10 Things I Hate About You is one of the most beloved romcoms of our time—not only is it sweet and romantic, but it’s also incredibly funny and quotable. So it’s no surprise that in the era of musical remakes, this ’90s classic is about to get the theater makeover, thanks to Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepson (yes, you read that right).
Can a theater reproduction really compare to the iconic film, especially when the cast (including Julia Stiles, Allison Janney, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the late Heath Ledger) is just about perfect? I guess we’ll find out. But if it’s going to be successful, it has to preserve some of the original movie’s clever and heart-stopping dialogue—here’s some of our absolute favorites:
1.
Walter Stratford (Larry Miller): Hello, Katarina. Make anyone cry today?
Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles): Sadly, no. But it’s only 4:30.
2.
Ms. Perky (Allison Janney): People perceive you as somewhat…
Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles): Tempestuous?
Ms. Perky: “Heinous b*tch” is the term used most often.
3.
Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik): You know, there’s a difference between like and love. I like my Sketchers, but I love my Prada backpack.
Chastity (Gabrielle Union): But I love my Sketchers.
Bianca: That’s because you don’t have a Prada backpack.
4.
Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles): I don’t like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to other people’s expectations instead of my own?
Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger): So you disappoint them from the start and then you’re covered, right?
Kat Stratford: Something like that.
Patrick: Then you screwed up.
Kat Stratford: How?
Patrick: You never disappointed me.
5.
“Am I that transparent? I want you, I need you, oh baby, oh baby.” — Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles)
6.
Ms. Perky (Allison Janney): Patrick Verona. I see we’re making our visits a weekly ritual.
Patrick Verona (Health Ledger): Only so we can have these moments together. Should I, uh, hit the lights?
Ms. Perky: Oh, very clever, kangaroo boy. Says here you exposed yourself in the cafeteria?
Patrick: I was joking with the lunch lady. It was a bratwurst.
Ms. Perky: Bratwurst? Aren’t we the optimist?
7.
Chastity (Gabrielle Union): I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?
Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik): I think you can in Europe.
8.
Joey (Andrew Keegan): Mr. Morgan, is there any chance we could get Kat to take her Midol *before* she comes to class?
Mr. Morgan (Daryl Mitchell): Someday, you gonna get b*tch-slapped and I’m not gonna do a thing to stop it.
9.
Michael (David Krumholz): Sweet love, renew thy force.
Patrick Verona (Health Ledger): Hey! Don’t say sh*t like that to me. People can hear you.
10.
Ms. Perky (Allison Janney): So, I hear you were terrorizing Mr. Morgan’s class… again.
Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles): Expressing my opinion is not a terrorist action.
Ms. Perky: The way you expressed your opinion to Bobby Ridgeway? By the way, his t*sticle retrieval operation went quite well, in case you’re interested.
Kat Stratford: I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.
11.
“Who needs affection when I have blind hatred?” — Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger)
12.
Michael (David Krumholtz): Excuse me, uh, just one question before we start. Should you be drinking alcohol when you don’t have a liver?
Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger): What?
Michael: Nothing. Nothing.
13.
Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles): Whoops!
Walter Stratford (Larry Miller): Whoops? My insurance does not cover PMS!
Kat: Well, then tell them I had a seizure.
14.
Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles): We’re going now.
Walter Stratford (Larry Miller): Alright, wait a minute. No drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos, no piercings, no ritual animal slaughters of any kind. Oh, God, I’m giving them ideas.
15.
Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt): She never wanted me. She wanted Joey the whole time.
Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger): Cameron, do you like the girl?
Cameron: Yeah.
Patrick: Yeah, and is she worth all this trouble?
Cameron: Well, I thought she was, but you know, I…
Patrick: Well, she is or she isn’t. See first of all, Joey is not half the man you are. Secondly, don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want. Go for it.
16.
“I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you’re always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you’re not around, and the fact that you didn’t call. But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.” — Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles)
17.
“Just ’cause you’re beautiful, that doesn’t mean that you can treat people like they don’t matter.” — Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
18.
“It’s not every day you find a girl who’ll flash someone to get you out of detention.” — Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger)
19.
Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger): Some assh*le paid me to take out this really great girl.
Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles): Is that right?
Patrick: Yeah, but I screwed up. I, um, I fell for her.
20.
Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles): You can’t just buy me a guitar every time you screw up, you know?
Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger): Yeah, I know. But then, you know, there’s always drums, and bass, and maybe even one day a tambourine.