“Gentlemen you are the fliers of the future! The far future!”

Jim Broadbent - Sergeant

“Conrad. Let's have a great Christmas. Let's have... a great year. Let's have the best year of our whole lives. We can, you know... this could be the best one ever.”
Dinah Manoff - Karen

“The future isn't what it used to be.”
Vincent D'Onofrio - Sam Deed

“- Principal Turner: Miss Riley, our job is to give these kids an education.
- Miss Riley: Mmm-hmm.
- Principal Turner: Not false hopes.
- Miss Riley: False hopes? Do you want me to sit quiet, let 'em breathe in coal dust the rest of their life?”
Chris Ellis - Principal Turner
Laura Dern - Miss Riley

“If I go on to win at Indianapolis, I can go to college, maybe even get a job at Cape Canaveral. There's nothing here for me. The town is dying! The mine is dying! Everybody here knows that but you!”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam