“- Mrs. Atwater: Do you know, when I was a girl I used to read quite a bit.
- Brandon: We all do strange things in our childhood.”
Constance Collier - Mrs. Atwater
John Dall - Brandon

“- Jamie Bashant: Does anyone know why he's so angry?
- John: Well he was probably beaten as a child.
- Hurly: Oh well, I hope.”

Brendan Fraser - Jamie Bashant
Daniel Stern - John Whitman
Neal McDonough - Hurly

“- Mother of 9-Year-Old Girl: I have a girl of nine who won't listen to what's right. She always does what's wrong. What should I do?
- Larry Haines: Wait ten years, and if there's no improvement... send me her number.”

Nell Craig - Mother of 9-Year-Old Girl
Bob Hope - Larry Haines

“Men are pretty much like children after all. Have you ever seen two kids wrestling in the yard? They push and they tussle and maybe they look like they're fighting... but they're not. They're really friends and everything is fun. Then pretty soon they play a little too rough. One of them gets mad. And in the end, somebody always gets hurt.”

Walter Huston - Doc Holliday

“The end of my innocence and childhood began in 1957. It is remarkable to me now just how little I knew then about the people around me. It took me years to figure out exactly what the truth was, especially given my brother's knack at inventing facts.”

Michael Keaton - Narrator