Students quotes

“- Stephen Falken: Are either of you paleontologists? I'm in desperate need of a paleontologist.
- Jennifer: No, we're high school students.
- Stephen Falken: Pity.”
John Wood - Falken
Ally Sheedy - Jennifer

“East High is a place where teachers encouraged us to break the status quo and define ourselves as we choose. Where a jock can cook up a mean crème brulee, and a brainiac can break it down on the dance floor. It's a place where one person, if it's the right person, changes us all. East High is having friends we'll keep for the rest of our lives,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Zac Efron - Troy Bolton

“- David Schreiner: You know, when I filled out my housing application, I asked for a roommate who was quiet, serious, and neat. How did you describe yourself?
- Joe Slovak: I lied.”
Todd Field - David Schreiner
Matthew Modine - Joe Slovak

“- President Dedmon: Jack, I may not know football, but I have dealt with the NCAA. They like their rules, and the biggest one is freshmen are not allowed to play intercollegiate athletics.
- Jack Lengyel: That's why you're gonna get them to make an exception.
- President Dedmon: How am I supposed to...
- Jack Lengyel: Explain it to them. We...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Strathairn - President Dedmon
Matthew McConaughey - Jack Lengyel

“It's my job to make great students greater, not make mediocre students less mediocre.”
Helen Mirren - Dean Hardscrabble

Over here you have your microgeeks. Nerds, whiz kids and various other bottom feeders. Music of choice: The sound of an Apple PC booting up. Drug of choice: Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time"... and a cup of jasmine tea on a Saturday night.

Nick Stahl - Gavin Strick

“Of the over 3.7 million high school graduates this year, less than 2% can tell you what a fax machine is, name a Caucasian president, or know who Derek Zoolander was!”
Matt Lauer - Himself

“My name is Malcolm Adekanbi. I'm a straight-A student with nearly perfect SAT scores. I play in a punk band with my friends and I'm a '90s hip hop geek.”
Shameik Moore - Malcolm

“A great teacher has little external history to record. His life goes over into other lives. These men are pillars in the intimate structure of our schools. They are more essential than its stones or beams, and they will continue to be a kindling force and a revealing power in our lives.”
Rahul Khanna - Older Deepak Mehta

“- Elektra: You talk in riddles, old man.
- Stick: It keeps my students alert.”
Jennifer Garner - Elektra
Terence Stamp - Stick

“Life sucks. Shit happens. I'm a student of t-shirts.”
Glenn Plummer - James Smith

“I just want to thank the student who drew the crude caricature of me in the boys' lavatory, although you were kind in your portrayal, I would like it if you kept your talents to the art class.”
Roddy McDowall - Mr. Dante

“- Walter: I want you all to consider what I am about to suggest to you. You people seem to want what we've got. Well, we have room for you. We have room for you and about 30 of your friends. You would be students of course, but you'd also be teachers. And the new civilizations you would be travelling to would be unlike anything you've ever seen...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brian Dennehy - Walter
Wilford Brimley - Ben Luckett

“- Cecil Sweeney: I'm the guy living in a trailer, no one will listen to me.
- Moonie Pottie: What's the matter with you?
- Cecil Sweeney: Nothing! This is just me when I'm not in school.”
Andrew McCarthy - Cecil Sweeney
Liane Balaban - Moonie Pottie

“- Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff: Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.
- Professor in Wagstaff's Study: But, Professor, where will the students sleep?
- Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff: Where they always sleep: in the classroom.”
Groucho Marx - Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff
E.H. Calvert - Professor in Wagstaff's Study

“- Reporter Brenda: We just received word that some sort of tragedy has happened in the high school today.
- Sheriff McCloud: No, nothing unusual.
- Reporter Brenda: I was referring to the slaughter.
- Sheriff McCloud: Right, there was that. Earlier today one of the students got badly killed.”
Nannette Brown - Reporter Brenda
Jay O. Sanders - Sheriff McCloud

“Well done, students... if you were trying to disappoint me.”
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu

“- Micky Rosa: Look, I've been teaching more than 14 years, I've never had a student as impressive as you. Your brain is like a goddamn Pentium chip. You're gonna do great. You know how I know that? 'Cause you remind me of myself 25 years ago. You in?
- Ben Campbell: Yeah. Yeah, I'm in.”

Kevin Spacey - Micky Rosa
Jim Sturgess - Ben Campbell

“- Dr. Zidell: What's happened to you? You were the brightest student in my class. True, emotionally you were twelve years old.
- Walter Kornbluth: I was twelve years old.”
Howard Morris - Dr. Zidell
Eugene Levy - Walter Kornbluth

“It's my understanding... that there are, uh... twenty-three students registered... for this series of lectures on advanced musical form. Now, we all know it's not raining outside, and unless there's a fire in some other part of the building that we don't know about, there's an awful lot of people here with nothing better to do.”
George C. Scott - John Russell

“I'm the guidance counselor. I should know all the students, especially the ones that dress like prostitutes.”

Lisa Kudrow - Mrs. Griffith

“- Irene Reppler: Jim Grondin. I had you in school, didn't I?
- Jim: Yes, ma'am. Me and my sister Pauline.
- Irene Reppler: Pair of underachievers.”
Frances Sternhagen - Irene Reppler
William Sadler - Jim

“- Lu Yan: It is said that master and student walk side-by-side, sharing their fate, until they go their separate ways.
- Jason Tripitikas: I'll never forget you.
- Lu Yan: I guess that's what being immortal truly means.”
Jackie Chan - Lu Yan
Michael Angarano - Jason Tripitikas

“- Principal Claude Rolle: Two of your students are in the nurse's office talking a lawsuit right now.
- Shale: Why, is the nurse a lawyer?”
Ernie Hudson - Principal Claude Rolle
Tom Berenger - Jonathan Shale

“It's a class system here at CB High, Stevie Boy. Check it out. There, you've got your motor heads, car jocks, all the world's a gasket and a lube job and a pack of Lucky's. Music of choice: Posi-traction overdrive, classic rock, Skynyrd, The Allmans, Bruce. Drug of choice: Beer, Miller Genuine Draft. Keggers can't be choosers.”

Nick Stahl - Gavin Strick