Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

She had that kind of undeniable femininity that few women achieve, bogged down as we are by other things.

Your mind is filled with ample secret abilities not known to you, keep it active by shutting down disbelieve.

We don't need to be a pro photographer for making a photo or an experienced author for making quotes, everyone can make photos and quotes.

work. play. passion.

I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.

Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.

Beauty is not a size. You can be a size 2 and be curvy or you can be a size 24 and be curvy Curvy is being a woman.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.