The Secret Life of the American Teenager quotes

George (to Ashley): I think it's time you and me have a talk.

Ashley: Oh Dad, please. This isn't the sex talk, right?

George: Of course it's the sex talk. I figure if I have the sex talk with you, maybe you won't want to have sex.

Ashley: Probably not.

George: Ok, this is all you need to know..

Ashley: Dad, I have internet access and a pregnant sister. I know where babies come from.

George: That's how we had the girls, great sex. Amy was conceived under a full moon on a surf board and Ashley was conceived in a graveyard at midnight.

Anne: Wow. You know, I forgot about that.

Jack: He's in therapy.

Grace: Yeah, so? I've been in therapy too.

Jack: Shh!

Grace: What is wrong with you? I don't care if people know I've been in therapy. When we adopted Tom, our whole family went to therapy together and separately just to talk through it. It was very helpful.

Jack: Grace, people already think you're weird enough.

Grace: Well I don't care what people think. I've been in therapy.

Jack: Just please. Trust me on this one, ok? That's two strikes against you. You're a Christian, and you've been to therapy. You're a crazy Christian. Do you really want that getting out?

Grace: (to everyone in hallway) I'm a crazy Christian! Yeah, I am. I'm a crazy Christian.

Ruben (to Adrian): I don't want you seeing Ricky anymore.

Adrian: That is not your decision! You do not decide who I go out with! And you know what? I'm sorry. I am so sorry I ever looked you up. Just go back to where you came from, and I promise I will never bother you again. Ever.

Ruben: I can't make that same promise.

Adrian: It's too late! Don't you get it? I'm all grown up! I have my period and everything! I menstrate! I take birth control pills! I have sex! Protected sex! With condoms! I don't need parents!

Ruben: Adrian, listen to me. You're going out with a guy who's in therapy for God knows what. Your girlfriend, the crazy Christian cheerleader, has been in some sort of altercation and was just interrogated by the police, and she's interested in your boyfriend, by the way. But what really bothers me is that everyone in this school seems to think that you're a slut. You need an adult in your life. Your mother wants to be your best friend, and I don't. You need me. Otherwise, you wouldn't have come to see me.

Adrian: I made a mistake.

Ruben: Well, before you make any serious mistakes, let's see what we can do to get your life going in the right direction.

Adrian: Well, what does that mean, get my life in the right direction? That's what my mother said. What are you two talking about?

Ruben: Adrian, I think you need to realize that you have a lot more to offer to this world than just sex.

Grace: I wanted to know how you would feel if i date him ? If it's possible and if my parents give me their permission...

Adrian: How would I feel if you date Ricky ? It would hurt me. A lot.

Grace: Oh.

Adrian: I would feel betrayed.

Grace: By me or by Ricky ?

Adrian: Listen, if you want my permission, I am not giving it to you.

Amy: Mom's not going to listen to me. She won't even keep the baby for me. Yeah. I asked her if she'd keep the baby for me while I was at school and band and stuff, and she said she wouldn't. She's going to get a job. Can you believe that?

Ashley: You thought she would keep the baby for you? What do you mean "keep the baby"?

Amy: Watch the baby.

Ashley: For 24 hours a day while you have a life?

Amy: Not 24 hours a day. Just most of the day, Monday through Friday. Whose side are you on?

Ashley: Dad's. And why would she agree to raise the baby anyway? Why would you want her to? Look at the two of us. We're completely screwed up. That kid's better off adopted.

Amy: Ashley, this is my baby, and I'm going to keep my baby.

Ashley: I thought you wanted Mom to keep your baby!

Amy (to Ben): Do you still want to get married?

Ben: Of course. But I think your parents said no to that one, unfortunately.

Amy: I'm not asking for their permission this time and neither should you, and neither should your dad. We have to do it now.

Ben: We're underage.

Amy: Do you want to marry me?

Ben: Yes. I said I did, but I mean, I'd like our families to be there.

Amy: Well, Ben, this is not the type of wedding that you send invitations to and invite the family. We have to elope.

Ben: I mean, how? Again, we're underage.

Amy: Fake ID's.

Amy: Ricky should help. He is the father.

Ben: I don't know if he could, or if he would, and I don't know if we want him to be involved.

