Joey: Mr. Morgan, is there any chance we could get Kat to take her Midol before she comes to class?
Mr. Morgan: Someday, you gonna get bitch-slapped and I’m not gonna do a thing to stop it.

Ms. Perky: So, I hear you were terrorizing Mr. Morgan’s class… again.
Kat: Expressing my opinion is not a terrorist action.
Ms. Perky: The way you expressed your opinion to Bobby Ridgeway? By the way, his testicle retrieval operation went quite well, in case you’re interested.
Kat: I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.

Patrick: So what’s your excuse?
Kat: For?
Patrick: Acting the way we do.
Kat: I don’t like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to other people’s expectations instead of my own?
Patrick: So you disappoint them from the start, and then you’re covered, right?
Kat: Something like that
Patrick: Then you screwed up!
Kat: How?
Patrick: You never disappointed me.

Walter: Hello, Katarina. Make anyone cry today?
Kat: Sadly, no. But it’s only 4:30.

Cameron: Just ’cause you’re beautiful, that doesn’t mean that you can treat people like they don’t matter.

Kat: I guess in this society, being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time.

Kat: We’re going now.
Walter: Alright, wait a minute. No drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos, no piercings, no ritual animal slaughters of any kind. Oh, God, I’m giving them ideas.

Patrick: Someone still has her panties in a twist.
Kat: Don’t, for one minute, think that you had any effect whatsoever on my panties.
Patrick: Then what did I have an effect on?
Kat: Other than my upchuck reflex, nothing.

Patrick: Some asshole paid me to take out this really great girl.
Kat: Is that right?
Patrick: Yeah, but I screwed up. I, um, I fell for her.

• A modernized adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
• Heath Ledger’s first American movie.
• Heath Ledger improvised playing with fire in class.
• Other actors considered for the role of Patrick were Josh Hartnett and Ashton Kutcher.
• In the original script, Kat’s friend Mandella frequently referred to various suicide attempts in an attempt to “join William Shakespeare”.
• Larisa Oleynik and Joseph Gordon-Levitt also played love interests in 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996).
• The original song Patrick sang to Kat was “I Think I Love You” by The Partridge Family, but it was changed after the song was used in Scream 2 (1997).
• Kate Hudson and Katie Holmes were in the running for the role of Kat. Hudson turned down the role because her mother, Goldie Hawn, did not like the script.