Dazed and Confused (1993) is widely considered one of the best movies of the 1990s and responsible for launching Matthew McConaughey‘s acting career. Here’s a compilation of the best movie quotes from Dazed And Confused, and how the film became such a sleep hit with fans.
Table of Contents[Hide][Show]
The Best Quotes From Dazed And Confused+−
- “Alright, Alright, Alright.”
- “That’s what I love about these high school girls…”
- “You ought to ditch the two geeks you’re in the car with now and get in with us.”
- “Aerosmith, 2 weeks. Don’t forget.”
- “Do you realize when he graduated we were like three years old?”
- “I love those redheads!”
- “L-I-V-I-N.”
- These are “the best years of my life”?
- “Got A Joint?”
- Buying Aerosmith Tickets
- “A serious attitude adjustment”
- “I Want To Dance!”
- “You want her? Gotta play it cool…”
- “…While I was stuck in this place”
- “Imagine how many people out there are…”
- “Whatever you like.”
- “Guess that makes you Deep Throat.”
- “If we are all gonna die anyway shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now?”
- “You’re dead, man, you’re so dead. Look at the blood stains right there.”
- Dominant Male Monkey
- “I only came here to do two things, kick some a$$ and drink some beer.”
- “Have you been drinking?”
- “Wipe that face off your head.”
- “You are an embarrassment to the game of pool…”
- “Behind every good man there is a woman…”
- “George Washington was in a cult.”
- American Bicentennial Fourth Of July Brouhaha
- “A perfect female body… But with the head of Abraham Lincoln. With the hat and the beard, everything.”
- Taking A Closer Look At A Dollar Bill
- “Maybe the 80s will be like, radical.”
- Were These Dazed And Confused Quotes Alright, Alright, Alright!?
When Dazed And Confused was first released in theaters, it didn’t really do that well. In fact, it flopped hard, barely managing to scrape together enough money to cover its production costs. But just like the movie Office Space, the film found an audience after being released on home video.
In the years that followed, the film achieved cult classic status and the(Amazon link) Dazed And Confused soundtrack ($9 via Amazon) even went platinum. But the movie’s success didn’t stop there. In 2006, “Dazed and Confused” earned a spot in the prestigious Criterion Collection, cementing its place in Hollywood history. It just goes to show that sometimes, a film is like a fine wine, and takes years to mature.
The Best Quotes From Dazed And Confused
Set in 1976, the movie Dazed and Confused ($3.79 via Amazon) follows a group of high school teens dealing with peer pressure, bullying, and parental demands. These kids are far from perfect – they drink, smoke, curse, and fight, and not all of them are academic stars. Their biggest dilemmas include snagging Aerosmith tickets and signing their coach’s anti-drug pledge. The film’s brilliance lies in its focus on the seemingly insignificant and mundane aspects of life – just like real life, especially in high school. It captures the essence of everyday choices, like who to hang out with or what to do on weekends.
Let’s relive some of the best Dazed And Confused quotes that’ll have you saying, “Alright, alright, alright!”
“Alright, Alright, Alright.”
- Wooderson: Alright, alright, alright.
Matthew McConaughey’s famous quote from Dazed And Confused, “All right, all right, all right” was improvised. As he explained on the Howard Stern Show, he was just taking a mental inventory of what his character had and what he needed; a car, drugs, music, and girls. He had 3 out of 4, so he said, “Alright, alright, alright.” This improvised line was also the first thing he ever said in his film acting career.
“That’s what I love about these high school girls…”
- Wooderson: That’s what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
“You ought to ditch the two geeks you’re in the car with now and get in with us.”
- Wooderson: Yeah, well, listen. You ought to ditch the two geeks you’re in the car with now and get in with us. But that’s all right, we’ll worry about that later. I will see you there. All right?
“Aerosmith, 2 weeks. Don’t forget.”
- Wooderson: Aerosmith, 2 weeks. Don’t forget.
- (slaps her butt)
- Cynthia: I won’t.
“Do you realize when he graduated we were like three years old?”
- Tony: (Wooderson has just driven off after hitting on Cynthia) God, that was so creepy!
- Mike: Wait, why are you smiling?
- Cynthia: (shrugs) I thought he was cute.
- Tony: Ugh, that’s disgusting!
- Mike: You thought he was cute? Do you realize when he graduated we were like three years old?
“I love those redheads!”
- Wooderson: I love those redheads!
“L-I-V-I-N.”
- Wooderson: Man, it’s the same bullsh!t they tried to pull in my day. If it ain’t that piece of paper, there’s some other choice they’re gonna try and make for you. You gotta do what Randall Pink Floyd wants to do man. Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they’re gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin’ man, L-I-V-I-N.
These are “the best years of my life”?
- Pink: All I’m saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life – remind me to kill myself.
“Got A Joint?”
- Wooderson: Say, man, you got a joint?
- Mitch: No, not on me, man.
- Wooderson: It’d be a lot cooler if you did.
Buying Aerosmith Tickets
- Pink: I may play ball next fall, but I will never sign that. Now me and my loser friends are gonna head out to buy Aerosmith tickets. Top priority of the summer.
“A serious attitude adjustment”
- Coach Conrad: You’re in need of a serious attitude adjustment, young man
“I Want To Dance!”
