Mean Girls: 25 Quotes From Regina George That Prove Shes Pure Evil

The 2004 comedy Mean Girls is chock-full of iconic quips thanks to SNL alum Tina Fey's involvement, but Northshore High's queen bee is one of the most calculating on-screen villains, and there are a variety of Regina George quotes that prove it. Mean Girls sees Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) living in America after spending most of her life in Africa. She's in for the culture shock of a lifetime as she attends an American high school and is targeted by the school's popular girls, dubbed "the Plastics" by classmates, led by ultimate mean girl Regina George (Rachel McAdams).

As Cady infiltrates the Plastics on Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damian's (Daniel Franzese) orders, she finds herself becoming just like them. While all the Mean Girls characters have their stereotypical "mean girl" moments, a number of Regina George's quotes suggest that she might actually be pure evil. Throughout Mean Girls, Regina displays a proclivity for manipulation and runs her friend group like a dictator. She's wholly obsessed with her appearance and purposefully ruins Cady's chances with Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett). There's no question that Regina is the meanest girl around with the iconic quotes to back it up.

25 "I Invented Her, You Know What I Mean?"

Regina Raging Against Cady

Mean Girls is as much about Cady's transformation into Regina George as it is about the villainy of Regina herself. However, before Cady becomes so unlikable, it is a lot of fun seeing her turn the tables on Regina and bring down her perfectly made social life. This comes to completion when Regina discovers that Cady has hosted a party and not invited her.

While it is always painful to be left out of such things during the teen years, it is hard not to see the moment as karmic justice for Regina, who is getting a taste of her own cruelty. However, instead of having this be an opportunity for self-reflection, Regina continues to put herself above everyone else. She rages that Cady has the audacity not to invite her to a party when Regina "invented her" in her mind. It is a warped way of seeing the world to insist that she has power over someone because she allowed her in Regina's inner circle.

24 "Please Stop Talking."

Regina Dismissing Her Mother

Amy Poehler has a hilarious cameo in Mean Girls as Regina's mother and her brief role adds a lot of context to how evil Regina herself is. By contrast, Regina's mother is a seemingly nice person, albeit not the greatest parent. She attempts to talk to the teenage girls as if they are peers and even insists she is alright with them drinking alcohol in the house if they want to.

Despite the obvious flaws, Regina's mother is also very sweet and seems to give Regina everything she asks for. In response, Regina is dismissive, rude, and mean to her mother, talking to her like she talks to everyone else. This helps to explain a lot about Regina's personality as she is clearly someone who is used to getting spoiled and not having to show any kindness in return.

23 "Then It's Settled, So You Can Go Shave Your Back Now."

Regina Telling Off Jason

One of the meanest Regina George quotes is directed at Jason, one of Mean Girls' best supporting characters, after he tries hitting on Cady in front of Gretchen. While Regina's statements to Jason are in defense of her friend Gretchen (Lacey Chabert), as Jason and Gretchen were somewhat involved, it's still incredibly mean to say in a cafeteria full of students. The line is clearly meant to put Jason in his place and remind him who is really in charge of the social dynamics.

She first puts Cady on the spot by asking her if she wants to have sex with Jason, and when Cady says no, Regin further humiliates Jason with this quote. He is being inappropriate, so it is deserved, but it is a good indicator of Regina's ability to humiliate her classmates publicly.

22 "My Name Is Regina George. I Am A Massive Deal."

Regina Sings Her Introduction In 2024

Following the success of the 2004 movie, Mean Girls was eventually adapted into a Broadway musical, which was then adapted into a 2024 movie. One of the early songs in the movie doesn’t just introduce Regina to Cady but to the audience. Rather than Regina simply being mean to a few classmates while Cady watches, Regina sings about how much of a big deal she is at the high school.

This particular line in the song is repeated often (and flawlessly by Renée Rapp), bringing home for the audience that it’s not just the student body that has placed Regina at the top of the social food chain. Regina knows that she essentially controls the social structure at her school. This line speaks to her massive ego, though not necessarily how evil she can be. It’s a nice introduction to the character without revealing all of the evil right away.

21 "So You Agree, You Think You're Really Pretty."

