“- Claire Standish: Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular. Everybody loves me so much at this school.
- John Bender: Poor baby.”
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish
Judd Nelson - John Bender

“- Jamie Sullivan: OK, so you don't care about classes or graduating, but you like school because you're popular and you'll never be on top again.
- Landon Carter: That's thoroughly predictable.
- Jamie Sullivan: Your act only works on an audience.”
Mandy Moore - Jamie Sullivan
Shane West - Landon Carter

“- Nick: Dad, were you ever popular in school?
- Wayne: You bet. I was president of the astronomy club three years in a row. We were happenin' guys.”
Robert Oliveri - Nick
Rick Moranis - Wayne

“I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy. I know high school girls.”
Curtis Armstrong - Charles De Mar

“- Mrs. Kidman: Do these girls go to your high school?
- Eli: No, Mrs Kidman. They're porn stars.”
Donna Bullock - Mrs. Kidman
Chris Marquette - Eli