Quotes (DNA)

This section highlights some of the key quotes from the play DNA by Dennis Kelly.

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."