For those of you who doesn't know, Stein played the Economics teacher in the movie. And the quote goes something like this:
"This is to comedies what Gone with the Wind (1939) is to epics", Stein said. "It will never die because it responds to and calls forth such human emotions. It isn't dirty. There's nothing mean-spirited about it. There's nothing sneering or sniggering about it. It's just wholesome. We want to be free. We want to have a good time. We know we're not going to be able to all our lives. We know we're going to have to buckle down and work. We know we're going to have to eventually become family men and women and have responsibilities and pay our bills. But just give us a couple of good days that we can look back on."
This quote (and the movie itself, of course) is really impactful for me. The worst thing you can do when you're grown up is to look back to the happy days you had. Unlike Ferris, I don't think I ever have one of those days where I said "fuck it" and break all the rules and go wild and have fun. When (if) I have a kid, I'd definitely show him/her this movie. It is, for me, the greatest representation of living your life to the fullest and not worrying...because life does move pretty fast; if you don't look around once in a while, you could miss it.