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Netflix’s Best Moxie Movie Quotes

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Starring: Hadley Robinson, Amy Poehler, Alycia Pascual-Pena, Nico Hiraga, Josephine Langford, Lauren Tsai, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Ike Barinholtz, Marcia Gay Harden, Clark Gregg, Sydney Park

OUR RATING: ★★½

Story:

Netflix’s comedy drama directed by Amy Poehler. The story follows shy teenager Vivian (Hadley Robinson), who prefers to keep her head down and fly under the radar. But when the arrival of a new student, Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña), forces her to examine the unchecked behavior of her fellow students running rampant at her high school, Vivian realizes she’s fed up. Inspired by her mother’s, Lisa (Amy Poehler), rebellious past, Vivian anonymously publishes an underground zine called Moxie to expose bias and wrongdoing in her high school, and unexpectedly sparks a movement.

 

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Best Quotes


 

Claudia: Did you hear, rankings are already starting?
Vivian: What? This is the first day. I mean, they haven’t even had time to like look at us yet. I mean, are they basing their decisions on summer? Because nobody even saw us this summer. Unless someone was secretly spying on us playing Mario Kart in your mom’s basement.
Claudia: Ooh, then I might get ranked Best Power Slide on Rainbow Road.


 

Vivian: It’s so nice not to be on anyone’s radar.
Claudia: Totally.


 

Claudia: It’s going to be Kiera Pascal for Best A**” again. For sure.
Vivian: It’s not fair. She’s captain of the soccer team. I mean, do they know how much running and jumping she’s doing?
Claudia: Kaitlynn Price has mastered the art of the hot selfie, and will probably take Best Rack from Olivia Day-Young.


 

Vivian: What would I do without you?
Claudia: I guess we’ll never find out.


 

Mr. Davies: Unless one of you young people fixed global warming, your summer vacations were boring and don’t matter.


 

Mitchell Wilson: I was helping this new freshman girl find her way to class, and she was deeply lost.
Mr. Davies: Chivalry might not be dead, but you will be if you’re late to my class again. Sit down.
Mitchell Wilson: So I shouldn’t help people?


 

Lucy: Can I help you?
Mitchell Wilson: I don’t know. Can you?


 

Mr. Davies: [referring The Great Gatsby] Well, Lucy, since you did the summer reading, I’m going to ask you the first question we apparently have to ask about every work of art now, no matter what it’s about, or what time period it was created. How are women portrayed?
Lucy: Well, I think the real question is, why are we still reading this book? It’s written by some rich white guy, about some rich white guy. And I guess we’re supposed to feel bad for him because he’s obsessed with the only girl he can’t have? I mean, if the point is to learn about the American dream, we should be reading about immigrants, or the working class, or Black mothers, or at least someone who doesn’t have a mansion.


 

Mitchell Wilson: People have read and have loved The Great Gatsby forever. I mean, there must be something that makes it so we read it every year at our own school.
Mr. Davies: Spoken like a true Nick Carraway. Do you know who Nick Carraway is? He was played by Tobey Maguire in the movie.


 

Lisa: Okay, first day of school. I know everything is lame and boring, but just tell me one thing.
Vivian: I don’t know, mom. I had math.
Lisa: What did you learn today? What kind of person were you? What made you smile? What were some of your biggest challenges?
Vivian: This conversation?


 

Lisa: You know, you used to be a little person who did what I said.
Vivian: I don’t remember any of that.


 

Lisa: You know, sometimes I think about the fact that Mitchell Wilson is going to breed, and his offspring will be tall, handsome a**holes, and it makes me very, very sad.
Vivian: You’re so dramatic, mom.


 

Vivian: Mom, milk is bad. People aren’t supposed to drink milk anymore.
Lisa: Whose child are you? You can’t take my milk away from me.


 

Vivian: Have you ever noticed that Seth Acosta is like nice to everyone?
Claudia: Seth the Shrimp?
Vivian: Oh, he’s not a shrimp anymore. He grew like a foot over the summer.


