Teaching quotes

“- Amy Grady: Didn't your mother teach you to wash your hands after you went to the bathroom?
- Bobby Grady: Nope, she taught me not to piss on my fingers.”
Annie Potts - Amy Grady
John Laughlin - Bobby Grady

“- Trevor Garfield: Why do you still teach?
- Dave Childress: For the same reason as you do, for a paycheck.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Trevor Garfield
Clifton Collins Jr. - Cesar Sanchez

“Up there, those are the actors and the costumes and the scenery. They don't know the soul of the opera. In your dressing room, I could only teach you the words, the notes. But here... here I can teach you the meaning.”

Robert Englund - Erik, The Phantom

“- The Dog Owner: I need help with my dog.
- The Dogwalker: I can see that. I would love to be the one to help you with your dog.
- The Dog Owner: What's your technique?
- The Dogwalker: I put them on a leash and walk them.”
Marisa Tomei - The Dog Owner
Daniel Radcliffe - The Dogwalker

“Learn the form, but seek the formless. Hear the soundless. Learn it all, then forget it all. Learn The Way, then find your own way.”

Jet Li - The Silent Monk

“She's unhappy and lonely. She doesn't know who she is, or what she is to do, or why! I can help her. I know I can. But first she must be taught to obey me.”

Sophie Marceau - Elisabeth Laurier

“All women have a garden, and a garden needs a big hose to water it... or a small hose... as long as it works.”

Bonnie Hunt - Mrs. DeWitt

“- Miss Viola: My dears, it's not something I can actually teach you. Does anybody know why? Anyone? Anyone?
- Baby Gloria: You can't teach it to us, ma'am, because we have to find out heart songs all by ourselves.
- Miss Viola: Well done, you.
- Baby Gloria: It's the voice you hear inside, who you truly are.”
Magda Szubanski - Miss Viola
Alyssa Shafer - Baby Gloria

“The early worm catches the fish, Russell. Remember that.”
Matt Frewer - Russell 'Russ' Thompson, Sr.

“How many times do I have to remind you!? Get those rebounds! Get those loose Pucks! Get...just...just get the hell out of here!”
Emilio Estevez - Gordon Bombay

“- John Lee: My father taught me how to shoot.
- Meg Coburn: Playing catch is so impersonal.”
Chow Yun-Fat - John Lee
Mira Sorvino - Meg Coburn

“I taught Severen everything he knew, but not everything I know.”
Lance Henriksen - Jesse Hooker

- Dixie Leonard: You're gonna kill him if you fill his head full of this crap!
- Eddie Sparks: Such as what?
- Dixie Leonard: Such as "Don't study", "Everything comes easy", "Life's a big party".
Bette Midler - Dixie Leonard
James Caan - Eddie Sparks

“You know why I like to teach children, Jack? So I don't get so wrapped up in being an adult. So I can remember there are other things that are important in life, like riding a bike, playing in a treehouse, splashing in water with your good shoes on.”
Bill Cosby - Lawrence Woodruff

“- Mr. Crisp: Teach them how to play... soccer.
- Father Maurice: We don’t have the balls for that.”
James Coburn - Mr. Crisp
Barnard Hughes - Father Maurice

“We don't slump like this!”

Julie Andrews - Queen Clarisse Renaldi

“I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.”
Aaron Douglas Trimble

“Fortunately, I never had to do the waiter thing. When I got out of college, I immediately started to teach acting.”
Bill Nunn

“- 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

“Can you, for a moment, imagine how depressing it is to teach five centuries of masculine ineptitude?”
Frances de la Tour - Mrs. Lintott

“How can you teach History and have such a short memory?”

Lise Hilboldt - Gretchen Carlsen

“Your father has sent me. I am your angel. All of your lessons have led to this moment. We will make music that the world will love forever. Take the last step to me. To your destiny. To immortality.”

Robert Englund - Erik, The Phantom

“- Calvin: These are stock certificates. They denote ownership in a company.
- Adam age 11: Those look pretty. May I see them?
- Calvin: Sure. They are yours. Your mother and I bought these for you before you were born to give you some money to help you out in your adult years. Unfortunately, they are all worthless now.”
Christopher Walken - Calvin
Douglas Smith - Adam age 11

“- Delia: Open this door, you dead people, or we'll bust it down and we'll drag you out by the ropes you hang yourselves with!
- Lydia: Shh! They didn't commit suicide.
- Delia: It doesn't matter. Lydia, I have a chance to teach you something here: you have got to take the upper hand in all situations or people, whether they're dead or alive,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Catherine O'Hara - Delia
Winona Ryder - Lydia

“- Billy McMahon: For you this is like teaching a little kid the alphabet, right?
- Headphones: No, actually it's like teaching a kid a letter. Just one letter.
- Billy McMahon: Yeah. Yeah, your strong point would not be communicating to humans.
- Headphones: I know.”
Vince Vaughn - Billy McMahon
Josh Gad - Headphones