“Where would we be without our painful childhoods?”
Brian Cox - Dr. Finch

“- Reuben Feffer: You don't know what it was like for me growing up. I had a mother who made me afraid of everything!
- Polly Prince: Well, big deal, Reuben, my dad had a whole second family!
- Reuben Feffer: What?
- Polly Prince: Yeah, on Long Island. He had a wife, and kids, and a golden retriever!”
Ben Stiller - Reuben Feffer
Jennifer Aniston - Polly Prince

“- Mother of 9-Year-Old Girl: I have a girl of nine who won't listen to what's right. She always does what's wrong. What should I do?
- Larry Haines: Wait ten years, and if there's no improvement... send me her number.”

Nell Craig - Mother of 9-Year-Old Girl
Bob Hope - Larry Haines

“Men are pretty much like children after all. Have you ever seen two kids wrestling in the yard? They push and they tussle and maybe they look like they're fighting... but they're not. They're really friends and everything is fun. Then pretty soon they play a little too rough. One of them gets mad. And in the end, somebody always gets hurt.”

Walter Huston - Doc Holliday

“The end of my innocence and childhood began in 1957. It is remarkable to me now just how little I knew then about the people around me. It took me years to figure out exactly what the truth was, especially given my brother's knack at inventing facts.”

Michael Keaton - Narrator