“- Maria: I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things, anything and everything I think and feel.
- Mother Abbess: Some people would call that honesty.
- Maria: Oh, but it's terrible, Reverend Mother.”
Julie Andrews - Maria
Peggy Wood - Mother Abbess

“- Marcy Tizard: Go back to your wife!
- Sean Kelly: My ex-wife. We're going through with the divorce.
- Marcy Tizard: They don't have divorce in Ireland.
- Sean Kelly: They do. It just got in.”
Janeane Garofalo - Marcy Tizard
David O'Hara - Sean Kelly

“I'm Irish. I can't get drunk.”
Barry Pepper - Frank Slaughtery

“- Mateo: Where you from?
- Christy: Ireland.
- Mateo: You came all the way to America to trick or treat?”
Djimon Hounsou - Mateo
Sarah Bolger - Christy

“Irish women are as small as leprechauns.”
Kip Pardue - Victor