“- Eady: You travel a lot?
- Neil McCauley: Yeah.
- Eady: Traveling makes you lonely?
- Neil McCauley: I'm alone, I am not lonely.”
Amy Brenneman - Eady
Robert De Niro - Neil McCauley

“- Clark Griswold: We could leave her here and the first phone we pass, we could call your Cousin Normie and he could come and get her, I guess.
- Ellen Griswold: That is the meanest, coldest...
- Clark Griswold: Well what do you want me to do? Call Federal Express?”

Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold
Beverly D'Angelo - Ellen Griswold

“- Clark Griswold: Have you even driven cross-country?
- Roy Walley: Oh, hell yes. Drove the whole family to Florida. Worst two weeks I ever spent in my life.”
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold
Eddie Bracken - Roy Walley

“Everything isn't like home. If everything were like home, there would be no reason for leaving home. Right, Rusty?”
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“- Corie Bratter: You could travel.
- Ethel Banks: Oh, travel. Alone. I read a story in the times. A middle-aged woman travelling alone fell off the deck of a ship. They never even discovered it 'til they got to France.
- Corie Bratter: Mother, I promise you, if you ever fell off the deck of a ship, someone would know about it.”
Jane Seymour Fonda - Corie Bratter
Mildred Natwick - Ethel Banks