Lelaina Pierce Quotes in Reality Bites (1994)

Lelaina Pierce: I was really going to be somebody by the time I was 23.

Troy Dyer: Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself.

Lelaina Pierce: I don't know who that is anymore.

Troy Dyer: I do. And we all love her. I love her. She breaks my heart again and again, but I love her.

Lelaina Pierce: I'd like to somehow make a difference in people's lives.

Troy Dyer: And I... I would like to buy them all a Coke.

Lelaina Pierce: And you wonder why we never got involved?

Lelaina Pierce: Are you religious?

Michael Grates: Um, uh, I guess, uh, I guess I'm, uh, a non-practicing Jew.

Lelaina Pierce: Hey, I'm a non-practicing virgin.

Lelaina Pierce: All right, fine. You wanna be in a band? Fine. Go ahead. Play every night. Play three times a night! Don't just dick around the same coffee house for five years. Don't dick around with her or with me. I mean, try at something for once in your life. Do something about it, but you know what? You better do it now, and you better do it fast, because the world doesn't owe you any favors.

Lelaina Pierce: I have to work around here, and, unfortunately, Troy, you are a master at the art of time suckage.

Lelaina Pierce: You guys better not be inhaling.

Lelaina Pierce: Hey, Sammy, what's your goal?

Sammy: My goal is... I'd like a career or something.

Lelaina Pierce: I'm not going to work at the Gap for Chrissake!

Lelaina Pierce: Oh, oh is this like a, is this like a pirate operation?

Rock: Do I look like a pirate to you?