Joan Cusack credited as playing...
Joan Carlyle
- Joan Carlyle: [to Tina] How dare you! You think you can just waltz away after injuring my daughter?
- Tina Harwood: Don't tell me... it's Joan, right?
- Joan Carlyle: Pulling her away from her studies behind my back?
- Tina Harwood: I assure you, nobody pulled her.
- Joan Carlyle: And filling her head with a fantasy that she can skate and then sabotaging any chance she had?
- Tina Harwood: I did you both a favor. You didn't want this for Casey and you're right. She's not cut out for it. Is she gifted? I'll give her that, but Casey will never fight for it. And she's too polite to do what you have to do: which is to push past everyone and everything, and just take it.
- Joan Carlyle: So that's the example you set for your daughter: to lie, to sneak around, to steal and to cheat.
- Tina Harwood: I made my daughter strong, and you made Casey at home in a lecture hall. And she's going to do very well there. So you see? We agree.
- Joan Carlyle: My daughter is brilliant. She will succeed at whatever she does, but she will do it the right way, despite people like you trying to convince her otherwise.
- Casey Carlyle: It is a sport, Mom. It is a thrilling and beautiful sport.
- Joan Carlyle: Are you sure it doesn't just make you feel beautiful?
- Casey Carlyle: So what if it does? What is so horrible about that? About feeling strong and graceful and beautiful for once in my life?
- Joan Carlyle: Case, there's no shelf life on your mind. If I'd learned to use mine a little sooner, if I'd gone to college when I was your age, maybe we wouldn't be living like this.
- Casey Carlyle: There's nothing wrong with the way we live.
- Joan Carlyle: I've not been able to give you a quarter of the things I've wanted to.
- Casey Carlyle: You've given me everything.
- Joan Carlyle: [to Casey] I just can't get past the twinky little outfits.
- Casey Carlyle: Mom, they're actually very aerodynamically sound.
- Joan Carlyle: It sets us back 50 years. If I ever saw you squeezed into one of those things, I'd probably start crying.
- Joan Carlyle: [about Harvard] You can't do this, Case. You're giving up on your dream.
- Casey Carlyle: No, Mom. I'm giving up on your dream. I'm going after mine.
- Joan Carlyle: [to Casey] You know what I was thinking, Miss Senior? This is the last first day of school because the next first day, you'll be in a dorm. So I went a little nuts. I made pancakes with white flour.
- Joan Carlyle: [to Casey] Case, what is the shelf life on an ice-skater? Eight years? And then a few years touring with "Has-Beens On Ice." And that's it? That's the end of your life?
- Casey Carlyle: Why are you jealous of her?
- Joan Carlyle: [nods] Well,
- [shakes her head]
- Joan Carlyle: I guess no matter how old we get, the rest of us will still always hate the prom queen.
- Joan Carlyle: I always tell my students, "You'll know your topic when you learn how to use your eyes."