Daria (TV Series)

Gifted (1998)

Tracy Grandstaff: Daria Morgendorffer

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• Teacher : Daria, what about your goal?

  Daria : Uhmmm. I don't have any.

  Teacher : Oh come, Daria! You must have some goal.

  Daria : My goal is not to wake up at forty with the bitter realization that I've wasted my life in a job I hate, because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens.

• Quinn : And why do they call them tennis bracelets, anyway? It sounds like some sort of sweat band, if you ask me. I'd call them wrist ornaments, doesn't that sound festive?

  Jane : Take... her... NOW.

  Daria : This story I've gotta hear.

• Jodie Abigail Landon : You realize your negative approach to everything is self-defeating, right?

  Daria : Well, it's nice to know there's someone I can defeat.

  Jodie Abigail Landon : I mean, you may spare yourself some pain by cutting everyone off, but you miss out on alot of good stuff too.

  Daria : Look Jodie, I'm too smart and too sensitive to live in a world like ours, at a time like this, with a sister like mine. Maybe I do miss out on stuff, but this attitude is what works for me now.

  Jodie Abigail Landon : Then you'll understand what works for me now. At home, I'm Jodie - I can say and do whatever feels right. But at school I'm The Queen of the Negros, the perfect African-American teen, the role-model for all the other African-American teens at Lawndale. Oops! Where'd they go? Believe me: I'd like to be more like you.

  Daria : Well, I have to admit there are times when I'd like to be more like you.

  Jodie Abigail Landon : Really?

  Daria : I'm not saying all the time.

• Daria : Admit it. That felt good.

  Jodie Abigail Landon : Well, a little. Okay, a lot.

  Daria : Busting on jerks like Graham is one of life's few pleasures. You should try it more often.

  Jodie Abigail Landon : Oh, shut up.

  Daria : Um... good start.

• [Having been offered a visit to a private school] 

  Daria : I already go to a school where the kids all think they're cooler than me. I want to go to a school where the kids all think they're smarter than me, too.

• Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer : I don't like the idea of you staying here alone, anyway.

  Quinn : Why? I'm not afraid.

  Daria : Yeah. Why should you be afraid? Of mass murderers, serial killers, torturers, cannibals... puppy kickers?

• Quinn : Don't worry, I'll take good care of the house while you're gone.

  Daria : You mean like last time, when you had that keg party and Jeffy threw up in Mom's closet?

  Quinn : He did not! It was Jerome.

• Brittany Taylor : [Daria is reading The Telltale Heart]  The Telltale Heart? I LOVE romance novels!

  Daria : Yeah, nothing says "Be Mine" like a pounding heart beneath a floorboard.

• Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer : So, Jodie, do you belong to any clubs?

  Daria : You don't have to answer that.

  Jodie Abigail Landon : I'm president of the French Club, vice president of Student Council, editor of yearbook, and I'm also on the tennis team.

  Jake Morgendorffer : Daria, why aren't you on the tennis team?

  Daria : Because it's classified as a sport.

  Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer : Speaking of sports, Jodie, do you know Kevin Thompson? He and Daria did a science project together.

  Jodie Abigail Landon : Oh, sure. Kevin's great...

  [softly to Daria] 

  Jodie Abigail Landon : at smashing beer cans with his head.

  Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer : I don't know why Daria doesn't hang around with him and his gang more.

  Daria : For the same reason I don't sleep with my head packed in ice.