Uncle Buck (1989)

Suzanne Shepherd: Mrs. Hogarth

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• [at a meeting with the assistant principal, who's got a big unsightly growth on her face] 

  Anita : I'm Anita Hoargarth.

  Buck Russell : [Staring at it]  I'm Buck Melanoma. Moley Russell's wart. Not her wart. Not her wart! I'm... I'm the wart. She's my tumor. My... my growth. My... uh, my pimple. I'm Uncle Wart. Just old Buck "Wart" Russell. That's what they call me, or Melanoma Head. They'll call me that. "Melanoma Head's coming." I'm s... uncle! Maisy Russell's uncle!

• Anita : I've been an educator for 31.3 years, and in that time I've seen a lot of bad eggs. I say "eggs", because at the elementary level we are not dealing with fully developed individuals. I see a bad egg when I look at your niece. She is a twiddler, a dreamer, a silly heart, she is a jabberbox. And frankly, I don't think she takes a thing in her life or her career as a student seriously.

  Buck : She's only six.

  Anita : That is not a valid excuse! I hear that everyday, and I dismiss it.

  Buck : I don't think I want to know a six year old who isn't a dreamer or a silly heart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree, I don't even have a job.