The 10 Best Quotes From ‘Bottoms’

Bottoms bravely asks: How do you seduce the hot, popular girls when you’re at the bottom rung of the social ladder? This movie’s answer? You start a fight club.

Josie (Ayo Edebiri) and PJ (Rachel Sennott) are called the “ugly, untalented gays” of their school, and because of that they’re used to being overlooked by their crushes—specifically Isabel (Havana Rose Liu) and Brittany (Kaia Gerber). They decide the best way to get their attention is to start a club under the guise of teaching their female classmates self-defense to protect them from the rival school’s evil football players, unintentionally rocketing themselves to the top of the social ladder—and gaining unwanted attention from people who suspect something fishy is going on.

This film is hilarious, edgy, and unabashedly queer—and has some of the best lines of dialogue in any comedy made in the past five years. Here are our absolute favorite quotes from Bottoms:

1.

Josie (Ayo Edebiri):  That’s the only hope for me, it’s me and Matthieu, man. And ’cause he’s gay and fearless, he’s probably gonna f*ck me without protection, then I’m gonna get pregnant. We’re gonna have to join a church, he’ll be the gay pastor. My whole life’s fu*ked! And yeah, sure, his sermons are good, but everybody knows he’s fruity, everybody knows he’s f*ckin’ fruity! By the way, our son, Hezekiah, hates us, ’cause he knows we’re both closeted, but we try to make it work for him, but he’s not happy. And yeah, guess what? The deacon’s f*cking the evangelist, man! He’s f*cking the evangelist! I don’t wanna live like that. Will you come and visit us on Sundays?

2.

Isabel (Havana Rose Liu): I really value when people use violence and raise their voices for me. It’s actually one of my love languages.

3.

Josie (Ayo Edebiri): You don’t care about feminism. Your favorite show is Entourage.

4.

Jeff (Nicholas Galitzine): I’m helping her with her taxes.

Hazel (Ruby Cruz): Aren’t you in eighth grade algebra?

Jeff: I can’t answer that question because I don’t know how to read.

Isabel (Havana Rose Liu): She’s asking you to your face.

5.

Josie (Ayo Edebiri): Juvie was insane. Once, a girl tried to kill me with rat poison, so I took her outside and I punched her ’til she died.

6.

Josie (Ayo Edebiri): That’s my favorite way to be an ally. You just say you’re doing something, and then you don’t do any of those things, you know what I mean? You say, “I support women.” You don’t.

7.

Isabel (Havana Rose Liu): Are you cheating on me again?

Jeff (Nicholas Galitzine): Baby, no. No! Why would I do—That was one time… with your sister. That was one… two… four times. No, I would never cheat on you again!

8.

PJ (Rachel Sennott): Yeah, Hazel, let’s do terrorism.

9.

Principal Meyers (Wayne Pêre): Shut up, you know why you’re here.

PJ (Rachel Sennott): I don’t, actually.

Principal Meyers: For committing a crime against Jeff, our quarterback and the most good-looking, red-blooded, muscular man this town has ever seen. 

Josie (Ayo Edebiri): Sir, please look in the mirror.

10.

Jeff (Nicholas Galitzine): Don’t talk to me you ugly b*tch, okay? I do not talk to girls in overalls.

Josie (Ayo Edebiri): Okay, I might be ugly, but these are not overalls!

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