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Cheryl: Viola, darling. Remember, chew like you have a secret...
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Andrew: Well hey there pretty lady.
Monique: Ew! What... what are you hitting on me?
Andrew: I was just...
Monique: [mimicking] "I was just... nyuh". OK, let me put a stop to that little brain fart right now. Girls with asses like mine do not talk to boys with faces like yours
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Monique: [Trying to distract Paul, Kia, and Yvonne so that she can get into the Moon Bounce to talk to Viola who she thinks is Sebastian] What's that?
Kia: [Follows Monique's finger]
Paul: [Still looking at Monique] Kia, don't look.
Kia: [Looks back at Monique, looks down, disappointed]
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Viola: You know it bro'
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Viola: [as Sebastian] I gotta be completely honest. The whole dissecting thing kinda freaks me out, so uh... I think you may have to take the reins on this one.
Olivia: Wow, most guys would have never admit that.
Viola: Oh crap! You're right.
Olivia: No, don't worry I think it's refreshing.
Viola: You do?
Malcolm: [interupts] No paper near the bunsen burner.
Viola: Wait!
Olivia: What's this? poems?
Viola: Lyrics. They're his... my, my old stuff.
Olivia: [reading] "Wake up I've been waiting for you".
[Finishes]
Olivia: Those are really good. So honest.
Viola: I know. I keep telling him... me... meself... my... myself.
Malcolm: I write songs too, Olivia.
Olivia: Really? Wonderful.
Malcolm: Check it out.
[sings]
Malcolm: I see you through your window, while I'm standing on a tree outside
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Viola: I get to take a shower. I get to take a shower.
Malcolm: [startled gasp then realizes he forgot to introduce himself] Malcolm Festes, Dorm Director. Shower shoes are to be worn in the bathroom at all times except when in the actual shower... Did you not read your "Dorm Life" pamphlet? It was in your cubby.
[Duke walks in and hits Malcolm behind the head with a towel. Malcolm emits a high-pitched squeal]
Viola: Sup dog?
Duke: Yeah, what's kickin', homie?
Viola: Later.
Duke: Hey, you forgot, ew...
[holding up Viola's chest bandage]
Duke: This, coolio.
Viola: Word, g-money.
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[first lines]
Justin: Oh! She shoots, she scores! Goal!
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Viola: [Viola's mom shows her a dress] Echh. No. Sorry, Mom. I have a strict no-ruffles policy.
Daphne: Sometimes I just think you just might as well be your brother.
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Coach Pistonek: Yeah. Yeah. NO. No playing. You have to forfeit. There's no girls in this league. Here, look in the manual.
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Coach Dinklage: [shouted] Break it up. Break it up. Okay, tough guys. You want to box, then get out of my stadium. Or otherwise, get on with the game. All right? That goes for the rest of ya. Now get on and play some real football. Like a bunch of girls.
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Daphne: You did all this to play soccer?
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Viola: So, what brings you here?
Duke: Well, a few days ago I kissed this girl at a kissing booth. And now, I just can't seem to stop thinking about it.
Viola: Neither can she.
Duke: Plus, I miss my roommate. I really liked him.
Viola: Well, he's right in here.
[pointing to her heart]
Viola: Listen, I know I should have told you who I was, but I was afraid. I'm sorry.
Duke: Well, you know maybe if I had known you were a girl, we wouldn't have talked like we did, and got to know each other the same way. And that would've been a shame.
Viola: Just so you know, everything you told me when I was a guy, just made me like you so much more as a girl.
Duke: Ok, but just from here on in, everything would just be alot easier if you stayed a girl.
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Justin: [kisses Viola] Ok, you are really getting good.
Viola: Aw, you too. I mean when we first started going out, you couldn't kiss at all.
Justin: I meant at soccer.
Viola: Aw, really?
Justin: Absolutely. You're already better than half the guys on my team.
Viola: Hmm... probably more than half.
[kisses justin]
Justin: What do you mean I couldn't kiss at all?
Viola: Don't worry, I've taught you well.
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Duke: Why, why do you always talk about girls in such graphic terms?
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Duke: [Using one of Viola's tampons after getting into a fight with Justin at the carnival] Oh, yeah, I uh, borrowed one of your... yeah... and you're right, they really do work.
