- Ronald Miller: Nerds, jocks. My side, your side. It's all bullshit. Its hard enough just trying to be yourself.
- [Cindy to Ronald after their fake break-up]
- Cindy Mancini: Whatever happens to your popularity, stay yourself, don't change to please others.
- Ronald Miller: Me change? Never.
- [Ronald washes Cindy's car]
- Ronald Miller: You can do anything you want, anything you put your heart and mind into!
- Ronald Miller: I'm going to a party. John Richmond's, with Cindi Mancini.
- Chuckie Miller: Cindi Mancini? Senior, captain of the cheerleaders, most beautiful girl in the history of this county?
- Ronald Miller: That's her. Well, I'm late, gotta bolt.
- Chuckie Miller: Bolt? Something stinks in suburbia.
- [Talking to Cindy outside her house]
- Ronald Miller: I need to talk to you. Every time I call you're either taking a bath, washing your hair or you're out of the country. That was a good one, by the way.
- [the girls are in Cindy's car]
- Barbara: Why wouldn't we go out with Ronald. I mean he's cute and sweet...
- Patty: And good...
- [Cindy and Barbara stares at her]
- Patty: Come on, a lady never talks.
- Cindy Mancini: Well I'll have to remember that the next time I see one.
- Quint: [to Ronald] Oh, Return of the Living Dred.
- Ronald Miller: [walks over with a bat] Why don't you lay off?
- Quint: Why don't you go back where you belong, hose head.
- Ronald Miller: Take your hands off Kenneth or I'll break your arm. Your pitching arm.
- Quint: Oh yeah? Don't make me laugh, lawn boy.
- Ronald Miller: Let go. NOW!
- [slams the table with the bat]
- Quint: [Let's Kenneth go]
- Ronald Miller: You broke your arm once before, remember? You fell out of our tree house. Kenneth picked you up and we carried you 12 blocks to the hospital.
- Kenneth Wurman: Yeah, you cried all the way.
- Ronald Miller: We were all friends then, remember? And now you want to end his life because he's talking to Patty on your side of the cafeteria. Oh man, that's stupid. I know cuz that's where I wanted to be. On your side, with your crowd. But I messed up. See, I tried to buy my way in. But Kenneth, he's not trying to buy anybody. He's just trying to make friends *being* *himself*. Cools, Nerds, your side, my side, man it's all bullshit. It's just tough enough to be yourself.
- Cindy Mancini: The moon looks different now, it's not as mysterious or romantic as before.
- Ronald Miller: I'm sorry I ruined it for you.
- Cindy Mancini: You didn't ruin it, you just changed it I guess.
- Chuckie Miller: You nuked my brother.
- Cindy Mancini: What?
- Chuckie Miller: You took him from "geek" status to "king" status to no status.
- Cindy Mancini: Chuckie Miller, right? He resorted to sending his messenger boy?
- Chuckie Miller: Boy? I see no boy here.
- [Cindy puts powder on his face]
- Chuckie Miller: You think you shut me up?
- Cindy Mancini: I didn't? Well, let me try again.
- [attempts to put lipstick on Chuckie]
- Chuckie Miller: [leaves]
- [says to his friends]
- Chuckie Miller: Babe said it was good for my complexion.
- Ronald Miller: I just think it would be more fun to party with those guys our senior year... go to the games...
- Kenneth Wurman: We go to ALL the games.
- Ronald Miller: We sit in the visiting section Kenneth... at our own school.
- Patty: [after taking off her top] I bet you've never seen two like these before.
- Ronald Miller: Well, my parents do have cable.
- Cindy Mancini: You! Even Bobby thinks we went out. Great, huh? Ha! All of you thought we were a couple. What a joke!... Ronald Miller paid me 1,000 bucks to pretend I liked him. What a deal, huh? $1,000 to go out with him for a month. This guy. Oh, God. He bought me. And he bought all of you. He was sick and tired of being a nobody. Yeah, and he said that all of you guys would worship him if we went out. And I didn't believe that. I was, like, no way! And he was right! No, leave me alone. He was right. Our little plan worked, didn't it, Ronald? The dance. That stupid dance! What a bunch of followers you guys are. I mean, at least I got... At least I got paid.
- Mrs. Mancini: First he's a geek, and then you start going out with him. Then he's a geek again. Honey, I don't know what a geek is.
- Cindy Mancini: I guess, at the present time, a geek is Ronald Miller.
- Mrs. Mancini: Who says?
- [Ronald walks the cool hallway for the first time and begin to talk to the girls]
- Patty: Didn't you like, used to mow our lawn?
- Ronald Miller: Yes, and you have the nicest pair of rhododendrons in town!
- Patty: Rhodo-who's?
- Cindy Mancini: Guys, I'll meet you at home.
- Barbara: What did he say?
- Patty: I don't care! I dig his shirt...
- [Patty seducing Ronald in the car]
- Patty: Are you into long distance relationships?
- Ronald Miller: No.
- Patty: Now, then why don't you reach out and touch someone?
- [puts his hands on her breasts]
- Ronald Miller: [Ronald reading Cindy's poetry] "Someday my wish is for him to hold me in his arms, in a sea of deep blue, together at last, together as two", ohhh that's beautiful, I didn't know you were a poet.
- Barbara: You guys are so into bodily functions!
- Patty: I mean, it's not like that takes any skill.
- Ronald Miller: Oh, I don't know. For him, it's like an art form.
- Ronald Miller: Oh! You-- You demolished me New Year's Eve. But see-- I realize you did me a favor. You brought me back to reality. All I ever wanted to do was get close to you. And then, when I finally got there, it wasn't me anymore.
- Cindy Mancini: Are you high?
- Ronald Miller: I want to rent you.
- Cindy Mancini: You want to rent me?
- Ronald Miller: Yeah. You pretend you like me and we go out for a few weeks... and that will make me popular.
- Cindy Mancini: Just going out with me is not gonna make you popular.
- Ronald Miller: Well I have a thousand dollars that says it will.
- Cindy Mancini: I think you've mowed one too many lawns!
- Chuckie Miller: What we have here is something I Just learned called the law of supply and demand. I shall supply you this remote control, but I'm going to demand, say, uh, two bucks.
- Ronald Miller: Wrong! That is not how the economic theory works.
- Chuckie Miller: Look, I learned it in seventh grade, not Harvard.
- Ronald Miller: Okay, let me give you the theory of relativity. Either you put on Bandstand now, or I have one less relative.
- Chuckie Miller: I'll put on Bandstand Just for you
- Ronald Miller: What's his name, Biff?
- Cindy Mancini: Don't give me that! His name happens to be Brent!
- Ronald Miller: Is there a difference?
- Rons Dad: [speaking to Ronald] I'm proud of you son. You worked, you earned, you saved...
- Chuckie Miller: You Ask! Hey big Dave, how about spottin' me a twenty to purchase some necessities!
- [Chucky about Ronald's card nights]
- Chuckie Miller: Cards with the tards. Who could beat a night of cards, chips, dips and dorks?
- [Dinner conversation at the Millers on report card day]
- Ronald Miller: Here is the primate example. You raise a doll-chopping homicidal maniac, and what do you do every time you see him? You give him money. Great!
- Chuckie Miller: Chillin!
- Rons Dad: Shut up, Chuck!
- Chuckie Miller: I was talking to Ma!
- Rons Mom: Shut up, Chuck!
- Ronald Miller: You ignored the Donald Miller geek for seventeen years, now you want to ride the Ronnie Miller express!
- Patty: Cool outfit!
- Barbara: What a severe suede!
- Cindy Mancini: You guys, it's no big deal. Bobby sent it to me from Iowa. You know they have fine leathers down there.
- Patty: Oh, yeah. The best leathers come from Rome, Paris, and Des Moines!
- Jock: Look - it's a nerd herd!
- Ronald Miller: We do have a lot of great memories but be honest... wouldn't you like to be popular?
- Kenneth Wurman: And have to be in a clique... no.
- Ronald Miller: What happened to us? We were all friends in elementary.
- Kenneth Wurman: That's because we were all forced to be in the same room together. But, hey, Junior high, high school. Forget it. Jocks became Jocks. Cheerleaders became cheerleaders. We became us. I like us.
- Kenneth Wurman: You got a crush on Cindy? Well, most living organisms do, but she's way out of our league.
- Ronald Miller: This is supposed to be the biggest year of our lives. The Prom, the parties, Homecoming... We're supposed to have memories.
- Kenneth Wurman: Memories? We're allowed plenty of memories. Yearbook committee, video parlour, card games on Saturday nights...
- Ronald Miller: Cards are for retards.
- Patty: Whoa, wait a minute! First of all, if I recall correctly... you still have Bobby. Secondly, you quit Ronnie, so that makes him public property.
- Patty: Didn't you like, used to mow our lawn?
- Ronald Miller: Yes, and you have the nicest pair of rhododendrons in town!
- Patty: Rhodo-who's?
- Cindy Mancini: Guys, I'll see you in home ec, OK?
- Barbara: What did he say?
- Patty: I don't care! Dig on his shirt...
- Quint: [to Ronald as he's sitting in the popular section of the cafeteria] . Aren't you in the wrong section? *Losers* are to the left!
- Cindy Mancini: Then, I guess you'll be making a right.
- [Quint gives her a look]
- Cindy Mancini: That's the *asshole* section!
- Fran: My Mom won't let me *near* suede. Too hard to clean.
- Cindy Mancini: I know. My Mom feels the same way.
- Cindy Mancini: [to nosy classmates who want to know why she's dating Ronald] Guys, take a look at my forehead. Do you see a sign that says "Information"?