“It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.”
Paul Farrell - Tramp

“Modern man is so confused, Raymond. Finally, it's much better to work in the theater... than in a mine.”

Jerzy Skolimowski - Colonel Chaiko

“Modern cars: they all look like electric shavers.”
Mickey Rourke - Marv

“You despise someone like me because you despise the modern. But you are at the very forefront of what is modern. You write about it, you document it... Unlike you, though, I have chosen to embrace it.”

Sir Ian Holm - Doctor Murnau

“- Documentarian: Do you think that most people would say that teenage beauty pageants are a good idea?
- Gladys Leeman: Oh yeah, sure. I know what some of your big city, no-bra-wearing, hairy-legged women libbers might say. They might say that a pageant is old-fashioned and demeaning to the girls.”
Thomas Lennon - Documentarian
Kirstie Alley - Gladys Leeman