Viola: Oh my god you're hurt...
[clears throat]
Viola: I mean, suck it up, be a man and rub some dirt on it
Duke: Okay, I'll rub some dirt in it...
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Daphne: [after hearing about Viola breaking up with Justin] But why? He's so handsome, and rugged, and chiseled, and great.
Viola: Then why don't you date him mom?
Daphne: [pauses to fantasize and giggles] oh no... I couldn't.
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Olivia: [to Viola at kissing booth] Beware the old guy chewing gum... it's not gum.
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Viola: No man... if you wanna kiss her... You go right ahead and you kiss her! I mean, knock your self out! You just take her... then kiss her. Then kiss the crap out of her!
Duke: Okay
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Toby: [talking about Eunice] She's got a little somethin' somethin'.
Andrew: Yeah... asthma and headgear.
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Viola: You know how it is. New school, new babe pool.
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Toby: I need your advice man. I got lady troubles.
Viola: I'm here for you bro. I got a lifetime of knowledge.
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Viola: So, uh, you play the beautiful game... bros... brothers... brethren?
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Toby: How come when I wanted to ask Eunice out everyone made fun of me, but then Sebastian likes her and suddenly she's cool? Screw you guys. I hate high school.
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Duke: I kinda got into it with your sister's ex.
Viola: Really. Why?
Duke: He kinda saw us making out at the kissing booth.
Viola: Wait... you kissed her?
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Coach Dinklage: [yelling] LET'S GO! KICK! KILL!
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Justin: [Justin blocks duke's shot] That's right. Didn't score on me last half won't score on this half. I'm a ninja. Ninja Goalie.
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Toby: Seriously, how old are you?
Viola: [as Sebastian] I skipped a couple grades. I'm brilliant. Shh.
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[after getting hit in the crotch with a soccer ball by Toby]
Viola: [as Sebastian] Oh. Right. OWW! OH, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! IT BURNS!
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Duke: I gotta go change my feet.
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Viola: Speaking as a completely objective third party observer with absolutely no personal interest in the matter...
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Viola: Speaking as a completely third party objective with absolutely no personal interest in the matter, I'm not really sure that you and Olivia really mesh well together.
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Viola: [as Sebastian, watching Kia strut away from him/her in front of Duke, Andrew, and Toby] I'd tap that.
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Principal Gold: What is...? Oh... Getting to know the opposite sex are we? Male female dynamics, all that. Sexual tension... it's all part of the high school experience... Continue, continue, please. But keep it cleaned up. Abstinence is key, abstinence is the best way to not is to not.
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[to Eunice after Olivia and Sebastian/Viola leave Cesarios]
Duke: So... do you like cheese?
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Duke: [after being left with Eunice in Cesario's] So, uh, do you... like cheese?
Eunice: More than almost any other animal by-product.
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Sebastian: [indicating Viola's false sideburns] Are those real?
Viola: Oh yeah, I'm growing sideburns now- NO!
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Sebastian: [after falling over on the football pitch again] What am I doing? This isn't FUN.
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Toby: Is your sister hot?
Viola: [as Sebastian] Uh... I guess so... she's got a great personality
Toby: Ew
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Viola: Okay, who's your daddy?
Duke: Huh?
Viola: I got her to consider you! You're half way in man!
Duke: Um, uh, ok, so, should I ask her out?
Viola: No. You don't want to freak her out, you've got to have a casual conversation first, hello?
Viola: [after Duke looks away in frustration] Why do I get the feeling you don't do this very often?
Duke: Man, I just, I'm not really good at talking to girls.
Viola: Why? You're hot!
Duke: What?
Viola: [clears throat] Ya know, you're an appealing guy- man- guy- guy man.
Duke: Look, I don't know, I just always say the wrong- I just always say the wrong thing.
Viola: OK. Alright, come on, get up. I wanna trying something where I'm gonna act like a girl and you're gonna talk to me, ok?
Duke: Ew. Do, do I have to?
Viola: Yes. Cause, "I'm Viola. Duke, nice to meet you."
Duke: OK, that was creepy. You really just sounded like a girl just then.
