“I was sure I was going to get that scholarship. My dad of course was sure I wasn't. When I didn't, he was real understanding, you know. He loves to do that. He loves to be understanding when I fail.”
Daniel Stern - Cyril

“- Lillian Meechum: Your father is very nervous about this game. Look at me, young lady! Look at me! You've got to interpret the signals he gives off!
- Mary Anne Meechum: No problem! He always gives off the signals of a psychopathic killer, so it really doesn't matter how you interpret them!”
Blythe Danner - Lillian Meechum
Lisa Jane Persky - Mary Anne Meechum

“Trying to make these policemen understand something is harder than doing it yourself.”
Billie Burke - Mrs. Topper

“This government of ours doesn't realise what sort of a world we're living in.”
David Horne - Evans, Foreign Editor

“If you know what's good for you, take those weapons home and burn them! And then think... think of this country and of the law that makes it what it is. Think of a world crying for this very law! And maybe you'll understand why you ought to guard it.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap