Rich quotes from Skins

Rich

Bye.

Alo

I'm never gonna get laid if you keep being such a douche to all the dames we meet.

Rich

That's because all the girls we meet are always assholes.

Alo

I don't care if they're one-legged, dead hermaphrodites. I need some sex!

Grace

Opposites attract.

Rich

That's magnets. We're people.

Grace

Shove up.

Rich

Sorry, someone's sitting here.

Grace

Oh yeah, who?

Rich

[looks up, notices Grace, and grins] You? Wha—

Grace

I'm Sub; short for Sub Rosa. Nice to meet you.

Rich

Hey, "Sub". I'm Rich.

Grace

So... what do you do for fun, Rich?

Rich

Uh... listen to music, go to gigs, hang out with my mate Alo. That's about it, really.

Grace

You don't have any other friends? Just this "Alo" guy?

Rich

Yeah, just him, really.

Grace

No-one else?

Rich

Well, recently, there's been a couple of other people... this girl, Franky, and... others.

Grace

Others?

Rich

Well, there's this girl who's been helping me, I suppose. Okay, what sort of music are you into, "Sub"?

Grace

Well, you know, industrial, mostly. Godflesh, early Scorn, TKK.

Rich

Nine Inch Nails?

Grace

Fuck off! Trent Reznor can suck my cock! [beat] This girl, then, who's helping you. What do you think of her?

Rich

Honestly?

Grace

Honestly.

Rich

She's alright, but she lets people walk all over her, and her friends treat her like shit and she doesn't say a word.

Grace

Maybe she knows her friends love her?

Rich

Maybe she's got no fucking self-respect.

Grace

You think you know me, Rich. No-one fucking knows me. Not you, not Mini, not Liv. No-one's got a fucking clue what I am or what I can do.

Nick

Isn't this wicked? the Bloods and the Cripples together at last. You get me?

Grace

What's he talking about?

Rich

Nick's suggesting that we're a bunch of cripples, and that he and Mini are similar to a black, violent L.A. street gang.

Alo

I know they're being shitty, but I can't just wreck the farm. It's all they've got. And I... you know.

Matty

No, what?

Alo

I love them, and stuff.

Rich

Haha, you're gay for your parents.

Rich

David bloody Blood!

Grace

Shh. He doesn't want people to know!

Rich

Why not?

Grace

He thinks it will compromise his position if people know he has a daughter in college. He made me promise.

David Blood

Your father's employment record, including the results of his last appraisal. It's not, as you can see, glowing.

Rich

[Enquiringly] How did you get this?

David Blood

[Smugly] That's unimportant. I can tell from that information that your life, just like your father's, will add up to very little. Very little indeed.

Rich

So what?

David Blood

I can make things easier for you. I can make them easier for your father. I know people. And I will not be a principal forever.

Rich

What are you talking about?

David Blood

These drama examinations are externally moderated. I cannot influence the result, but if someone who I am told is very good on stage were, say, to perform very badly on purpose...

Rich

You want Grace to fail her examination? Why?

David Blood

Because, Richard, she is too good for you.

Grace

You're very sweet. But this can't happen, Rich. There's nothing we can do, it's over.

Rich

Oh, whilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?

Grace

Tell me. Tell me what to do. What's left to do?

Rich

The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine. What do people in Shakespeare do when it's all fucked, when they're trapped? How do they work it all out? Maybe stories are just stories. Or maybe... we can make our life a story. So marry me, Grace Violet Blood.

Grace

Oh, wonder. How many goodly creatures are there here. How beauteous mankind is. Oh, brave new world. That has such people in it.

Rich

I look like...

Alo

Justin Bieber.

Rich

Take that back!

Alo

OK, OK... you look like a man who's just made the ultimate sacrifice for love! Right. Uhhh... (gasps) Rain check- rings!

Rich

(irritated) You should know- best man.

Alo

Oh, yeah! (fishes the rings out of his pocket) Uhhh- suits are all sorted.

Rich

Dare I ask how?

Alo

(chuckling) Da and Dowie used to be a Beatles crupie band together! I fished 'em out, you know, all the-

Rich

I'm gonna ignore that.

Alo

Matty and Nick are taking care of... (Matty and Nick rush past them with a shopping cart of stolen alcohol, pursued by security guards)

Matty

Catering's sorted, boss!

Nick

(laughing at Rich's new haircut) Oh my gay, it's Justin Bieber!

Grace

I had to go.

Rich

Yeah, why?

Grace

You know why, Rich.

Rich

No… Come back.

Grace

I can’t… Isn’t everything beautiful this morning? Everything is so beautiful.

Rich

I don’t understand.

Grace

I love you, Rich.

Alo

Zurich? Like, in space?

Rich

It's in Switzerland.

Alo

She's only been awake five minutes and he takes her skiing? That is mental!

Rich

She's at a clinic, you subnormal twat.

David Blood

You fucked my house up, I see.

Rich

[Gently] Sorry. [Inquisitively] Where's Grace gone?

David Blood

[Long silence] I'm very sad to say... [Long silence] Actually, she died yesterday afternoon.

Rich

[In shock] I just spoke to her. I speak to her all the time.

David Blood

[Sadly] Me too. [Tearing up] What else is there to do?

Rich

[In shock] She never woke up, did she, from the accident?

David Blood

[Tearing up] That's why we went to Switzerland. To see if they could wake her up. I just wanted to try it, you know?

Rich

[In shock] So all this time, she was...?

David Blood

They said there was nobody left inside. I thought, what would she think of me for turning off the stupid machine thing? [Sadly] What would she think?

Rich

[to David Blood] She'd have thought you're her dad, and that's what you're supposed to do.

Rich

[In a state of sadness] She loved me. And I...

David Blood

[In a state of sadness] Yes. That's why I'm here.

  Can I help you?

Rich

  Yeah, sorry I'm late. I'm in this class.

  I don't recall you being here before.

Rich

  No, well, I've been away for a bit. Erm, like, on holiday.

  Oh my God! Of course! You're the boy whose...of course! Oh, you brave boy. [hugs Rich] You poor, poor soldier of love. [kisses Rich's cheek] Oh!

What are you doing?

Rich

I'm trying to pass my exams.

That's not right. How come you just get to sit here? How come you're okay?

Rich

[Hesitantly] I couldn't explain it to you-

I don't want to hear it! Why is it me that has to care? You were her boyfriend. She loved you. What the fuck are you doing in here? ... Why aren't you in the fucking loony bin? She can't do history revision, can she? She is history.