“- Matilda: I thought grown-ups weren't afraid of anything.
- Miss Honey: Quite the contrary. All grown-ups get scared, just like children.”
Mara Wilson - Matilda
Embeth Davidtz - Miss Honey

“- Ossie: I don't want to grow up.
- Tito: Why?
- Ossie: I don't want to get old like O'Sheen.
- Tito: What?
- Ossie: I don't want to turn into dust.”
Ciarán Fitzgerald - Ossie
Rúaidhrí Conroy - Tito

“Stephen's tired of himself. Tired of feeling the same things in himself. Time comes when a man's got to feel something new, and he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old.”

Lucile Watson - Mrs. Morehead

“A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.”

Evelyn Venable - The Blue Fairy

“A girl of sixteen's practically an idiot anyway, so I can't very well blame you for something that was practically done by somebody else.”

Henry Fonda - Charles