Speak (film) Quotes

Speak (film) is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Speak ended in 1970.

It features unbulleted list , Fred Berner , Matthew Myers , Annie Young Frisbie , Jessica Sharzer as producer, Christopher Libertino in charge of musical score, and Andrij Parekh as head of cinematography.

Speak (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Speak (film) is 92 minutes long. Speak (film) is distributed by Showtime Networks Inc..

The cast includes: Kristen Stewart as Melinda Sordino, Allison Siko as Heather, Michael Angarano as David Petrakis, Robert John Burke as Mr. Neck, Elizabeth Perkins as Joyce Sordino, Hallee Hirsh as Rachel Bruin, Steve Zahn as Mr. Freeman, Eric Lively as Andy Evans, Tyanna Rolley as Nicole, D. B. Sweeney as Jack Sordino, and Leslie Lyles as Hairwoman.

Speak (film) Quotes

Steve Zahn as Mr. Freeman

• (Steve Zahn) "Hey. You're the tree. Uh, you can eat lunch in here if you want. It's against school rules but I'm kind of a rebel."
• (Steve Zahn) "Wow, uh. It's not a place mat. The rule is if you're gonna be in here you need to be working, so choose your weapon."
• (Steve Zahn) "Do something. Anything. Hey, does this inspire you?"
• (Steve Zahn) "No?"
• (Steve Zahn) "Hmm?"
• (Steve Zahn) "So are you going trick or treating tonight?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "No."
• (Steve Zahn) "Oh. You don't like candy?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "I'm too old."
• (Steve Zahn) "Oh right. Yeah, I got kids so I guess I never get too old."
• (Kristen Stewart) "Last year we were witches."
• (Steve Zahn) "Who's we?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "My ex-best friends."
• (Steve Zahn) "What are you doing? No, no. You gotta give things a chance."
• (Steve Zahn) "Close your eyes. Just do it, I'm the teacher. Can you picture a tree? Any tree."
• (Steve Zahn) "There it is. It's burned in your retina. You got it. Do it."

• (Steve Zahn) "It's night in Venice. This is the color of an accountant's soul; a love rejected. This, I once grew mold on an orange this color when I was living in Boston. And these are various members of the school board. You see, if somethings eating at you you gotta find a way to use it."

• (Ivy) "It's scary. Like, in a weird. way. Not clown scary. How do I say this? It's like you don't want to look at it for too long."
• (Steve Zahn) "Excellent. This is excellent."

• (Steve Zahn) "Hi everybody. Welcome to Art. The only class that will teach you how to survive. This is where you can find your soul, if you dare. Don't ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind."

• (Steve Zahn) "I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out. The knife and fork are abviously middle-class sensibilities. The palm tree is a nice touch. A broken dream,perhaps? Plastic hunnymoon, deserted island? Oh, If you put in a lice of pumpkin pie, it couldbe a desserted island."

• (Steve Zahn) "Can anybody tell me what this is?"
• (Ivy) "A globe?"
• (Steve Zahn) "A Globe? Gosh -- What're you guys? 13? 14? You already let them beat the creativity outta you? -- It's ok. I used to let my daughters kick this around my studio when it was too wet too play outside. And one day Jenny put her foot right through Texas and the entire United States crumbled into the sea. I mean, you could, you could paint a wet muzzled dog -- chewing Alaska. The possibilities are endless. It's almost too much but you all are important enough to give it too."

Kristen Stewart as Melinda Sordino

• (Kristen Stewart) "Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating."

• (Kristen Stewart) "It's hard to sleep at home. How long would it take for the nurses to figure out I don't belong here? Would they let me rest for a few days?"

• (Kristen Stewart) "Dave Petrakis invited me over to do lab homework. I said no. No thanks. I just -- I can't."

• (Kristen Stewart) "I should probably tell someone. Just -- anyone. Get it over with. Blurt it out."

• (Kristen Stewart) "It's my first day of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomach ache."

• (Kristen Stewart) "Here's what I learned in bio. If the seed is planted too deep it doesn't warm up in time. Once the plant surfaces it sprouts leaves so it can absorb more sun. If someone picks the flower the plant grows another bloom to produce more seeds."

• (Kristen Stewart) "I hate winter. I've lived in the midwest my whole life and I hate winter. It starts too early and it ends too late. Why doesn't everyone just move to Florida?"

• (Kristen Stewart) "Exchange students are ruining our country."

• (Kristen Stewart) "I was raped."

• (Kristen Stewart) "It happened. There's no avoiding it. No forgetting."

• (Kristen Stewart) "It's time for a mental health day. So conjugate this: I cut class. You cut class. He/she/it cuts class."

• (Kristen Stewart) "There is no point talking to my ex-friends. Our clan the plain Janes has been absorbed by rival groups. Nicole hangs out with the jocks. Rachel went all Euro. Ivy straddles two crowds: the Goths and the Marthas. And then there's me. I'm clanless."

• (Kristen Stewart) "It's firewood. Get it?"

• (Kristen Stewart) "Has anyone seen the phone? Hey, has anyone seen the phone?"
• (Unnamed) "911, please state your emergency. Hello? Hold the line. We're tracking your location."

