“- Joey: I'm itchy and I want to go home.
- Adele Burbridge: You may go stand in the corner until you can talk like a little boy.”

Jeffrey Wiseman - Joey
Doris Hess - Adele Burbridge

“- Dewey Finn: You know what? You don't have to worry about me 'cos i'm tough. If a kid gets outta line, I got no problem, smackin' 'em in the head.
- Rosalie Mullins: No. No, we don't use corporal punishment here.
- Dewey Finn: Okay, so just... verbal abuse?”

Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Joan Cusack - Rosalie Mullins

“- Cathy: Punish me.
- Heathcliff: I'm going to. When I take her in my arms, when I kiss her, when I promise her life and happiness.”

Merle Oberon - Cathy
Laurence Olivier - Heathcliff

“It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us.”
James Cagney - George M. Cohan

“- Major Tetley: Other men with families have had to die for this sort of thing. It's too bad, but it's justice.
- Donald Martin: What do you care about justice? You don't even care whether you've got the right men or not. All you know is you've lost something and somebody's got to be punished.”
Frank Conroy - Major Tetley
Dana Andrews - Donald Martin