“- Dr. Leo Marvin: Why are you always wearing black? What is it with you and this death fixation?
- Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin: Maybe I'm in mourning for my lost childhood.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dr. Leo Marvin
Charlie Korsmo - Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin

“I used to like to play with my Ken and Barbie dolls. Ken was my favorite. Then one Christmas I got them a camper and all they wanted to do was hang out in it by themselves. So I wasn't too upset when they took that wrong turn and went over the cliff.”
Anna Chlumsky - Vada Sultenfuss

“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you don't go on forever. Must have been shattering. Stamped into one's memory.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Rosencrantz

“Rose isn't dead, son, not really. Some of us die, some of us don't. Rose lives! Don't worry about it, boy. She's at rest with Mother and the creator of the universe.”
Robert Duvall - Daddy

“- Mary: No... I miss my daddy!
- Sharon: Oh, honey, I miss your daddy too.
- Mary: I want to go to heaven so I can see him again.”
Kimberly Cullum - Mary
Mimi Rogers - Sharon