“In this modern complicated world, man breaks down under the strain, the bewilderment, disappointment, and disillusionment. He gets lost, goes crazy, commits suicide.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Alexander Tower

“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

“Modern art, to me, is nothing more than the expression of the contemporaryaims of the age that we're living in.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“- 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 modern battlefield is everywhere.”
Rhys Ifans - Corbin O'Brian