"Father: You're barmy, you are, staying out all hours. Getting up to God-knows-what, dressing up like a freak. Stand still when I'm talking to you. Wouldn't be at all surprised if you're not on drugs. I know what you get up to down that club, you and your mates. You've gotta be part of a gang, haven't you? Gotta be a mod, or this, or that. Haven't you got a mind of your own?"

"You'll be getting like them bloody beatniks before you know it. Ban the bomb and do fuck all for a living pouncing about all day."

"If you don't work, you don't get paid no money. And I like money."

"You shut up and piss off! You're all wankers and cunts! Wankers and cunts!"

"[shouts while leaving to attack the rockers who attacked Spider] We're gonna murder 'em! we're gonna fuckin' murder 'em!"

"[shouts from the cliff top after deciding not to be a mod] Me!"

"[notices Ace Face working as a bellboy in a hotel] Bellboy! BELLBOY!"

"At a tough school one teacher and one class proved to America they could...Stand and Deliver."

"In 1982, a new troublemaker hit Garfield High... He was tough. He was wild. He was willing to fight. He was the new math teacher."

"Andy García - Ramirez"

"Rosanna DeSoto - Fabiola Escalante"

"Lou Diamond Phillips - Angel Guzman"

"Edward James Olmos - Jaime Escalante"

"A true story about a modern miracle."

"Eileen Brennan - Genevieve"

"Ellen Burstyn - Lois Farrow"

"Cloris Leachman - Ruth Popper"

"Ben Johnson - Sam the Lion"

"Cybill Shepherd - Jacy Farrow"

"Jeff Bridges - Duane Jackson"

"Timothy Bottoms - Sonny Crawford"

"One thing I know for sure - a person can't sneeze in this town without somebody offerin' him a handkerchief...it's an awful small town for any kinda carryin' on...And some people got a lotta guns."

"[to Sonny] What am I doing apologizin' to you? Why am I always apologizin' to you, ya little bastard? Three months I been apologizing to you, without you even bein' here. I haven't done anything wrong - why can't I quit apologizin'? You're the one oughta be sorry. I wouldn't still be in my bathrobe if it hadn't been for you. I'da had my clothes on hours ago. You're the one made me quit carin' if I got dressed or not. I guess just because your friend got killed you want me to forget what you did and make it all right. I'm not sorry for you. You'd've left Billy, too, just like you left me. I bet you left him plenty a nights, whenever Jacy whistled. I wouldn't treat a dog that way. I guess you thought I was so old and ugly you didn't owe me any explanation. You didn't need to be careful of me. There wasn't anythin' I could do about you and her - why should you be careful of me? You didn't love me. Look at me. Can't you even look at me? Y'see? You shouldn't have come here. I'm around that corner now. You've ruined it and it's lost completely. Just your needing me won't make it come back. [pause] Never you mind, honey, never you mind."

"Barc Doyle - Joe Bob Blanton"

"Jessie Lee Fulton - Miss Mosey"

"Bill Thurman - Coach Popper"

"Joe Heathcock - The Sheriff"

"Randy Quaid - Lester Marlow"

"Sharon Ullrick - Charlene Duggs"

"Sam Bottoms - Billy"

"Clu Gulager - Abilene"

"Jacey pretended to care for Alice so well, the illusion became so complete that even he was fooled."

"My mother was right; if the Abbotts didn't exist, Jacey would have had to invent them, but it seems to me that inventing the Abbotts was something that almost everyone in Haley did, and still do. Alice reunited with Peter, lived out the same lie of a happy marriage that her mother and father have lived, and a new generation of Abbott parties began."

"The truth about our mother and Lloyd didn't comfort Jacey, because the truth seemed to him just as unfair as the lie he had always believed in."

"Although she seemed unique to me then, I now know that the world is filled with working women raising children by themselves. There was nothing especially original about my mother... not even in the way she brought her sons back together again."

"My mother's life had been damaged by a lie, and my brother was forever lost in a maze of illusions that lie had created... and I had followed him there. Jacey would never find his way out, but I had to... and the only way I could do that was to forgive, but I could never forget."

"Although I share Jacey's Abbott interest in the opposite sex, I obviously lacked his consummate skills. When Jacey came home that summer, he picked up right where he left off with Eleanor, and she was more than eager to pick up right where she left off with him."

"My brother was more successful at reinventing himself than I was. Jacey's parties at the University of Pennsylvania were the hippest ones around. And even though he had a major in architecture, he seriously minored in beautiful coeds."

"I had always thought of Eleanor Abbott as just another stuck-up rich girl, a flirt, a tease. But she proved to be a bigger rebel than I ever was. Jacey and I never talked about that thing with Eleanor in the garage, but Jacey never bragged about his conquests. When he went off to college that fall, I didn't feel particularly sad, I felt free."

"Everything Jacey wanted in life, the Abbotts already had: their cars, money, country clubs. But in the beginning, more than anything else, he wanted Eleanor Abbott. I'd witnessed enough of my brother's social agony to resolve early on. I would never let the Abbotts matter to me."

"My brother and I were born strangers. Same last name, same address, but everything else about us was different. Back then, Jacey was a complete mystery to me, and I was a constant source of embarrassment to him."

"Zoe McLellan - Sandy"

"Michael Keaton - Narrator/Older Doug"

"Alesandro Nivola - Peter Vanlaningham"

"Barbara Williams - Joan Abbott"