A beloved teen comedy, Mean Girls follows Cady Heron, a previously homeschooled girl who enters the American high school whirlwind. As she adjusts to her environment, Cady becomes acquainted with the school’s most infamous clique, The Plastics, led by the manipulative Regina George. Oh yes, that clique. Navigating through a maze of cliques, rumours, and backstabbing, Cady finds between the desire to fit in and the need to stay true to herself.
Through humour, the film shows the brutal reality of high school social hierarchies, highlighting popularity contests and the matter of authenticity.
The film directed by Mark Waters was nominated for the People’s Choice Awards in 2005 as the favourite movie comedy, sadly not winning.
Best Quotes from Mean Girls (2004)
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Cady: Oh, god.
Janis: You dirty little liar!
Cady: I’m sorry, I can explain.
Janis: Explain how you forgot to invite us to your party?
Damian: Janis, I cannot stop this car. I have a curfew.
Cady: You know I couldn’t invite you. I had to pretend to be plastic.
Janis: Hey, buddy, you’re not pretending anymore. You’re plastic. Cold, shiny, hard plastic.
Damian: Curfew, 1:00 AM, it is now 1:10.
Janis: Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness?
Cady: You know what? You’re the one who made me like this so you could use me for your 8th grade revenge!
Janis: God! See, at least me and Regina George know we’re mean! You try to act so innocent like, “Oh, I use to live in Africa with all the little birdies, and the little monkeys!”
Cady: You know what! It’s not my fault you’re like, in love with me, or something!
Janis: What?
Damian: Oh, no, she did not!
Janis: See? That’s the thing with you plastics. You think everybody is in love with you when actually, everybody HATES you! Like, Aaron Samuels, for example, he broke up with Regina and guess what? He still doesn’t want you! So why are you still messing with Regina, Cady? I’ll tell you why, because you are a mean girl! You’re a bitch! Here. You can have this. It won a prize.
Damian: And I want my pink shirt back! I want my pink shirt back! -
Gretchen: Why should Caesar just get to stomp around like a giant while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar, right? Brutus is just as smart as Caesar, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody because that’s not what Rome is about! We should totally just STAB CAESAR!
Cady: Gretchen Wieners had cracked. -
Karen: On Wednesdays we wear pink!
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Janis: You got your freshmen, ROTC guys, preps, J.V. jocks, Asian nerds, Cool Asians, Varsity jocks, Unfriendly black hotties, Girls who eat their feelings, Girls who don’t eat anything, Desperate wannabes, Burnouts, Sexually active band geeks,
Janis: the greatest people you will ever meet, and the worst. Beware of plastics. -
Gretchen: Regina, we have to talk to you.
Regina: Is butter a carb?
Cady: YES.
Gretchen: Regina, you’re wearing sweatpants. It’s Monday.
Regina: So…?
Karen: So that’s against the rules, and you can’t sit with us.
Regina: Whatever. Those rules aren’t real.
Karen: They were real that day I wore a vest!
Regina: Because that vest was disgusting!
Gretchen: You can’t sit with us!
Regina: These sweatpants are all that fits me right now.
Regina: Fine! You can walk home, bitches. -
Mr. Duvall: Her name is Cady. Cady Heron. Where are you, Cady?
Cady: That’s me. It’s pronounced like Katie.
Mr. Duvall: My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee. -
Regina: Cady, do you even know who sings this?
Cady: Um… the Spice Girls?
Regina: I love her. She’s like a Martian! -
Student: Nice wig, Janis. What’s it made of?
Janis: Your mom’s chest hair! -
Mr. Duvall: Coach Carr, step away from the underage girls!
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Cady: Calling somebody else fat won’t make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn’t make you any smarter. And ruining Regina George’s life definitely didn’t make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the problem in front of you.
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Cady: And they have this book, this burn book, where they write mean things about all the girls in our grade.
Janis: What does it say about me?
Cady: You’re not in it.
Janis: Those bitches! -
Ms. Norbury: Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by Regina George?
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Karen: I can’t go out.
Karen: I’m sick.
Regina: Boo, you whore! -
Homeschooled Boy: And on the third day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle, so that Man could fight the dinosaurs. And the homosexuals.
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Short Girl: Hey, get out of here.
Damian: Oh my God – Danny DeVito! I love your work! -
Bethany Byrd: Somebody wrote in that book that I’m lying about being a virgin, ’cause I use super-jumbo tampons, but I can’t help it if I’ve got a heavy flow and a wide-set vagina!
