How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Quote #7
CAMERON: Okay Ferris, can we just let it go, please?
SLOANE: Ferris, please. You've gone too far. We're going to get busted.
FERRIS: (A) You can never go too far. (B) If I'm gonna get busted, it is not gonna be by a guy like that.
Sometimes Ferris chooses to be too in the moment, like here, when he's about to steal the lunch reservation of someone he's never met and who, if this wasn't a movie, would probably be arriving soon, hungry and wicked upset.
Quote #8
FERRIS: Four thousand restaurants in the downtown area, I pick the one my father goes to.
CAMERON: We're pinched, for sure.
FERRIS: Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. Let's go.
CAMERON: Let's surrender.
FERRIS: Never.
Here, Ferris unleashes his inner King Arthur and commands his friends to never choose to surrender.
Quote #9
CAMERON: I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it.
Now he's getting it. By the end of the movie, Cameron has evolved into someone who chooses to take a stand for what he thinks is right. Old Cameron would've backed down and chosen to ride things out in a bed full of snotty Kleenexes.