Boys Don't Cry (1999)

Hilary Swank: Brandon Teena

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Quotes 

• Nicole : You don't seem like you're from around here.

  Brandon : Where... where do I seem like I'm from?

  Nicole : Someplace... beautiful.

• [last lines] 

  Brandon : [voiceover]  Dear Lana, By the time you read this, I'll be back home in Lincoln. I'm scared of what's ahead, but when I think of you I know I'll be able to go on. You were right. Memphis isn't far at all. I'll be making a trip out on the highway before too long. I'll be waiting for ya. Love always and forever, Brandon.

• Lana : What were you like... before all this? Were you like me, like a GIRL girl?

  Brandon : Yeah... like a long time ago... but then I guess I was just like a boy girl, then I was just a jerk.

• Lana : God, I hate my life.

  Lana's Mom : [drunk on the sofa]  Lana?

  Brandon : I hate your life, too.

• Sheriff : Why do you go hanging out with guys, you being a girl yourself? Why do you go around kissing every girl?

  Brandon : I... don't see what this has to do with what had happened.

  Sheriff : I'm asking you all these so that when I speak to the jury, they're going to want some answers, so I have to know exactly what is going on. Now, are you going to answer my question or not?

  Brandon : I... have a sexual identity crisis.

  Sheriff : You have a what?

  Brandon : I have a sexual identity crisis.

• Brandon : [to himself, laughing]  I'm an asshole.

• Brandon : So what's your name?

  Candace : [laughs]  Candace. I hate it though. I'm thinking of changing it.

  Brandon : Sometimes that helps. I'm Brandon.

• Brandon : [on Lana]  I'm going to ask her to marry me.

  Lonny : Before or after your sex-change operation? Before or after you tell her you're a girl?

  Brandon : Shut up!

• Brandon : Boy, I... I really fucked up. I borrowed one of Candace's checks, then I got that speeding ticket, and this fake I.D. I guess, I just need to learn to stay home, huh?

  Lana's Mom : Brandon, I invite you into my home and you expose my daughter to your sickness. D'ever think about Lana in all this?

  Brandon : That's all I been thinking about.

• Dave - Deputy : Miss Brandon? Miss Brandon, we ran your Charles Behrman ID through to the computer, and this is what the Lincoln authorities faxed us over. You tell me.

  Brandon : Wow... This Teena chick's pretty messed up.

• Lana : No.

  Brandon : Why not? You're beautiful.

  Lana : Come over here.

• Brandon : Lana, you are one cranky girl.

  Lana : Yeah, well, you'd be cranky, too, Mister I'm Going To Memphis Graceland Tennessee, if you were stuck in a town where there's nothing to do but go bumper skiing and chase bats every night of your evil fucking life.

• John Lotter : Shut up, you fucking pervert. Are you a girl or are you not? ARE YOU A GIRL OR ARE YOU NOT?

  Tom Nissen : There's an easy way to fix this problem.

  Brandon : Fuck you! You stay the fuck away from me!

  Tom Nissen : Oh, you wanna fight?