Films about drugs

"In a scene like this you get a contact-high!"

"When does ANY party start? When you get there!"

"Come on, man. I doubt if you'd recognize a hippie. I'm a capitalist, baby. I work for my living, not suck off somebody else."

"[showing Kelly around the party] Observe in yon quiet corner: an island of tranquility in a sea of revelry. The languid Roxanne finds beauty, that delicate pinch of feminine spice, with which she oftens flavors her interludes. Ah, look there, Lance Rocke! Greek god and part-time actor. See how well he performs? His is a special talent. The golden hair, the bedroom eyes, the firm young body. These are the tools with which he plies his trade. All are available for a price..."

"[stumbling upon a couple having sex at his party] Glad to see my audience in such happy dalliance. Pray, let them joust in peace!"

"And you, the infamous Ashley St. Ives, high priestess of carnality, what thou think of our fair minstrels?"

"Ere this night does wane, you will drink the black sperm of my vengeance!"

"For I am Superwoman, and you have spurned her!"

"There's juice freaks, and pill freaks, and then everybody's a freak! What you need is grass or a downer or something."

"You're a groovy boy. I'd like to strap you on sometime."

"Step into my web said the spider, etcetera."

"Porter Hall: She was living in a single room with three other individuals. One of them was a male, and the other two, well the other two were females. God only knows what they were up to in there... and furthermore, Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cigarettes... reefers."

"Petronella Danforth: Don't bogart the joint!"

"Harris Allsworth: I want it, I need it, I love it when a beautiful woman licks between my toes."

"Randy Black : No baby, no. Not now. Just leave it. That's the trouble with people today. All uptight about tomorrow, hanging on to yesterday. It's no good, no good at all. There's only one time that counts - now, right now. If you don't live for now, why, you might as well just roll over and take the full count."

"Dolly Read - Kelly MacNamara"

"Cynthia Myers - Casey Anderson"

"Marcia McBroom - Petronella Danforth"

"John LaZar - Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell"

"Michael Blodgett - Lance Rocke"

"David Gurian - Harris Allsworth"

"Edy Williams - Ashley St. Ives"

"Erica Gavin - Roxanne"

"Phyllis Davis - Susan Lake"

"Harrison Page - Emerson Thorne"

"Duncan McLeod - Porter Hall"

"James Iglehart - Randy Black"

"Charles Napier - Baxter Wolfe"

"Henry Rowland - Otto"

"This time... they've really gone."

"The closer they get to the top - the nearer they get to the bottom."

"This is not a sequel. There has never been anything like it."

"The world is fill of them, the super-octane girls who are old at twenty. If they get to be twenty."

"The first of shock rock."

"[about his love for country music] I love the stories. You know about fallin' in love and have love knock you around, and then the pressures of the world on you so tough, it makes you feel small. You just want to give your soul to God. You might as well, your ass belongs to Him."

"George, I miss you. I miss you, George."

"Aretha Robinson: Always remember your promise to me. Never let nobody or nothin' turn you into no cripple."

"Della Bea Robinson: [about one of Ray's sons] He isn't my gift to you, he's your son."

"The extraordinary life of Ray Charles. A man who fought harder and went further than anyone could imagine."

"The one thing more extraordinary than the music is the man behind it: Ray Charles."

"Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles"

"Sharon Warren - Aretha Robinson"

"Kerry Washington - Della Bea Robinson"

"Regina King - Margie Hendricks"

"Larenz Tate - Quincy Jones"

"Curtis Armstrong - Ahmet Ertegun"

"Richard Schiff - Jerry Wexler"

"C.J. Sanders - Young Ray Robinson"

"I'm thinking thin."

"Harold, I'm gonna be on television."

"[on her pills] Purple in the morning, blue in the afternoon, orange in the evening. [to her refrigerator] There's my three meals, Mr. Smartypants. And green at night. Just like that, one, two, three, four."

"And you should see my Harry on television. We're giving the prizes away. I just wanted to be on the show!"

"In the end it's all nice."

"I'm somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me. Soon, millions of people will see me and they'll all like me. I'll tell them about you, and your father, how good he was to us. Remember? It's a reason to get up in the morning. It's a reason to lose weight, to fit in the red dress. It's a reason to smile. It makes tomorrow all right. What have I got Harry, hm? Why should I even make the bed, or wash the dishes? I do them, but why should I? I'm alone. Your father's gone, you're gone. I got no one to care for. What have I got, Harry? I'm lonely. I'm old. Now when I get the sun, I smile."

"I'm walkin' across the stage!!"

"Somebody like you can really make things all right for me."

"Ma. You on uppers?"

"[to Marion] You are beautiful. You're the most beautiful girl in the world. You're my dream."

"Yeah, I'll come today. You just wait for me, alright? [pause] Marion...I'm really sorry, Marion."

"I love you, Harry. You make me feel like a person."

