Kicking and Screaming (1995) - Quotes

Childlike Qualities in Adult Relationships

Jane: Sometimes you can be such a child.

Grover: Yeah, but if I was a child you'd find that endearing.

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Desire for Simplicity in Romantic Gesture

Grover: OK, the way I see it, if we were an old couple, dated for years, graduated, away from all these scholastic complications, and I reached over and kissed you, you wouldn't say a word, you'd be delighted, probably, but if I was to do that now it'd be quite forward, and if I did it the first time we ever met you probably would hit me.

Jane: What do you mean?

Grover: I just wish we were an old couple so I could do that.

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Confusion Over Pajama Top Identification

Max: Is that a pajama top?

Otis: No... Yes.

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Mascara Confusion Between Max and Otis

Max: Are you wearing mascara?

Otis: No... yes.

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Teenage Milestones and Growing Up

Kate: I'm going to be 17 tomorrow.

Max: [[w:Seventeen Magazine|Seventeen Magazine] Wow, now you can read ] and get all the references.

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Late Night Conversations Among Friends

Grover: Gotta go sleep with a freshman.

Max: Yeah, me too.

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Confusion Over Book's Impact on Emotions

Otis: [in book club] It was arousing... violently arousing.

Chet: Otis, did you even read the book?

Otis: Yes... no.

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Debating the Experience of Traveling to Prague

Jane: Overrated? You've never even been to Prague.

Grover: [Jane stares at him; [w:The Unbearable Lightness of Being|The Unbearable Lightness of Being] Oh, I've been to Prague. Well, I haven't "been to Prague" been to Prague, but I know that thing, that, "Stop shaving your armpits, read ], date a sculptor, now I know how bad American coffee is" thing...

Jane: Beer. They have good beer there.

Grover: [pause] ... how bad American beer is" thing. "How bad American beer is" thing.

Jane: Yeah, I heard you the first time.

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Reflections on Parenting and Neglect

Jane: [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan] I've always thought that my parents were part of a trickle down method of parenting, you know, like reflection on the ] years. Looked good to a lot of people but basically I'm paying for all that neglect now.

Grover: [[Lyndon Johnson] I guess my parents have sort of a ] feel to them, like there's no satisfactory reason why they became parents, like my real parents were assassinated and these people were next in line for the job. They fight a lot, but they'd never split.

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Nostalgia and Success After Graduation

Max: I don't need to go to a campus bar to be reminded of my lack of success with a bunch of thrill seeking snotty college kids.

Skippy: That's us; we're like celebrities to them.

Max: No, we were celebrities. Now going back would be like doing Hollywood Squares. I'm too nostalgic, I'll admit it.

Skippy: We graduated four months ago. What can you possibly be nostalgic for?

Max: I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now. I can't go to the bar because I've already looked back on it in my memory... and I didn't have a good time.

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Comparing Wine and Martini Preferences

Chet: [[Plato; [Aristotle] If ] is a fine red wine, then ] is a dry martini.

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Concerns About Stopping Medication

Skippy: [to Miami] I begged you not to get off Prozac.

Efforts to Do Nothing Still Yield Results

Grover: You know, despite my efforts, my intense efforts to do nothing... things happen anyway.

Preference for a Drinking Bartender

Grover: [to Chet] I like that you drink. I like a bartender who drinks. Otherwise I feel like I'm being poisoned.

Reflections on Graduation Attire and Coincidence

Grover: You know, even though all 618 of us were wearing caps and gowns out there today, I couldn't help but think it was a coincidence that we were both wearing black.