Regina Turning Cady's Words Against Her

This line is by far one of the most iconic Regina George quotes in Mean Girls, Regina uses a particular brand of double-talk and fake compliments to both hide insults and manipulate her closest friends into turning on each other. She does this many times throughout Mean Girls to break down her friends and maintain control of the Plastics, but the most memorable moment is when she flips the script on the clueless Cady during one of their first interactions.

After complimenting Cady on her prettiness during their first meeting, she turns it on her potential new friend almost immediately after she agrees. Regina makes her feel guilty about the compliment, highlighting Regina's manipulative behavior. This particular line has become a popular meme associated with the movie that people use when they get into arguments on social media.

20 "Aren't You So Mad At Gretchen For Telling Me?"

Regina Turning Her Friends Against One Another

Another example of some of the evil tricks Regina George has in her arsenal is the phone games she would play with her fellow Plastics, with the intention of getting her friends to say something bad about another while they were secretly on the line. In the age of smartphones, this isn't typically as easy of a trick to pull off now, but three-way phone call attacks were a quintessential mean girl pastime in the late 90s and early 2000s. Many teenage girls at the time knew the harm that could come from them.

One of the best Regina George quotes comes from exactly this in the film. Regina calls Cady while Gretchen is listening in and manipulates her into saying a few bad things about Gretchen, before abruptly ending the call and leaving the other girls confused and angry.

19 "I Love Her, She's Like A Martian!"

Regina Insulting Cady's Naivety

Viewers learn a lot about Regina and her family dynamics as Cady visits her house for the first time in Mean Girls. They learn about the Burn Book there too, though her sly evilness is at its peak as the movie slowly begins to reveal more about Cady and her life before high school, which separates her from other leads in movies like Mean Girls.

Cady was raised in Africa with her zoologist parents and was homeschooled, and Regina frequently remarks how odd that is to her, even calling her a Martian in one of the most iconic Regina George quotes and treating her like she is more of an amusement than a friend. Cady's stories about her life before meeting the Plastics are always a kind of entertainment for Regina rather than a real conversation.

18 "Cady, Will You Please Tell Him His Hair Looks Sexy Pushed Back?"

Regina Using Her Relationship With Aaron Against Cady

One of the meanest things Regina does in Mean Girls that truly showcases her evil ways is after she gets back together with Cady's crush Aaron (Jonathan Bennett) after promising to talk to him on behalf of Cady. While Cady is initially discouraged from getting involved with Aaron because of his past with Regina, she cannot help how she feels about him, and once Regina knows how Cady feels, she makes sure to manipulate Aaron into getting back together with her instead.

Utilizing one of the most memorably evil Regina George quotes, she forces Cady to not only watch her and Aaron together at school but actively comment on his looks. Regina knows full well it is torture, though Cady is hoping to keep the peace and goes along with Regina's games. In the scene, Cady even agrees with Regina's torturous comment so that she can continue with Janis and Damian's plan.

17 "I Gave Him Everything! I Was Half A Virgin When I Met Him."

Regina Mad About Aaron Dumping Her

Regina George's evil seems to make her incapable of accepting fault for any of her own mistakes. This even extends to her romantic relationships as Regina is enraged that Aaron would break up with her despite the fact that she constantly cheated on him. In one of the funniest examples of Regina's lack of awareness, she insists she was a perfect girlfriend while adding "I was half a virgin when I met him."

It is a ridiculous line that is hard not to laugh at, but it is also a perfect glimpse inside Regina's mind. She thinks only of herself and only values herself as well. She insists that she is doing everything right at all times and fails to see the truth in her own actions. It is not until the end of the film when Regina is confronted with just how much people don't like her that she understands she might be the problem.

16 "I Don't Care Who You Are. I Don't Care How You Feel."

Regina Sings About Her Lack Of Empathy

The same song that introduces Regina George and her impressive ego to the audience in 2024 also features the lines, “I don’t care who you are/I don’t care how you feel.” This is the part of the song in which Regina goes from a popular queen bee with a big ego to someone who is downright mean.

Regina George doesn’t show sympathy for those around her who are ridiculed. She doesn’t have empathy for what others go through at all. Even when she defends her friends or helps them, the goal is to make herself look better, not them. Everything in Regina’s world is all about Regina, and she makes that clear from the jump.

