.::Quotes::.
.::Band::.
‘Thank you for buying/stealing/borrowing this record.’ -In GC’s debut album
.::Benji::.
‘I’m going to go walk … into traffic.’
‘Hold up, we were just singing about how poor we are and his cell phone rings!’
‘Benjiness- I have my own adjective!’
“I’m going to relish in all my ‘Benjiness’!”
‘Hold on, you can make fun of me when I finish making my point!’
‘Mother says I need to try and look more respectable’
‘This is the get better sign’
‘We rented a car while here at the studio and I already put a huge scratch on the side’
‘I’m the self-proclaimed leader of the band. Self-proclaimed!’
"Keep representin' GC 'cause you know we're representin' you." - Benji
"Benji is life...all the rest is just details... Life is Benji"
"You know who else likes making out? Sum 41. I know first-hand... Or my friend does..."
"Getting beat." - Benji on his best childhood memory
"Have we ever murdered a boy band? YES! There was a band called P-Town, and we shot them!"
"I knew that all this would happen. From the day we started the band I knew--not in a cocky way, but it was just a feeling. A very comforting feeling. So it was exciting when it happened and it was, like, amazing, and it was really crazy, but it wasn't unexpected."
"Uh, my name’s Benji... I grew up in Waldorf. Single white male. Enjoys long walks on the beach. In search of someone sensitive and caring for conversation, friendship, possible serious relationship, coffee, or a good book."
Interviewer: Can you dance?
Benji: I can freak.
"Hey, guys, I have some bad news for you. We were backing out of the parking lot and I think we ran over Lil Bow Wow. Sorry, our bad!"
Interviewer: Would you ever consider turning in your instruments to learn choreography and become a boy band?
Benji: Umm... after you shot me in the head.
"When I meet girls I like, I throw up on them!"
"That's funny, we were just talking about sex!"
"This is a sweet song, it's for the guys of MxPx. 'Cause one night, I was having a real tough night. One of the guys from MxPx invited me on his bus. He helped me out a lot, yeah, he held me all night long."
"Yeah, on our day off we went to Disney for our first time and Joel was like a little kid. He was like 'Come on guys we have to hurry to Space Mountain!' And this morning when I walked in the bathroom, I swear I heard him singing 'When You Wish Upon A Star.'" - Benji
"I have a confession to make: I love making out. It's fun and innocent. And besides, you can't get pregnant from making out."
"Joel, your gloves SUCK!" - Benji
"I'm gonna go... walk... into traffic."
"This is the makeout song. Although you should ask the person first, 'cause I've had some troubles with that before." - Benji (during Seasons)
"I haven't taken a shower in 4 days, I guess that makes me more punk."
"I always got caught. One time, I actually got spanked for something Joel did." - Benji
"Hold on, you can make fun of me when I’m done making my point."
"I fell off the stage and all my clothes fell off! And I wet my pants... but they fell off, so I couldn't wet them, so it must have been the kid standing next me."
"If I wasn't in the band, I'd be in jail." - Benji
"Because I care, because I love you. Because it's a must. Because, BECAUSE YOU NEED CLEAN SOCKS!" - Benji (to Joel)
"Hooked on Phonics worked for me!" - Benji
"One time we went around the neighborhood and stuck all the mailbox flags up! Or, or there was this one time we drove up to fast food places, ordered tons of food, paid for it, then drove off before we got it." - Benji
Interviewer: Benji, with all your piercings, have you gotten your 'Prince Albert' done?
Benji: (laughs)... Who is Prince Albert?
Little Kid: Hey Benji, will you sign my report card?
Benji: (looks around trying not to laugh) Wow, that's really good.
"I am thinking about getting a job here." - Benji (about Wet Seal)
"When we do fight it's not about things we think we'd fight about like, music. It's about like, I'll wear Joel socks and he'd be like, *Benji imitating Joel* Dude…dude… I told you not to wear my socks, dude… You know I like my socks… Benj!…Dude…Oh are those my boxers too?…Dude ohhh… Ohh do you have to go there…Dude… Dude! Then we're like in the studio in this really important part of the song and I'll be like 'what do you think we should do?' I don't care… are those my boxers? Dude!"
"They used to call him Joely Moley"
"Me fail english? That's unpossible!!"
"C'mon everyone, put your hands in the air and sway them back and forth. Let's get a big hippie, we are the world thing going on"
"Look!!...There's Joel!...There's the other one!"
"Avril's not as bad as everyone thinks, I should know- I met her."
"We don't really consider ourselves a punk rock band. Punk rock is supposed to be anti-clique, but these days, even punk rock has gotten cliquey"
"Christina Aguilera tried to make out with me...and i shut her down!" - Benji immitating Joel
"We stole all of Paul's clothes and made him play naked"
"We're all gonna run around naked and make animal noises"
"If I wasn't in the band I'd be in jail."
"My last name is rock n' roll...actually my last name is scum (get it benji scum, if you dont say it really slow)"
"I have a confession to make: I love making out. it's fun and innocent. And besides, you can't get pregnant from making out."
"One egg, one sperm, two babies."
"Yea we got kicked out of Limp Bizkit...yeah who's laughing now?? huh??"
"Bonjour biatch!" ...."Au revoir biatch!"
