"I'll tell you what you could do if you went away, Zan: if you could find some place where they pay wages for talkin' silly, you could make a fortune"

"Terry Nibert - Julia"

"Teresa Wright - Alexandra "Zannie" Giddens"

"Herbert Marshall - Horace Giddens"

"Lucien Littlefield - Manders"

"I hope you die! I hope you die soon! I'll be waiting for you to die!"

"Russell Hicks - William Marshall"

"Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you."

"There's a common belief among anthropologists that you must immerse yourself in an unfamiliar world in order to truly understand your own."

"You want to know about the dads? I'll tell you about the dads. They're chubby, bald, steak-eating, cigar-smoking, type-A pigs who get more turned on by the Bloomberg Wire than they do by any hot nannies. Actually, it's all of you in about 5 years. So take it from me, guys: Enjoy tonight, because your future looks pretty fucking bleak."

"My desire to be an observer of life was actually keeping me from having one."

"Scarlett Johansson as Annie "Nanny" Braddock"

"Paul Giamatti as Mr. Stan X"

"Donna Murphy as Judy Braddock"

"Laura Linney as Mrs. Alexandra X"

"Alicia Keys as Lynette"

"Brande Roderick as Tanya"

"Judith Roberts as Milicent"

"Nate Corddry as Calvin"

"Chris Evans as Hayden "Harvard Hottie""

"Nicholas Reese Art as Grayer Addison X"

"Julie White as Jane Gould"

"Nina Garbiras as Miss Chicago"

"Heather Simms as Murnel"

"Child-rearing around the world boasts a wide variety of customs and mores. But perhaps the most bizarre social patterns can be found within the small island community of Manhattan... The inhabitants of the region known as the Upper East Side have the most prosperous, yet idiosyncratic social systems on the planet. After successfully mating and producing offspring, the men are often distant and uninvolved, leaving their women to hunt, gather and provide for their families. Yet the resourceful mothers of the Upper East Side have plenty of time to participate in a variety of sex-role specific activities. These include body mutilation, sacred meditation, even fasting rituals. Which brings us to our focus on child-rearing: Who actually does it? Well, in Africa, they have a saying, "It takes a village to raise a child." But for the tribe of the Upper East Side, it takes just one person: the Nanny."

"Michael Strong - Colonel Varney"

"Lisa Jane Persky - Mary Anne Meechum"

"Paul Mantee - Colonel Virgil "Virg" Hedgepath"

"David Keith - "Red" Pettus"

"Theresa Merritt - Arrabelle Smalls"

"Brian Andrews - Matthew Meechum"

"Stan Shaw - Toomer Smalls"

"Paul Gleason - First Lieutenant Sammy"

"Robert Duvall - Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur "Bull" P. Meechum"

"Blythe Danner - Lillian "Lil" Meechum"

"I'd like to propose a toast, to my son. He is eighteen today. He has just ordered his first drink. Before he drinks it, I'd like to wish him a long life, a wife as fine as his mother, and a son as fine as he's been. To my son!"

"[addressing his fighter squadron] Morning. You men now have the privilege of serving under the meanest, toughest, screamingest commander in the Marine Corps- me. If I say something you pretend it's coming from the Burning Bush. We're Marines. Marine Corps fighter pilots. We have no other function. That is your mission, and you're gonna hack it or pack it! You're flying with Bull Meechum now, and I kid you not, this is the eye of the storm! Welcome aboard."

"I'm a Meechum. A Meechum's a thoroughbred, a winner all the way. He chews nails while the other kids eat cotton candy. He never surrenders. He never gives up."