My So-Called Life (TV Series)

Self-Esteem (1994)

Devon Gummersall: Brian Krakow

Quotes 

• Richard Katimski : [reading to the class]  "My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun. Coral is far more red than her lips' red. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun. If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damas red and white, but no such roses see I in her cheeks. And some perfumes is there more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a Goddess go. My mistress when she walks treads on the ground, and yet, by Heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare."

  [addresses the class] 

  Richard Katimski : What kind of a girl is Shakespeare describing here? Is she the most beautiful girl?

  Brian : No.

  Richard Katimski : Is she a Goddess? Physically perfect? The kind of girl who stops traffic when she walks down the street?

  Brian : [laughs]  No.

  Richard Katimski : So he's not in love with her?

  Jordan : Yeah. He is.

  Richard Katimski : And why is that? Why is he in love with her? What is it about her?

  Brian : That she's not just a fantasy. She's got, like, flaws. She's real.

  Richard Katimski : Thank you.

• [Brian knocks on the front door, and Angela answers] 

  Brian Krakow : I don't believe you.

  Angela Chase : I know.

  Brian Krakow : You're in some kind of dream world or something that revolves around you. You have, like, no concept of anybody else's life.

  Angela Chase : I KNOW!

  Brian Krakow : You couldn't even BEGIN to imagine the pressure I'm under. You think YOU'RE under pressure? YOU? That is so, like, LAUGHABLE!

  Angela Chase : Brian, you're completely right, okay? But could you just PLEASE explain geometry to me anyway?

  Brian Krakow : Are you completely INSANE?

  Angela Chase : Yes, I probably am.

  Brian Krakow : You think I CARE? You could not possibly CONCEIVE of how much studying I have to do tonight! Have you ever even HEARD of calculus? Geometry is a PAID VACATION compared to calculus! Okay? I mean, do you... do you have any idea what it's like to be in accelerated? Do you... do you realize the pressure on a person when it's, like, ASSUMED that they will always get As? "Hey, Brian, pull another A?" "That Brian, he always gets an A." YOU have the OPTION of INSANITY! I do NOT! And that... makes me CRAZY!

  [Graham walks in the front door] 

  Brian Krakow : Hi. I have to LEAVE. I'm... I'm leaving.

  Graham Chase : Bye?