 

Claudia: Oh, my God. You want to bang Seth the Shrimp.
Vivian: Sure hope my first time isn’t banging.
Claudia: You love him. You want to have fifteen of his babies.


 

Lucy: [referring to Mitchell] He’s harassing me.
Principal Shelly: Ooh. There’s that word. If you use that word, that means I have to do a bunch of stuff. But if he’s bothering you, and that’s what it sounds like to me, then we can actually have a conversation. Lucy, I am aware that outside these walls the world is experiencing a tornado. And that, in response, young people, especially girls, are expressing their discontent about everything in every direction. But we have to be clear about things before we move forward.


 

Lucy: [referring to Mitchell] He’s dangerous.
Vivian: I don’t think he’s dangerous. I think he’s just annoying.
Lucy: You know that annoying can be more than just annoying, right? Like it can be code for worse stuff.
Vivian: If you keep your head down, he’ll move on and bother somebody else.
Lucy: Thanks for the advice. But I’m going to keep my head up, high.


 

Lisa: Traffic was horrible. I let three people merge, and not one wave. It’s a heartless town we live in.


 

Vivian: Hey, mom, what do sixteen year-olds care about?
Lisa: Oh, I don’t know. I mean, when I was sixteen, all I cared about was smashing the patriarchy, and burning it all down.
Vivian: Well, I can’t put that on my application.


 

Vivian: [finding her Lisa’s old leaflets] “Because we don’t want to assimilate to someone else’s voice, standards of what is or isn’t. Because I believe with my whole heart, mind, body that girls constitute a revolutionary soul force that can and will change the world for real.”


 

Mr. Davies: Grab a pom-pom. There you go. These are choking hazards, so wave carefully.


 

Principal Shelly: [referring to the cheer leaders] Love that. Those girls got moxie. In fact, this entire school’s got moxie, am I right? Let me hear it!
Claudia: [to Vivian] Moxie? What is she like a hundred years-old?


 

Claudia: Viv. They posted the list.
Vivian: You know that list is like pretty messed up if you think about it.
Claudia: Yeah, duh.


 

Vivian: Why have we all accepted it? Like no one even blinks.


 

Vivian: [referring to her Moxie zine] I need a s**tload of copies.
U-Copy Clerk: How many is that?
Vivian: Fifty.


 

Lucy: [to Vivian, referring to the copy of Moxie] Oh, and thanks for giving me this. I really needed a sign from the universe that there were actual humans here.

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[referring to Moxie’s suggestion of drawing hearts and stars on your hands]
Claudia: Why?
Vivian: What do you mean why?
Claudia: Well, I mean like what’s the goal?
Lucy: Revolution, baby.


 

Claudia: I just don’t really see what doodling on our hands is going to do.
Vivian: Well, it’s better than doing nothing.
Lucy: I don’t know. I’m just hyped somebody made this. Whoever did it is dope.


 

[as they see Seth with a heart and star drawn on his hand]
Lucy: That’s hot.


 

Lisa: Me and my friends were such little a**holes, we protested everything. One time someone told our friend Sarah that she smelled, and none of us showered for two weeks. Yeah.
Vivian: But how do you know what to do? Like how to protest something?
Lisa: We didn’t. You know, we made a ton of mistakes. We argued with each other. We weren’t intersectional enough. We called our meetings powwows.


 

Vivian: But you’re glad you did it all, right?
Lisa: Of course. What are you going to do? Nothing?


 

Vivian: [referring to Lucy] I mean, we’re so different.
Lisa: Well, you know, sometimes you meet someone different and you just kind of click. Like that guy John that we saw at the supermarket. I don’t know. I mean, we don’t really agree on things, but we’ve been cracking each other up at work.


 

Lisa: Don’t tell me to relax. That’s very triggering for me.


 

Claudia: [whilst at a party] How do you know if you’re having fun? I think I’m having fun.
Vivian: I think you just know it when you feel it.
Claudia: Yeah, totally. Well, I’m having fun if you’re having fun.
Vivian: Yeah, I am if you are.