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Regina: Oh my God, I love your skirt! Where did you get it?
Lea Edwards: It was my mom’s in the ’80s.
Regina: Vintage, so adorable.
Lea Edwards: Thanks.
Regina: That is the ugliest f-ing skirt I’ve ever seen. -
Ms. Norbury: I’m kidding. Sometimes older people make jokes too.
Damian: My grandma takes her wig off when she’s drunk.
Ms. Norbury: Your grandmother and I have that in common. -
Karen: Why are you dressed so scary?
Cady: It’s Halloween. -
Mr. Duvall: Hell, no. I did not leave the South Side for this!
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Cady: This is it. Regina said she’ll talk to Aaron, and now she was. How can Janis hate her? She was such a good…
Cady: SLUT! -
Chip Heron: Hey, how was school?
Cady: Fine.
Betsy Heron: Were people nice?
Cady: No.
Chip Heron: Did you make any friends?
Cady: Yes. -
Janis: Regina George… How do I begin to explain Regina George?
Emma Gerber: Regina George is flawless.
Mathlete Tim Pak: I hear her hair’s insured for $10,000.
Amber D’Alessio: I hear she does car commercials… in Japan.
Kristen Hadley: Her favorite movie is Varsity Blues.
Short Girl: One time she met John Stamos on a plane…
Jessica Lopez: – And he told her she was pretty.
Bethany Byrd: One time she punched me in the face… it was awesome. -
Regina: I gave him everything! I was half a virgin when I met him.
Karen: Do you wanna do something fun? Wanna go to taco bell?
Regina: I can’t go to taco bell, I’m on an all-carb diet. GOD Karen you’re so stupid!
Gretchen: Wait, Regina! Talk to me!
Regina: No one understands me…
Gretchen: I understand you!
Cady: You’re not stupid, Karen.
Karen: No, I am actually. I’m failing almost everything!
Cady: Well… there must be something you’re good at.
Karen: I can stick my whole fist in my mouth! Wanna see?
Cady: No no no… Anything else?
Karen: Well… I’m kinda psychic. I have a fifth sense.
Cady: What do you mean?
Karen: It’s like I have ESPN or something. My breasts can always tell when it’s going to rain.
Cady: Really? That’s amazing.
Karen: Well… they can tell when it’s raining. -
Gretchen: If only you knew how mean she really is… You’d know that I’m not allowed to wear hoop earrings, right? Yeah! Two years ago she told me hoop earrings were her thing and I wasn’t allowed to wear them anymore. And then for Hannakuh my parents got this pair of really expensive white gold hoops and I had to pretend like I didn’t even like them and… it was so sad. And you know she cheats on Aaron? Yes, every Thursday he thinks she’s doing SAT prep but really she’s hooking up with Shane Oman in the projection room above the auditorium! I never told anybody that because I am such a good friend!
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Shane Oman: Why are you eating a Kalteen bar?
Regina: I’m starving.
Shane Oman: Man, I hate those things. Coach Carr makes us eat those when we want to move up a weight class.
Regina: What?
Shane Oman: They make you gain weight like crazy.
Regina: Motherf –
Regina: Aaaaaaaah! -
Coach Carr: At your age, you’re going to have a lot of urges. You’re going to want to take off your clothes, and touch each other. But if you do touch each other, you will get chlamydia… and die.
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Janis: Okay, yeah. I’ve got an apology. So, I have this friend who is a new student this year. And I convinced her that it would be fun to mess up Regina George’s life. So I had her pretend to be friends with Regina, and then she would come to my house after and we would just laugh about all the dumb stuff Regina said. And we gave these candy bar things that would make her gain weight, and then we turned her best friends against her. And then… Oh yeah, Cady – you know my friend Cady? She made out with her boyfriend, and we convinced him to break up with her. Oh, God, and we gave her foot cream instead of face wash.
Janis: God! I am so sorry Regina. Really, I don’t know why I did this. I guess it’s probably because I’ve got a big lesbian crush on you! Suck on that! AY-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI! -
Regina: Get in loser, we’re going shopping.
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Gretchen: What are you supposed to be?
Karen: I’m a MOUSE. DUH. -
Mrs. George: I just want you to know, if you ever need anything, don’t be shy, OK? There are NO rules in the house. I’m not like a regular mom, I’m a cool mom.
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Damian: Health, Spanish… you’re taking 12th Grade Calculus?
Cady: Yeah, I like math.
Damian: Eww. Why?
Cady: Because it’s the same in every country.
Damian: That’s beautiful.
