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

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.

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.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

Jump in the ocean of loveto die and to save at the same time.

Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.

Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.

I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

People are so skillful in their ignorance!

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.