American Beauty (1999)

Mena Suvari: Angela Hayes

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• Angela Hayes : Yeah? Well, at least I'm not ugly!

  Ricky Fitts : Yes, you are. And you're boring, and you're totally ordinary, and you know it.

• Lester Burnham : How's Jane?

  Angela Hayes : What do you mean?

  Lester Burnham : I mean, how's her life? Is she happy? Is she miserable? I'd really like to know, and she'd die before she'd ever tell me about it.

  Angela Hayes : She's... she's really happy. She thinks she's in love.

  Lester Burnham : Good for her.

  Angela Hayes : How are you?

  Lester Burnham : God, it's been a long time since anybody asked me that... I'm great.

  Angela Hayes : I've gotta go to the bathroom.

  Lester Burnham : I'm great.

• Angela Hayes : *Jane, he's a freak!*

  Jane Burnham : *Well, then so am I!* And we'll always be freaks and we'll never be like other people and you'll never be a freak because you're just too... perfect!

• Angela Hayes : You total slut, you have a crush on him. You're defending him, you love him, you wanna have, like, ten thousand of his babies.

• Angela Hayes : I'm serious. He just pulled down his pants and yanked it out. You know, like, "Say hello to Mr. Happy."

  Playground Girl #1 : Gross.

  Angela Hayes : It wasn't gross. It was kinda cool.

  Playground Girl #1 : So did you do it with him?

  Angela Hayes : Of course I did. He's like a really well known photographer. He shoots for "Elle" on like a regular basis. It would have been so majorly stupid of me to turn him down.

  Playground Girl #2 : You are a total prostitute.

  Angela Hayes : Hey! That's how things really are. You just don't know 'cause you're this pampered little suburban chick.

  Playground Girl #2 : So are you. You've only been in "Seventeen" once and you looked fat! So stop acting like you're goddamn Christy Turlington!

  Angela Hayes : Cunt! I am so sick of people taking their insecurities out on me.

• Angela Hayes : So, you're fucking psycho-boy on a regular basis now? Tell me, has he got a big dick?

  Jane Burnham : It's not like that.

  Angela Hayes : What, hasn't he got one?

  Jane Burnham : I'm not going to talk about his dick with you, OK?

• Jane Burnham : I don't think we can be friends anymore.

  Angela Hayes : You're way too uptight about sex.

  Jane Burnham : Just don't fuck my dad, all right? Please?

  Angela Hayes : Why not?

• Jane Burnham : Could he be any more... pathetic?

  Angela Hayes : I think he's sweet. And I think he and your mother have not had sex in a long time.

• Angela Hayes : This is my first time.

  Lester Burnham : [scoffs]  You're kidding.

  Angela Hayes : I'm sorry. I still wanna do it. It's... I thought I should tell you, in case you're wondering why... I wasn't... better.

  [he cradles his head on her shoulder] 

  Angela Hayes : What's wrong?

  [as he sits upright] 

  Angela Hayes : I thought you said I was beautiful.

  Lester Burnham : You are beautiful.

  [wraps blanket around her] 

  Lester Burnham : You are so beautiful... and I would be a very... lucky man.

  Angela Hayes : I feel so stupid.

  Lester Burnham : Don't.

  Angela Hayes : [sobbing]  Why?

  Lester Burnham : [hugging her, stroking her back]  You have nothing to be sorry about. It's okay. Everything's okay.

• [Lester eavesdrops on Jane and Angela through Jane's bedroom door] 

  Jane Burnham : Sorry about my dad.

  Angela Hayes : Don't be. I think it's funny.

  Jane Burnham : Yeah, to you, he's just another guy who wants to jump your bones. But to me, he's just... too embarrassing to live.

  Angela Hayes : Your mom's the one who's embarrassing. What a phony. But, your dad's actually kind of cute.

  Jane Burnham : Shut up.

  Angela Hayes : He is. If he just worked out a little, he'd be hot.

  Jane Burnham : Shut up!

  Angela Hayes : Oh, come on. Like you've never sneaked a peek at him in his underwear? I bet he's got a big dick.

  Jane Burnham : You are so grossing me out right now.

  Angela Hayes : If he built up his chest and arms, I would totally fuck him.

  Jane Burnham : [covers her ears and sings 'la la la' over and over again] 

  Angela Hayes : I would! I would suck your dad's big fat dick, and then I'd fuck him until his eyes rolled back in his head!

• Angela Hayes : Everything that's meant to happen does.

• Angela Hayes : It's that psycho next door. Jane, what if he worships you? What if he's got a shrine with pictures of you surrounded by dead people's heads and stuff?

• [after meeting Ricky Fitts for the first time] 

  Angela Hayes : What a freak! And why does he dress like a bible salesman?

  Jane Burnham : He's just so confident, it can't be real.

  Angela Hayes : I don't believe him. I mean, he didn't even like, look at me once!

• Angela Hayes : If people I don't even know look at me and want to fuck me, it means I really have a shot at being a model.

• Ricky Fitts : I was filming this dead bird.

  Angela Hayes : Why?

  Ricky Fitts : Because it's beautiful.

• Angela Hayes : Who are you looking for?

  Jane Burnham : My parents are coming tonight. They're trying to, you know, take an active interest in me.

  Angela Hayes : Gross. I hate it when my mom does that.

• Angela Hayes : I was hoping you'd give me a bath. I'm very, very dirty.

• Jane Burnham : [in car, laughing]  I'm so sorry my Dad was weird tonight.

  Angela Hayes : That's okay. I'm used to guys drooling over me. It started when I was about twelve. I'd go to dinner with my parents. Every Thursday night: Red Lobster.

  [scoffs] 

  Angela Hayes : And every guy there would stare at me when I walked in. And I knew what they were thinking. Just like I knew guys at school thought about me when they jerked off.

  Jane Burnham : [disgusted]  Vomit.

  Angela Hayes : No, I liked it. And I still like it. If people I don't even know look at me and wanna fuck me, it means... I really have a shot at being a model. Which is great. Because there's... nothing worse in life than being ordinary.

  Jane Burnham : [made self-conscious]  I really think it'll happen for you.

  Angela Hayes : [nods]  I know. Because everything that was meant to happen, does... eventually.

• Lester Burnham : So... you gonna tell me? What do you want?

  Angela Hayes : [softly]  I don't know.

  Lester Burnham : You... don't know?

  Angela Hayes : What do you want?

  Lester Burnham : Are you kidding? I want you.

  [lightly stroking her cheek] 

  Lester Burnham : I wanted you since the first moment I saw you. You are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

  [kisses her forehead] 

  Angela Hayes : You don't think I'm ordinary?

  [he kisses her alongside her eye] 

  Lester Burnham : You couldn't be ordinary if you tried.

  [kisses her cheek] 

  Angela Hayes : Thank you. I don't think there's anything worse than being ordinary.

• Angela Hayes : Go fuck yourself, psycho!

• Angela Hayes : [sitting forlornly in corner]  I hope you don't mind if I play the stereo.

  Lester Burnham : Not at all. Bad night?

  Angela Hayes : Not really bad. Just... strange.

  Lester Burnham : Believe me, it couldn't possibly be any stranger than mine.

  Angela Hayes : [rises]  Jane and I had a fight. It was about you. She's mad at me, because... I said I think you're sexy.

  Lester Burnham : [offering her bottle of beer]  Do you want a sip?

  Angela Hayes : Sure.

  [approaches him]