“The trouble with being a teenager is you don't know nothing. The problem with teenagers is you think you're smarter than people who already been down the road you're traveling.”
Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

“- Lila: What is going on with her these days?
- Judy: You'd have to ask her that, Lila.
- Lila: So, there is something going on?
- Judy: Oh, well, she's nineteen. There's always something going on when you're nineteen.”

Wendy Crewson - Lila
Peter Outerbridge - Judy

“You're behaving like a romantic girl of eighteen.”

Gladys Cooper - Mrs. Henry Vale

“- Katie Sipriano: You guys are much too well-behaved. High school isn't what it used to be.
- Mike Donnelly: Yeah, it's mostly discipline. No matter how jazzed up and relevant I try to make the history, I'm still dealing with a roomfull of teenage libido.”
Maggie Renzi - Katie
Bruce MacDonald - Mike

“- Friedrich: I'm Friedrich. I'm fourteen. I'm impossible!
- Maria: [laughing] Really? Who told you that, Friedrich?
- Friedrich: Fraulein Josephine, four governesses ago.”
Nicholas Hammond - Friedrich
Julie Andrews - Maria