My So-Called Life (TV Series)

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1995)

Claire Danes: Angela Chase

Quotes 

• Angela : [narrating]  Hatred can become like food, it gives you this energy, you can like, live off it.

• Angela : This is a joke right? That... that the two of you...

  [pauses] 

  Angela : Oh god... I can't believe I fell for it. It's obviously a total lie!

  Brian : No I meant every word...

  Angela : [pauses, shocked] 

  Brian : [hastily]  I mean... the person who wrote it meant every word... probably.

  Angela : Brian?

  Brian : I didn't write it!

  Angela : But, Brian, you said...

  Brian : Forget what I said! Forget this whole conversation!

  Angela : [softly]  How?

  Brian : [pause]  You like it though? It made you... happy?

  Angela : [nodding slightly]  Yeah...

  Brian : 'Cause that's probably all that really matters.

  Angela : [emotional pause]  To who?

  Brian : To, you know... the person... who wrote it.

  Angela : [is overcome by emotion; can't do anything but continue looking at Brian] 

• Angela : It's so weird when you see someone you just dreamed about. Like it's gonna show.

• Angela : [narration]  It's so weird when you see someone you just dreamed about. Like, it's going to show.

  Jordan : I can't believe we have to use all those words in a sentence. I mean, not all in the same sentence, but still. So I'm still doing that tutoring thing. You know?

  [ignored by Angela] 

  Jordan : Yeah. So guess what? There's, like, a term for me. I'm a rudimentary reader with low literacy skills. That kid, Brain, figured it out from this manual.

  [still is ignored] 

  Jordan : Uh, what else? Oh, my band got back together. We got a new name. We're Residue now. So I've been, you know, writing songs.

  Angela : [interrupts]  Why are you telling me all this?

  Jordan : I don't know. I mean, you're the one who signed me up for tutoring in the first place.

  [pauses] 

  Jordan : Forget it.

• Jordan : Angela!

  Angela : I'm going to be late for homeroom.

  [pauses] 

  Angela : What?

  Jordan : I did an undefendable thing. I created my own prison and I have to exist in it. Maybe I had a wish, or whatever, to punish you. An unconscious wish. You've heard of them, right?

  Angela : No, I think so. I can't believe it. What you just said was really amazing.

  Jordan : I know.

  Angela : Okay.

  Jordan : Okay, what?

  Angela : Okay, now we can have a serious talk.

  Jordan : We just did.

  Angela : Oh, come on. You can't hit a person with something that profound and expect that to be the end of the discussion.

  Jordan : You can't? Oh, uh, I forgot. I'm late for homeroom.