“- Speed: It didn't amount to anything. It was completely meaningless.
- Pops: How could it be meaningless? I saw my son become a man. I watched a man with courage and integrity drive the pants off of every other driver on that road. This is not meaningless. This is the reason for a father's life.”

Emile Hirsch - Speed
John Goodman - Pops

“- Ted Foster: I thought that if you wanted to marry a girl you were supposed to ask her father.
- Harry C. Thomas: You must be talking about some other father, some other family. Not a family with only one father and three daughters. Nobody asks him anything. He's lucky if he gets told.”
John Shelton - Ted Foster
Frank Morgan - Harry C. Thomas

“Who's the lucky, soon-to-be-dead son-in-law?”
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs

“- Baroness Laginsky: I knew your father when he was young.
- George Sand: Really?
- Baroness Laginsky: Yes. We girls were enraged when we heard he'd married that dancer, or whatever she was.
- George Sand: You mean my mother?”
Elizabeth Spriggs - Baroness Laginsky
Judy Davis - George Sand

“- Denise Dahlberg: I've been out riding around with Bruce.
- Jim Dahlberg: All night?
- Denise Dahlberg: Frankly, Daddy, that's none of your business.
- Jim Dahlberg: As long as you live...
- Denise Dahlberg: Oh Daddy, don't start this again, I'm getting married tomorrow.”
Lori Lethin - Denise Dahlberg
John Cullum - Jim Dahlberg