- Miss Honey: Matilda Wormwood is a very sweet girl, and very bright.
- Trunchbull: A "brightchild"?
- Miss Honey: Yes. She can multiply large sums in her head.
- Trunchbull: So can a calculator.
Embeth Davidtz - Miss Honey
Pam Ferris - Trunchbull

“Mathematics is a language. It's very difficult. It's subtle. You couldn't say those things any other way - and I can talk to dead people with it. I talk to Copernicus every day.”
Matthew Broderick - Richard Feynman

“So this is a Harvard bar? I thought there'd be equations and shit on the wall.”
Ben Affleck - Chuckie Sullivan

“- Ginny: Is that a new watch?
- Robert Green: Ya, dual time zones: tells the time in two places.
- Ginny: What for?
- Robert Green: So if I'm in L.A. and want to know the time in New York I don't have to go through the anguish of adding three.”
Kathleen Wilhoite - Ginny
Alec Baldwin - Robert Green

“- Maggie Blake: Listen, sweetie, I don't know the boy, but you have to be a bit of a dork to prefer math to a beautiful girl. You know what I'm saying?
- Belle Blake: By the time I'm done with him, he won't be able to count on his fingers.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Maggie Blake
Dianna Agron - Belle Blake