Rent Quotes

Mimi: They call me... they call me... Mimi.

Movie: Rent
Roger Davis: Find one song, one last refrain, glory, from the pretty boy front man... who wasted opportunity... One song - he had the world at his feet - glory, in the eyes of a young girl... a young girl... Find glory beyond the cheap, colored lights, one song before the sun sets - glory on another empty life, time flies... time dies.

Movie: Rent
Gordon: I'm a New Yorker. Fear's my life.

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Mark: ...and then there was the time he walked up to this group of tourists and they were petrified because A they were obviously lost, and B had probably never spoken to a drag queen before in their lives... and he... she just offered to escort them out of Alphabet City... and then she let them take a picture with her and then she said she'd help 'em find the Circle Line...

Movie: Rent
Mark: How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day? Headlines, breadlines blow my mind, and now this deadline - eviction or pay... rent!
Roger: How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong, though they once sounded right and rare? When the notes are sour, where is the power you once had to ignite the air?
Mark: We're hungry and frozen...
Roger: Some life that we've chosen!
Mark, Roger: How we gonna pay, how we gonna pay, how we gonna pay... last year's rent!

Movie: Rent
[from trailer]
Monica Garcia: What about school, your plans, the chart, everything?

Movie: Rent