10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Julia Stiles: Kat Stratford
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Quotes
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Mr. Morgan : All right... I assume everyone's found time to complete their poem... except... for Mr. Donner.
[starts laughing]
Mr. Morgan : Who has an excuse
[laughs even harder, then stops]
Mr. Morgan : . Shaft! Lose the glasses.
[Joey removes his sunglasses, revealing his bruised nose from his earlier confrontation with Bianca]
Mr. Morgan : All right... anyone brave enough to read theirs aloud?
[Everyone looks at each other, waiting to see who goes first, Kat finally raises her hand]
Kat Stratford : I will.
Mr. Morgan : [rolls his eyes and sighs] Lord, here we go.
Kat Stratford : I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
[sighs]
Kat Stratford : I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
[Kat's voice breaks and she looks at Patrick]
Kat Stratford : I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
[starts to cry]
Kat Stratford : But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
[Kat walks out the classroom]
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Patrick : Some asshole paid me to take out this really great girl.
Kat Stratford : Is that right?
Patrick : Yeah, but I screwed up. I, um, I fell for her.
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Patrick : So what's your excuse?
Kat Stratford : For?
Patrick : Acting the way we do.
Kat Stratford : I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to other people's expectations instead of my own?
Patrick : So you disappoint them from the start and then you're covered, right?
Kat Stratford : Something like that
Patrick : Then you screwed up!
Kat Stratford : How?
Patrick : You never disappointed me.
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Walter Stratford : Hello, Katarina. Make anyone cry today?
Kat Stratford : Sadly, no. But it's only 4:30.
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Kat Stratford : We're going now.
Walter Stratford : Alright, wait a minute. No drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos, no piercings, *no* ritual animal slaughters of any kind. Oh, God, I'm giving them ideas.
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[last lines]
Kat Stratford : You can't just buy me a guitar every time you screw up, you know?
Patrick : Yeah, I know. But then, you know, there's always drums, and bass, and maybe even one day a tambourine.
[They smile and kiss]
Kat Stratford : [Pulls away] And don't just think you can - !
[They kiss again]
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Kat Stratford : I guess in this society, being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time.
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Patrick : Well maybe you're not afraid of me but I'm sure you've thought about me naked, huh?
[Patrick winks at her]
Kat Stratford : [sarcastically] Am I that transparent? I want you, I *need* you, oh baby, oh baby.
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Patrick : Someone still has her panties in a twist.
Kat Stratford : Don't, for one minute, think that you had any effect whatsoever on my panties.
Patrick : Then what did I have an effect on?
Kat Stratford : Other than my upchuck reflex, nothing.
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Kat Stratford : You're not surrounded by your usual cloud of smoke.
Patrick : I know, I quit. Apparently they're bad for you.
Kat Stratford : You think?
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Ms. Perky : So, I hear you were terrorizing Mr. Morgan's class... again.
Kat Stratford : Expressing my opinion is not a terrorist action.
Ms. Perky : The way you expressed your opinion to Bobby Ridgeway? By the way, his testicle retrieval operation went quite well, in case you're interested.
Kat Stratford : I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.
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Patrick : Was that a yes?
Kat Stratford : No.
Patrick : Well, then, was that a no?
Kat Stratford : No.
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Walter Stratford : Where's your sister going?
Kat Stratford : She's meeting some bikers. Big ones. Full of sperm.
Walter Stratford : Funny.
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Kat Stratford : Romantic? Hemingway? He was an abusive, alcoholic misogynist who squandered half of his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers.
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[after purposefully crashing into a car]
Kat Stratford : Whoops.
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Patrick : Hey there girly. How you doin'?
Kat Stratford : Sweating like a pig actually and yourself?
Patrick : Now there's a way to get a guy's attention huh?
Kat Stratford : My mission in life. But, obviously I struck your fancy so you see it worked. The world makes sense again.
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Kat Stratford : Tell me something true.
Patrick : Something true... I hate peas.
Kat Stratford : No, something real, something no one else knows.
Patrick : Okay, you're sweet, and sexy, and completely hot for me.
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Walter Stratford : You know fathers don't like to admit it when their daughters are capable of running their own lives. It means we've become spectators. Bianca still let's me play a few innings - you've had me on the bench for years. When you go to Sarah Lawrence, I won't even be able to watch the game.
Kat Stratford : *When* I go?
Walter Stratford : Oh, boy. Don't tell me you changed your mind. I already sent 'em a check.
[Kat gasps in surprise, then hugs her father]
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Kat Stratford : What is it, Asshole Day?
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Kat Stratford : [drunk. Leans in close to Patrick] Hey... your eyes have a little green in them.
[Patrick smiles momentarily, then Kat vomits at his feet]
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Ms. Perky : People perceive you as somewhat...
Kat Stratford : Tempestuous?
Ms. Perky : "Heinous bitch" is the term used most often.
