“My kindergarten teacher. I was four. She said I was too advanced for my class, and so they skipped a grade. I didn't want to be skipped, but everybody acted like I was so special. Then pretty soon I working even harder to get skipped all over again. And that, my friend, is how you end up in the junkyard.”
Jeff Daniels - Charles Tuttle

I'd prepared a case and old man White said to me, "How did you do?". And, I said, "Did my best". And he said, "You're not paid to do your best. You're paid to win".
James Mason - Ed Concannon

- John Patrick Mason: Are you sure you're ready for this?
- Stanley Goodspeed: I'll do my best.
- John Patrick Mason: Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason
Nicolas Cage - Stanley Goodspeed

“Maybe I should thank someone else. Someone who's really been there, someone who taught me a lot, about poetry and Shakespeare, and just staying awake, man. Someone who's just an overall great guy, a great teacher... to Howard Brackett from Greenleaf, Indiana!”
Matt Dillon - Cameron Drake

“If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.”
Robin Williams - Professor Philip Brainard