That’s why it really shouldn’t be a surprise to the audience that she’s willing to spill her friends’ secrets or trick Aaron into dating her again or out Janis to the school. She doesn’t mince her words when it comes to the fact that she cares about no one other than herself.

15 “Gretchen, Stop Trying To Make Fetch Happen. It’s Not Going To Happen.”

Regina Dictating Gretchen's Speech

True friends are supportive of each other’s ideas, even if they might believe they're a little lame. The important part is supporting the friend, not the idea itself, especially if it's something as simple as wanting to get a new slang term to become iconic. That’s how Mean Girls viewers know that Regina George, played by Rachel McAdams, is not a good friend to any of the Plastics.

When Gretchen comes up with the word “fetch,” claiming it's slang in England, she starts using it constantly. After performing at the Winter Talent Show, Regina has finally had enough of "fetch," and takes Gretchen down a peg with one of the most memorable Regina George quotes. Even if Regina doesn’t get Gretchen’s vision, a nice person would have pretended to like the word rather than dictating that she can’t say it anymore.

14 “Boo, You Whore.”

Regina Telling Off Karen

It’s in the simple Regina George quotes that the essence of her character really comes out in Mean Girls. After lying to Cady about staying in, she says this to Karen (Amanda Seyfried) when the two are on the phone and Karen pretends that she can’t go out with Regina because she’s sick. Rather than showing concern for her friend who is supposedly sick (she’s not really sick, but Regina doesn’t know that), Regina cements herself as truly evil by saying this rude line to her "close" friend, instead of seeing why Karen might have been trying to avoid her.

This particular line is actually very indicative of who Regina is as a person. She rarely calls her friends by their names or nice nicknames but instead prefers to use terms meant to degrade them. While friends might teasingly use derogatory terms toward one another once in a while, Regina makes it an almost constant aspect of their talks.

13 "Is It 'Girl Who Slept With 11 People?' 'Cause You're Nailing It."

Regina Loves To Slut-Shame Karen In Both Movies

When Karen chats with her friends in the 2024 musical version of Mean Girls, her bra can be seen at one point and Regina doesn’t take too kindly to that. For one thing, it pulls attention from her, and for another, it paints the Plastics in a particular light she might not want. Because of that, she calls Karen on it during this exchange.

Regina George: Karen, I can see your bra.

Karen Shetty: It's on purpose. I'm going for a look.

Regina George: Is it "girl who slept with 11 people"? 'Cause you're nailing it.

Regina doesn’t outright call Karen a slut because that would be very 2004 of her. Instead, she simply reinforces the idea that Karen has hooked up with more people than is socially acceptable for a woman by naming the specific number, which, until that point, was a secret Gretchen had been keeping for her. The comment only reminds the audience that Regina is not a great friend, that she’s controlling, and that she has no problem slut-shaming the other teenage girls to come out on top.

Regina Ordering Her Friends Around

Often regarded as one of the best Mean Girls quotes, if not the most iconic of all the Regina George quotes, this is how Regina invites Lindsay Lohan's Cady to go shopping with the Plastics for the first time. This occurs following Cady's first day of officially sitting with the Plastics during lunch at school, oversized pink shirt and all. It is a fitting way of inviting Cady into this meanspirited social circle.

Not only does she call Cady, one of her soon-to-be “best friends,” a loser, but she also doesn’t give her any choice in the matter. It’s not really an invitation so much as it’s an order while she uses another derogatory term to cement her status as the one in charge of the group. This is just further evidence that Regina George is a queen bee, and a mean one at that.

11 "Whatever. Those Rules Aren't Real."

Regina Ignoring Her Infraction

Mean Girls establishes that the Plastics have a strict dress code within their group, and the penalty for breaking that dress code is that the perpetrator can't sit with them at lunch. While the most memorable aspect of the rules might be the line, "on Wednesdays, we wear pink," that's not the relevant part that shows Regina's rotten character.

