The Art of Getting By
Movie Quote Quiz

Principal Martinson: Don't play the angles, George. They don't work. Neither do jokes.

Harris McElroy: You're going to have to start using that brain of yours to access that talent of yours to show that beautiful heart of yours.

Dustin: Isn't it better that it is me? I opposed to some douchebag she just met and wouldn't even let you look at her.
George Zinavoy: You want me to thank you.
Dustin: I actually felt something. That doesn't always happen, it hasn't happened in a very long time... and I have lived long enough to know that when it does, you should act on it. I didn't think you were ready.

George Zinavoy: There you go again with the mind games. Treacherous, sadistic little hussy .

Dustin: Women like being desired. Just throw her up against a wall and start kissing her. Chances are she'll kiss you back, and if she doesn't, at least you tried. You've got to do something or else you'll lose her.

Dustin: You and George should be together, Sally.
Sally Howe: We're just friends.
Dustin: There's no such thing.

George Zinavoy: I read a quote once when I was a kid "We live alone, We die alone. Everything else is just an illusion." it used to keep me up at night.

George Zinavoy: I have no idea what I'm doing here.
Dustin: I don't think anybody does, at least you admit it.

Charlotte Howe: You know, ticklish people make great lovers. Everything is erogenous.

George Zinavoy: I'm in love with you. I always have been. I thought you were the unfair one, but it was unfair of me not to say it. So I've said it. I was nothing. I felt like nothing. Less than. You changed that.

Principal Martinson: Just be careful, they have an easier time of getting by than you do.

George Zinavoy: I'm trying to speak to you honestly.
Vivian Sargent: I don't care, I can't listen to your lies anymore.

Sally Howe: Thanks for covering for me.
George Zinavoy: No problem.
Sally Howe: Why did you?
George Zinavoy: Uhh, I don't know. Uhh, you were doing something so renegade that I thought you deserved to get away with it. I run afoul of the authorities so often, I figured I could handle it better than you.
Sally Howe: You're really weird.

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