Viola: I used to imitate my sister all the time. I got really good at it. Come on, get up. Ask me some questions and if the chemistry's right, things will just start flowin'.
Duke: Questions about what?
Viola: Anything. Ask me if I like... cheese.
Duke: [laughing] Um, ok. Do you... like... cheese?
Viola: [Girl's voice] Why yes I do. My favourite's gouda.
Duke: I like gouda too?
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Olivia: You're right.
Viola: I know.
Olivia: The next time I see Sebastian, I am gonna march right up to him...
Viola: You march.
Olivia: ...I'm gonna tell him how I feel...
Viola: You tell him.
Olivia: ...and then I'm going to kiss him so passionately...
Viola: What?
Olivia: ...that even the people he hates will feel pleasure.
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Viola: I just can't do this.
Paul: Just remember, inside every girl, there's a boy. That came out wrong but you know what I mean.
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Viola: So what about the thing... we talked about it... that you're gonna do later?...
Duke: What thing? I'm... I'm thingless...
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Coach Pistonek: I don't know that that's a thing that I know.
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Coach Pistonek: Hi girls, heard the bad news.
Viola: Bad? It's a disaster!
Coach Pistonek: I know. Well if there's anything I can help you with, you just say the word.
Viola: As a matter of fact, there is. We want to try out for the boy's team.
[Other girls agree]
Coach Pistonek: [laughs] Uh, anything besides that.
Viola: Coach, come on! You know that we're good enough!
Coach Pistonek: I don't know that that's a thing that I know.
Viola: All we're asking for is one shot.
[Other girls agree]
Coach Pistonek: Girls, we have two weeks before school starts. Then we open against Illyria, a rivalry game. We have to win.
Viola: And we can help you win.
Justin: Hey, baby. What's going on coach?
Coach Pistonek: Umm, girls here want to try out for the team.
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Viola: What are you talking about? Why are you lying?
Justin: Viola! End of discussion.
Viola: FINE. End of relationship.
Justin: Baby, don't be like that. I just don't want to see you get hurt.
Viola: Aww. You are so full of...
Coach Pistonek: [whistle blows] Back to practice.
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Viola: ...and when I close my eyes, I see you for who you truly are, which is UUUG-LAY.
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Viola: Be a man. Suck it up and rub some dirt in IT.
Duke: All right, I'll rub some dirt on it...
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Sebastian: [talking about musicians] Last time I heard, they don't need to know TRIGONOMETRY.
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Viola: You know the percentage of bands that actually make it to the big time?
Sebastian: Probably the same as female soccer players...
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Andrew: [to Duke] Some guys just walk in the light you know.
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Duke: [at the kissing booth] What do you think its going to be like?
Toby: It's going to be really special, she's just about kissed 300 guys at his point.
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Duke: It's just like what Coach says before every game: Be not afraid of greatness, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. I think our best chance to be great here today, is to have you play.
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Viola: [getting into catfight] You are messing with the wrong man.
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Olivia: We could double. I'm sure Eunice is available.
Eunice: I am so there, it's insane.
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Viola: [as Sebastian] Eunice!
[clears throat]
Viola: Uh, Eunice! Why didn't you wake me?
Eunice: You looked so serene. I made breakfast, darling.
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Malcolm: I am convinced he's hiding something.
Principal Gold: Oh, nonsense, Malcolm. He may be a little lost and confused, but deep down he's an all-american, red-blooded male, just like yourself.
Viola: [walking by, dressed as Sebastian, while on the phone] Mom, I will pick out my own dress. And no, I will not wear high heels. Because heels are a male invention designed to make women's butts look smaller... and to make it harder for them to runaway.
Principal Gold: Malcolm, have you ever tried to run away in high heels?
Malcolm: No, sir, I...
Principal Gold: Not that easy. Not that easy...
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Viola: What does your heart tell you?
Duke: What?
Viola: I mean... which one would you rather see NAKED?
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[Viola shows her bare boobs to prove she's a girl and earlier Sebastian showed his privates to prove he's a boy]
Roger: Is it just me or this soccer game have more nudity than most?
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Coach Dinklage: [about to assign shirts and skins] OK, shirts and skins!
