“- Zeke: Helps relief from blockage caused by dietary stress: Chocolate flavored laxatives.
- Miss Burke: You know, Zeke, if you applied just 5 percent of that intellect to your studies...
- Zeke: Not a chocolate lover, huh?
- Miss Burke: ... you could've made up your finals last summer and you wouldn't have had to repeat your senior year.”
Josh Hartnett - Zeke Tyler
Famke Janssen - Miss Elizabeth Burke

“This is what I learned at the hospital. You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining.”
Bradley Cooper - Pat

“I've spent the past three years... learning Finnish! Which would come in handy here in Virginia, and I'm never ever sick at sea. So I wanna know why... I'm not gonna be your Helsinki station chief.”

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.”
Matthew Lillard

“- Knute Rockne: I've decided to take up coaching as my life's work.
- Father John Callahan, C.S.C: Hmmmm.
- Knute Rockne: You think I'm making a mistake, don't you?”
Pat O'Brien - Knute Rockne
Donald Crisp - Father John Callahan, C.S.C