DNA - Dennis Kelly Quotes

Danny

You need three references.

Mark

We were having a laugh, weren't we...

Richard

You shouldn't threaten me, John.

Cathy

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

John Tate

You crying piece of filth.

John Tate

You're on your own side, which is, well, to be honest, very silly and dangerous.

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?

Leah

You need me as much as...

Phil

I'm in charge. Everyone is happier. What's more important, one person or everyone?

Mark

Oh yeah, Adam was laughing harder than anyone.

Brian

Shall we eat the Earth? I wonder what earth tastes like.

Lou

We're screwed

Lou

He did, he-

Jan

Are we going to be in trouble?

Cathy turns sadistic

She cut off a first year's finger, that's what they say anyway.

Leah

If you can change one thing, you can change the world.

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

Do you think we're doomed to behave like people before us did?

Cathy turns sadistic

She loves violence now

Cathy

...better than ordinary life

Richard about Brian

...on stronger and stronger medication

about John Tate

'lost it' and 'found God'

Danny

I can't get mixed up in this. I'm gonna be a dentist.

John Tate

Alright, new rule. That word is banned. [...] and if anyone says it I'm going to have to, you know, bite their face. Or something.

Mark

Oh, he was terrified, he was completely, but like you know, pretending, you know...

Leah

A chimp'll just find itself on the outside of the group and before he knows it's happening it's being hounded to death by the others, sometimes for months.

Brian

I think we should tell someone

Leah

Phil? Any... any thoughts? Any words, any comments, any... ideas, any, any, any...thing? At all?

Danny

Well, there's the teeth as well.

Phil

You'll land on Adam's corpse and you'll rot together

Brian

I can't go in there, don't make me go in there...

Mark

Cathy found him in the woods.

Adam

...a new me.

Leah

Did you know that they've put Brian on medication?

Richard

How do you think they're living, Phil?
How do you think they're living?

Richard

Dangerous game. I feel sorry for Lou.

Richard

'wasn't it good when Phil was running the show?'

Stage Direction

PHIL goes back to staring at nothing.