Boys Don't Cry Quotes

Brandon: Lana, you are one cranky girl.

Lana: Yeah, well, you'd be cranky, too, Mister I'm Going To Memphis Graceland Tennessee, if you were stuck in a town where there's nothing to do but go bumper skiing and chase bats every night of your evil fucking life.

Lana: God, I hate my life.

Lana's Mom: [drunk on the sofa] Lana?

Brandon: I hate your life, too.

Brandon: Boy, I... I really fucked up. I borrowed one of Candace's checks, then I got that speeding ticket, and this fake I.D. I guess, I just need to learn to stay home, huh?

Lana's Mom: Brandon, I invite you into my home and you expose my daughter to your sickness. D'ever think about Lana in all this?

Brandon: That's all I been thinking about.

[last lines]

Brandon: [voiceover] Dear Lana, By the time you read this, I'll be back home in Lincoln. I'm scared of what's ahead, but when I think of you I know I'll be able to go on. You were right. Memphis isn't far at all. I'll be making a trip out on the highway before too long. I'll be waiting for ya. Love always and forever, Brandon.

[John and Tom have pulled Brandon's pants down to show Lana that her boyfriend is biologically female, but Lana refuses to acknowledge it]

Lana: Leave him alone!

John Lotter: HIM? HIM?

Lana: No.

Brandon: Why not? You're beautiful.

Lana: Come over here.

Nicole: You don't seem like you're from around here.

Brandon: Where... where do I seem like I'm from?

Nicole: Someplace... beautiful.

Brandon: So what's your name?

Candace: [laughs] Candace. I hate it though. I'm thinking of changing it.

Brandon: Sometimes that helps. I'm Brandon.

Lana: What were you like... before all this? Were you like me, like a GIRL girl?

Brandon: Yeah... like a long time ago... but then I guess I was just like a boy girl, then I was just a jerk.

John Lotter: Shut up, you fucking pervert. Are you a girl or are you not? ARE YOU A GIRL OR ARE YOU NOT?

Tom Nissen: There's an easy way to fix this problem.

Brandon: Fuck you! You stay the fuck away from me!

Tom Nissen: Oh, you wanna fight?

Dave - Deputy: Miss Brandon? Miss Brandon, we ran your Charles Behrman ID through to the computer, and this is what the Lincoln authorities faxed us over. You tell me.

Brandon: Wow... This Teena chick's pretty messed up.

Sheriff: Why do you go hanging out with guys, you being a girl yourself? Why do you go around kissing every girl?

Brandon: I... don't see what this has to do with what had happened.

Sheriff: I'm asking you all these so that when I speak to the jury, they're going to want some answers, so I have to know exactly what is going on. Now, are you going to answer my question or not?

Brandon: I... have a sexual identity crisis.

Sheriff: You have a what?

Brandon: I have a sexual identity crisis.

Brandon: [on Lana] I'm going to ask her to marry me.

Lonny: Before or after your sex-change operation? Before or after you tell her you're a girl?

Brandon: Shut up!

Lana Tisdel: MOM, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

[to Candace]

Lana Tisdel: How could you tell them?

Tom Nissen: We called work. We know you weren't there.

Lana Tisdel: Why is he talking to me?

[to Tom]

Lana Tisdel: What are you, my dad?

[to everyone]

Lana Tisdel: Why are y'all staring at me?

[tries to close the door]

Lana Tisdel: Go away. You're gross. You're horrible people! Get out of my room!

Lana's Mom: Honey, we are all worried about you. We're just trying to save you.

Lana Tisdel: You got a sick way of showing it.