Polexia Aphrodisia: Let's deflower the kid.

William Miller: I'm dark and myterious and PISSED OFF!

Lester Bangs: The only true currency in this bankrupt world...is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

Russell Hammond: And you can tell Rolling Stone magazine that my last words were... I'm on drugs!!!!
William Miller: Russell! I think we should work on those last words!
Russell Hammond: I got it, I got it. Last words: I dig music.
[beat]
Russell Hammond: I'm on drugs!!!!

Penny Lane: You're too sweet for rock and roll.
William Miller: Sweet? Where do you get off? Where do you get sweet? I am dark and mysterious, and I am PISSED OFF! I could be very dangerous to all of you! And you should know that about me... I am THE ENEMY!

Sapphire: Can you believe these new girls? None of them use birth control and they eat all the steak!

William Miller: Do you have to be depressed to write a sad song? Do you have to be in love to write a love song? Is a song better when it really happened to you? Like "Love Thing," where did you write that and who was it about?
Russell Hammond: When did you get so professional?

Anita Miller: FECK YOU!
Elaine Miller: HEY!
Anita Miller: This is a house of lies!
Elaine Miller: Well there it is, your sister used the "F" word.
William Miller: I think she said "feck."
Elaine Miller: What's the difference?
William Miller: The letter "u."

Dennis Hope: If you think that Mick Jagger will still be doing the whole rock star thing at age fifty, well, then, you are sorely, sorely mistaken.

Ben Fong-Torres: A Mo-Jo, it's a very high-tech machine that transmits pages over the telephone! It only takes eighteen minutes a page!

Penny Lane: I always tell the girls never take it seriously. If you never take it seriously then you never get hurt. If you never get hurt then you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely you can just go to the record store and visit your friends.

Russell Hammond: I hurt the flower.

Penny Lane: Never take it seriously, you never get hurt. Never get hurt, you can always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit all your friends.

Penny Lane: How old are you?
William Miller: Eighteen.
Penny Lane: Me too! How old are we really?
William Miller: Seventeen.
Penny Lane: Me too!
William Miller: Actually, I'm sixteen.
Penny Lane: Me too. Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different.
William Miller: I'm fifteen.

Jeff Bebe: Is it that hard to make us look cool?!

Polexia Aphrodisia: It's all happening!

William Miller: I have to go home.
Penny Lane: You are home.

William Miller: I love you. And I'm about to boldly go where... many men have gone before.

Jeff Bebe: "Rock 'n' roll can save the world"? "The chicks are great"? I sound like a dick!

Ben Fong-Torres: You're not there to party. We've already got *one* Hunter Thompson.

Anita Miller: This song explains why I'm leaving home to become a stewardess.

Lester Bangs: Of course I'm home. I'm always home. I'm uncool.

Elaine Miller: Rock stars have kidnapped my son!

William Miller: Don't you have any regular friends?
Penny Lane: Famous people are just more interesting.

Lester Bangs: So, you're the one who's been sending me those articles from your school newspaper.
William Miller: I've been doing some stuff for a local underground paper, too.
Lester Bangs: What, are you like the star of your school?
William Miller: They hate me.
Lester Bangs: You'll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.

Lester Bangs: You CANNOT make friends with the rock stars. That's what's important. If you're a rock journalist -- first, you will never get paid much. But you will get free records from the record company. And they'll buy you drinks, you'll meet girls, they'll try to fly you places for free, offer you drugs... I know. It sounds great. But they are not your friends. These are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of the rock stars, and they will ruin rock and roll and strangle everything we love about it.

Russell Hammond: Write what you want.

William Miller: [on meeting Stillwater] Russell. Jeff. Ed. Larry. I really love your band. I think the song "Fever Dog" is a big step forward for you guys. I think you guys producing it yourselves, instead of Glyn Johns, was the right thing to do. And the guitar sound... is incindiary. Incendiary. Way to go.
[He turns to leave. The band members regard one another for a moment.]
Russell Hammond: Well, don't stop there!
Jeff Bebe: Yeah, come back here! I'm incendiary, too, man!

William Miller: "That groupie"? She was a Band-Aid! All she did was love your band. And you used her, all of you! You used her and threw her away! She almost died last night while you were with Bob Dylan. You guys, you're always talking about the fans, the fans, the fans; she was your biggest fan, and you threw her away! And if you can't see that, that's your biggest problem. And I love her! I love her!

Elaine Miller: May I speak with William, please?
Sapphire: He's not here. I think he's in the bar with the band. They just got back from the radio station. Is this Maryann with the pot? ...Hello?
Elaine Miller: No, this isn't Maryann with the pot. This is Elaine. His mother. Could you please give him a message? Could you tell him to call home immediately? And could you also tell him -- I KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
Sapphire: All right. But I'm just going to say this, and I'm going to stand by it: you should be really proud of him. 'Cause I know guys, and I'll bet you do too. And he respects women, and he likes women, and let's just pause and appreciate a man like that. You created him out of thin air, and you raised him right, and we're all looking out for him. He's doing a great job, and don't worry -- he's still a virgin. And that's more than I've ever said to my own parents, so there you go. ...This is the maid speaking, by the way.

