George C. Scott credited as playing...
Grandpa Ivan
- Grandpa: Superman isn't brave.
- Angus: Did you take your pills this morning?
- Grandpa: [chuckles] You don't understand. He's smart, handsome, even decent. But he's not brave. No, listen to me. Superman is indestructible, and you can't be brave if you're indestructible. It's people like you and your mother. People who are different, and can be crushed and know it. Yet they keep on going out there every time.
- Grandpa: Meg you're making everybody crazy, you're on me all the time about the marriage, you're all over Angus about the science school crap...
- Meg Bethune: Its not crap dad!
- Grandpa: Its crap!
- Meg Bethune: Its a wonderful opportunity for him, a chance to excel in something he's really great at. Its good for Angus. Its also an opportunity for him to go someplace where he doesn't have to account for who his parents are.
- Grandpa: Screw what other people think! He doesn't have to prove anything!
- Meg Bethune: Neither does he. This dance thing is a prank. I don't want him humiliated in front of the whole school.
- Grandpa: You know what you're doing? You're not giving the boy credit for being strong.
- Meg Bethune: Do you know every time he sits down in the cafeteria, the kids jump up like they're being thrown off the bench? They call him big foot.
- Grandpa: He never mentioned that to me.
- Meg Bethune: He never told me either. Do you know what they did with his underwear? They ran it up the flag pole just to humilate him. And he gets up and goes back there every single day. Don't you tell me I don't know how strong my son is. I know. And if he wants to go to any god damn school where kids won't slap their belly every time he walks by, then he damn well can.
- Grandpa: That was you kid, third grade. Look how you turned out.
- Grandpa: Don't mind what other people think.
- Angus Bethune: You don't know what other people think anyway. Your mind is shot!
- Grandpa: Why does she talk to me like I'm a child?
- Angus Bethune: Why does she talk to me like I'm an adult?