“- Joseph Dunn: I thought maybe because you're my dad... I thought I might be like you... I'm not like you...
- David Dunn: You are like me. We can both get hurt. I'm just an ordinary man.
- Joseph Dunn: No, you're not... Why do you keep saying that?”
Spencer Treat Clark - Joseph Dunn
Bruce Willis - David Dunn

“- Jack: Tell me about your dad, what was he like?
- Lucy: He was a lot like me, brown hair, flat chest.”
Bill Pullman - Jack
Sandra Bullock - Lucy

“My father was a lot like you, just a man with a family. Never amounted to much, didn't care. But as long as he was alive, we always had plenty to eat and clothes to keep us warm.”

Marjorie Reynolds - Linda Mason

“- Pamela Abbott: Who do you look more like, your mother or your father?
- Doug Holt: Oh, I don't know.
- Pamela Abbott: What did your father look like?
- Doug Holt: Like a photograph.”
Liv Tyler - Pamela Abbott
Joaquin Phoenix - Doug Holt

“- Matilda: My father?
- Trunchbull: The guy with the stupid haircut!
- Matilda: I'm nothing like my father.
- Trunchbull: You're the spitting image. The apple never rots far from the tree!”
Mara Wilson - Matilda
Pam Ferris - Trunchbull