Quotes from James Dean movies and TV shows

Cal Trask: It's gonna work because it's got to work and it's got to work because I said so.

Cal Trask: I've been jealous all my life. Jealous, I couldn't even stand it. Tonight, I even tried to buy your love, but now I don't want it anymore... I can't use it anymore. I don't want any kind of love anymore. It doesn't pay off.

Cal Trask: Hey Aron, why don't you ask me where I've been?
Aron Trask: Would you tell me?
Cal Trask: No.

Cal Trask: Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

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Jett Rink: You sure do look pretty, Miss Leslie. Pert nigh good enough to eat.

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Jim Stark: I didn't chicken. You saw where I jumped. What did I have to do, kill myself?

Jim Stark: You can wake up now, the universe has ended.

Buzz Gunderson: You know something? I like you.
Jim Stark: Why do we do this?
Buzz Gunderson: You've gotta do something. Don't you?

Buzz Gunderson: Oh he's real abstract. He's hm, he's different.
Jim Stark: That's right. That's right. I'm cute too.

Jim Stark: Hey they forgot to wind the sundial.

Jim Stark: I don't think I want anything, I'm nervous.
Frank Stark: My first day of school, I was so nervous, Mother made me eat so much, I couldn't swallow until recess.

Jim Stark: I'll bet you'd go to a hanging.
Plato: I guess it's just my morbid personality.

Jim Stark: If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?

Jim Stark: Get lost.
Ray Fremick: Hang loose, boy. I'm warning you.
Jim Stark: Wash up and go home.

Jim Stark: You know something? You read too many comic books.

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