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Which character in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" said...

So you think you are a fan of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Let's see how well you know it. Match the following lines with the characters that spoke them. Can you get them all right?

  1. [to Ferris] How would you feel about another year of high school? Under my close personal supervision.

  2. In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone? ...the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered? ...raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. 'Voodoo' economics.

  3. [thinking to herself] Maybe I'm overreacting. Maybe Ferris isn't such a bad guy. After all, I got a car. He got a computer. But still, why should he get to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants? Why should everything work out for him? What makes him so god damn special? [out loud] Screw him.

  4. Hey, batter-batter-batter, hey, batter-batter-batter-swing-batter! He can't hit, and he can't hit, and he can't hit, and he can't hit, swing batter!

  5. What? You're letting him stay home? If I was bleeding out my eyes you guys would make me go to school. This is so unfair!

  6. Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo.

  7. [to Sloane] Do you have a kiss for Daddy?

  8. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  9. Look, don't make me participate in your stupid crap if you don't like the way I do it! You make me get out of bed. You make me come over. You make me make a phony phone call to Edward Rooney? The man could squash my nuts into oblivion. And, and, and then, and then, you deliberately hurt my feelings.

  10. Ferris Bueller, you're my hero.

  11. [to Jeanie] You wear too much eye makeup. My sister wears too much. People think she's a whore.

  12. [speaking to the police] There is an intruder--male, Caucasian, possibly armed, certainly weird--in my kitchen. M-my-my-my name is Bueller. Look, it's real nice that you hope my brother is feeling better, but I'm in danger, okay? I am very cute, very alone and very protective of my body. I don't want it violated or killed, all right?! I need help! Speak any English?! Dick head!