“- Mary: Gertie, I've gotta go pick up Elliot. Will you be a good girl until I get back?
- Gertie: Mommy, he can talk!
- Mary: [thinking she meant Elliott instead of E.T.] Of course he can talk. I'll be back in 10 minutes. Stay there.”
Dee Wallace - Mary
Drew Barrymore - Gertie

“- Fisherman: Come back here!
- Sylvie: Pitiful. He's gonna have a heart attack someday.
- Ruth: It must be his boat.
- Sylvie: Either that or he's some kind of lunatic. I'm certainly not going back to find out.”

Michael Davidoff - Fisherman
Christine Lahti - Sylvie
Sara Walker - Ruth

“- Lucy Whitman: You just became a statistic.
- Kansas Hill: Oh, my god. I'm not the first.”
Sara Marsh - Lucy Whitman
Mena Suvari - Kansas Hill

“I remembered why I opened the door to women in the first place: to not limit the likelihood of finding that one person who'd complement me so completely.”
Joey Lauren Adams - Alyssa Jones

“We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.”
John C. McGinley - Bob Slydell