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!

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.

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.

Knowing how to love unconditionally is the ultimate knowledge of life.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

So are we going to eat some Boo Berry or what?" John said, leaping out of his seat and toward the refrigerator.

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

Of course, fresh flowers are the answer to any June gloom you may be feeling. Flowers really do solve all problems.