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

“- 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

“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

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

“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

“- Molly: Gigi, where the fuck you going to school next year?
- Gigi: Don't judge me. It was my fifth choice: Harvard.”
Beanie Feldstein - Molly
Billie Lourd - Gigi

“- Molly: You don't even care about school.
- Triple A: No, I just don't only care about school.”
Beanie Feldstein - Molly
Molly Gordon - Triple A

“- Molly: You failed the seventh grade twice.
- Theo: Rule of threes.”
Beanie Feldstein - Molly
Eduardo Franco - Theo

“I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.”
Bella Heathcote

“Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.”
Adam Driver

“Here's the Remains of the Day lunchbox. Kids don't like eating at school, but if they have a Remains of the Day lunchbox they're a lot happier.”
Christopher Guest - Corky St. Clair

“OK, now I'm going back to graduate school. That was the agreement.”

Janeane Garofalo - Bowler

“- Paul Stephens: Who's Anne Frank?
- Jenny Anderman: Um, a girl in my English class.”
Christopher Collet - Paul Stephens
Cynthia Nixon - Jenny Anderman

“- Jacob Kowalski: Did... Did you say school? Is there a school? A wizardry school here in, uh, America?
- Queenie: Of course. Ilvermorny. It's only the best wizard school in the whole world.
- Newt: I think you'll find the best wizarding school in the world is Hogwarts.”
Dan Fogler - Jacob Kowalski
Alison Sudol - Queenie
Eddie Redmayne - Newt

“- Mrs. Kidman: Do these girls go to your high school?
- Eli: No, Mrs Kidman. They're porn stars.”
Donna Bullock - Mrs. Kidman
Chris Marquette - Eli

Sex can be fun... when you're old enough, which none of you are. I should know. When you lose it to some guy named Junior with bad breath in the back of a van at a Guns N' Roses concert, you're gonna wish you had listened to your mother when she said, "They're not gonna want to buy the whole friggin' ice cream truck when you're handing out the... (continue)(continue reading)

Molly Shannon - Anita

“He dropped out of a better school than I dropped out of.”

Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs

“- Mike Baker: Dad, she's got her period. Should make for an interesting honeymoon, huh?
- Jim Baker: Where are you learning that stuff?
- Mike Baker: School.
- Jim Baker: Good. I get my money's worth.”
Justin Henry - Mike Baker
Paul Dooley - Jim Baker