Viola: Pardon me, sir. I have to be a shirt.
Coach Dinklage: What?
Viola: I'm allergic to the sun.
Coach Dinklage: ...You're allergic to the sun?
Viola: Very, very, very deathly, deathly allergic.
Coach Dinklage: Well, we like to accomodate here in Illiria, so I'll follow you around with a parasol. Alright, Nancy boy?
[looks at his clipboard]
Coach Dinklage: You're a shirt.
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Duke: What're you gonna do, drown me in your tears?
Justin: I did not cry during that game. I had something in my eye.
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Sebastian: Besides, if you want to chase your dreams, sometimes you gotta break the rules, right?
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Viola: You know what? If you can't join 'em, beat 'em.
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Viola: [as Sebastian] Hi, Eunice. Sorry for running out on our date.
Eunice: It's okay. My intensity scares some people.
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Monique: Hello, Viola.
Viola: Oh, boy. This isn't good.
Monique: And hello to you little... homewrecker.
Olivia: Uh, who are you?
Monique: I am Sebastian's girlfriend.
Viola: Ex-Girl-Friend.
Monique: Okay. Everybody's gotta stop saying that.
Olivia: Oh. You were the one he dumped at the pizza parlor the other day.
Monique: Nonononononono, he did not dump me. We're just going through a little bit of a rough patch.
Olivia: Oh? I heard he dumped you. He dumped you big. It was just like a big, huge dumping.
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Andrew: Freshman dorm's that-a-way, twiglet.
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Eunice: [wheezing] I'll be the best lab partner you ever had
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Principal Gold: [referring to Sebastian] He's probably halfway to China by now, I mean, he showed his "willis and doodleberries"...
Sebastian: Present!
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Daphne: Nonsense! You don't need a man to wear a beautiful dress!
Paul: But it doesn't hurt...
[Paul gets down on one knee in front of Viola]
Paul: Viola Hastings it would be my pleasure to escort you.
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Paul: Vi- be a good boy.
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Justin: Could you be a girl for just 5 seconds
Viola: Ok... First of all it's not a stupid soccer issue and... you're a jerk. Oh look at that, times up.
[slaps him in the face]
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Viola: Quit blushing! That's lame.
Duke: Shut up, I'm not blushing.
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Viola: [figure emerges from the fog] I didn't think you'd show up. It really means a lot to me that you're here. Say something.
Groundskeeper: I gotta turn the sprinklers on.
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Sebastian: Folks, I'm a boy. I promise.
Malcolm: Prove it.
Sebastian: Okay.
[pulls down his soccer shorts, everyone sees his privates]
Roger: [His Dad in the audience] That's my boy.
Eunice: Soccer is the world's favorite sport.
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Duke: Just because you wear a wig, doesn't mean you're a girl.
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Duke: [after seeing Olivia nod at Viola and wave] Dude you know her?
Viola: Talked to her for like a second.
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Duke: This is perfect. You spend an hour with her every other day. You can convince her to go out with me!
Viola: Dude, she's had that option for, like, three and a half years.
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Viola: I can do this. I am a dude. I am a hunky dude! I'm a badass hunky dude!
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Duke: You know... it's crazy how wrong you can be about a person... just crazy... You think that they are one thing and then they turn out to be the exact opposite. You know what? Save it. We were suppose to be friends.
Viola: We are friends.
[Duke showes Viola/Sebastian against the wall]
Duke: You dont even know the meaning of the word.
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Duke: Its not gonna be that bad, Olivia's gonna be there. the perfect opportunity for me to lay some groundwork.
Viola: Oh, Olivia's gonna be there. And my sister, and Monique, and you, and my mom. great.
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Cheryl: [making bizarre arm gestures] Who's ready to come out?
Viola: [imitating her expression] Kill me.
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Viola: SEBASTIAN!
Daphne: Were you just talking with your brother?
Viola: No. Yes. On the phone. He's at dad's. BYE DAD.
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Toby: [cough] Incoming.
Viola: Check out the booty on that blondie.
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Viola: [screaming with Duke, after seeing Malcom's spider] You kill it! Your the man! Er... The... Bigger... Man!
