School Principal Quotes in 3 Days to Kill (2014)

School Principal: As I was saying to Zooey, study after study has shown that aggression is exacerbated by violent images in popular culture.

Ethan Renner: Well, Zooey's mother raised her to be a pacifist.

School Principal: Hmm. Hitting a classmate in the face is hardly a passive response.

Ethan Renner: [looking over at Zooey] With an open hand or a clenched fist?

School Principal: What difference does that make?

Ethan Renner: Well, from my experience, anger, frustration, insult, they all call for... they all call for different responses.

School Principal: You can kiss Eden goodbye! Trouble awaits you...

[points to Sophie]

School Principal: You, my dear, in pain shall you bring forth children, wear high heels, suffer through dieting, exfoliation, face-lifts, and what's more, you'll have to cook! And that's not all!

[points to Julien]

School Principal: For you, boy, I've reserved the worst... scourges and torments, dinosaurs and volcanoes! Godzilla, the A-bomb, Liz Taylor, Hitler, dead Indians, noisy washing machines, oil-slicks, but above all... pretty moms who are sick.

School Principal: Is Dexter ill today?

Francine Fishpaw: Why, no, Mr. Kirk. Dexter's in school.

School Principal: I'm afraid he's not, Mrs. Fishpaw. Dexter's truancy problem is way out of hand, and the Baltimore County School Board have decided to expel Dexter from the entire public school system.

Francine Fishpaw: Why Mr. Kirk - I'm as upset as you to learn of Dexter's truancy - but surely expulsion is not the answer?

School Principal: I'm afraid expulsion is the only answer. It is the opinion of the entire staff that Dexter is criminally insane...

Jane Richards: Oh yes I want to thank you for that lovely gift.

School Principal: Oh I'm glad you liked it. You know I was afraid you might have thought it was a bit too

[pause]

School Principal: too...

[pause]

Jane Richards: Too gay? No I like to be gay once in a while!

School Principal: Well that's uh,

[pause]

School Principal: that's fine, just fine.

Sameer Behl: [applying for a job as a high school dance teacher] I love kids, sir. In fact, during my childhood even I was a kid.

School Principal: Really?

Sameer Behl: Really.

School Principal: Strange.