- Gaby: Guys can be geeks, but it's different for girls. I'm gonna wind up wearing a hairnet and serving Jell-o in the cafeteria!
- "Mud": That won't happen, because a lot of girls start out... lumpy. But you'll get thinner, and then you'll start to grow... chests, and then you'll be going out with guys who hang me up by my underwear.
Melody Kay - Gaby Nowicki
Jonathan Jackson - Morris 'Mud' Himmel

“Stephen's tired of himself. Tired of feeling the same things in himself. Time comes when a man's got to feel something new, and he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old.”

Lucile Watson - Mrs. Morehead

“A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.”

Evelyn Venable - The Blue Fairy

“A girl of sixteen's practically an idiot anyway, so I can't very well blame you for something that was practically done by somebody else.”

Henry Fonda - Charles

“Growing up is so difficult, Anna. The disappointments and the heartbreaks, the frightening problems, the menaces and cruelties of the world.”

Maria Ouspenskaya - Madame von Eln