“- Harry Holt: Anything can happen in this place, Jane. Where would you be then?
- Jane Parker: Where would he be if I went back?”

Neil Hamilton - Harry Holt
Maureen O'Sullivan - Jane

“If I go on to win at Indianapolis, I can go to college, maybe even get a job at Cape Canaveral. There's nothing here for me. The town is dying! The mine is dying! Everybody here knows that but you!”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“- Chris: I'm never gonna get out of this town. Am I, Gordie?
- Gordie: You can do anything you want, man.
- Chris: Yeah, sure. Give me some skin.
- Gordie: I'll see ya.
- Chris: Not if I see you first.”
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance

“- Maria’s mom: You must live, Maria. You must move forward. There is no future here.
- Maria’s dad: And so, from now on, we speak in the language of your future.”
Nina Kunzendorf - Therese Bloch-Bauer
Allan Corduner - Gustav Bloch-Bauer

“You're a nice guy. But you've got to remember that nice guys always leave when ladies ask them to.”

Ann Sheridan - Cassie Hartley