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Viola: [seating Eunice down at Cesario's] Lady Pterodactyl
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Principal Gold: [interrupting the soccer game] I played soccer once... or was it chess?
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Andrew: Yea, she gives great nods.
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Principal Gold: [to Sebastian/Viola] Have a great apple and sandwich!
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Coach Dinklage: [after breaking up the fight on the soccer field] The rest of you! Get out there and play some real football... You bunch of girls!
Principal Gold: [trying to copy Coach Dinklage's authority and shout his speech through the megaphone] Alright the rest of you, get out there and play some real football like a bunch of girls!
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Viola: This is *not* over.
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Viola: [as Sebastian] Hey. HEY! What up? You must be my room-mates.
Duke: [laughs]
[Viola clears throat]
Duke: What-what's your name?
Viola: Sebastian Hastings.
Duke: Duke Orsino.
Viola: [grunts]
Duke: Um, ok, ok, ok, ok! Um, this is Andrew and Toby. They live next door.
Andrew: Yeah, freshman dorms thattaway, twiglet.
Toby: Seriously, how old are you?
Viola: I skipped a couple of grades. I'm brilliant, shh! Anyway, you know when our soccer try-outs start?
Duke: Noon. You play?
Viola: Absolutely. Centre-forward. You know it, bra. So, uh, you play the beautiful sport, bro? Brothers? Brethren?
Duke: Yeah, I'm a striker. Andrew and Toby are half-backs.
Viola: Schveet!
Duke: Ok, w-why do you have tampons in your boot?
Viola: Um, I get really bad nose bleeds?
Andrew: So you stick 'em up your nose?
Viola: Yeah! What, you've, you've never done that?
[Boys shake head]
Viola: Oh my! Beckhem does it all the time.
Duke: Serious?
Viola: Yes. Look, let me show you how to do it. Take that off and whatever that is, and, and you stick it right in. It absorbs right up!
Duke: That's disgusting!
Andrew: Oh my god! You're room-mates a freak!
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Principal Gold: There you go. Have a great apple and sandwich.
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Daphne: So Monique's getting you all excited about being a debutant, huh?
Viola: Thuper duper exthited! Have a good carnival!
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Monique: Sebastian!
[Monique mistakes Viola for Sebastian]
Viola: Ow!
Monique: Eww... It's you. God you and your brother look scarily alike from the back. I think it's your total lack of curves.
Viola: Hey Monique, it's so good to see you too!
Monique: Hmm. I'm looking for Sebastian. Where is he?
Viola: I don't know.
Monique: Just remind your brother how lucky he is to be in my life. And tell him to give me a all if he wants to stay in it, okay?
Viola: Okay. Does he have your number? 1-800-BEE-OTCH?
[laughs to herself]
Monique: [mimicks Viola] Nyenyenyenyenyeh?
Viola: She will do great things.
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Eunice: I know tricks.
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[sees Olivia switch kissing booth places with Viola]
Duke: Just my luck.
[sees look on Viola's face]
Duke: No, no, no, no. I didn't mean it like that. I just mean, she's... you know... Ok. Um, on the other hand you're also...
Viola: I am? Thanks, I, guess.
9 Year Old Boy: You don't have to flirt with her first, okay, genius? You're paying for it.
Duke: Haha, why don't you just - relax.
[to Viola]
Duke: Um, um, um- maybe I should kiss you now, I gave that girl my ticket and I waited in line.
Viola: Well, it's the least I can do.
Duke: Uh, ok - here I go. Um - uh...
[They kiss]
Duke: Ok, I think that was one ticket's worth.
Viola: Na-uh, you need a little bit more.
[she kisses him again]
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Principal Gold: I'd like to say 'welcome'.
[singing]
Principal Gold: Welcome to, Illyria, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome... to Illyria.
[speaking again]
Principal Gold: I just wanted to say 'welcome'!
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Sebastian: Folks, I'm a boy. I promise.
Malcolm: Prove it.
Sebastian: Okay.
[pulls down his soccer shorts]
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Sebastian: Sebastian but actually Viola: Ask me if I like Cheese
Duke: Duke: Um, ok. Do you like cheese?
Sebastian: Sebastian but actually Viola: Why yes I do, my favorite's Gouda.
