Growth quotes

“There's things you have to do - which reminds me - you know this hero business? One of the things you learn as you grow older is that life gets very complicated... weird, actually. It's, you know, like people aren't exactly like they seem. Nothin' is. Life gets unbelievable... Uh, it gets normal as you get older.”

Dustin Hoffman - Bernie LaPlante

“- Floyd Pepper: What else do these pills make big?
- Dr. Bunsen Honeydew: They'll work on anything, but the effect is, sadly, temporary.
- Beaker: Sadly temporary.”

Jerry Nelson - Floyd Pepper
Dave Goelz - Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Richard Hunt - Beaker

“You better wise up, 'cause if I grow and you stay as stupid as you are, we're gonna have big problems, Ray!”
Tracey Ullman - Frenchy

“Nobody tells you how to be an adult. You just keep getting older anyway.”
Peter Stormare - Oberon

“A girl of sixteen's practically an idiot anyway, so I can't very well blame you for something that was practically done by somebody else.”

Henry Fonda - Charles

“As a girl you see the world as a giant candy store filled with sweet candy and such. But one day you look around and you see a prison and you're on death row. You wanna run or scream or cry but something's locking you up.”
Jennifer Aniston - Justine Last

“- Kate: I'm going to be 17 tomorrow.
- Max: Wow, now you can read Seventeen magazine and get all the references.”
Cara Buono - Kate
Chris Eigeman - Max

“Grow's for plants. I hate roots.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Grace Winterbourne: How did I ever raise such a snob?
- Bill Winterbourne: It's a mystery Mother... let's ask the servants.”
Shirley MacLaine - Grace Winterbourne
Brendan Fraser - Bill Winterbourne

“- Mr. Leonard Donofrio: I'm telling you nicely, you're too young.
- Young Beverly: Pop, you can't negotiate my boobs. Whether I'm too young to have them or not, I got them. I'm a woman. It's just hard to see it through all these clothes.”

James Woods - Mr. Leonard Donofrio
Mika Boorem - Young Beverly

- Lieutenant Colonel "The Bear" Berrineau: Who looked out for you when you were a screw-up knob?
- Will McLean: Well, you did.
- Lieutenant Colonel "The Bear" Berrineau: Who saw something in you besides arrogance? Who made you into a cadet?
- Will McLean: Bear, you did.
- Lieutenant Colonel "The Bear" Berrineau: Bubba, I'm calling my marker due.
Robert Prosky - Col. 'Bear' Berrineau
David Keith - Will McLean

“You guys are growing up so fast, I hardly recognize you anymore!”

Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“500 street fights and you could consider yourself a legitimate tough guy. You need them for experience. To develop leather skin. So I got started.”
Vin Diesel - Taylor

“Men don't get smarter as they get older. They just lose their hair.”
Claudette Colbert - Gerry Jeffers

“- Mrs. Dena Dittmeyer: My, you've gotten so big. You're almost as big as your daddy.
- Greg Brady: And I'm still growing.
- Mrs. Dena Dittmeyer: Right before my very eyes.”
Jean Smart - Mrs. Dena Dittmeyer
Christopher Daniel Barnes - Greg Brady

“America is fat, gentlemen. America is fat! Sloppy! Immoral! And she needs men of iron to set her on the right path again. America needs Institute men! Men you are not now. But for those of you who have the courage to remain, men you shall become.”
G.D. Spradlin - Gen. Bentley Durrell

“- Young Kayley: I'm coming with you, Daddy!
- Lionel: Yes, when you're old enough, Kayley. I will take you to Camelot, I promise. I love you!
- Young Kayley: One day, I will be a knight, like Father.”
Sarah Freeman - Young Kayley
Gabriel Byrne - Lionel

“- Doctor Aki Ross: All life is born of Gaia and each life has a spirit. Each new spirit is housed in a physical body. Doctor?
- Doctor Sid: Go on.
- Doctor Aki Ross: Through their experiences on Earth, each spirit matures and grows. When the physical body dies, the mature spirit, enriched by its life on Earth, returns to Gaia, bringing with it...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ming-Na Wen - Doctor Aki Ross
Donald Sutherland - Dr. Sid

“I need sunshine to grow.”
Julia Roberts - Samantha Barzel

“You know what I keep thinking about? A night in the house. I was a little girl, and then I saw David all alone. And I don't know. I just... I wanted to go to him. Was that wrong? I wasn't a happy little girl anymore. Something changed. The first time in my life I was me.”

Brooke Shields - Jade Butterfield

“The last time I looked I was a little girl. And I... I blink and I look like my mother.”
Madeleine Stowe - Emma Brody

“Before this year, bullies were just bullies for no reason, weirdos were just weird, and daredevils weren't afraid of anything. Before this year, people I loved lived forever. I spent this year looking for something and wound up seeing everything around me. It's like I was asleep before and finally woke up. Know what? I'm wide-awake now.”
Joseph Cross - Joshua Beal

“- Insp. Jacques Clouseau: How long have you been a bellboy?
- Bellboy: Oh, too long, Monsieur.
- Insp. Jacques Clouseau: Keep up the good work, and I shall see to it you become a bell man.”
Peter Sellers - Clouseau
Mike Grady - Bellboy

“- Yzma: How could he do this to me? Why, I practically raised him!
- Kronk: Yeah, you'd think he would've turned out better.
- Yzma: Yeah. Go figure.”

Eartha Kitt - Yzma
Patrick Warburton - Kronk

“I used to give you rides on my back when you were just a little girl. You're too big for that now.”

Peter Berg - Frank Lovegren