“- Gordie: Maybe you could come into the college courses with me.
- Chris: Yeah right, that'll be the day.
- Gordie: Why not? You're smart enough.
- Chris: They won't let me.
- Gordie: What do you mean?
- Chris: It's what everyone thinks of my family in this town. It's what they think of me. I'm just one of those low-life Chambers kids.”
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“- Chris: You'll be taking your college courses, and me, Teddy, and Vern will all be in the shop courses with the rest of the retards, making ash trays and bird houses. You're gonna meet a lot of new guys. Smart guys.
- Gordie: A lot of pussies is what you mean.
- Chris: No, man. Don't say that. Don't even think that.”
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance

“I'm an engineer! I stopped running when Nixon was president!”
Donald Sutherland - Jerry O'Neill

“- Drix: Where did you study?
- Osmosis Jones: Study? When you grow up on the wrong side of the digestive track, you ain't got no money for no fancy schools.”
David Hyde Pierce - Drix
Chris Rock - Osmosis Jones

“People say, You must have been the class clown. And I say, No, I wasn't. But I sat next to the class clown, and I studied him.”
Eugene Levy - Dr. Allan Pearl