Daria (TV Series)

This Year's Model (1997)

Wendy Hoopes: Jane Lane, Helen Barksdale Morgendorffer, Quinn Morgendorffer

Quotes 

• Quinn : You gotta let me do this, you always say I can be anything I wanna be!

  Helen : Yes. We do say that.

  Daria : That reminds me: May I become queen of Brazil?

• Daria : Isn't modeling for people who drop out of high school to pursue a career based solely on youth and looks, both of which are inevitably declared dead by age 25?

  Ms. Angela Li : Do you have a point, Ms. Morgendorffer?

  Jane : And don't fashion people squander their lives loudly worshiping all that is superficial and meaningless, while the rest of the planet keeps riding a roller coaster to hell?

  Ms. Angela Li : Modeling is a competitive field, yes, but the financial rewards are great. As principal, I'd be cheating our student body if I didn't allow them every opportunity to fulfill their potential.

  Daria : Excuse me. Can we assume the financial rewards are great for the school as well?

  Ms. Angela Li : That is really none of your business!

  Daria : But I don't want to miss a lesson in applied economics. I'm trying to fulfill my potential.

• Helen : These people sound like opportunists feeding off the vanity of naïve young people. I pity the kids who get sucked in by them, and I pity their poor parents.

  Quinn : Mom! Dad! Guess what: I've been accepted into a really exclusive modeling class.

  Quinn : [everybody silently looks at Quinn]  What?

• Helen : I don't think you realize that modeling is an extremely competative activity...

  Quinn : [interrupts]  So's dating. If you do it right.

  Helen : ...In which your value as a human being is decided entirely on the basis of how you look.

  Quinn : When does the bad part come in?

• Jane : No really, what are you doing here?

  Trent : Y'know, I thought I'd check it out. Get used to being around fashion types.

  Trent : [Jane stares at Trent]  Y'know, for the future.

  Jane : Trent, what are you talking about?

  Trent : You know, models. Musician. Models. Musician!

  [points at self] 

• Romonica : All right, ladies. Now, when you stride down the runway, you're walking towards your car. You've spotted a headless corpse in it... and it's a brand new car!

  Daria : And a smelly old corpse.

  Jane : In a really bad outfit!

• Claude : Now, girls, you're little kittens in an animal shelter. You have to look sad and helpless so someone will adopt you, or else it's kitty heaven.

  Quinn : That's so sad!

  Stacy Rowe : You really get the idea he's been there.

  Jane : [Jane and Daria are in the audience watching from afar] 

  [laughs] 

  Jane : Kitty heaven?

  Daria : How does he know they're not going to kitty hell?

• Quinn : I'm writing a poem about what a great model I'd be. I'm going to recite it for Claude and Romonica.

  [arises and clears throat] 

  Quinn : "A model's what I'd like to be / Looking good comes naturally / Da da da da, da da, me."

  Daria : That's it, send the other girls home.

• [Daria is complaining about the modeling class at the school] 

  Helen : You really feel strongly about this.

  Daria : What do you mean?

  Helen : Well... You're talking to us.