 

Amaya: What the hell is this room?
Kiera: I think it’s a man cave.
CJ: Yeah, I feel harassed just by being in here.


 

Kiera: Okay, so who’s Moxie?
Amaya: Yeah, who wrote it? We want the who, what, where, and why.


 

Kaitlynn: You know what’s messed up? I got sent home for wearing a tank top. Meanwhile, Jason is like constantly shirtless.


 

CJ: Okay, you know what’s really messed up? People refuse to call me by my new name.
Claudia: Even teachers?
CJ: Yeah, sometimes. And I want to audition for Little Shop of Horrors as Audrey, and everyone’s freaking out about it. And I would crush Suddenly Seymour.


 

Kiera: You know what’s also messed up? I don’t like being voted Best A**.
Claudia: You don’t like it? Why?
Amaya: Because, historically, Black women have been judged by their a**es and their hair, and we are done with that.
Lucy: Period.


 

Kaitlynn: [referring to the playing cards] Know what I just realized? The king is worth more than the queen. Why? The queen is the best. Okay, the queen can have children. Look at this king. He looks like an a**hole.


 

Amaya: Whoever wrote Moxie is a bada**. Definitely someone, like in their twenties for sure.
Kaitlynn: I feel like they have tattoos.
Claudia: I think whoever did it knows the school. Who do you think did it, Vivian?
Vivian: I don’t know. I just found it and picked it up like everybody else. But I’m really glad I did, because now we’re here.


 

Seth: [referring to the zine] You’re the one who made these?
Vivian: Please don’t tell anyone.
Seth: Okay, yeah. I mean, only because secret identities are objectively rad.


 

Seth: Hey, Vivian. Is it weird that I’m not surprised? Back in kindergarten, you always wanted to take the spiders outside when everyone else wanted to smash them. You remember that?
Vivian: No.
Seth: I do.


 

Lucy: What’s Claudia’s deal? You guys are really different.
Vivian: Really? We’re both INTJs on the Myers-Briggs test. It’s a personality test. We’re both introverts. The first time I slept over, we took the test, and then made T-shirts that said, “Don’t talk to me, I’m an INTJ.” Yeah, Claudia’s basically my family. We do everything together.


 

Lucy: Well, I know one person that will be very happy to see you in a tank top.
[Vivian looks confused]
Lucy: Hands? The dude who did the hearts and stars all over his hands.
Vivian: Oh, Seth.


 

Lucy: [pulls out a business jacket] What kind of woman am I?
Vivian: A professional ball buster, who doesn’t take no for an answer.
Lucy: Okay, I like it.
Vivian: [pulls out a sweatshirt] Okay. Now me. Now me.
Lucy: You’re a mom, with postpartum depression, but you’re having an affair with your son’s SAT tutor.


 

Mr. Davies: I have no comment, because this seems like a women’s issue, and I’m going to respectfully just stay out of it.
Kaitlynn: Seriously? Gosh, that’s so convenient for you. You get to just say this is “a women’s issue”, so you don’t ever actually have to do anything. Right.
Mr. Davies: That’s fair. I could do more. I’m noticing someone filming right now, and I’m going to humbly ask maybe that you turn the phone off because, not because I’m hiding anything!


 

Kaitlynn: If you’re doing nothing, then you’re part of the problem. So where do you stand with these tank tops, huh?
Mr. Davies: Where am I going to stand? I obviously am going to stand on the side of equality, and freedom for all, and diversity. And to come together as both sides, the male and the female, the alpha and the omega, guy and gal. I have to go to the bathroom so bad. Hold on. I’m going to check on one thing, but you guys got it.


 

Vivian: Why don’t you care about this?
Claudia: I do. But making a big deal is just not my thing.
Vivian: Okay, then what is your thing?
Claudia: I thought my thing was you. And I thought our thing was being best friends.


