“- Martin Daniels: I have a criminal record. But you know what you're gonna have? You're gonna have a one-way ticket back to your parents!
- Clifford Daniels: Don't send me back to my parents, they hate me!
- Martin Daniels: Not as much as I do!”
Charles Grodin - Martin Daniels
Martin Hayter Short - Clifford Daniels

“- Sammy Parker: My mom hates your dad.
- Maggie Taylor: So? My dad hates your mom.”
Alex D. Linz - Sammy Parker
Mae Whitman - Maggie Taylor

“- Shen: My parents hated me. Do you understand? They wronged me. And I will make it right.
- Soothsayer: They loved you. They loved you so much that having to send you away killed them.
- Shen: The dead exist in the past. And I must attend to the future.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Shen
Michelle Yeoh - Soothsayer

“Suppose your parents are unhappy with you. It's good for them. It develops character.”
Monty Woolley - Sheridan Whiteside

“The trouble with kids is they always figure they're smarter than their parents.”
William Demarest - Constable Edmund Kockenlocker