“- Vietnam Veteran: I'm going to tell you something I wish someone would have told me when I was your age.
- Chrissy: Oh yeah? What's that?
- Vietnam Veteran: Your parents aren't always right.
- Samantha: No shit.”
Brendan Fraser - Vietnam Veteran
Rita Wilson - Chrissy
Demi Moore - Samantha

- Donna Mildred Martin: The only advice my Mom ever gave me was, "Don't live in the same city as your parents".
- David Basner: What crappy advice. I can't get my parents to move.
Bess Armstrong - Donna Mildred Martin
Tom Hanks - David Basner

“- Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary: May I suggest, if you're dressing to please Stephen, not that one. He doesn't like such obvious effects.
- Crystal Allen: Thanks for the tip. But when anything I wear doesn't please Stephen, I take it off.”
Norma Shearer - Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary
Joan Crawford - Crystal Allen

- Mrs. John Day - Peggy: Listen to the wheels, don't they seem to be saying something?
- Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary: No.
- Mrs. John Day - Peggy: Don't they seem to be saying "Go back, go back, go back, go back?".

Joan Fontaine - Mrs. John Day - Peggy
Norma Shearer - Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary

“Another piece of motherly advice. Don't confide in your girlfriends. If you let them advise you, they will see to it, in the name of friendship, that you lose your husband and your home.”

Lucile Watson - Mrs. Morehead