Brat Quotes

“...among a certain generation of people, the work I did as a young man will forever burn brightest... more importantly, it is the memory of the work that is so valuable to people. Because in the memory of those movies exists a touchstone of youth, of when life was all ahead, when the future was a blank slate, when anything was possible.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“My dear poor boy, the truth today is not the truth tomorrow.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“No one here knows who you were before. You are free to reinvent yourself. You”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“Sometimes things happen, we live with their result, and then occasionally, a long time distant, we try to make sense of them.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“With nowhere I could really land, I rarely relaxed.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“wanted to be successful, to excel at what I did, to be recognized for it. My self-esteem craved it, my ego welcomed the gratification, and my insecurities were at least superficially pacified. Yet by temperament I was in many ways ill-suited for such a public life, especially at a young age when I had yet to carve out who I was within myself.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“using alcohol to unlock creativity, calling it a tonic for the “tortured artist,” and even simply labeling it “a good man’s failing”—are all fallacies adopted for sensational and self-glorifying reasons to theatricalize and justify the mundane, singular, and selfish tragedy that excessive drinking creates.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“had known all evening that beneath my former schoolmate’s “Good for you” platitudes resided this resentment that epitomized his true feeling. While my wary, even suspicious nature was no doubt responsible for blocking out opportunities for friendship and intimacy, there was no denying that I also possessed a vigilant third eye that was perceptive in the ways of falsehood. During this phase and beyond, I used experiences such as my classmate’s floor spitting as proof of people’s insincerity. I used it to further isolate myself—to my own detriment. It”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“The simple reality was that I had nothing to go back to. Any structure I had loosely clung to (or resisted) had been removed.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“We didn’t right our wrongs, nor resolve our past, but simply put its burden down.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“All through this year of 1971, I had a wild crush on Dana Crawford. It was my first experience with distracting preoccupation and inexplicable longing, and I kept my feelings secret, especially from Dana.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“Everything I have, everything I became, none of it would have been possible without you. Because of you, because of what you taught me, because of the belief you showed in me, because of what you saw in me, long before I could see it myself. I owe so much to you. And I need to tell you that.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“It gave me stature while diminishing me, made me a part of something even as it isolated me, gave me a platform and limited my options.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“name is Blane? That’s a major appliance, not a name!”—his fury toward me was real and justified.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“perceptions of uniqueness that are normal in children—qualities we learn to outgrow in adulthood—began to be reinforced and validated. The”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“One moment during the making of a music video for St. Elmo’s Fire, I passed Rob’s open dressing room door. He was eating a sandwich, staring at his reflection in the mirror as he ate. “Admiring yourself, Bob?” At that instant, Joel Schumacher walked past. Overhearing my remark, he quipped, “Wouldn’t you?” No one laughed harder than Rob. For”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“The degree to which I was unable to control my energy while performing equaled the degree to which I was learning to hide my true reactions when I wasn’t.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story