John Cusack credited as playing...
Lloyd Dobler
- Lloyd Dobler: I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
- Diane Court: Nobody thinks it will work, do they?
- Lloyd Dobler: No. You just described every great success story.
- D.C.: Lloyd, why do you have to be like this?
- Lloyd Dobler: 'Cause I'm a guy. I have pride.
- Corey Flood: You're not a guy.
- Lloyd Dobler: I am.
- Corey Flood: No. The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy.
- Lloyd Dobler: She broke up with me. What do I do? Can she come back? How can I get her back? I can't--I can't get her to talk to me. It's all so fucked up. I feel like crying. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.
- Lloyd Dobler: I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n' Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?
- Joe: By choice, man.
- Diane Court: Are you shaking?
- Lloyd Dobler: No.
- Diane Court: You're shaking.
- Lloyd Dobler: I don't think so.
- Diane Court: You're cold.
- Lloyd Dobler: I don't think I am.
- Diane Court: Then why are you shaking?
- Lloyd Dobler: I don't know. I think I'm happy.
- Jim Court: You're not a permanent part of her life. You're a distraction.
- Lloyd Dobler: I'm the distraction that's going with her to England, sir.
- Diane Court: I love you.
- Lloyd Dobler: What?
- Diane Court: I love you. How many more times do I have to say it?
- Lloyd Dobler: One more would be nice.
- Diane Court: I love you... please. I love you.
- Lloyd Dobler: [leaving the last of a series of messages on Diane's answering machine] "Maybe I didn't really know you. Maybe you were just a mirage. Maybe the world is full of food and sex and spectacle and we're all just hurling towards an apocalypse, in which case it's not your fault. I'm been thinking about all these things and... you're probably standing there monitoring. And one more thing--about the letter. Nuke it. Flame it. Destroy it.--It hurts me to know it's out there. Later."
- Diane Court: I just can't have any social life right now.
- Lloyd Dobler: Don't worry about it. We're just having coffee. We'll be anti-social.
- Diane Court: Be friends?
- Lloyd Dobler: Yeah. With potential.
- Lloyd Dobler: What I really want to do with my life--what I want to do for a living-- is I want to be with your daughter. I'm good at it.
- Lloyd Dobler: Oh, I feel like a dick. You must think I'm a dick.
- Diane Court: No, I don't.
- Lloyd Dobler: You do.
- Diane Court: I don't. Lloyd, we shared the most intimate thing two people can share.
- Diane Court: You shared it with a dick.
- Corey Flood: I'm sorry, it's just that you're a really nice guy and we don't want to see you get hurt.
- Lloyd Dobler: I want to get hurt!
- Mike Cameron: [long-haired stoner type] I don't know you very well, you know, but I wanted to ask you: how'd you get Diane Court to go out with you?
- Lloyd Dobler: I called her up.
- Mike Cameron: But how come it worked? I mean, like, what are you?
- Lloyd Dobler: I'm Lloyd Dobler.
- Mike Cameron: This is great. This gives me hope. Thanks.
- [on choosing a career]
- Lloyd Dobler: How many of them really know what they want, though? I mean, a lot of them think they have to know, right? But inside they don't really know, so... I don't know ,but I know that I don't know.
- Lloyd Dobler: Just knowing that a version like that exists, knowing that just for a minute she felt that and wrote "I can't help loving you". That has be a good thing.
- Lloyd Dobler: You probably got it all figured out, Corey. If you start out depressed, everything's kind of a pleasant surprise.
- Joe: Dude, where'd she dump you, man?
- Lloyd Dobler: In the car.
- Denny: Oh, man, your car? Man, Dissed in the Malibu. That's your castle, man.