“- Reese Bobby: [walks into the classroom] Excuse me, darling. I'm Reese Bobby. I'm here for career day with my son, Ricky.
- Young Ricky: Dad!
- Reese Bobby: Hey there, boy! Man, you got big. How long's it been? Three, four months?
- Young Ricky: Ten years.
- Reese Bobby: Ten years? Man, I gotta lay off the peyote.”
Gary Cole - Reese Bobby
Luke Bigham - Young Ricky

“My dad left home when I was eight. You know what he said to me? Have fun, stay single. I was eight.”
Campbell Scott - Steve Dunne

“- Gloria: My mother died when I was six.
- Arthur Bach: Son of a bitch! Don't they know what they do to kids?
- Gloria: My father raped me when I was twelve.
- Arthur Bach: So, you had six relatively good years? I'm sorry. Listen, my father screwed me, too.”
Anne De Salvo - Gloria
Dudley Moore - Arthur Bach

“By the time I was ten, playing baseball got to be like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage. So when I was 14, I started to refuse. Could you believe that? An American boy refusing to play catch with his father.”
Kevin Costner - Ray Kinsella

One day my dad said, "Bobby, you are 17. It's time to throw childish things aside", and I said, "okay, Pop". But he didn't really say that, he said, "stop being a fucking dinosaur and get a job".

Richard Jenkins - Dr. Robert Doback