"[dying words] I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children. But you're wrong. I have. Thousands of them. Thousands of them... and all boys."

"Terry Kilburn - John Colley, Peter Colley I, II and III"

"Paul Henreid - Max Staeffel"

"It must be tremendously interesting to be a schoolmaster, to watch boys grow up and help them along; to see their characters develop and what they become when they leave school and the world gets hold of them. I don't see how you could ever get old in a world that's always young."

"Well, remember me sometimes. I shall always remember you. "Haec olim meminisse iuvabit." I need not translate it for you."

"Louise Hampton - Mrs. Wickett"

"Edmond Breon - Colonel Morgan"

"Robert Donat - Charles "Mr. Chips" Chipping"

"Ralston: [to Mr. Chips] And when you write that books of yours, remember that in addition to all those boys you taught, you managed to teach something to at least one headmaster."

"John Mills - Peter Colley (as a young man)"

"Lyn Harding - Dr. John Hamilton Wetherby"

"Austin Trevor - Ralston"

"Milton Rosmer - Mr. Chatteris"

"Judith Furse - Flora"

"Kim Fortune - Collins"

"Dearbhla Molloy - Elaine"

"Maeve Germaine - Sandra, Rita's sister"

"Godfrey Quigley - Rita's father"

"Patricia Jeffares - Rita's mother"

"Maureen Lipman - Trish"

"Michael Williams - Brian"

"Michael Caine - Dr Frank Bryant"

"A comedy about a teacher and a very memorable student."

"Malcolm Douglas - Denny White, Rita's husband"

"Julie Walters - Susan "Rita" White"

"Jeananne Crowley - Julia, Frank's girlfriend"

"Sometimes students end up being the best teachers."

"Christ! Me customer! She's still under the dryer. She only wanted a demi-wave, she'll come out lookin' like a friggin' muppet!"

"Did you know that Macbeth was a maggoty apple? Not many people know that!"

"Found a culture, have you Rita? Found a better song to sing? No, you found a different song to sing, and on your lips it's shrill and hollow and tuneless."

"In reply to the question "Suggest how you would resolve the staging difficulties inherent in a production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt", you have written, quote: "Do it on the radio." Unquote."

"I'm beginning to find me. It's great. It is, you know, Frank. It might sound selfish, but all I want for the time being is what I'm finding inside me."

"I did join in the singing. But when I turned around, me mother had stopped singin', and she was cryin'. I said, 'Why are you cryin', Mother?' And she said, 'There must be better songs to sing than this.' And I thought, yeah - that's what I'm trying to do, isn't it? Sing a better song."

"Yuri Chernov - Syromyatnikov, pupil"

"Olga Ostroumova - Rita Cherkasova, pupil"

"Igor Starygin - Kostya Batishchev, pupil"

"Roza Grigoryeva - Sveta Demidova, pupil"

"Valeriy Zubarev - Genka Shestopal, pupil"

"Lyubov Sokolova - Levikova"

"Mikhail Zimin - Nikolai Borisovich — School Principal"

"Nadir Malishevsky - TV Show Host"

"Dalvin Shcherbakov - Borya Rudnitsky, formerly Melnikov's student"

"Nina Menshikova - Svetlana Mikhailovna — Russian Language and Literature Teacher"

"My daughter gets C grades in your discipline systematically, this is surprising and alarming, because history is not mathematics, you don’t need to be a genius."

"Vyacheslav Tikhonov - Ilya Semyonovich Melnikov — History Teacher"