“- Papa Klump: What's wrong with you, woman? Don't you wanna be young?
- Mama Klump: No, Cletus, I don't wanna be young! Cletus, we are supposed to be who we are and I'm just fine with who I am! But obviously what you're trying to say is that you're just tired of the fat old woman that you got married to!”
Eddie Murphy - Papa Klump
Eddie Murphy - Mama Klump

“- Frances: Time has come for me to embrace my years, don't you think, mother? Welcome them, not fight them anymore.
- Elspeth: Why should you embrace your years? No one else does.”
Emma Thompson - Frances
Phyllida Law - Elspeth

“- Tess, the mother: I think you have these qualities that you demand and when you meet a nice man you disqualify him for the smallest fault.
- Bea: That's not true.
- Tess, the mother: So, what was wrong with Nat Bernstein?
- Bea: He wore white socks with a tuxedo!”
Julie Kavner - Tess, the mother
Dianne Wiest - Bea

“A woman needssecurity like a man needs approval.”
Scott Wilson - Hale Chidduck

“- Tigrero, a.k.a. Loco: Can't a man provide for his old age?
- Sheriff Burnett: I don't think you're gonna make it.”
Klaus Kinski - Tigrero
Frank Wolff - Sheriff Gideon Burnett