole: Thank you for keeping your word and believing me. It was more than I expected. Also, I'm sorry you were inconvenienced by my gluing your locker shut at the beginning of this year. However, I am not sorry that I did it, because it was a lot of fun. Love, Alex.

Francesca Zappia

#29. Yeah. I told you he was crazy, right? I heard he does some weird stuff at home, too.' He said it with a conspiratorial stage whisper. 'Like mowing his lawn, and trimming his peonies.'

'Peonies?' I balked. 'God, he really is a freak.

Francesca Zappia

#30. I think you're an improvement on my imagination," I said, flipping back through the pages.
"You, too," he said. "My imagination - well, what little imagination I have - doesn't quite live up to the real thing."
"Agreed," I said. "The real thing is much better.

Francesca Zappia