“- Jack's Mother: What it is you do, Mr. Staggliano?
- Vinny Staggliano: College professor.
- Jack's Mother: What do you teach?
- Vinny Staggliano: College stuff. What are you, a fucking cop?”
Bernadette Birkett - Jack's Mother
Ray Liotta - Vinny Staggliano

“I've never taught before and you've never thought before. So good luck to all of us.”

Danny DeVito - Bill Rago

- Trevor McKinney: Were you just being nice?
- Eugene Simonet: About what?
- Trevor McKinney: About my idea. Do you think it's good, or were you just being teachery?
- Eugene Simonet: "Teachery"?
- Trevor McKinney: Bullshitting.
Haley Joel Osment - Trevor McKinney
Kevin Spacey - Eugene Simonet

“A teacher has two jobs: fill young minds with knowledge, yes, but more important, give those minds a compass so that that knowledge doesn't go to waste.”
Olympia Dukakis - Principal Helen Jacobs

“These guys, they can't get a job, they put an ad in the trades, they call themselves teachers. What do they teach us? How to be more fucked up than we already are!”
Gregg Henry - Sam Bouchard