- Tony: So, you’re not gonna go to law school? What do you wanna do then?
- Mike: I wanna dance!
“You want her? Gotta play it cool…”
- Dawson: You know that Julie chick? Loves you. You want her? Gotta play it cool, you know. You can’t let her know how much you like ?cause if she knows, she’ll dump you like that. Believe me. Like, if she asks you if you want a ride, you say, “No, I’ve got my own ride, but maybe I’ll see you later.” Sounds stupid, doesn’t it? It works.
“…While I was stuck in this place”
- Dawson: Well, all I’m saying is that I want to look back and say that I did the best I could, while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could, while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could, while I was stuck in this place… Dogged as many girls as I could, while I was stuck in this place.
“Imagine how many people out there are…”
- Slater: Imagine how many people out there are f**kin’ right now man, just goin’ at it.”
“Whatever you like.”
- Freshman Girl: Will you marry me?
- Dawson: I don’t know. What’s in it for me?
- Freshman Girl: Anything you want?
- Dawson: Anything?
- Freshman Girl: Anything.
- Dawson: (opening his mouth wide) Go like this. Do you spit or swallow?
- Freshman Girl: Whatever you like.
- Dawson: Whatever I like? I would definitely marry you.
“Guess that makes you Deep Throat.”
- Pickford: (mockingly, to Mike and Tony) Woodward, Bernstein.
- Mike: Guess that makes you Deep Throat.
“If we are all gonna die anyway shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now?”
- Cynthia: God, don’t you ever feel like everything we do and everything we’ve been taught is just to service the future?
- Tony: Yeah I know, like it’s all preparation.
- Cynthia: Right. But what are we preparing ourselves for?
- Mike: Death.
- Tony: Life of the party.
- Mike: It’s true.
- Cynthia: You know, but that’s valid because if we are all gonna die anyway shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I’d like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
“You’re dead, man, you’re so dead. Look at the blood stains right there.”
- Slater: This place used to be off limits, man, ’cause some drunk freshman fell off. He went right down the middle, smacking his head on every beam, man. I hear it doesn’t hurt after the first couple though. Autopsy said he had one beer, how many did you have?
- Mitch: Four.
- Slater: You’re dead, man, you’re so dead. Look at the blood stains right there.
Dominant Male Monkey
- Mike: Don’t air raid for that b!tch, I hate that sh!t. It’s like that Clint f**ker in front of all his friends. Huh? Huh mother f**ker.
- Tony: Okay Mike.
- Mike: Dominant male monkey mother f**ker.
“I only came here to do two things, kick some a$$ and drink some beer.”
- Clint: I only came here to do two things, kick some a$$ and drink some beer.
- (glances over his shoulder)
- Clint: Looks like we’re almost outta beer.
“Have you been drinking?”
- Mitch’s Mother: Have you been drinking?
- Mitch: No
- (falls on bed and can’t even take off both boots)
- Mitch’s Mother: Are you drunk?
- Mitch: (clearly drunk) Psshh
“Wipe that face off your head.”
- Darla: What are you looking at? Wipe that face off your head, b!tch.
“You are an embarrassment to the game of pool…”
- O’Bannion: You are an embarrassment to the game of pool and should be glad I even let you play at my table.
“Behind every good man there is a woman…”
- Slater: Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington, man, and every day George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man, when he came in the door, man, she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.
“George Washington was in a cult.”
- Slater: George Washington was in a cult, and the cult was into aliens, man.
American Bicentennial Fourth Of July Brouhaha
- Ms. Ginny Stroud: Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you’re being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don’t forget what you’re celebrating, and that’s the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn’t want to pay their taxes.
“A perfect female body… But with the head of Abraham Lincoln. With the hat and the beard, everything.”
- Tony: (describing his dream) So there I am, getting it on with this perfect female body and…
- Mike: What?
- Tony: I can’t say.
- Mike: No, you can’t give a build-up like that and not deliver. You know, a perfect female body, it’s not a bad start.
- Tony: But with the head of Abraham Lincoln. With the hat and the beard, everything.
Taking A Closer Look At A Dollar Bill
- Slater: Did ya ever look at a dollar bill, man? There’s some spooky sh!t goin’ on there. And it’s green too.
“Maybe the 80s will be like, radical.”
- Cynthia: I call it the “every other decade” theory. The 50’s were boring. The 60’s rocked. The 70’s, my god, they obviously suck. So maybe the 80s will be like, radical. I figure we’ll be in our 20’s and hey, it can’t get any worse.
Were These Dazed And Confused Quotes Alright, Alright, Alright!?
There you have it! These Dazed And Confused movie quotes are sure to bring back some awesome memories, or maybe even inspire you to have a good time with your friends. So, whenever life gets a bit confusing, remember to channel your inner Wooderson and keep on l-i-v-i-n’, man!
There are so many funny Dazed And Confused quotes that it’s hard to narrow them all down to a shorter list. If we missed any of your favorites, then please let us know in the comments. Catch you on the flip side!
Frank Wilson is a retired teacher with over 30 years of combined experience in the education, small business technology, and real estate business. He now blogs as a hobby and spends most days tinkering with old computers. Wilson is passionate about tech, enjoys fishing, and loves drinking beer.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.