"We're gonna start things off with Joel's favorite song "Hero" from Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott"
"Whenever we get back we have more videos for you including The Strokes, Sevendust, and Joel and I are gonna have a fist fight"
"For a complete list of tour dates, go on Mtv.com but wait till we go to a commercial or Joel starts talking, cause he goes on"
"Does it piss you off...? That men are better than women!?"
"This is my show. Im Benji, this is my little helper Joel."
"It must be real tough to be a punk rocker in Wisconsin, you get chased by rednecks and stuff."
"Punk Rockers Have Feelings Too!"
Benji: "Everyone say Happy Birthday to Angry Dave!"
Crowd: "Happy Birthday Angry Dave!"
Benji: "Yeah, It's our friends birthday so this song goes out to him" (Said before "The Motivation Proclamation" during the show in Milwaukee on July 24, 2002.)
"My ass smells like Joel."
"One time, I ripped Joel's nipples off!...One time I pierced Paul's butt cheeks together."
"I got all the hos."
"Uh, my name's Benji. I grew up in Waldorf. Single white male. Enjoys long walks on the beach, In search of someone sensitive and caring for conversation, friendship, possible serious relationship, coffee or a good book."
Benji: "If you don't shut up, I'm gonna... suck your balls!"
.::Joel::.
"Keep representin' GC 'cause you know we're representin' you." - all of em!
"He's like a little brother to us all. We like to pick on him, all of us, you know, like brothers do." -Joel on Billy
"If i were in that pit, i'd be making out with every one of you!" - Joel
"Yeah and your teeth are clenched together and you're like, 'It's cool, man. I'm fine.'" - Joel (on getting painful tatoos)
"I love all women!" - Joel
"Ohhh, the scalp massage. It's good. It's a good five minutes on the crown area. It's great." - Joel
"Benji's the evil twin." - Joel
"You can call him Benjamin... That's what Mama calls him." - Joel
"It's by ourself and it's titled by us." - Joel
"We're just like Ying and Yang, me and him, like night and day sometimes." - Joel (on Benji)
"This is a really intimate gathering... (pause, something flys up on stage) ...So intimate in fact, that someone just threw their bra up on stage!" - Joel
"So I wanna see all of you making out during this song." - Joel
Fan: Dude, your brother's an ass.
Joel: Hey, if you're going to diss my brother then I'm out of here... [leaves]
"I gotta go brush my teeth!" - Joel
"We got Paul over here sportin' the Ravens. And we got Billy over here rockin' 'Nightmare Before Christmas.'" - Joel
"I would have sex with Britney and make out with Christina, 'cause you know she's gonna have drama the next day." - Joel
"That's because there is no beer or ladies waiting!" - Joel
"The shit really hit the fan!" - Joel
"Let me finish singing this song about how poor I was, and then I'll get back to you!" - Joel
"Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be." - Joel
"You just cursed on the radio!" - Joel
"He put Bengay on my nuts!" - Joel
"People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy." - Joel
"Yes, I am pimpin' this coat, thank you very much." - Joel
"I was in Menudo." - Joel
"I would never sign to a label called Death Row."
"Benji had definitely been called a freak. I mean, I've been called a freak, too, but he's definitely more freaker than I am." - Joel
"Go back to the circus, FREAK!!" - Joel
"And then there was this, there was this one time that we ran around and knocked on everyone's door then ran"
"In 10th grade, I kissed your girlfriend. But don't worry, I didn't like it. She used too much tongue." - Joel
"Now you have something for all your hamsters to play with!" - Joel (in response to the stuffed hamster we gave Billy)
"That's 'skater' with an ate! and 'boy' with a y! Like totally!!
"Is that you, Santa?"
Girl: Joel! Take your shirt off!
Joel: You take off yours!
"They think I'm funny, Mom!" - Joel
"You were the one who gave me those boxers? I wondered where they came from, I wear those! Although, I'm not a big fan of flannel, it gets a little hot down there, if you know what I mean..." - Joel
"These are...nice socks..." - Joel (while at Wet Seal)
"Walking all along the...grass, ya told me...AH! ya'll I forgot the words!"
"Just because of what I said about Avril, some of our fans have turned their backs on her. And I don't think that's fair- for her."
"I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was"
"Just stay true to yourself and true to wut you believe"
"Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams"
"Like... dude.."
"You can only start a boyband if you kill one of the ones already out there."
"I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we dont even know, and make music and whatever"
"Alright now, for this next song I want to see everyone jumping up and down!.Especially all you pretty girls right there"
"I'd do anything for him" -Joel talking about Benji
"I think Benji is a little bit more outgoing and in your face. I'm a little more reserved ans quiet and conservative in some ways. Benj is wild, you never know wut to expect out of him. He's out of control sometimes, and that's the way he is and I love him for it. I wouldn't change one thing about him. We're just like Ying and Yang, me and him, like night and day, sometimes. He's really outspoken and he say wut he thinks right away. He gots strong opinions and he's very hard core about being um...he's not straight-edged, like he doesn't call himself straight-edged but he is just very extreme, whatever he does is extreme and i'm not quite much like that" - Joel, describing how him and Benj are different
"I think the terrorists are just idiots."