Angel (TV Series)

First Impressions (2000)

Charisma Carpenter: Cordelia Chase

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Quotes 

• Wesley : Well, we're hardly prepared to face a demon of Deevak's caliber in our current condition.

  Charles Gunn : You ready to pack it in? Only reason I called you was 'cause y'all supposed to be the demon experts.

  Angel : Wesley's right. Three vamps, we should have been able to take them all a lot easier and faster than we did. We need to regroup.

  Charles Gunn : Maybe the rest of you need a little down time, but I'm gonna track down Jameel and make him talk.

  Cordelia Chase : When you do find him, you may wanna be a little more Guy Pearce in "L.A Confidential" and a little less Michael Madsen in "Reservoir Dogs."

  Charles Gunn : I haven't bothered to see a movie since Denzel was robbed at the Oscars for "Malcolm X." Later.

• [Gunn is looking for Angel and he's told Angel's sleeping] 

  Cordelia Chase : Maybe *we* can help.

  Charles Gunn : You two? I find Deevak, I'm gonna need more than C-3PO and Stick-Figure Barbie backing me up, no offense.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : Very little taken.

• Cordelia Chase : [cleaning the Hyperion]  Oh, this place is never gonna get clean.

  Wesley : Buck up. It's just a little dust

  Cordelia Chase : Oh, this isn't mere dust. This is 'son of dust'. This is the kind of dust that spawns countless generations of little baby dust. I give up.

  Wesley : Very well. We'll just move our offices back to your living room.

  Cordelia Chase : And I'm dusting.

• Charles Gunn : Where's Angel?

  Cordelia Chase : I believe the word is 'hello'?

  Charles Gunn : Yeah? 'Cause I thought 'Where's Angel' summed it up. We got work to do.

  Cordelia Chase : He's still sleeping.

  Charles Gunn : Sleeping? It's 3:30 in the afternoon. I've been up since dawn!

  Cordelia Chase : Sort of missing the whole 'creature of the night' angle, isn't he?

• Charles Gunn : So, could one of you go in there and knock on his coffin?

  Cordelia Chase : He doesn't use a coffin. And maybe you've never heard the expression "Let sleeping vampires lie"? He'll rise on his own. Always does.

• Cordelia Chase : [after staking a group of vampires into dust]  I am so sick of dust!

• Cordelia Chase : Grease stains all over my new outfit! Okay, so maybe my pain isn't physical, but do you have any idea of the dry cleaning bill I'm looking at?

• Cordelia Chase : You need protection.

  Charles Gunn : And how exactly do you plan on protecting me? With some weak ass ladysmith battle-axe?

  Cordelia Chase : Ask Joey, and his cracked skull just how 'weak ass' it is.

• Veronica : Who's your friend?

  Cordelia Chase : Who, me? I'm no friend. I mean I'm just here on business. I'm a working girl. That came out wrong. I mean, obviously I'm not a 'working girl'. Not that I couldn't be if I wanted to, of course I could. God that sounded stuck up, didn't it? I didn't mean to imply that I could be a working girl and you couldn't. Far from it. You'd make a great... Could you just point me to the hor d'oeuvers?

• Cordelia Chase : Is anybody else getting warm?

• Cordelia Chase : There you go. Good as new.

  Joey : I think you cracked my skull.

  Cordelia Chase : Well, that's new, right?

• Charles Gunn : You don't have the keys?

  Cordelia Chase : Well, I-I kinda left them in the car when I went in to save you. I thought you were in danger. Every second counted.

  Charles Gunn : You know, I gotta tell you, you are one high-maintenance chick.

  Cordelia Chase : The keys are here... somewhere.

  Charles Gunn : You are killin' me!

  Cordelia Chase : Can't you, you know, hot-wire it?

  Charles Gunn : Just cause I know some car theives, don't mean I am one.

• Cordelia Chase : Angel is not gonna be happy. Do you know what he's gonna do to me when he finds out I let his car get stolen? I mean, what are the chances that a vampire has full insurance with a low deductible?

  Charles Gunn : I'll find the car.

  Cordelia Chase : And how exactly are you gonna do that?

  Charles Gunn : I know a couple of guys in this part of town that jack vintage cars. We'll run down the list until we find Angel's ride.

  Cordelia Chase : And then what? You're just gonna ask them to give it back?

  Charles Gunn : I'll say please

  Cordelia Chase : Ooh! I forgot. You'll use your famous charm. Like you did this afternoon with that pigeon stool.

  Charles Gunn : It's stool pigeon. - And you don't have clue why I do the things I do!

  Cordelia Chase : Paging Mr. Rationalization!

  Charles Gunn : Paging Ms. About-to-be-thrown-out-of-a-moving-vehicle.

• Deevak : How touching. A woman willing to die with her man.

  Cordelia Chase : Oh, no. He's not my man. He-he's just a friend. And, about the willing to die part...

  Charles Gunn : You must be Deevak. They told me you were ugly, but damn.

  Deevak : And you're the big bad Gunn.

• Cordelia Chase : I've also got this.

  [Gunn looks unimpressed] 

  Cordelia Chase : Mace.

  Charles Gunn : Mace?

  Cordelia Chase : Squirt, squirt, right in the eyes?

  Charles Gunn : You expectin' me to be jumped by a couple of purse-snatchin' demons?

• Cordelia Chase : Okay, I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die.

• Cordelia Chase : Geez, short enough leash, or do you just go all warm and tingly on the whole power-trip thing?

  Charles Gunn : Some people need dicipline to survive. Now, when we get inside, just shut up and stick close to me.

  Cordelia Chase : Hold on there, General Lee Simo, I'm not one of your toy soldiers you can just boss around.

  Charles Gunn : I don't even want you here.

  Cordelia Chase : Too bad. I am here, and I don't take orders. Well, except from Angel. And, at least he usually asks nicely. And besides, I don't need you to tell me how to behave at a party. Trust me, I know how to blend.

  [they enter] 

  Cordelia Chase : Okay, not exactly blending. Maybe, I'll just shut up and stick close to you.

• Cordelia Chase : You were so scared.

  Charles Gunn : See, now I know you're tripping, because I don't get scared.

  Cordelia Chase : Well, I do! The things I've seen, sometimes they get downright terrifying. And right now, I am scared for you!