Layla Quotes in Sky High (2005)
Layla Quotes:
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Layla: [after getting punched in the face by Penny] Big mistake!
[Penny backs away slightly and then Layla uses her powers to grow vines in the cafeteria; the vines then grow over Penny and her clones and pull them up in the air]
Penny: But I thought you were a sidekick.
Layla: I am a sidekick.
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Warren Peace: To let true love remain unspoken is the quickest route to a heavy heart.
Layla: Wow, that is really deep!
Warren Peace: [reading off of a fortune cookie] Yeah. And your lucky numbers are... 4, 16, 5... and 49.
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Layla: What's embarrasing him in front of the entire class going to prove? That is so unfair.
Will Stronghold: Yeah, well if life were to suddenly get fair, I doubt it would happen in high school.
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[during Power Placement]
Coach Boomer: [to Layla] You, Flower child. Let's go.
Layla: I believe in only using my powers when the situation demands it.
Coach Boomer: Well, you're in luck: This is the situation, and I'm demanding it.
Layla: But to participate in this test would be to support a flawed system. I think the whole Hero-Sidekick dichotomy only serves to...
Coach Boomer: Let me get this straight. Are you refusing to show me your powers?
Layla: Well, it's more complicated than that, I mean...
Coach Boomer: [Yells very loudly, causing all glass in the vicinity to shatter and makes everyone brace themselves] SSSSSIIIIIIIDDDDDDEEEEEEEKKKKKIIIIIIICCCCCCCKKKKKK!
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Layla: When life gives you lemons...
[Layla tries to grow a lemon, but produces an apple instead]
Will Stronghold: Make apple juice?
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Warren Peace: Did you want me to heat that up for you?
Layla: We're not supposed to use our powers outside of school!
Warren Peace: I was just gonna stick it in the microwave.
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Layla: So, then there was this time in first grade. You know how you grow lima beans in school? Well, Will could not figure out why mine was growing so quickly, it was driving him crazy. So finally I took mercy on him and I told him about my powers! We've been best friends ever since.
Warren Peace: And falling for him, was that before or after the lima beans?
Layla: What? I am *not* in love with Will Strong... is it that obvious?
Warren Peace: Yeah.
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Layla: Hi, Warren.
Warren Peace: Did I do or say anything last night to make you think this is okay?
Layla: Funny. No, but, seriously, you're never gonna believe what happened. I was about to ask Will to homecoming when, wouldn't you know it, I said I was going with you instead.
Warren Peace: I don't remember that being the plan.
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Layla: Now I know it's just our first day, but I already can't wait to graduate and start saving mankind... And womankind. And animalkind.
Will Stronghold: And the rainforest.
Layla: Of course!
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Royal Pain: [after throwing Will out the gym window] And there goes your last chance of stopping me!
Layla: [furiously] WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT!
-- Layla -
Ethan: You're on! If Will beats you in Save The Citizen, you lay off the sidekicks for the rest of the year.
Zach: Yeah, and if he loses, you can dunk Ethan's head in the toilet every day until graduation.
Ethan: Yeah! Huh?
Lash: You got yourself a deal!
Will Stronghold: Wait, guys, guys! Come on, guys, are you crazy? No freshman ever won Save the Citizen, and those guys are undefeated!
Layla: And you barely know how to use your powers!
[pause]
Layla: Sorry... not helping.
Zach: Will, you have no choice. You can't let them dunk Ethan's head in the toilet. Not again.
[dead serious]
Zach: The dunking - must end.
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Layla: Hey there, cutie! I was just thinking about you. I'm so excited for homecoming. I can't wait. I can hardly...
[Layla pauses as she watches Will and Gwen walk away; Warren burns her hand]
Layla: ...OW!
Warren Peace: Never call me "Cutie."
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Layla: The guys at this school are all jerks!
Warren Peace: Thanks a lot.
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Principal Powers: In a few moments, you will go through Power Placement and your own heroic journey will begin.
Will Stronghold: Power Placement?
Layla: Sounds fascist.
Ethan: Power Placement. It's how they decide where you go.
Magenta: The hero track or the loser track.
Will Stronghold: There - there's a loser track?
Ethan: I believe the preferred term is "Hero Support."
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[Warren shows up at the Homecoming Dance wearing his father Baron Battle's tuxedo]
Layla: I thought you weren't renting a tux?
Warren Peace: It's my dad's. He doesn't have much use for it in solitary.
Layla: [tries to get off the subject that Warren's father is in prison by holding up a cheese cube] Cheese cube?
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[Will lifts a lunch table with Warren Peace on top over his head]
Layla: He's strong!
Will Stronghold: [surprised] I'm strong?
Gwen: He's super strong!
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Layla: You know how my mom can communicate with animals? Apparently they don't like being eaten.
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Layla: So two guys you were best friends with in law school fell in love with each other?
Sonny: Yeah.
Layla: Is that strange for you?
Sonny: Uh, nothing changed really. They watch a different kind of porno now.
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[Music playing in the background]
Layla: This is Styx.
Sonny: Yeah.
Layla: They've been my favorite band since I was, like, twelve.
Sonny: You're kidding me?
Layla: No, no, I can't help it, I just love them. My friends make fun of me all the time.
Sonny: My friends make fun of me all the time, too. I've seen them, like, twenty-five times. Tommy Shaw, when I was, like, sixteen years old, I was at the concert, he actually reached out and grabbed my hand, pulled me up on stage, and I got to do the robot voice for Mr. Roboto!
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Charlie Baileygates: Will you stay with me, no matter what?
Layla: Of course, Charlie.
Charlie Baileygates: Well, what if I had to move to the Arctic and you could never come home and you had to eat whale blubber for the rest of your life, would you still stay with me?
Layla: Yeah, I'd stay. But I hope that never happens.
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Billy Brown: I don't believe them!
Layla: No, Billy it's good... you know it's good if they like me, then they will be proud of you.
Billy Brown: Bullshit... my life is shit.
Layla: If you were my son,i-iii would be really proud of you.
Billy Brown: Did you see them kiss your ass? You made it happen, you made them do it.
Layla: (sighs) You kidnapped me... you pulled my hair, you threatened me. I just went in there in and did you a favor and I thought I did a good job. And...
Billy Brown: And what was that shit about the CIA? I asked you nice, I said nice: MAKE ME LOOK GOOD! Wha-CIA? You think my father believed that? Do you think he believed that for one second... 'You're son works for the CIA, all the girls love him'... he's nn-smart! He's smart!
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Layla: Even retarded, crippled people get married.
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Layla: I believe that there is somebody on this planet for us all. Even retarded cripple people get married. You just have to be open. So maybe your dog died so your love life could live.
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Layla: How are ever going to find a boyfriend if you keep shacking up with dogs?
-- Layla -
Layla: I just don't want to come off like a paranoid nag too soon.
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Layla: Come on, you're like the Pied Piper when it comes to kids.
Jason: I don't know about that.
-- Layla
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