“- Pamela Abbott: You don't know my father, you don't know how he is about Jacey. He blames him for everything that happened with Eleanor.
- Doug Holt: Look, Eleanor flirts with a lot of guys. It's not Jacey's fault your dad kicked her out.”
Liv Tyler - Pamela Abbott
Joaquin Phoenix - Doug Holt

“- Carol: Maybe if you spent more time with your son, there would be fewer problems.
- Scott Calvin: Maybe, but then I wouldn't get to spend more time with you. It's always such a pleasure.
- Carol: Oh, a battle of wits. It's a shame that you come unarmed.”

Elizabeth Mitchell - Carol
Tim Allen - Scott Calvin

“- Elina: You shouldn't do that.
- Dennis McCabe: Why not?
- Elina: Because I'm your father's girlfriend?
- Dennis McCabe: My father's a womanizer. He's a married man and he stood you up.
- Elina: You have no respect for your father.
- Dennis McCabe: I don't know him. But I respect his taste in women.”

Elina Löwensohn - Elina
Bill Sage - Dennis McCabe

- Sydney: Are you required to flirt, to behave as you do toward that table of men over there? Maybe... it's some part of your job?
- Clementine: They don't say to do it.
- Sydney: But if you don't?
- Clementine: Then I get questioned, like: "Why were so rude to them?" and, I mean, I can't talk back.

Philip Baker Hall - Sydney
Gwyneth Paltrow - Clementine

“- Roy Parmenter: How'd a pretty girl like you get mixed up in guidance counseling?
- Verna McLaughlin: How'd a nice guy like you get mixed up in the FBl?
- Roy Parmenter: You ever guided any students towards the Bureau, Verna?
- Verna McLaughlin: l hope not.
- Roy Parmenter: How about me guiding you towards dinner?”
Sir Sidney Poitier - Roy Parmenter
Loretta Devine - Verna McLaughlin