• (Kristen Stewart) "Today is career day. Am I A: a helper B: a doer C: a planner or D: a dreamer."

• (Kristen Stewart) "Why should I worry about Rachel?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "He'll hurt her. You were your best friends for nine years. That counts for something."
• (Kristen Stewart) "She's a traitor and a witch."
• (Kristen Stewart) "She doesn't know what happened."
• (Kristen Stewart) "She'll hate me."
• (Kristen Stewart) "She already hates you."
• (Kristen Stewart) "I hope he breaks her heart."

• (Kristen Stewart) "Excuse me, sir? Um, I was wondering if -- uh, I was j --"
• (Robert John Burke) "Come on, Sordino. Spit it out. You have to learn to enunciate. Or else no one will listen."
• (Kristen Stewart) "I was wondering if there was any way I can raise my grade?"
• (Robert John Burke) "Parents got the report card, huh?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "No, I just wanted to."
• (Robert John Burke) "Why should I give you that chance?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "Everyone deserves a second chance. I mean, isn't that what Jesus said?"
• (Robert John Burke) "Are you being smart with me?"
• (Robert John Burke) "OK. I'm feeling generous. Just because I don't wanna have to see your face in summer school. Write me a report on a cultural influence at the turn of the century. And it better be good."
• (Kristen Stewart) "It will be."
• (Kristen Stewart) "I'll write about the suffragettes. Before they came along women were treated like dogs."

• (Kristen Stewart) "We're studying American history for the ninth time in nine years. Every year they say we're gonna get right up to the present but we always get stuck in the industrial revolution."
• (Robert John Burke) "My family has been in this country for over 200 years. We built this place. We fought in every war, from the first one to the last one, paid our taxes and voted. So tell me why my son can't get a job?"
• (Robert John Burke) "Reverse discrimination. He wanted to be a firefighter. Went up for the job but he didn't get it. What I'm suggesting here is maybe if we had closed our boarders in 1900 then real americans would get the jobs they deserved."
• (Robert John Burke) "Young lady."
• (Allison Siko) "Um, I think that we're all foreigners and should just give the country back to the native americans."
• (Robert John Burke) "Now we have a debate, don't we? "Native Americans"?"
• (Unnamed) "Maybe your son didn't get the job because he wasn't good enough. Or maybe he's lazy. Or maybe the other guy was just better than him."
• (Robert John Burke) "Watch your mouth, mister. That's my son you're talking about. You know what? That's enough debate. Everybody take out your book."
• (Robert John Burke) "Mr. Petrakis, please take your seat."
• (Michael Angarano) "If the class is debating then each student has the right to say what's on his mind."
• (Robert John Burke) "I decide who talks in here, Mr. Petrakis."
• (Michael Angarano) "You opened a debate, you can't close it just because it's not going your way."
• (Robert John Burke) "Watch me. Take your seat, Mr. Petrakis."
• (Michael Angarano) "The constitution does not recognize different levels of citizenship based upon the time spent in the country. As a citizen and a student I'm protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and zenophobic."
• (Robert John Burke) "Sit your butt in that chair, Mr Petrakis, and watch your mouth. I try to get this debate going and you people turn it into a "race" thing. Sit down, Mr. Petrakis, or you're gonna go down to the principal's office."
• (Kristen Stewart) "Dave Petrakis is my new hero."

• (Kristen Stewart) "Ivy's being nice. Say something. My throat is dry. It hurts."

Elizabeth Perkins as Joyce Sordino

• (Guidance Counselor) "Can I just remind everyone that we need to, number 1, reassure, uh -- number 2,stay open and number 3, don't judge."
• (Elizabeth Perkins) "How old are you?"

• (Principal) "Well?"
• (Elizabeth Perkins) "Oh for the love of gGd, open your mouth Melinda."
• (D. B. Sweeney) "This is childish honey."
• (Elizabeth Perkins) "I don't know why she's doing this to us."
• (Guidance Counselor) "We're not ganging up on you. We're here to help."
• (Principal) "Let's start with grades. This isn't what we expected of you Melissa."
• (D. B. Sweeney) "Melinda."
• (Principal) "Last year you were a straight-B student. No behavioral problems, few absences. What do you have to say?"
• (Elizabeth Perkins) "She's mute. She's mute. She not saying anything."
• (Guidance Counselor) "I think that we need to explore the family dynamics at play."
• (D. B. Sweeney) "All I know is that last year I had a sweet loving little girl and now she's flushing her grades down the toilet? What have you folks done to her? Huh? I play golf with the school board president. Did you know that?"
• (Elizabeth Perkins) "Nobody cares who you know, Jack."
• (D. B. Sweeney) "Did you know that?"
• (Elizabeth Perkins) "Nobody cares."
• (Guidance Counselor) "Can I just remind everyone that we need to one: reassure, two: stay open and three: don't judge."
• (Elizabeth Perkins) "How old are you?"

