Empire Records (1995)

Rory Cochrane: Lucas

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Quotes 

• A.J. : What's with you? Yesterday you were normal and today you're like the Chinese guy from the Karate Kid. What's with you today?

  Lucas : What's with "today" today?

• Mark : Hey, Lucas. I've decided I'm going to start a band.

  Lucas : The first thing you need is a name. Then you'll know what kind of band you've got.

  Mark : Right, right. I was thinking about, um, Marc. How does that sound?

  Lucas : Is that with a C or with a K?

  Mark : Well my name is with a

  [checks his nametag] 

  Mark : K, so I was thinking my band's name could be with a C. That way it's kind of that psychedelic, you know, trip thing.

  Lucas : Always play with their minds.

• Joe : [hands retrieved CDs to the caught shoplifter]  I want you to take these, hold 'em against your chest, stand against the wall, and they're gonna take a photograph of you.

  Warren : Why don't you go shove 'em up your ass?

  Lucas : Because it would hurt a lot, Warren.

• Lucas : Mark, who's your favorite singer?

  Mark : Axl.

  Lucas : Well if Axl Rose was driving down the highway, and saw Rex Manning stranded on the side of the road, do you think Axl Rose would stop and help him?

  Mark : [thinks]  ... Does Axl have a jack?

  Warren : No way man!... Axl would pound on the gas, turn the wheel, take aim, and take that sucker out!

• Lucas : $9104. I counted it... twice.

  Lady at Craps Table : I like your style.

  Lucas : [proud, humble]  Well Joe told me to count it twice...

• Lucas : Warren, look what you took.

  [going through the CD's that Warren stole from the store] 

  Lucas : Rap... metal... rap... metal... And Whitney Houston.

  Warren : It's for my girlfriend, okay?

  Lucas : Suuure it is. You know, someone like you needs to diminish their criminal impulses, not magnify them. Maybe some jazz or some classical.

  Warren : Maybe you bite me.

• Jane : Actually, his new album tested well among teenage males.

  Lucas : Jane, did you compare the percentage of teenage male Rex Manning fans to the incidence of homosexuality amongst teenage males?

• Lucas : I do not regret the things I have done, but those I did not do.

• Lucas : I used to pee in my bed. I did. I, I wet my bed until I was ten. My mother turned me over to the county when I was ten to- not for being a bed wetter- but for being a bad seed. Anyways, 3 years went by, then Joe came. And he took me out, and I became the well adjusted person I am today.

• Lucas : Joe, is it okay if I leave the couch? 'Cause I'm gonna leave the couch now, okay? My ass is falling asleep, so I gotta go. I'm leaving.

• [Lucas has just gambled away all Joe's money] 

  Lucas : I wonder if I'll be held responsible for this.

• Joe : [after Lucas enters]  Lucas!

  Lucas : Joe!

  Joe : Where's the money?

  Lucas : Joe, the money is gone.

  Joe : Yeah, I know it's gone... but where's it gone to?

  Lucas : Atlantic City.

  Joe : Atlantic City?... Is it coming back from Atlantic City?

  Lucas : [nervous laugh]  Oh, I don't think so, Joe.

  Joe : What's it doing in Atlantic City, Lucas?

  Lucas : ...Recirculating.

  Joe : Recirculating?

  Lucas : Yeah.

  [Joe knocks the donation cup that Lucas was carrying out of his hands and grabs his arm] 

  Joe : Lucas, listen to me. I told Mitchell Beck that you forgot to deposit the money. I told Mitchell that the money was still here.

  Lucas : Joe, that's not true. It's in Atlantic City... I swear.

  Joe : Shut up, sit down, and don't you move.

  Lucas : [sitting down]  It could be in other cities by now...

  Joe : Oh, shut up! Under no circumstances do I want you to leave that couch... unless it's to get me $9000, and then you bring it here to me, okay?

  Lucas : Okay. You know, I think things are gonna be all right now, Joe.

  Joe : Oh? And what makes you think that.

  Lucas : Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.

  [nodding] 

  Lucas : Mmhmm!

  Joe : ...What a moron.

• Lucas : The long arm of the law has embraced our dear friend Warren.

• Debra : Hey, Lucas, is it true you committed the perfect crime?

  Lucas : Not entirely perfect.

• Lucas : Joe, I think it's gonna be okay.

  Joe : What makes you think that?

  Lucas : Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.

• A.J. : Lucas, do you think it's possible for a person to be in love with someone else and not even know it?

  Lucas : In this life there are nothing but possibilities.

  A.J. : Well, that's good, because I have to tell Corey I love her by 1:37.

  Lucas : That's an excellent time.

• Lucas : Mitchell's the man, Joe.

  Joe : And the man calls all the shots.

  Lucas : Damn the man.

  Joe : Let me explain it to you. Mitchell's the man. I'm the idiot. You're the screw-up. And we're all losers. Welcome to Music Town.

• Eddie : This music is the glue of the world, Mark. It's what holds it all together. Without this, life would be meaningless.

  Mark : Hey, did you hear about Lucas?

  Eddie : Hey, Lucas, man, I hear you went to Vegas and you married a mobster's wife and now you've got a hit on you and stuff. Is that true?

  Lucas : Not entirely true.

  Eddie : Well, outlaw man, we salute you.

  Lucas : Thank you, Eddie.

  Eddie : No problem.

• Lucas : Joe, I can categorically say that you are not a bigger banana-head.

• High Roller : That's an 18,000 dollar bet, you sure you know what you're doin kid?

  Lucas : I know this, that if I win this roll I will save the place that I work from being sold, and the jobs of my friends that work there. Thus striking a blow at all that is evil and making this world a better place to be in.

  Lady at Craps Table : Huh?

  Lucas : ...And I'll buy you guys a drink.

• [after Joe beats Lucas up in his office] 

  Joe : Here.

  [hands Lucas a washcloth] 

  Joe : You deserved that, you know that.

  Lucas : Yeah, I know it.

• Gina : Lucas, what are you doing in here?

  Lucas : My life has reached its pinnacle. Joe is letting me close the store tonight.

• Lady at Craps Table : Feeling lucky?

  Lucas : I am guided by a force much greater than luck.

• Joe : Where's Rex?

  Debra : Got a better question for you, Joe. Where's Gina?

  [Joe hears Gina in the xerox room with Rex] 

  A.J. : I'll look upstairs.

  Debra : I'll check the bathroom.

  Berko : I'll check the storage room.

  Lucas : I'll check the sofa.

• Lucas : In the immortal words of The Doors, 'The time to hesitate is through.'

• Lucas : The fat man walks alone.

• A.J. : Lucas, hey Lucas. Hey Lucas. What the hell are you doin' here, man?

  Lucas : Something happened to me last night. In Atlantic City.

  A.J. : Oh, you went to Atlantic City?

  Mark : Wow! Did you win anything?

  Lucas : No. I did not win. So if you guys ever wonder if it was nice to know you, I tell you now that it was.

• [about the CDs that Warren tried to shoplift] 

  Lucas : Rap, metal, rap, metal, Whitney Houston.

• Lucas : Do you know how many people there are out there?

  A.J. : Well, about 6 billion.

  Lucas : Really... 6 billion... that's a lot of people...