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Kat Stratford : You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know?
Bianca : I happen to like being adored, thank you!
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Bianca : People expect me to be there!
Walter Stratford : Kat's not going, you're not going!
Bianca : Why can't you be normal?
Kat Stratford : Define normal.
Bianca : Bogey Lowenstein's party is normal.
Walter Stratford : What's a Bogey Lowenstein?
Kat Stratford : Bogey's party is just a lame excuse for all the idiots at our school to drink beer and rub up against each other in hopes of distracting themselves from the pathetic emptiness of their meaningless...
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Bianca : [after Kat has told her that she went out with Joey] How is it possible that I did not know about this?
Kat Stratford : I warned him that if he told anyone, the cheerleading squad would find out how tiny his dick is!
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Patrick : I thought for sure I was busted when I was climbing out that window, I tell you. So, how did you keep him distracted?
Kat Stratford : I dazzled him with my... wits.
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Kat Stratford : I'll let you get back to Reginald's quivering member.
Ms. Perky : "Quivering member." I like that.
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Ms. Perky : [writing her novel] Undulating with desire, Adrian removes her red...
[breaks concentration, chooses another word]
Ms. Perky : crimson cape, at the site of Reginal's stiff and... Judith! What's another word for "engorged"?
Judith : [disgusted] I'll look it up.
Ms. Perky : Okay.
[thinking of word]
Ms. Perky : Swollen... Turgid...
Kat Stratford : [enters] Tumescent?
Ms. Perky : Perfect!
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Kat Stratford : [talking to Mr. Chapin in detention] Well, now that you've seen "the plan", I'm gonna go and show "the plan" to someone else.
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Kat Stratford : You are amazingly self-assured, has anyone ever told you that?
Patrick : I tell myself that every day, actually.
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Mandella : Have you seen him?
Kat Stratford : Who?
Mandella : William. He asked me to meet him here.
Kat Stratford : Oh Mandella, please tell me you haven't progressed to full-on hallucinations.
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[talking about the prom]
Kat Stratford : Can you even imagine? Who the hell would go to that antiquated mating-ritual?
Mandella : I would, but I don't have a date.
Kat Stratford : Do you really wanna get all dressed up, so some Drakkar Noir-wearing dexter with a boner can feel you up while you're forced to listen to a band that, by definition, blows?
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Patrick : Not a big talker, huh?
Kat Stratford : Depends on the topic. My fenders don't really whip me into a verbal frenzy.
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Kat Stratford : Remove head from sphincter, then drive!
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Kat Stratford : joey never told you that we went out did he?
Bianca : yeah ok...
[disbelieving]
Kat Stratford : in ninth, for a month
Bianca : why?
Kat Stratford : [sarcastically] because he was like... such a babe
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Walter Stratford : My insurance does not cover PMS!
Kat Stratford : Well then, tell them I had a seizure.
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Patrick : [while trying to get Kat go out with him] Well, the night I take you places you've never been before.
Kat Stratford : Like where, the 7-11 on Broadway?
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Bianca : Where did you come from? Planet "Loser"?
Kat Stratford : As opposed to Planet "Look At Me, Look At Me"?
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Mr. Morgan : Get outta my class.
Kat Stratford : What?
Mr. Morgan : Out. Get out!
Joey : Thanks, Mr. Morgan.
Mr. Morgan : Shut up!
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Kat Stratford : [to Patrick - after he asks her out for the first time] Do you even know my name screwboy?
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Kat Stratford : Have you seen the unwashed miscreants that go to that school?
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Kat Stratford : You're looking at this from entirely the wrong perspective. We're making a statement.
Mandella : Oh goody, something new and different for us!
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Kat Stratford : You're not as vile as I thought you were.
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Bianca : Can't you just find some blind, deaf retard to take you to the movies so I can have one date?
Kat Stratford : I'm sorry. Looks like you'll just have to miss out on the witty repartee of Joey "eat me" Donner.
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Joey : Your sister here?
Kat Stratford : Stay away from my sister.
Joey : Oh, I'll stay away from your sister, but I can't guarantee she'll stay away from me.
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Kat Stratford : Oh wait... was that... did your hairline just recede?
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Bianca : You suck!
Kat Stratford : [Mocking Bianca] You suck!
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Patrick : I've been looking all over the place for ya.
Kat Stratford : I'm getting trashed, man. Isn't that what you're supposed to do at a party?
Patrick : I don't know. I say do what you wanna do.
Kat Stratford : Funny. You're the only one. Later.
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Walter Stratford : So, tell me about this dance, was it hoppin'?
Kat Stratford : Ugh. Parts of it.
Walter Stratford : Which parts?
Kat Stratford : [laughingly] The part where Bianca beat the hell out of some guy.
Walter Stratford : Bianca did what?
Kat Stratford : What's the matter, upset that I rubbed off on her?
Walter Stratford : [proud] No, impressed.