Cal Trask: It's gonna work because it's got to work and it's got to work because I said so.
Quotes from James Dean movies and TV shows
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: Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
Jett Rink: You sure do look pretty, Miss Leslie. Pert nigh good enough to eat.
Leslie Benedict: Money isn't everything, Jett.
Jett Rink: Not when you've got it.
Jim Stark: You can wake up now, the universe has ended.
Jim Stark: I didn't chicken. You saw where I jumped. What did I have to do, kill myself?
Jim Stark: You're tearing me apart.
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've got the bullets.
Jim Stark: Turn out the light.
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: You know something? You read too many comic books.