My So-Called Life (TV Series)

Self-Esteem (1994)

Jared Leto: Jordan Catalano

Quotes 

• Richard Katimski : [reading to the class]  "My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun. Coral is far more red than her lips' red. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun. If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damas red and white, but no such roses see I in her cheeks. And some perfumes is there more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a Goddess go. My mistress when she walks treads on the ground, and yet, by Heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare."

  [addresses the class] 

  Richard Katimski : What kind of a girl is Shakespeare describing here? Is she the most beautiful girl?

  Brian : No.

  Richard Katimski : Is she a Goddess? Physically perfect? The kind of girl who stops traffic when she walks down the street?

  Brian : [laughs]  No.

  Richard Katimski : So he's not in love with her?

  Jordan : Yeah. He is.

  Richard Katimski : And why is that? Why is he in love with her? What is it about her?

  Brian : That she's not just a fantasy. She's got, like, flaws. She's real.

  Richard Katimski : Thank you.

• Angela : [stops kissing Jordan]  Don't say "hello," or anything.

  Jordan : Hello.

  Angela : I can't believe I came here. Why did you ask me to come here?

  [raises voice] 

  Angela : Why are you like this?

  Jordan : Like what?

  Angela : Like how you are!

  Jordan : So leave.

  Angela : Admit it, first.

  Jordan : Admit what?

  Angela : That all of this happened. That you have emotions. That you can't, like, treat me one way in front of your friends and the next minute leave me some note.

  [pause] 

  Angela : And by the way, I spell my name with one L.

• Shane : Catalano! In your own world much? You going to Buffalo Tom on Friday?

  Jordan : Buffalo Tom?

  Shane : Yeah, Tino found out they're playing at Pike Street Friday night. Like, unannounced.

  Jordan : Oh yeah?

  Shane : Yeah, for a set.

  Jordan : Sure. Okay.

  Shane : Yeah, so...

  Jordan : So, Buffalo Tom. Okay. Well, later.

  [goes to meet Angela] 

  Shane : Oh, okay. Later.

• Angela : I have all this geometry.

  Jordan : I was hoping you'd be here.

  Angela : So you're going to Buffalo Tom?

  Jordan : What?

  Angela : Buffalo Tom. Didn't I hear that they're playing at Pike Street? I mean, I think I heard that somewhere.

  Jordan : [hesitates]  Oh, yeah. I'm going. Why?

  Angela : No reason.

  [kisses Jordan] 

• Jordan : Shh. The fact that we come here, let's keep, like uh, our secret.

  Angela : Why?

  Jordan : No reason.

• Angela : Why are you like this?

  Jordan : Like what?

  Angela : Like how you are!