Leslie Lyles as Hairwoman

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Eric Lively as Andy Evans

• (Eric Lively) "Coming? Hello? Earth to Rachel. Alright."
• (Eric Lively) "Okay, what did I do this time? Hmm, tell me."
• (Hallee Hirsh) "Remember when you asked me about Melinda Sordino? The girl in the art room. Why did you ask me if I was friends with her?"
• (Hallee Hirsh) "Do you know her? How do you know her?"
• (Eric Lively) "I was looking for you. Bitch."

Hallee Hirsh as Rachel Bruin

• (Hallee Hirsh) "Oh my God. Why didn't you tell me?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "It's just, when the police came everyone just started freaking out. I got scared. I walked home. After that night I couldn't tell anyone."
• (Hallee Hirsh) "Did you get pregnant? Did you get AIDS? Are you okay?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "Yeah. I mean, no, I didn't get pregnant. I'm fine."
• (Hallee Hirsh) "Was it someone from this school? Who was it? Melinda, tell me."
• (Kristen Stewart) "It was Andy Evans."
• (Hallee Hirsh) "What? I can't believe you. Liar. You're jealous. I'm popular and I'm going to prom and you're telling me this. That's twisted, Melinda. Seriously, you're sick. You need help."

D. B. Sweeney as Jack Sordino

• (D. B. Sweeney) "How's she doing?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "It's Thanksgiving."
• (D. B. Sweeney) "Hey, you wanna go for donuts?"

• (D. B. Sweeney) "And these are for you."
• (D. B. Sweeney) "Open the big one first."
• (Elizabeth Perkins) "For your room. It will help you fall asleep."
• (D. B. Sweeney) "Oh yeah, and one more."
• (Elizabeth Perkins) "Well, we noticed you were drawing."
• (Elizabeth Perkins) "Hope we got the right kind."

• (D. B. Sweeney) "You're boiling it?"
• (Elizabeth Perkins) "Too big to fit in the microwave."

Allison Siko as Heather

• (Allison Siko) "This is really awkward. No matter what -- no, I don't wanna say that. I mean, we kinda paired up at the beginning of school when I was new and didn't know anyone and that was really really sweet of you. But I think it's time that we both admit to each other that we're just very different people. I mean, I have my modeling and I like to shop --"
• (Kristen Stewart) "I like to shop."
• (Allison Siko) "You don't like anything. You're the most depressed person I've ever met. And excuse me for saying this but I think you need professinal help."
• (Kristen Stewart) "So you're blowing me off because I'm a little depressed?"
• (Allison Siko) "Once you get through this "life sucks" phase, I'm sure lots of people will wanna be your friend. But for right now, I don't think we should have lunch together."

• (Allison Siko) "I hate being a Martha. You were so right not to join. I mean all I am is their little slave. Ok, it was supposed to be me and Meg and Siobhan decorating the Holiday Inn for prom and now Meg and Siobhan can't do it and I'm totally screwed. Mel, you have to help me. They have some sales meeting in there until like three but then they'll let us start and I know we can do it."
• (Allison Siko) "You are so great. I owe you big time. What if I help you redecorate your room? I know, a nice seafoam green."
• (Kristen Stewart) "No --"
• (Allison Siko) "Ok, or -- something rich like, like eggplant."
• (Kristen Stewart) "No, I mean, I won't help you."
• (Allison Siko) "But you have to."
• (Kristen Stewart) "No, I don't."
• (Allison Siko) "But why?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "Because I was nice to you -- in the beginning of school -- when I didn't even like you. And you blew me blew me off. Because you're a self centered social climber. And you know what? I know what I wanna do to my room and it doesn't involve "eggplant". I think you should go."

Robert John Burke as Mr. Neck

• (Robert John Burke) "There is no kissing in the hallway."

• (Robert John Burke) "You got a hall pass, young lady? Come here. Hustle, young lady."
• (Robert John Burke) "7 minutes passed grace period. Name? Don't make this difficult. Name?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "Melinda Sordino."
• (Robert John Burke) "Grade?"
• (Kristen Stewart) "Ninth."
• (Robert John Burke) "That's one demerit, Sordino. Get to class."

Michael Angarano as David Petrakis

• (Michael Angarano) "The suffragettes fought for their right to speak. They were attacked, arrested and thrown in jail for daring to do what they wanted to do. Like them, Melinda is willing to stand up for what she believes. That no one should be forced to give speeches."
• (Robert John Burke) "What is this?"
• (Michael Angarano) "Melinda has to deliver her report to the class as part of the assignment. She made copies everyone can read."
• (Robert John Burke) "Oh, no you don't. When I say oral I mean oral. Now you"
• (Robert John Burke) "sit down. And you"
• (Robert John Burke) "read that report. Open your mouth Sordino. Open your damn mouth."
• (Robert John Burke) "I am so sick of your attitude."
• (Kristen Stewart) "I forgot the suffragettes were hauled off to jail. Duh."

• (Michael Angarano) "Melinda. Hello? Can you count backwards from 10? Who is the president of the United States? Come on, open your eyes."
• (Ms. Keen) "Dave, don't hit her."
• (Michael Angarano) "That's what your supposed to do. My dad's a doctor."
• (Michael Angarano) "Melinda, who's the governor of Texas?"

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