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Coach Dinklage: At ease, Gentlemen. I've seen a lot of energy and commitment out there today. And that makes a coach proud. Now, I wanna split us up into first string and second string. You second-stringers, don't take it too hard. You're just as much part of this team as the first-stringers. Apart from, of course, playing the game part.
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Duke: Yeah! You did it!
[singing]
Duke: I'm going out with Olivia...
Viola: What the hell, I thought you like Viola now!
Duke: Dude, come on, you're a guy. What would you do?
[sings again]
Duke: If the hottest girl in school came to you and asked you on a date?
Viola: I'll be right back!
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Cheryl: [breaking up a catfight between Olivia and Monique] When debutantes disagree; they say it with their eyes.
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Cheryl: [tilting her chair towards Viola, who's chewing quite loudly with her mouth wide open] Viola... darling?
[Viola grunts with her mouth full of food]
Cheryl: Remember, chew like you have a secret.
[she tilts her chair back and Viola closes her mouth while eating and starts to slurp her soup loudly]
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Monique: [Viola has arrived late for the debutante luncheon and Monique scowls at her. Viola takes her seat at the table] Make sure she's in the back for the group photo.
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Cheryl: [Cheryl has just walked into the ladies' room and sees Viola, Monique and Olivia in the middle of a cat fight] Ladies! Ladies, stop! Please!
[Cheryl walks over to Monique and Olivia and takes Monique's hand off Olivia's foot]
Cheryl: When debutantes disagree, they say it with their eyes.
[the girls brush themselves off, and Cheryl looks at Viola]
Cheryl: Viola Hastings, why is it that I always find you in the middle of a tussle?
Viola: [shrugging] Bad timing?
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Justin: [Justin has just caught Viola kissing Duke in the kissing booth] Viola, what the hell is this?
9 Year Old Boy: [to Justin] Back of the line, butt-ball!
[the 9 year old boy puffs his chest out]
Justin: [to Duke] Excuse me, doofus!
[Justin moves the stool out of the way]
Justin: You're making out with my girlfriend!
Viola: *Ex*-girlfriend!
Duke: [realising Viola is Sebastian's sister] Whoa! You're... You're Sebastian's sister?
Justin: [shoving Duke] And *you're* about to die!
Duke: [Duke chuckles] What're you gonna do? Drown me in your tears?
Justin: I did not cry during that game! I had something in my eye!
Viola: [coming in between Duke and Justin and pushes them away from each other] OK, you know what? Can we just dial it down and just, step away, OK?
Duke: You know what she's right. I'm gonna see you on the soccer field and we'll settle this all then.
Justin: OK, Duke.
[walks away for a minute, pauses, and comes back]
Justin: Or, we could just settle this right here!
[Justin punches Duke and the two boys are involved in a fist fight]
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Justin: [after Illyria scores the winning goal, Justin sits in the goalie booth sobbing] It's not fair! IT'S NOT FAIR! That was a lucky shot!
[to Viola]
Justin: I never wanna see you again! You *SUCK!*
[Justin wails as he goes off]
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Justin: [Justin catches Duke and Viola kissing in the kissing booth] Viola, what the hell is this?
9 Year Old Boy: [from the queue] Back of the line, buttball!
[puffs his chest out]
Justin: [to Duke] Excuse me, doofus!
[Justin shoves the stool out of the way]
Justin: You're making out with my girlfriend!
Viola: *Ex*-girlfriend!
Duke: [Duke realizes that Viola is Sebastian's sister] Whoa! You're... You're Sebastian's sister?
Justin: [to Duke, shoving him] And *you're* about to die!
Duke: [Duke chuckles to Justin] What're you gonna do? Drown me in your tears?
Justin: I did not cry during that game, I had something in my eye!
Viola: [pulling Justin away from Duke] OK, you know what? Can we just, just dial it down and just... step away, OK?
Duke: [agreeing with Viola] You know what? She's right. I'm gonna see you on the soccer field and we'll settle this all then.
Justin: [nodding in agreement] OK, Duke.
[Justin briefly walks away for a minute then pauses, then comes back to Duke]
Justin: Or, we could just settle it right here!
[Justin punches Duke and the two boys end up in a fist fight]
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