“- Vice Principal Gene Wolters: I care about these kids just as much as you do. And if I'm forced to choose between Mozart and reading and writing and long division, I choose long division. - Glenn Holland: Well, I guess you can cut the arts as much as you want, Gene. Sooner or later, these kids aren't going to have anything to read or write about.” William H. Macy - Vice Principal Gene Wolters
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Glenn Holland
“- Miss Ungermeyer: Mr. Craft, have you even started on your summer reading list? - Ethan Craft: I finished it. - Miss Ungermeyer: You read eleven books? - Ethan Craft: I mean I read the list!” Alex Borstein - Miss Ungermeyer
Clayton Snyder - Ethan Craft
“I learned to read some. I read the Bible quite a bit. I can't understand all of it, but I reckon I understand a good deal of it.” Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers
“There was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting. And I believe that time can come again!” Luke Wilson - Joe Bauers
“Whenever I wondered what Sara saw in me, and I wondered more than once, I always came back to the fact that she loved to read. She read everything every spare moment. She was a junkie for the printed word. And lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice.” Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp
