Joe, I need to ask your advice. Now I know you know a lot about love and women and all that sort of thing...
Oh, yeah, my wife left me for another woman and my girlfriend forced me to leave at gunpoint. Does this qualify me?
Oh yeah, definitely.
Lucas
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A.J.
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Joe
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Mark
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Gina
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Warren
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Empire Records quotes
Page 1 of 2What's with you? Yesterday you were normal and today you're like the Chinese guy from Karate Kid. What's with you today?
What's with today, today?
Debra [Reading the new Musictown rules]
No visible tattoos.
No revealing clothing.
Debra We're both screwed. At least you're used to it.
Oh now, Debra, don't be bitter, certainly with your ever growing collection of flesh mutilating silver appendages and your brand new Neo-Nazi boot camp makeover, the boys will come a-runnin'.
Debra Let's not fight, let's just rip [both start tearing lists of rules]
[about Debra having shaved her head]
Well, Sinead O'Rebellion. Shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behavior!
Debra God, that is so clever. You know, I swear you get smarter the shorter your skirt gets.
And you get smarter the shorter your hair gets, so it's probably good you went with that.
High Roller
That's an 18,000 dollar bet, you sure you know what you're doin', kid?
I know this, that if I win this roll, I will save the place that I work from being sold, and the jobs of my friends that work there. Thus striking a blow at all that is evil and making this world a better place to be in.
Lady at Craps Table Huh?
...And I'll buy you guys a drink. [Lady smiles]
Jane What are you doing later?
I don't know. I'm either going to jail or hell. I can't decide.
Where's the money, Lucas?
Joe, the money is gone.
I know it's GONE, where's it gone to?
Atlantic City.
Atlantic City. ...Is it coming back from Atlantic City?
I... I don't think so.
What's it doing in Atlantic City?
Recirculating.
Recirculating?
Yeah.
Lucas, listen to me. I told Mitchell Beck that you forgot to deposit the money. I told Mitchell that the money was still here.
Joe, that's not true. It's in Atlantic City... I swear!
Shut up, sit down, and don't you move.
Oh, shut up! Under no circumstances do I want you to leave that couch... unless it's to get me $9000, and then you bring it here to me, okay?
Okay. You know, I think things are gonna be all right now, Joe.
Oh? And what makes you think that.
Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.
Who glued these quarters down?
I did.
What the hell for, man?
I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren.
Old enough to kick your butt through your skull and splatter your brains on the wall.
Corey [Corey pushes A.J so he falls]
You listen to me! You're so special and you're so talented and you have everything it takes! You have MORE than everything it takes and you're REALLY stupid because you don't know that. And I know you don't love me anymore, and I know that I blew it but at least I know that, and if you don't go to art school and if you don't understand how special you are then you know nothing!
Corey, I...
Corey And I did love you, and I still... only I didn't realise that it really was love because it was more than love and it wasn't just some stupid feeling in my stomach like everything else and I'll never love anybody as much as you and I hate you! I hate you!
Corey, I quit. I quit! [pause] I'm going to art school, in Boston. So I can be near you.
Lucas, do you think it's possible for a person to be in love with someone else and not even know it?
In this life there are nothing but possibilities.
Well, that's good, because I have to tell Corey I love her by 1:37.
That's an excellent time.
Mitchell's the man, Joe.
And the man calls all the shots.
Damn the man.
Let me explain it to you. Mitchell's the man. I'm the idiot. You're the screw-up. And we're all losers. Welcome to Music Town.
Warren, look what you took. [going through the CD's that Warren stole from the store] Rap... metal... rap... metal... And Whitney Houston.
It's for my girlfriend, okay?
Suuure it is. You know, someone like you needs to diminish their criminal impulses, not magnify them. Maybe some jazz or some classical.
Maybe you bite me.
Oh, Lucas, I've decided to start a band.
Well, the first thing you need is a name. That way you know what kind of band you've got.
I was thinking Marc.
Is that with a "c" or with a "k"?
Well, my name is with a [looks down at name badge] "k". So my band could be with a "c". That way it's that whole, you know, psychedelic trip thing.
Always play with their minds.