As Cady's plan to undo Regina's hold over the group unfolds, a key moment is when Regina shows up at the lunch table in sweatpants, thus breaking the rules. When the other girls point this out, Regina dismisses the rules as meaningless. This is a typical move by someone who is power hungry as they set out a strict set of laws that they expect everyone else to follow, but when they break the rules, not only do they expect to not receive the same punishments, but they suggest it was silly to follow the rules in the first place.

10 “Because That Vest Was Disgusting!”

Regina Insulting Karen's Clothing

The moment that Regina is banned from sitting with her friends at the lunch table is one of the rare moments the audience can actually feel sorry for her. Cady has been tricking her into eating protein bars that have made her gain weight. As a result, the sweatpants that Regina is wearing are the only things that fit her. However, despite the moment also highlights how mean spirited she is.

As expected, when Regina dismisses the rules as meaningless, Karen is quick to point out that she had to abide by them when she wore a vest to school. Despite the fact that Regina is in need of some sympathy at the moment, she doesn't use the moment to appeal to the kindness of her friends but rather insults Karen harshly while maintaining the sense that she is better than her friends.

9 “God, Karen, You Are So Stupid.”

Regina Insulting Karen

The interesting thing about the meanest Regina George quotes is that the Plastics don’t seem to mind when she insults them. The ruder Regina is to them, the more the Plastics want her to like them. She seems to have a particular fondness for picking on Karen directly and manipulating Gretchen indirectly.

After Aaron breaks up with Regina, Karen tries to cheer her up by suggesting they go to the fast food restaurant Taco Bell. However, this turns out to be an ill-thought suggestion, as Regina responds by saying she can't go to Taco Bell because she's on an "all-carb diet" and calls her friend stupid. The irony of this statement aside, Karen isn't the most intelligent character in Mean Girls, but Regina still shouldn't call her friend stupid.

8 “I Know She’s Kind Of Socially R******* And Weird, But She’s My Friend.”

Regina Manipulating Aaron

Regina says several horrible things about her friends behind their backs in Mean Girls, but this is one of the worst Regina quotes. While at a party, Regina tells Cady that she knows about her crush on Aaron and offers to talk to Aaron for her. Cady, naive to Regina's manipulation, takes her offer at face value.

Instead of doing that, Regina pulls Aaron aside and starts spewing lies about Cady, the summation being that Cady is obsessed with Aaron. She rounds off this speech with one of the most despicable Regina George quotes right before she kisses Aaron — in front of Cady. The entire scene is Regina manipulating Aaron to get him back because, if she can't have him, the other Plastics shouldn't be able to either. Hurting Cady with the manipulation is a bonus for her.

7 “She’s Not Going Out With Anyone.”

Regina Ruining Her Classmate's Life

While any of the Regina George quotes from Mean Girls could be said to directly reflect her character, this is the first one that makes Cady realize what she's truly up against when she infiltrates the Plastics for Janis and Damian. To get back at Jason for blowing off Gretchen, Regina makes trouble for the new girl he’s seeing, Taylor.

She calls Taylor's mom and pretends to be from the women's health clinic Planned Parenthood, insinuating that Taylor has fallen pregnant. Although the Plastics find this funny, with Regina stating that Taylor won't be allowed out of the house for a long time, it’s clear how evil this move is when Taylor’s mom calls her a few seconds later and the young woman sounds very distressed while speaking with her in the hall. Regina might have ruined Taylor's relationship with her mother just to keep her away from Jason.

6 “They Say You’re A Homeschooled Jungle Freak Who’s A Less Hot Version Of Me.”

Regina Telling Off Cady

What makes this one of the most memorable Regina George quotes is that she says it quite fiercely right before getting hit by a bus. The final confrontation between Cady and Regina takes place near the end of Mean Girls when Regina learns that Cady was pretending to be her friend all along to sabotage her life.

Regina flees the school and Cady chases after her, but when Cady catches up to her, Regina has some things of her own she would like to say. Regina is obviously feeling hurt at this point, but her words to Cady are still cruel and showcase how evil she can be.

It's an especially great moment for Regina because, before the bus hits her, Regina has kept her toxicity veiled from her friends. She hides her insults and manipulations, and dresses them up like friendly interactions. This is Regina not pretending anymore. She starts to finally let loose, and it might be lucky for Cady that the bus stops her from going too much further.