“- Vivian: You dropped out of high school?
- Eliot: It was an option. I wanted to join the workforce.
- Vivian: What do you do?
- Eliot: I sell pot.”
Natasha Lyonne - Vivian
Kevin Corrigan - Eliot

“Very important, do not do your homework without wearing headphones.”
George Carlin - Rufus

“- Mr. Evans: Before they built their church, even, they built that schoolhouse. And they let in every tailor's son... and every farmer's daughter in that country.
- Jack Bull Chiles: Spellin' won't help you hold a plow any firmer. Or a gun either.”
Zach Grenier - Mr. Evans
Skeet Ulrich - Jack Bull Chiles

- Miner Weber: You still in high school?
- Kelly Ernswiler: Yeah, I am. But I also moonlight as a stock boy over at the Shop Ease. And PresidentDawn Cominsky says every employee's part owner, so I guess you could say I'm a captain of industry in training. Sort of, um, a "capitalist larvae".
Anson Mount - Miner Weber
Shia LaBeouf - Kelly Ernswiler

“- Gia Carangi: People keep going away from me, that hurts.
- Francesco: Work. You have a gift, use it. Life, life will be there later. When you have worked, and you have lived, and you know who you are, life is easy. Work. It's the only answer I know.”
Angelina Jolie - Gia Carangi
Edmund Genest - Francesco