Brick (2006) quotes

View Quote Assistant V.P. Trueman: You've helped this office out before.
Brendan: No, I gave you Jerr to see him eaten, not to see you fed.
Assistant V.P. Trueman: Fine. Very well put.
Brendan: Accelerated English, Mrs. Kasprzyk.
Assistant V.P. Trueman: Tough teacher.
Brendan: Tough, but fair.

View Quote Brad: Hey! What are you doing here?
Brendan: Just listening.
[long pause]
Brendan: All right, you got me. I'm a scout for the Gophers. Been watching your game for a month, but that story right there just clenched it. You got heart, kid. How soon can you be in Minneapolis?
Brad: Yeah?
Brendan: Cold winters, but they got a great transit system.
Brad: Yeah?
Brendan: Yeah.
Brad: Oh, yeah?
Brendan: There's a thesaurus in the library. Yeah is under "Y". Go ahead, I'll wait.
Brad: You know, who invited you?
Brendan: To the parking lot? Gee, I guess I invited myself.
Brad: Maybe you want to go somewhere more private?
Brendan: [Coyly] With you? Sure.

View Quote Brendan: Brain, I can't let her go. I was set to but I can't. I don't think I can.
The Brain: You think you can help her?
Brendan: No.
The Brain: You think you can get the straight, maybe break some deserving teeth?
Brendan: Yeah. I think I could.
The Brain: Well.
Brendan: Kara tried to rope me. She came right out and asked. She was scared. Tell me to walk from this, Brain. Tell me to drop it.
The Brain: Walk from it. Drop it. But you're thick, Brendan.
Brendan: Yes, I am.

View Quote Brendan: Emily said four words I didn't know. Tell me if they catch. Brick?
The Brain: No.
Brendan: Or Bad Brick?
The Brain: Nope.
Brendan: Tug?
The Brain: Tug? Tug might be a drink, like milk and vodka, or something.
Brendan: Poor Frisco?
The Brain: Frisco? Frisco Farr was a sophomore last year, real trash. Maybe hit a class a week, I didn't know him then, haven't seen him around.
Brendan: Pin?
The Brain: Pin. The Pin?
Brendan: The Pin, yeah?
The Brain: The Pin's kinda a local spook story, you know, the Kingpin?
Brendan: Heard it.
The Brain: Same thing. He's supposed to be old, like 26. Lives in town.
Brendan: Dope runner, right?
The Brain: Big time. See, the Pin pipes it from the lowest scrapper to Brad Bramish himself. ...Maybe. I mean, ask any dope rat where the junk sprang, and they'll say they scraped it off that, who scored it off this, who bought it off so on -- after four or five connections the list always ends with The Pin. But I betcha you got every rat in town together and said show your hands if any of 'em actually seen the Pin, and you'd get a crowd of full pockets.
Brendan: You think The Pin's just a tale to take whatever heat?
The Brain: Hmm... So what's first?
Brendan: Show of hands.

View Quote Brendan: No. And no more of these informal chats. If you have a disciplinary issue with me, write me up or suspend me and I'll see you at the Parent-Teacher conference.
Assistant VP Trueman: Hold it, I could – hold it – could write you up for talking back to a VP. For looking at me in a threatening way. I'd exercise a little more tact, Mr. Frye. You can't pull a play like that unless I need you for something. So do I?
Brendan: Maybe.
Assistant VP Trueman: So maybe you're gonna need me too.
Brendan: Maybe. Alright, I need you off my back completely for a few weeks. There might be some heat soon.
Assistant VP Trueman: If it's something I can't cover, I won't go to bat for you.
Brendan: If I get caught like that it's curtains anyway; I couldn't have brass cutting me favors in public. I'm just saying now so you don't come kicking in my homeroom door once trouble starts.
Assistant VP Trueman: Okay, here's what I can do. I won't pin you for anything you aren't caught at. I'll ride it a little while, as long as it doesn't get too rough. But if anything comes up with your fingerprints on it, I can't help you. Also, if I get to the end of whatever this is and it gets hot and you don't deliver, The Veep will need someone to hand over, police-wise. And I'll have you. There better be some meat at the end of this like you say, or at least a fall guy.

View Quote Brendan: Still picking your teeth with freshmen?
Kara: Well, you were a freshman once.
Brendan: Way once, sister. You and Em were tight for a bit. Who's she eating with now?
Kara: Eating with?
Brendan: Eating with. Lunch. Who.

View Quote Brendan: Why are you telling me all this? What's your play?
Laura: You think nobody sees you. Eating lunch behind the portables. Loving some girl like she's all there is, anywhere, to you. I've always seen you. Or maybe I liked Emily. Maybe I see what you're trying to do for her, trying to help her, and I don't know anybody who would do that for me.
Brendan: Now you are dangerous.

View Quote Brendan: You got a cigarette?
Tug: I don't smoke.
Brendan: I've seen you smoke.
Tug: I don't smoke cigarettes.

View Quote Brendan: You gotta come back to me, Em.
Emily: No!
Brendan: You're in a spot but I can get you out of it, if you just come back to me.
Emily: No you're not hearing me! I don't want to be put away and protected.
Brendan: Whatever befalls you I'll deal with. Just tell me about the trouble with the brick, the pin.

View Quote Brendan: Your muscle seemed plenty cool putting his fist in my head. I want him out.
The Pin: Looky, soldier...
Brendan: The ape blows or I clam.
Tug: So, clam! What've you got that I can't beat out of you back in the basement?
The Pin: Give us a few minutes, Tug. I'll call you if whatever.

View Quote Dode: I know what you did. I was in the tunnel. I saw you hide her.
Brendan: Dode?
Dode: Anyone I tell, it would ruin you some way. And I'm going to tell someone.
Brendan: Are you making an offer?
Dode: Maybe. Maybe. Or maybe I'll just do you in.
Brendan: Hire another hash head to blade me?
Dode: Don't need no blade, Shamus. I just gotta squawk.
Brendan: What do you want?
Dode: Just to see you sweat.

View Quote Emily: [over the phone] I screwed up real bad, you know?
Brendan: Screwed up how?
Emily: Look, I did what she said with the brick. I didn't know it was bad, but The Pin's on it now for poor Frisco, and they're playing it all on me.
Brendan: Slow down, now. What?
Emily: You gotta help me Brendan, please. I think Tug...Oh no!
[she hangs up]

View Quote Emily: Brendan, I know you're mad at these people because you think I went away from you and went to them but, you need to start seeing it as my decision. Stop getting angry because where I want to be at, is different from where you want to be at.
Brendan: Who fed you that line, Em?
Emily: Stop picking on Dode. He's a good guy.
Brendan: The pie house rat?
Emily: He's a good friend.
Brendan: So, what am I?
Emily: Yeah, I mean what are you? Just sitting back here, hating everybody? I mean, who are you judging anyone? God, I really loved you a lot. I couldn't stand it. I had to get with people. I couldn't heckle life with you anymore.

View Quote Kara: Make sure you wanna know what you wanna know.

View Quote Kara: Still wish you knew what you wanted to know?