Toni Collette credited as playing...
Muriel
- Muriel: When I lived in Porpoise Spit, I used to sit in my room for hours and listen to ABBA songs. But since I've met you and moved to Sydney, I haven't listened to one ABBA song. That's because my life is as good as an ABBA song. It's as good as Dancing Queen.
- Muriel: When I lived in Porpoise Spit, no one looked at me. But when I moved to Sydney, Brice asked me out and that proves that I changed and I'm not her anymore.
- Rhonda: Her?
- Muriel: Muriel! Muriel Heslop. Stupid, fat and useless. I hate her! I'm never going back to being her again! Why can't it be me? Why can't I be the one?
- Coach Ken Blundell: Mariel, you've probably seen the news about the civil war in South Africa. Well, just as the South Africans seem to be doing the right thing by the blacks, the police open fire on a black soccer club, and that is bad news for David.
- Muriel: [to David, who is clearly a white South African] Are you black?
- David: What?
- Bill: After she failed high school, I get her into a secretarial course run by a mate of mine. $300 a term. Two years, $2,000. She comes out, she can't even type.
- Muriel: I could type.
- Bill: Then I get her a job at me solicitor's. After a month, Stevie Mason rings up and says he'll have to let her go 'cause she can't type.
- Muriel: If I couldn't type, why did they give me my secretarial diploma?
- Bill: Because I paid for it!