13 Going on 30 (2004) - Quotes

The Truth Behind Jenna Rink's Transformation

Taglines: Jenna Rink made a wish and went from 13 to 30 overnight. Now everyone needs her. Everyone knows her. But no one knows the truth about her.

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A Lighthearted Exchange Between Friends

Jenna: A Razzle, Mr. Flamhaff?

Matt: Thank you, Mrs. Flamhaff.

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A Playful Encounter in the Closet

Young Lucy: [to Matt; smugly] Jenna's waiting for you in the closet.

Young Jenna: [excitedly; pounces on Young Matt and passionately kisses him] Matty!

Young Matt: [impressed] Wow. You really know what you're doing.

Young Jenna: Come on.

Young Lucy: [takes scarf; sarcastically] Sorry, I forgot my scarf.

Young Jenna: [angrily snatches Lucy's homework, and rips it up; splashes Young Lucy's drink on her dress; to Matt] You know what? You can be the pot and kettle all by yourself from now on, biatch. Come on, Matt.

Young Lucy: [to Young Jenna; incensed and confused] What did you call me?

Young Jenna: We're gonna be late.

Young Matt: For what?

Young Jenna: You'll see.

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A Moment of Unspoken Feelings

Jenna: I love you, Matt. You're my best friend.

Matt: Jenna... I've always loved you.

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Confronting the Past in Relationships

Jenna: I don't know what Lucy said to you about me. But I want you to know that whoever she was talking about wasn't me.

Matt: It doesn't matter what Lucy said. I stopped trusting her after she stole my Pop Rocks in the third grade.

Jenna: Matt I am not the awful person that I was. I don't even know that person. And I'd like to believe... I have to believe that if you knew that... that if in your heart, you really, really knew that, you wouldn't be getting ready to marry someone now. Unless that someone were me.

Matt: Jenna, I'm gonna lie to you. I have felt things these past few weeks... that I didn't know I could feel anymore. But I have realized these past few days that... you can't just turn back time.

Jenna: Why not?

Matt: I moved on. You moved on. We've gone down different paths for so long. We made choices. I chose Wendy. That's her family down there. We care about each other, you know? You don't always get the dream house, but you get awfully close.

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Accusations and Confusion Between Friends

Jenna: Lucy, you stole Matt's pictures!

Lucy: [sarcastically] Oh, which one do you want to be today, the pot or the kettle? If you don't mind, I'd like to be the pot...maybe the kettle. I don't know, it doesn't really matter, they're both black.

Jenna: [confused] What are you talking about?!

Lucy: [revealing Jenna's letter from Sparkle Magazine] Found this in your office yesterday. Does it look familiar to you? It has your name on it!

Jenna: [snatches the letter] You went through my things?

Lucy: [angrily; sarcastically] Oh, give me a break. How horrible. How terrible. I can't believe I did it.

Jenna: [still not getting the idea while she looks through the contents inside the envelope] What is this? I don't even know what this is.

Lucy: [furiously] Okay, you can wipe the doe-eyed-Bambi-watching-her-mother-get-shot-and-strapped-to-the-back-of-a-van look from your face. I talked to Trish Sackett yesterday. It's okay, Jenna; I know all about your little deal. It's a sweet little deal, actually. Editor-in-chief if you help them hit a million copies? So you would give them tips.

Jenna: [horrified at the truth] Oh my God.

Lucy: Not bad. I just wish I would have thought of it.

Jenna: Oh, no.

Lucy: [smugly] Oh, yes. Right now, I'm taking your job and you can stay here with the magazine that you single-handedly flushed down the toilet.

Jenna: What about Matt? Why did he sign this? What did you tell him?

Lucy: [smugly leaves while taking her belongings to her new office] Let's see, I think I might have told him you decided to go in a different direction which you are now. I might have told him something else too but I just can't remember.

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Learning from Mistakes and Moving Forward

Beverly Rink: Well, Jenna, I know I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret making any of them.

Jenna: How come?

Beverly Rink: Because if I hadn't have made them, I wouldn't have learned how to make things right.