 

Seth: [referring to the funeral home] So I come here to skate sometimes, and I noticed how bad security is. It’s like a joke.
Vivian: Well, if you fall and break your neck, you’re in the right spot.
Seth: Oh, that’s dark.
Vivian: You’re the one who’s bringing me here.


 

Seth: So why don’t you tell anyone that you’re the one doing it? Why the secret?
Vivian: I kind of like that I’m the only one that knows. I don’t have to talk about it, or explain it. I like that Moxie kind of just speaks for itself, you know? Or for me, I guess.
Seth: Someday, everyone’s going to know it. But I kind of like being the only one that knows right now.


 

Lisa: Who were you kissing in the driveway?
Vivian: Seth Acosta.
Lisa: Seth Acosta. Oh, was he that kid who peed his pants on that field trip to the Naval Museum?


 

Lisa: Don’t keep secrets from me. Although I know you will be safe, and smart, and use your head.
Vivian: I’m actually already pregnant. You’ve no idea what I’m capable of.
Lisa: That’s a very funny joke. Right?


 

Lucy: Anyways, so we have to get Moxie to endorse the campaign.
Amaya: I have an idea. Why don’t you text yourself?
Lucy: It’s not me, okay. I would tell you.
CJ: Well, if it was me, you all would know. There would be a giant parade.


 

Lucy: If we stick together, things are going to change.


 

Bradley: Good morning, Mermaids and Pirates.
Emma: What does that mean?
Bradley: I’m being inclusive.
Emma: What, so women can’t be Pirates?
Bradley: “Argh” you going to let me get to the announcements?
Emma: Of course. Good morning, Pirates of any and all genders.


 

[referring to the ice cream Vivian gave him to give to Lisa as a gift]
Seth: This is for you.
Lisa: Thank you. The ice cream I bought yesterday handed back to me. How sweet.


 

Lisa: Seth, where do you see yourself in ten years? And take your time.
Seth: Ten years. Well, you know, I’ll probably be skateboarding still, hopefully.
Lisa: So no plan?
Vivian: You don’t have to answer that right now.


 

Vivian: You’re really looking at me.
Seth: Is that bad?
Vivian: No.
Seth: Your heart’s beating super fast. You nervous or excited?
Vivian: Both.


 

Vivian: [as she returns home to fine Lisa with John] You sneaky Pete. You’re the one keeping secrets from me. You’re so busted. Go to your room, young lady.
Lisa: Are you drunk?
Vivian: Yeah, because why not? You know? I mean, you try, and you try, and you try, and nothing actually happens, and nothing works. So, you know what, mom? You don’t know anything about my life. And I clearly do not know anything about your life. So I think I should just do my thing and you do your thing. Welcome to the family, John.


 

Lisa: Hey, are we still mad at each other?
Vivian: You don’t need to apologize. It’s okay.
Lisa: I thought you were going to apologize to me.
Vivian: What? Why would I apologize to you?


 

Lisa: Okay, so if you’re going to be an a**hole teenager now, this is how we’re going to do it. Because you came home drunk, you have to have dinner with me and John tomorrow night.
Vivian: Is this punishment?
Lisa: Yes. It’s one of those horrible punishments, where you have to have dinner with your mother, and the first guy she’s been excited about in a long time.


 

Claudia: [after she got suspended for Moxie] My mom would literally prefer that I die of contracting bacterial meningitis than get suspended from school. Disease is at least an honorable death.


 

Claudia: Shelly’s blaming me because I’m willing to put my name down for Moxie.
Vivian: Yeah, I can’t believe you did that.
Claudia: She kept asking me who the leader was, and I said I didn’t know. Is there anything you want to say to me?
Vivian: How did you know?
Claudia: We’ve been best friends since we were four. You really think you could lead a revolt and I wouldn’t notice?


 

Claudia: Why didn’t you tell me?
Vivian: Because at first, you were being so s**tty about it.
Claudia: Yeah, because I knew it was a bad idea, and look. It was.


