School quotes

“- Matilda: I want to go to school.
- Mr. Wormwood: School? It's out of the question. Who would be here to sign for the packages? We can't leave valuable packages sitting out on the doorstep. Now go watch TV like a good kid.”
Mara Wilson - Matilda
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood

“- Arnold Stoner: [to wife, off camera] Sweetheart, I'll talk to him.
- Arnold Stoner: [to Anthony, as he makes a fruit smoothie] Son, your mother and me would like for you to cozy up to the Finkelstein boy. He's a brightkid, and, uh... he's going to military school, and... remember, he was an Eagle Scout...
- Mrs. Tempest Stoner: Arnold...
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Strother Martin - Arnold Stoner
Edie Adams - Mrs. Tempest Stoner

“- Dewey Finn: Now, what makes you mad more than anything in the world?
[sees Billy who has his hand raised]
- Dewey Finn: Billy?
- Billy: You.”

Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Brian Falduto - Billy

“- Claire Standish: Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular. Everybody loves me so much at this school.
- John Bender: Poor baby.”
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish
Judd Nelson - John Bender

“Facing this stuff in real life is not like school. In school, if you make a mistake, you can just try again tomorrow, but out there, when you're a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes, you don't know what that's like.”
Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter

“- Dewey Finn: You know what? You don't have to worry about me 'cos i'm tough. If a kid gets outta line, I got no problem, smackin' 'em in the head.
- Rosalie Mullins: No. No, we don't use corporal punishment here.
- Dewey Finn: Okay, so just... verbal abuse?”

Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Joan Cusack - Rosalie Mullins

“- Jake Wyler: So listen, you ever wondered what it'd be like to be the most popular girl in school?
- Janey Briggs: You mean anorexic, superficial, a bitch, a whore who lacks any real long-term goals?”
Chris Evans - Jake Wyler
Chyler Leigh - Janey Briggs

“East High is a place where teachers encouraged us to break the status quo and define ourselves as we choose. Where a jock can cook up a mean crème brulee, and a brainiac can break it down on the dance floor. It's a place where one person, if it's the right person, changes us all. East High is having friends we'll keep for the rest of our lives,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Zac Efron - Troy Bolton

“I never made it to the sixth grade, kid. And it doesn't look like you're gonna, either.”

Joe Pesci - Harry Lime

“I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all this crap high school and everything, just skip it.”
Paul Dano - Dwayne

“You take him out of this school, you might as well just take his life from him.”
Ed Harris - Coach Jones

“- Annie: Mrs. Burbridge, would you come over here for a moment? Has it escaped your attention that these children have head to toe poison oak?
- Adele Burbridge: Well no, I... well yes, but...
- Annie: But what? My children are in need of medical assistance! And you can sit here and smugly lecture me on the importance of tests? Tests which exist...” (continue)(continue reading)
Goldie Hawn - Annie
Doris Hess - Adele Burbridge

- Lu-Lu Fishpaw: I got my report card today. Wanna see it?
- Francine Fishpaw: Have you done any better this time? [looking at the report card] Lu-Lu, you have failed every single subject again!
- Lu-Lu Fishpaw: No, Ma. They changed the grading system. "F" is for "Fantastic"!
- Francine Fishpaw: You little liar! It's a good thing you're not... (continue)(continue reading)
Mary Garlington - Lu-Lu Fishpaw
Divine - Francine Fishpaw

“They have lots of body parts. Arms and legs and hands, from hospitals and medical schools. And do you know where they store 'em? Right underneath the football field. So while it's fine and dandy to have 100,000 fans cheering for you, the bodies you should be worried about are the ones right under the turf. Set to poke up through the ground and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kathy Bates - Miss Sue

“My idea of a perfect school is one in which there are no children… at all.”
Pam Ferris - Trunchbull

“School is just for white people looking for other white people to read to 'em. I figured I save my money and read to myself.”
Rutina Wesley - Tara Thornton

“Gym Teacher-Tell you what, Simpson: I won't fail you if you join one of those peewee teams outside the school.
Lisa-You mean those leagues where parents push their kids into vicious competition to compensate for their own failed dreams of glory?”
Tress MacNeille - Gym Teacher
Yeardley Smith - Lisa Simpson

“You know, it’s one thing for my classmates to body shame me, but for you, Principal Hayes, that’s just a whole other thing. It’s degrading. It’s discriminatory. And it just goes to show how insidious, and systemic body terrorism truly is in this country.”
Barbie Ferreira - Kat Hernandez

“Nothing in high school lasts forever.”
Colman Domingo - Ali

“I’ll tell you how I feel about school, Jerry: it’s a waste of time. Bunch of people runnin’ around bumpin’ into each other, got a guy up front says, ‘2 + 2,’ and the people in the back say, ‘4.’ Then the bell rings and they give you a carton of milk and a piece of paper that says you can go take a dump or somethin’. I mean, it’s not a place for...” (continue)(continue reading)
Justin Roiland - Rick Sanchez

“It shouldn’t matter what anyone in the school thinks. You are who you are. Don’t let anyone take that away from you.”
Asa Butterfield - Otis Milburn

“Have you ever done a group project but there’s like that one kid who didn’t pitch in as much but still ended up with the same grade?”
Awkwafina - Sisu

“Joey, we didn’t struggle giving you an education so you could be a middle-aged man washing your underwear in my shop.”
Phylicia Rashad - Libba

“I read. I just don't read what they give us in school. I mean, do I really care who wins between Beowulf and Grendel? No, I don't. Maybe if I had a little money on it.”
Timothée Chalamet - Gatsby Welles

“- Aunt Alicia: Did you work hard in school today? What did you study?
- Gigi: History. Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
- Aunt Alicia: How depressing. What else?
- Gigi: English.
- Aunt Alicia: English? I suppose we must. They refuse to learn French.”
Isabel Jeans - Aunt Alicia
Leslie Caron - Gigi