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 thought that I was headed to a place that would turn out tomorrow's leaders, not their wives.”

Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson

“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

“Martin-You've got your students. They're gonna remember you forever.
Peter-They're gonna forget all about us the moment they're out the door.”
Mads Mikkelsen - Martin
Lars Ranthe - Peter

“I’m not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.”
Jenna Ortega - Wednesday Addams

“Alan Harper-What are you praying for?
Jake Harper-I have a math test on Monday.
Alan Harper-Oh, so you're praying for a good grade?
Jake Harper-No, that never works. I'm praying for the teacher to get sick.

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Jon Cryer - Alan Harper
Angus T. Jones - Jake Harper

“Failing classes is not the only way to get attention from your parents. A lot of girls, when they're having a bad time at home, just go slutty.”
Christopher Grace - Eric Forman

“School spirit is for losers man. You're just like floating along on the conveyer belt of conformity... pep rallies, extra curricular activities, washing your hair... It's all just a trap, man.”
Danny Masterson - Steven Hyde

“These after-school specials are thrilling. Who knew that one beer could turn a cheerleader into a whore?”
Wilmer Valderrama - Fez

“I once had sex on a bus and I was driving it. Oh...... were those kidslate to school.”
Jennifer Coolidge - Sophie Kachinsky

“In private school, we never bent down to put our mouths on anything unless it had a yacht.”
Beth Behrs - Caroline Channing

“Let me get this straight. You both went to the same school. Yet someone came back with a degree that's useful, and the other one came back as Asian Ellen.”
Ken Jeong - Wye Mun Goh