Russell Hammond: You, Aaron, are what it's all about. You're real. Your room is real. Your friends are real. Real, man, real. You know? Real. You're more important than all the silly machinery. Silly machinery. And you know it! In eleven years its going to be 1984, man. Think about that!
Aaron: Wanna see me feed a mouse to my snake?
Russell Hammond: Yes.

Sapphire: They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts.

[Finally getting his interview with Russell Hammond]
William Miller: So Russell... what do you love about music?
Russell Hammond: To begin with, everything.

Sapphire: Just think, any other city and you'd still be a virgin.

Elaine Miller: Look at this: an entire generation of Cinderellas and no glass slipper.

Penny Lane: We are not groupies. Groupies sleep with rock stars because they want to be near someone famous. WE are band-aides. We're here for the music.

Penny Lane: Never take it seriously, you never get hurt. Never get hurt, you can always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit all your friends.

Lester Bangs: Don't let those swill merchants rewrite you.

Russell Hammond: From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it, that's all I'm interested in.

Russell Hammond: And you can tell Rolling Stone magazine that my last words were... I'm on drugs!!!!
William Miller: Russell! I think we should work on those last words!
Russell Hammond: I got it, I got it. Last words: I dig music. I'm on drugs!

William Miller: Don't you have any regular friends?
Penny Lane: Famous people are just more interesting.

William Miller: When and where does this "real world" occur?!

William Miller: I love you. And I'm about to boldly go where... many men have gone before.

Jeff Bebe: Some people have a hard time explaining rock 'n' roll. I don't think anyone can really explain rock 'n' roll. Except Pete Townshend, but that's okay. Rock 'n' roll is a lifestyle and a way of thinking... and it's not about money and popularity. Although, some money would be nice. But it's a voice that says, "Here I am... and fuck you if you can't understand me." And one of these people is gonna save the world. And that means that rock 'n' roll can save the world... all of us together. And the chicks are great. But what it all comes down to is that thing. The indefinable thing when people catch something in your music.

Dennis Hope: I don't make the rain. I just have the best umbrella.

Elaine Miller: Adolescence is a marketing ploy.

Lester Bangs: Oh man, you made friends with 'em. See, friendship is the booze they feed you. They want you to get drunk on feeling like you belong.
William Miller: Well, it was fun.
Lester Bangs: Because they make you feel cool, and hey, I met you. You are not cool.

Elaine Miller: Keep the small bills on the outside and call me if anyone gets drunk.
William Miller: I will call you if anyone *anywhere* gets drunk.

Penny Lane: Maybe it is love, as much as it can be, for somebody-
William Miller: Somebody who sold you to Humble Pie for fifty bucks and a case of beer! I was there! I was there! . . . Look- I'm sorry.
Penny Lane: [sniffs] What kind of beer?

Penny Lane: Look - you should be happy for me. You don't know what he says to me in private. Maybe it is love -- as much as it can be...

Russell Hammond: Well William, we've been across the entire country and did everything to you except get you laid.
[William looks out the window and smiles]
Russell Hammond: Really? No!
All in car: No!

Topeka Kid: You're Russell from Stillwater.
Russell Hammond: Well, yeah, on my better days, I am Russell from Stillwater.

[Regarding the t-shirt picture]
Russell Hammond: Can we just skip the vibe, and go straight to us laughing about this?
Jeff Bebe: Yeah, okay.
Russell Hammond: Because I can see by your face you want to get into it.
Jeff Bebe: How can you tell? I'm just one of the out-of-focus guys.

Russell Hammond: You know, I think we both wanted to, uh, to be with her. I guess she wanted us to be together.

Russell Hammond: Your mom kinda freaked me out.

Penny Lane: We are not Groupies. We are here because of the music, we inspire the music. We are Band Aids.

Jeff Bebe: It's okay! I'm easy to forget! I'm only the fucking lead singer!

Lester Bangs: And then it just becomes an industry of... cool.


Anita Miller: [last words to little brother William before leaving home] Someday, you'll be cool.

Polexia Aphrodisia: Forgive me father, for I may sin tonight.

Anita Miller: Listen to Tommy with a candle burning, and you'll see your future.

[Russell is on the phone with Penny]
Russell Hammond: Give me your address. This time, I'm coming to you.

Russell Hammond: Don't worry, no one's getting hurt here. She knows Leslie's coming to New York tomorrow. This is the circus, everybody's trying not to go home. Stop looking at me like that.

Elaine Miller: [to William] Your Dad was so proud of you. He knew you were a predominantly accelerated child.
Anita Miller: What about me?
Elaine Miller: You are rebellious and ungrateful of my love.

Russell Hammond: I am a golden god!

Russell Hammond: I never said I was a golden god... or did I?

Russell Hammond: I'm telling secrets to the one guy you don't tell secrets to.