A.J What'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?
Played by Johnny Whitworth 
Empire Records (1995) · 18 quotes
Empire Records (1995) · 18 quotes
Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in Empire Records (1995): in 5 of its 18 quotes
Most scenes with: Lucas (2)
Scenes with A.J.
5 scenes A.J A.J. 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?
A.J. Oh yeah, definitely.
Who glued these quarters down?
A.J. I did.
What the hell for, man?
A.J. I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren.
A.J. 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.
A.J. Well, that's good, because I have to tell Corey I love her by 1:37.
That's an excellent time.
A.J. [on the roof]
Hi, what're you doing up here?
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!
A.J. 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!
A.J. Corey, I quit. I quit! [pause] I'm going to art school, in Boston. So I can be near you.
