“- Principal Turner: Miss Riley, our job is to give these kids an education. - Miss Riley: Mmm-hmm. - Principal Turner: Not false hopes. - Miss Riley: False hopes? Do you want me to sit quiet, let 'em breathe in coal dust the rest of their life?”
Chris Ellis - Principal Turner
Laura Dern - Miss Riley
“The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope, into the future! The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us.”
Sir Charlie Chaplin - Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania
“Conrad. Let's have a great Christmas. Let's have... a great year. Let's have the best year of our whole lives. We can, you know... this could be the best one ever.”
Dinah Manoff - Karen
“If I go on to win at Indianapolis, I can go to college, maybe even get a job at Cape Canaveral. There's nothing here for me. The town is dying! The mine is dying! Everybody here knows that but you!”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam
“The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.”
Linda Hamilton - Sarah Connor