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A Mysterious Memory from Childhood

Jenna: What happened?

Matt: I don't know. I can pretty much peg it to your 13th birthday, when you were in the closet playing that game. Spin the Rapist?

Jenna: [suddenly remembers] Seven Minutes in Heaven. Everybody ditched. And that is the last thing I remembered.

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A Heated Exchange Over a Story Scoop

Arlene: I have your urgent messages.

Jenna: Let's hear them.

Arlene: Well, okay. Emily Pratt called and wanted me to tell you, "I can't believe you scooped my story on Vivienne Tam, you backbiting little bitch. That was a new level of sleaze, even for you. I hope you die in one of her casual pantsuits.

Jenna: Oh, my God, that was so mean.

Arlene: Miss Lewis called. She said, "I hope you choke on your own bile, you pretentious, conniving snake.

Jenna: Maybe I should read them myself.

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Unexpected Encounter at the Magazine Office

Lucy: [at a huge party] Speaking of disasters, what is she doing here?

Jenna: Who?

Lucy: Sparkle's editor-in-chief, Trish Sackett. Twelve o'clock and headed our way.

Trish: [smugly] Hi, girls. Our J. Lo issue is selling like hotcakes. How's yours doing?

Lucy: [sarcastically] My God, Trish, are things so bad you had to come to our party to eat free food? Please, put some crab in your purse for later.

Trish: You might want to keep some of that biting wit for your magazine. Or you could change the name to something more appropriate...like Poison or Pitiful. Whatever's more pathetic.

Jenna: You know what? You are rude and mean and sloppy and frizzy. I don't like you at all.

Trish: Well, fortunately, I don't care about being liked. I care about winning.

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Casual Conversation About Accessories and Friendship

Becky: I like your bag.

Jenna: Thanks, but you should come by sometime. I got like a zillion of them.

Becky: [suddenly surprised] Really?

Jenna: Yeah, it would be totally cool. Becky, can I ask you something?

Becky: Yeah, sure.

Jenna: Can you tell I'm wearing underwear? Cause I totally am.

Becky: I think that kinda the point!

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Unexpected Neighborly Compliments and Conversations

Becky: Why are you talking to me?

Jenna: Why not? We are neighbors, right?

Becky: But you usually ignore me.

Jenna: I like your shoes.

Becky: Thanks. I like your dress.

Jenna: That's because I have these incredible boobs to fill it out!

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Request for a Fluffy Pillow

Jenna: [panicked] I want a fluffy pillow!

Matt: A fluffy pillow, coming right up.

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Unexpected Transformation and Confusion

Matt: Jenna, what are you... Why are you here?

Jenna: Matty, I told you - something really weird is happening. Yesterday was my 13th birthday, and then today I woke up and I'm this, and you, I mean - you're that! You get it?

Matt: [long pause] Are you high? You been smoking pot? Doing X? Fallen into a K-Hole? You doing drugs?

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A Misunderstanding Over Food Delivery

Jenna: [on the sidewalk, ringing the buzzer for an upstairs apartment] Hello? Yeah. Hi, this is Jenna and I'm looking for Matt. I don't know if you're him, but if you lived on Spruce Street and if your favorite shirt is a gray velour one, I need to speak to you right now.

Matt: [talking over speaker-system, poor reception] Hello? Hello? You know what? I got none of that. But if you're here from Ming Gardens food delivery, ring twice. If not, I really don't want it.

Matt: You're not Chinese.

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Office Changes and Personnel Decisions

Lucy: [regarding security breaches at the company] Richard, we are hiring new printers, we're installing passwords. We're building firewalls on all the computers. Jenna fired Charlotte yesterday.

Richard: [to Jenna] Did you? Good, I guarantee she has friends at Sparkle. She was always taking notes.

Lucy: She was a secretary.

Richard: Yeah, whatever.

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Fashion Choices and Friendship Dynamics

Lucy: Honey, I know I'm your best friend, but the slip-dress is a little 97... unless it's retro.

