“- Pamela Abbott: Who do you look more like, your mother or your father?
- Doug Holt: Oh, I don't know.
- Pamela Abbott: What did your father look like?
- Doug Holt: Like a photograph.”
Liv Tyler - Pamela Abbott
Joaquin Phoenix - Doug Holt

“- Jack: Tell me about your dad, what was he like?
- Lucy: He was a lot like me, brown hair, flat chest.”
Bill Pullman - Jack
Sandra Bullock - Lucy

“I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either, it's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“- Matilda: My father?
- Trunchbull: The guy with the stupid haircut!
- Matilda: I'm nothing like my father.
- Trunchbull: You're the spitting image. The apple never rots far from the tree!”
Mara Wilson - Matilda
Pam Ferris - Trunchbull

“- Carla: You seem like a nice man. You remind me of my father.
- Miles Kendig: That's always been my problem.”
Lucy Saroyan - Carla
Walter Matthau - Miles Kendig