“Father had just one reason for ever starting this unfortunate enterprise: vanity.”

Mary Field - Miss Totten

“- Oishi Kazihiro: In Japan, when production lags, worker stays longer in factory.
- Hunt Stevenson: Okay, overtime. We can talk about overtime. I understand it now.
- Oishi Kazihiro: They do not do it for pay. They do it for company.
- Hunt Stevenson: Yeah, but that's there, this is here.”
Gedde Watanabe - Oishi Kazihiro
Michael Keaton - Hunt Stevenson

“- Peter: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
- Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
- Peter: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation?”
Ron Livingston - Peter
Paul Willson - Bob Porter

“I plan on being an engineer at NASA, but I can't do that without taking them classes at that all-white high school, and I can't change the color of my skin. So I have no choice, but to be the first.”

Janelle Monáe - Mary Jackson

“- Miss Maudie Atkinson: Jem.
- Jem: Yes, ma'am?
- Miss Maudie Atkinson: I don't know if it will help saying this to you... some men in this world are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us... your father is one of them.
- Jem: Oh, well.”
Rosemary Murphy - Maudie Atkinson
Phillip Alford - Jem