“The last modern thing I liked was the miniskirt. With technology now, nobody understands it... and that's the simple fact of the situation.”
Henry Jones - Simms

“- Documentarian: Do you think that most people would say that teenage beauty pageants are a good idea?
- Gladys Leeman: Oh yeah, sure. I know what some of your big city, no-bra-wearing, hairy-legged women libbers might say. They might say that a pageant is old-fashioned and demeaning to the girls.”
Thomas Lennon - Documentarian
Kirstie Alley - Gladys Leeman

“The doctors told me it was pneumonia, but I knew what it was! A victim of the modern age! Poor, poor girl!”
Patrick Magee - Mr. Alexander

“It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.”
Paul Farrell - Tramp

“In my letter confirming my employment, Your Majesty, you claimed you wanted Siam to take its place among the nations of the modern world. You spoke of building something greater than yourself. A country where no man is above the law. Which is why I chose to come here.”
Jodie Foster - Anna