“- Regent Chairman: This is not a football vocational school. It's an institute for higher learning.
- Sam Winters: Yeah, but when was the last time 80,000 people showed up to watch a kid do a damn chemistry experiment?”
Dan Hannafin - Regent Chairman
James Caan - Sam Winters

“Hair swept up. Haven't touched your cake. Probably drumming your fingernails on the white linen tablecloth, the way you do when you're really feeling down. Perhaps looking at those nails thinking: 'God, I should have stopped in all my evil plotting to have that manicure, but it's too late now.”

Rupert Everett - George Downes

“- Grim Reaper: I have come for you.
- Geoffrey: You mean to…
- Grim Reaper: Take you away. That is my purpose. I am Death.
- Geoffrey: Well that's cast rather a gloom over the evening hasn't it?”
John Marwood Cleese - Grim Reaper
John Marwood Cleese - Geoffrey

“Just look at the face: it's vacant, with a hint of sadness. Like a drunk who's lost a bet.”

Lucy Davis - Dianne

“- Cruella De Vil: Anita, darling!
- Anita: How are you?
- Cruella De Vil: Miserable, darling, as usual, perfectly wretched.”
Betty Lou Gerson - Cruella De Vil
Lisa Davis - Anita