“If you have a dream and it's made of everything that made you, hardship, friendship, so much love, that's your ticket to everything. This is my future.”
Zac Efron - Cole

“The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope, into the future! The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us.”

Sir Charlie Chaplin - Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania

“Conrad. Let's have a great Christmas. Let's have... a great year. Let's have the best year of our whole lives. We can, you know... this could be the best one ever.”
Dinah Manoff - Karen

“The future isn't what it used to be.”
Vincent D'Onofrio - Sam Deed

“- Principal Turner: Miss Riley, our job is to give these kids an education.
- Miss Riley: Mmm-hmm.
- Principal Turner: Not false hopes.
- Miss Riley: False hopes? Do you want me to sit quiet, let 'em breathe in coal dust the rest of their life?”
Chris Ellis - Principal Turner
Laura Dern - Miss Riley