Quotes (DNA)

Key quotes from Dennis Kelly’s gripping play, DNA, specially selected for GCSE students. Here, you’ll find insightful quotations and succinct analysis to help you ace your exams, deepen your understanding of the text, and impress your teachers. Dive into the complexities of Kelly’s drama and discover the essential lines that bring DNA’s themes and characters to life.

Mark:  "We were having a laugh, weren’t we…"

Mark: "Oh yeah, Adam he was laughing harder than anyone."

Mark:" …so we were sort of, well, alright, taking the piss, sort of. You know what he’s like he was, sort of hanging around"

Jan: "Trying to be part of"

Mark: "Yeah, trying to be part of, yeah, yeah…He’ll do anything to be part of the group."

Jan: "Are we going to be in trouble"

Phil: "If you go now and say nothing to no one about this, you won’t be in trouble."

Leah: “Chimps are evil.  They murder each other…they kill and sometimes torture each other to find a better position within the social structure”

Leah: "It’s Adam, Phil, Adam!  We used to go to his birthday parties, he used to have that cheap ice cream and we used to take the piss, remember?" 

Phil: "I’m in charge.  Everyone is happier.  What’s more important; one person or everyone?"

Phil: "Everything is going to be fine"

John Tate to Danny: "you’re on you’re own side, which is, well, to be honest, very silly and dangerous"

John Tate to Brian: "you crying piece of filth"

John Tate: “Alright.  New rule; that word is banned”

John Tate: “and if anyone says it I’m going to have to, you know, bite their face.  Or something”

John Tate: “I’m finding this all quite stressful”

John Tate: “exactly, exactly, that’s what I’m saying – Richard, you’re scared of, are you…? I mean you walk down the corridor in this p I don’t think Richard’s – any corridor….”

Cathy: "They might even give me money for it, do you think I should ask for money?"

Cathy: "We showed…initiative.  We-"

Leah: "Who told you to do that?"

Cathy: "Richard, we showed initiative."

John Tate to Danny: "Don’t tell Cathy to shut up"

Phil: (to Cathy): "Do you understand?"

Leah: "Understand what?"

Cathy: "Yeah, I do."

Richard: "Cathy doesn’t care. She’s too busy running things…She’s insane.  She cut off a first year’s finger, that’s what they say anyway."

Cathy: "It was great"

Richard: "It was shit"

Cathy: "Richard, we showed initiative"

Richard: "That is the most stupid-"

Richard: "Why don’t you pop down the station and say, ‘excuse me, but the fat postman with the bad teeth doesn’t actually exist, so why don’t you let him go."

Phil: "Richard’ll take you"

Richard: "Not me again"

Phil: "Richard’ll take you"

Lou:" Because he saw him in the woods"

Leah: "He didn’t"

Lou: "He did he-"

Richard: "Dangerous game.  I feel sorry for her."