Anne: Oh, he's involved. He said that he wants to be involved, and legally he is, Amy. Ben.

Amy: But Mom, can't we keep him from being involved somehow?

Anne: No, I don't think that we can. I mean, he has said that he wants to be involved. He's made that pretty clear. We just don't know how yet.

Amy: But if I was married to Ben...

Anne: It won't change anything. You're still gonna have a baby. Ricky's baby. Look, I'm on your side here, Amy. I am on your side. I am not being mean by trying to get you to face reality, but a baby is coming. And it's not just enough to have a plan. You have to act on that plan. So what is your plan, Amy? Ben? Look, I want to help you, but I can't help you if you don't talk to me. And there are no easy answers. You either get a job, go to school, and get someone to help with child care, or or you think seriously about adoption. But whatever choice you make, it has to be what is right for your child, Amy, not just about what is easiest for you. You can't run away from this. You have to face the fact that you are halfway through your pregnancy, and the baby is gonna be here before you know it.

Amy: But Mom, I can't find a job, and I don't know anything about having a baby or raising a child! And I can't go to school and go to work and be a mother!

Anne: But you can run over here and have someone else raise your child so you can go to school and then come back here and be a mother when it's convenient?

Grace: You can't get married. It's your first date!

Tom: We can't get married?

Grace: You don't know her, Tom.

Tammy: I don't know him, either.

Tom: We don't care about that.

Grace: You don't care that you don't know her and she doesn't know you? You don't know each other!

Tammy: How many ways can she say the same thing?

Amy: I think I'm going to start a business.

Ashley: What kind of business?

Amy: I don't know. Just some business.

Ashley: To start some business, don't you need some money? I know... shut up.

Ricky: (to Adrian) No pity, okay? I don't need pity. It will change the sex.

Anne: I also found out today that you're trying to get money for Amy's baby, so I don't know. Maybe it's the doctor's appointment or everything else that's happening, but that news just kind of upset me.

Bob: Well, it's not just her baby. There's a father, and that's my son, so it's actually your daughter's baby and my son's baby. So who knows? Maybe someday, we'll be in-laws.

Anne: We are never gonna be in-laws, and you're not gonna go anywhere near my daughter or your son or their baby. You got that? Because if you do, if you go near him or her, or the baby, you're gonna regret it.

Bob: Really? Regret it, you say?

Anne: Listen to me. I'm a woman on the verge. My 15-year-old daughter is having a baby. My husband's having an affair. I'm getting a divorce after 16 years of marriage. I've got to get a job, and my mom has Alzheimer's, and I can't take it anymore. I can't take it like if one more bad thing happens to me, like if I find out you're sending couples over to try to adopt the baby, and you're somehow making money off of it.

Bob: So what are you saying, Anne? Are you saying...are you threatening me? It's not nice to threaten people.

Anne: I'm not threatening you. I don't even know how to threaten a man like you. But I figure you're afraid of me. I figure you're afraid of everything and everyone, because what kind of a man hits his own wife and child? I'll tell you what kind. A coward. What kind of a man preys on innocent children? A coward. That's right. You're a coward. I bet you get high so you can forget that, but you're a coward. Am I right?

Adrian: Ricky, please! This is as close as I've ever felt to you. Tonight, in there! Just talk to me, please!

Ricky: I don't feel like talking to you! It's personal!

Adrian: More personal than sex?!?!

Ricky: Yeah, a lot more personal than sex!

Adrian: Come on, Ricky! Look, just don't run away tonight, okay? Just talk to me. Just tell me what this is about. You can tell me.

Ricky: I can't.

Adrian: You can if you want. I'm not gonna tell anyone. Whatever it is, I'm not gonna say anything. Don't you know me better than that by now?

Ricky: You don't know me, either.

Adrian: Well, then, let's get to know each other.

Ricky: You want to get to know me? You want to know who I am? The reason I'm in foster care is not just because my dad smacked me around and smacked my mom around. It's not just because they were both drug addicts and abandoned me over and over again! It's because my dad used to come home after a long day of hanging out and getting high to teach me a little lesson in how hard it is to be a man in this world!

Amy: I am not feeling sorry for myself! I'm doing the responsible thing by trying to find two adults who can provide my baby with a stable home and a loving family!

Ashley: If you had done the responsible thing six months ago.