Jenna: [surprised] Are you really my best friend?

Lucy: [wondering why Jenna is acting so strange] You're pregnant.

Jenna: [horrified] Oh, no! Oh, my God, no!

Lucy: [relieved] Thank God. You scare me. What did you do last night?

Jenna: [nervous] See, that's just it. Something really strange is happening. I slept in an apartment I've never seen before... and there was a naked man in my shower and I saw his thingy.

Lucy: [sarcastically; to driver] Oh, God. Not his thingy. Driver, could you please pull over, since we're here?

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Stranger Danger in a Time-Sensitive Situation

Lucy: Can you get in the car?

Jenna: I can't get in the car, I don't get in the car with strangers.

Lucy: Please get in the car, we're gonna be late.

Jenna: I can't get in the car, I don't know you.

Lucy: Just get in the car.

Jenna: I don't get in the car with strangers!

Lucy: You're being a little paranoid.

The Value of Authentic Beauty and Self-Acceptance

Beverly Rink: Just because you don't look like those girls in Poise magazine doesn't mean you're not beautiful in your own way.

Young Jenna Rink: I don't wanna be beautiful in my own way. I wanna look like these people!

Beverly Rink: Oh, those aren't people, honey. Those are models.

Young Jenna Rink: [reads from magazine] Look at this. "Thirty and flirty and thriving. Why the thirties are the best years of your life." I wanna be thirty.

Beverly Rink: [chuckles] Well, you will be, honey. But right now, you're my beautiful 13-year-old.

Childhood Treats and Growing Up

Young Matt: [offering sweets] Wants some Razzles?

Young Jenna Rink: Razzles are for kids.

Young Matt: [smiles knowingly] Exactly.

Young Matt: Arrivederci.

Young Jenna Rink: Au revoir.

Belonging and Identity in Young Friendships

Young Matt: You know, I can't believe you invited those clones.

Young Jenna Rink: They're my friends.

Young Matt: The Six Chicks are not your friends, okay?

Young Jenna Rink: Well, almost. And someday, I'm gonna BE a Sixth Chick.

Young Matt: There are six of them, Jenna, that's the whole point. There can't be a seventh Sixth Chick. It's just mathematically impossible. Besides you're way cooler than they are, they're totally unoriginal.

Young Jenna Rink: I don't want to be original, Matty, I want to be cool.

Capturing Memories on a Special Birthday

Young Matt: [takes a picture of him and Jenna] Hey, Jenna.

Young Jenna Rink: Matt, please. No more pictures.

Young Matt: Come on, it's your 13th birthday. We gotta document it.

Youth and Love: A Battle to Face

Jenna Rink: What is that attitude? We are young. Heartache to heartache, we stand. Love is a battlefield.

Jenna's Confident Order at the Bar

Jenna Rink: [at a huge party] I'll have a Pina Colada, not virgin. Do you wanna see my ID? Totally have it!

Learning from Experience and Affection

Jenna Rink: [dragging Matt to the dance floor] Oh for the love of Pete! You taught it to me!

Jenna Rink Reflects on Music's Presence

Jenna Rink: [hearing her cell phone ring] Can you hear that, sir? Can you hear the music?

Desire for Adult Life and Confidence

Jenna Rink: I wanna be thirty. Thirty and flirty and thriving.

Trust Issues Rooted in Childhood Experiences

Matt Flamhaff: It doesn't matter what Lucy said. I stopped trusting her after she stole my Pop Rocks in the third grade.

Dreams and Reality in Life's Journey

Matt Flamhaff: [to Jenna] You don't always get the dream house, but you get awfully close, you know?

A Clever Deal Revealed

Lucy Wyman: Okay, you can wipe the doe-eyed-Bambi-watching-her-mother-get-shot-and-strapped-to-the-back-of-the-van look from your face. I talked to Trish Sackett yesterday. It's okay, Jenna; I know all about your little deal. It's a sweet little deal, actually. Editor-in-chief if you help them hit a million copies? So you would give them tips. Not bad. I just wish I would have thought of it.