Damian: This girl is deep. -
Cady: Hey!
Regina: Why were you talking to Janis Ian?
Cady: I don’t know, I mean, she’s so weird, she just, you know, came up to me and started talking to me about crack.
Regina: She’s so pathetic. Let me tell you something about Janis Ian. We were best friends in middle school. I know, right? It’s so embarrassing. I don’t even… Whatever. So then in eighth grade, I started going out with my first boyfriend Kyle who was totally gorgeous but then he moved to Indiana, and Janis was like, weirdly jealous of him. Like, if I would blow her off to hang out with Kyle, she’d be like, “Why didn’t you call me back?” And I’d be like, “Why are you so obsessed with me?” So then, for my birthday party, which was an all-girls pool party, I was like, “Janis, I can’t invite you, because I think you’re lesbian.” I mean I couldn’t have a lesbian at my party. There were gonna be girls there in their bathing suits. I mean, right? She was a LESBIAN. So then her mom called my mom and started yelling at her, it was so retarded. And then she dropped out of school because no one would talk to her, and she came back in the fall for high school, all of her hair was cut off and she was totally weird, and now I guess she’s on crack. -
Mrs. George: Hey, you guys! Happy hour is from four to six!
Cady: Um, is there alcohol in this?
Mrs. George: Oh, God, honey, no! What kind of mother do you think I am? Why, do you want a little bit? Because if you’re going to drink I’d rather you do it in the house. -
Regina: Why don’t I know you?
Cady: I’m new. I just moved here from Africa.
Regina: What?
Cady: I used to be home-schooled.
Regina: Wait… what?
Cady: My mom taught me at home…
Regina: No, I know what home-school is, I’m not retarded! So you’ve actually never been to a real school before? Shut up! Shut up!
Cady: I didn’t say anything. -
Cady: Half the people in this room are mad at me, and the other half only like me because they think I pushed somebody in front a bus, so that’s not good.
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Cady: Wait Regina, I didn’t mean for this to happen!
Regina: To find out that everyone hates me? I don’t care!
Cady: Wait Regina, just listen!
Regina: No! Do you know what everyone says about you behind your back? Hmm? They say that you’re a homeschooled jungle freak, that’s a less hot version of me! Yeah, so don’t try to act so innocent! You can take that fake apology, and shove it right up your hairy c… -
Karen: If you’re from Africa, why are you white?
Gretchen: Oh my God, Karen, you can’t just ask people why they’re white. -
Damian: Taylor Zimmermann, two for you. Glenn Coco? FOUR for you, Glenn Coco! You go, Glenn Coco. And uh… “Caddy” Heron. Do we have a “Caddy” Heron here?
Cady: It’s Cady.
Damian: Oh Cady, here you go, one for you… And none for Gretchen Wieners, bye. -
Damian: “Too gay to function?”
Janis: That’s only okay when I say it! -
Karen: Gretchen, I’m sorry I laughed at you that time you got diarrhea at Barnes & Nobles.
Karen: And I’m sorry for telling everyone about it.
Karen: And I’m sorry for repeating it now. -
Crying Girl: I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school… I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy…
Damian: She doesn’t even go here!
Ms. Norbury: Do you even go to this school?
Crying Girl: No… I just have a lot of feelings…
Ms. Norbury: Ok go home…
Ms. Norbury: Next! -
Cady: Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.
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Karen: You know who’s looking fine tonight? Seth Mosakowski.
Gretchen: Okay, you did not just say that.
Karen: What? He’s a good kisser.
Gretchen: He’s your cousin.
Karen: Yeah, but he’s my first cousin.
Gretchen: Right.
Karen: So, you have your cousins, and then you have your first cousins, and then you have your second cousins…
Gretchen: No, honey, uh-uh.
Karen: That’s not right, is it?
Gretchen: That is so not right. -
Mr. Duvall: Did your teacher ever try to sell you marijuana or ecstasy tablets?
Aaron Samuels: No.
Kevin Gnapoor: What are marijuana tablets? -
Jason: Trang Pak made out with Coach Carr! And so did Sun Jin Dinh!
Trang Pak: You little slut!
Sun Jin Dinh: You’re the slut! -
Karen: If you’re from Africa, why are you white?
Gretchen: Oh my God, Karen, you can’t just ask people why they’re white? -
Coach Carr: Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and die! Don’t have sex in the missionary position, don’t have sex standing up, just don’t do it, OK, promise? OK, now everybody take some rubbers.
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Janis: Cold, Shiny, Hard, PLASTIC.
