Claire Quotes

[first lines]
Claire Benoit: [about Casey standing over in the corner] That's what happens when you do a mercy invite.
Mr. Benoit: I believed you wanted to invite everyone.
Claire Benoit: Dad, I can't invite everyone in my art class except for one person without social networking evidence inflicting more pain on that person

than was intended. And I'm not a monster.
Mr. Benoit: I'm proud of you. I think.
Claire Benoit: She gets detention a lot and she yells at teachers sometimes. There was that rumor that went around that she just kept running away from home.
Marcia: Um, maybe she can Uber.
Claire Benoit: I seriously

believe that we can go home now.
Mr. Benoit: Um, did I mistakenly convey this was a democracy? We are not going 'til she gets picked up.
Casey Cooke: [walks over to them] Uh, the car broke down. I'm just gonna take the bus.
Mr. Benoit: You're not taking a bus. I'll drive you home. Claire has almost saved her half of the money

she needs for a car. Isn't that right? This'll be one of the few times left I can drive you guys around. Huh?
Casey Cooke: Uh, I...
Claire Benoit: You won't be able to hear my dad tell jokes that only he thinks are funny for an entire car ride unless you come. You don't really wanna miss that.

Marcia: [as Claire struggles with door] It doesn't matter if you open that door, Claire. There's a second locked door.
Claire Benoit: He's gonna come in here again any second now, and we're not gonna let him take one of us out again. We just screamed and didn't hurt him, because we were afraid he'd get upset. God, that's victim shit!
[with her hands

in her hair:]
Claire Benoit: Jesus! We should fight him! We should drop a crazy-ass bomb on him!
Casey Cooke: [quietly] I saw him carry one of you in here and lay you on the bed like you weighed nothing. One punch from him would knock one of us out.
Claire Benoit: I took... I took six months of Kenpo karate class. And you

distract the assailant with pain.
Casey Cooke: Everything is so easy for you guys. You do one thing, you can predict the next thing.
[shakes her head]
Casey Cooke: It's not the way it's gonna be in this situation.
Claire Benoit: We're not getting out of here! You're saying you're not gonna fight with everything in you?

You know, the only chance... the only chance we have is if all three of us go crazy on this guy. We have to hurry!
Marcia: We need you, Casey. Claire's smart. Let's listen to her. I'll do it, but you're gonna do it too. We can win.
Casey Cooke: He'll hurt us. No, shut up. Both of you.
Claire Benoit: [to Casey] You're gonna

pick your miserable self up and help us get out of here.
Casey Cooke: Blow me. And your six months of karate at the King of Prussia mall can blow me too.
Claire Benoit: No. No, you can't, can't do this today. You can't do this right now. Why do you do this? Why do you act like this? Why do you act like you're not one of us?

Ethan Hunt: [inside a luggage compartment on the TGV] You know, Claire was wrong about one thing, Jim.
Jim Phelps: Oh really? What's that?
[Ethan slowly puts on his camera glasses, Kittridge sees Phelps on his watch]
Eugene Kittridge: Good morning, Mr. Phelps.
Ethan Hunt: I'm not the only one who's seen

you alive.

John Bender: [after Claire performs her lipstick trick, claps sarcastically] Wow, Claire. That was great. My image of you is totally blown.
Allison Reynolds: You're a shit. Don't do that to her, you swore to God you wouldn't laugh.
John Bender: Am I laughing?
Andrew Clark: [shouts angrily] You fuckin' prick!

John Bender: What do you care what I think anyway? I don't even count, right? I could disappear forever and it wouldn't make any difference. I might as well not even exist at this school, remember?
[turns to Claire]
John Bender: And you... don't like me anyway.
Claire Standish: You know, I have just as, many feelings as

you do and it hurts so much when someone steps all over them.
John Bender: God! You're so pathetic. Don't you ever, *ever* compare yourself to me, okay. You got everything, and I got shit. Fuckin' Rapunzel, right? School would probably fuckin' shut down if you didn't show up. Queenie isn't here. I like those earrings, Claire.
Claire Standish: Shut

up.
John Bender: Are those real diamonds Claire?
Claire Standish: Shut up.
John Bender: I bet they are. Did you work for the money for those earrings?
Claire Standish: Shut your mouth.
John Bender: Or did your daddy buy those for you?
Claire Standish:

[shouts] SHUT UP!
John Bender: I'll bet he bought those for you. I bet those were a Christmas gift. Right? You know what I got for Christmas? Oh, it was a banner fucking year at the old Bender family. I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said, "Hey, smoke up Johnny." All right? So go home and cry to your Daddy. Don't cry here, okay?
Andrew

Clark: My God, are we gonna be like our parents?
Claire Standish: Not me. Ever.
[Bender nods]

[Frawley is describing to Claire how he knows where the bank robbers who kidnapped her probably came from]
FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: With guys like this - hardcore guys - 90% of them eminate from a one square mile neighborhood called Charlestown. Familiar with it?
[Claire looks at a map and realizes that it's the neighborhood she lives in]
Claire

Keesey: You must be kidding me!
FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: Dino, what's the first thing BPD does whenever there's an armored car robbery in the city?
Dino Ciampa: Close the Charlestown Bridge.
FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: He's from Charlestown.
Dino Ciampa: They make it over, they use each other's

houses. They're like rats.