 

Vivian: I didn’t ask you to get involved.
Claudia: Yes, you did. You made me feel bad because I wasn’t doing enough. And you don’t get it, Viv. You don’t get what’s going on with me because you’re white.
Vivian: What?
Claudia: Do you know what my mom had to sacrifice to get to this country? What she had to do to make it so that I could go to college? I am under an insane amount of pressure. And I don’t have the freedom to take the risks that you do.


 

Claudia: I got to go. My mom is making me deep clean the rugs to atone for my sins.
Vivian: If you knew it was me, why didn’t you tell her?
Claudia: Because I’m not a coward, unlike you.


 

Vivian: You made a salad? With green things in it?
Lisa: Yes, that’s the colors that are traditionally found in a salad.
Vivian: This isn’t normal. She usually lives off frozen pizza and ice cream.


 

Vivian: Do you know that it’s going to take three hundred years to reach gender equality in the US?
John: Well, I don’t love that part.
Vivian: Okay, well, if you don’t love that part, what are you doing about it, John?


 

Vivian: I’m not like you.
Lisa: I don’t want you to be like me. I want you to be like you.
Vivian: I hate that! That’s like the suckiest thing you can say to someone. “Just be you. Just be yourself.” I mean, that is like such bulls**t mom talk.


 

Vivian: Can you just leave?
Lisa: No, this is my house. I get to stand wherever I want.
Vivian: Oh, right. Yeah, I forgot. You’re a rebel girl, and no one tells you what to do, unless it’s some lame dork who flirts with you once in a grocery store.
Lisa: Hey, you know what? You can’t talk to me like that. I’m your mother, and I’m also a person, and I get lonely, and it’s nice when someone likes me.


 

Lisa: What is falling apart?
Vivian: Nothing. Just that Claudia won’t talk to me. I might get kicked out of school. And I might have sex.
Lisa: Wait a minute. You might get kicked out of school?
Vivian: You don’t care that I might have sex?


 

Lisa: What is Moxie?
Vivian: It’s a feminist club I started.
Lisa: You started a feminist club?
Vivian: Yeah, and it’s all your fault! I mean, I only started Moxie because you made me believe that I was like strong or something. But I’m not that kind of person. And none of it is working, and no one is helping me, and I am all alone in this.


 

Vivian: Hey, are you mad at me?
Seth: You mean for yelling at me at the table, and ditching me during dinner? No, Vivian. Why would I be mad at you?
Vivian: I’m sorry. I’ve been under a lot of pressure lately.
Seth: Have you? Really? Seems like you’ve just been doing reckless s**t, and then letting other people take the blame for you while you just take cheap shots at me, your mom, and your mom’s perfectly nice boyfriend I’ve done nothing but support you. I don’t deserve to be your punching bag. Maybe you’re not who I thought you were.


 

Vivian: Speaking in front of people is my worst nightmare. I’m not brave. I’m not fierce, like some of my friends. And I do not fit the prototype of a leader in any way, but here I am anyways. I hate that we are shoved aside. That we are dismissed, ranked, assaulted. And I mean, nobody does anything about it. You know? Nobody listens to us. And that is why I walk out today. That’s why I’m standing up here, yelling at all of you. It’s why I started Moxie. And you know what? If you’re going to expel somebody, expel me. Okay? It’s me. I started Moxie. I am Moxie.


 

Claudia: Pretty good for an introvert.
Vivian: What are you doing here?
Claudia: Your mom drove me.
Vivian: Are you even allowed here?
Claudia: What are they going to do? Double suspend me?
Vivian: What would I do without you?
Claudia: I guess we’ll never find out.


 

Lisa: Are you okay?
Vivian: I think so. Thanks for inspiring me.
Lisa: Same.

 


 

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  1. Lisa says

    March 6, 2021 at 4:03 am

    They suck. Unless I missed something, you left out one of THE most important quotes of the movie.

    THIS ONE: “HEY….listen up, We’re here to celebrate the end of the mediocre white dudes choke hold on success!!!”

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