"[in a what-if sequence, where she stabs her therapist with a fork, yelling at the top of her lungs] You smug fuck!"

"You promised me that everything was going to be okay, remember? I fucked that sleaze-bag for you, then I put myself through fucking hell for you?"

"We got a winner."

"[Chanting] Be excited, be, be excited."

"[Rule] number three. Whoa, number three! This... drives... most... people... crazy."

"Join us in creating excellence!"

"Three things is all I did to change my life. Three things."

"I know it's pretty baby, but I didn't take it out for air."

"Ass to ass! Ass to ass!"

"Ellen Burstyn - Sarah Goldfarb"

"Jared Leto - Harold Goldfarb"

"Jennifer Connelly - Marion Silver"

"Marlon Wayans - Tyrone C. Love"

"Christopher McDonald - Tappy Tibbons"

"Keith David - Big Tim"

"The thing with me and Bob and pretty much all of us was we hated rednecks, more than anything else, period. Because rednecks for us were pretty much America incarnate, and America? Well, fuck America!"

"Posers were people who looked like punks but they did it for fashion. And they were fools, they'd say "anarchy in the UK." What the fuck's that? Anarchy in the UK. What good is that to those of us in Utah, America? It was a Sex Pistols thing. They were British, they were allowed to go on about Anarchy in the UK. You don't live your life by lyrics."

"See, to me, England was nothing more then a big fucking American state like North Dakota or Canada."

"You see life is like that. We change, that's all. You see, the guy I am now is not the guy I was then. If the guy I was then met the guy I am now he'd beat the shit out of me. Those are the facts."

"It's like fucking Jesus Christ took a shit and it landed right here, so you can be happy all you fucking want."

"The Fight: What does it mean and where does it come from? An Essay: Homosapien. A man. He is alone in the universe. A punker. Still a man. He is alone in the universe, but he connects. How? They hit each other. Ooh! No clearer way to evaluate whether or not you're alive. Now, complications. A reason to fight. Somebody different. Difference creates dispute. Dispute is a reason to fight. To fight is a reason to feel pain. Life is pain. So to fight with reason is to be alive with reason. Final analysis: To fight, a reason to live. Problems and Contradictions: I am an anarchist. I believe that there should be no rules, only chaos. Fighting appears to be chaos and when we slam in the pit a show it is. But when we fight for a reason, like rednecks, there's a system. We fight for what we stand for, chaos, but fighting is a structure, to establish power, power is government and government is not anarchy. Government is war and war is fighting. The circle goes like this: our redneck skirmishes are cheap perversions of conventional warfare. War implies extreme government because wars are fought to enforce rules or ideals, even freedom. But other people's ideals forced on someone else, even if it is something like freedom, is still a rule; not anarchy. This contradiction was becoming clear to me in the fall of '85. Even as early as my first party, "Why did I love to fight?" I framed it, but still, I don't understand it. It goes against my beliefs as a true anarchist. But there it was. Competition, fighting, capitalism, government, THE SYSTEM. That's what we did. It's what we always did. Rednecks kicked the shit out of punks, punks kicked the shit out of mods, mods kicked the shit out of skinheads, skinheads took out the heavy metal guys, and the heavy metal guys beat the living shit out of new wavers and the new wavers didn't do anything. They were the new hippies. So what was the point? Final summation? None."

"Another thing that pisses me off, talking about who started punk rock music. Was it...the Sex Pistols in England? Was it... the Ramones and the Velvet Underground in New York? "It was the Ramones!", "It was the Sex Pistols!" Who cares who started it?! It's music. I don't know who started it, and I don't give a shit. The one thing I know is that we did it harder, we did it faster, and we definitely did it with more love baby. You can't take that away from us."

"What do you do when your foundation falls apart? I don't know. They don't teach you that in school."

"Only posers die!"

"See Sean was fucked up, not the world. The world was just confused, and not the world really, just the people in it."

"It wasn't that I loved Sandy—I knew that we had an understanding—but I discovered then that Chris was right. All things had systems, even me. I was about to beat the living shit out of this guy because he invaded my territory. It was my territory, no question about it, just like in the wild. I was following nature, nature was order, and order is the system."

"And so there I was. I was gonna go to Harvard. It was obvious. I was gonna be a lawyer and play in the God-damned system, and that was that. I was my old man. He knew, so what else could I do? I mean, there's no future in anarchy; I mean let's face it. But when I was into it, there was never a thought of the future. I mean we were certain the world was gonna end, but when it didn't, I had to do something, so fuck it. I could always be a litigator in New York and piss the shit out of the judges. I mean that was me: a trouble maker of the future. The guy that was one of those guys that my parents so arrogantly saved the world for, so we could fuck it up. We can do a hell of a lot more damage in the system than outside of it. That was the final irony, I think. That, and well, this. And "fuck you" for all of you who were thinking it: I guess when all was said and done, I was nothing more than a God-damned, trendy-ass poser."

"Chemicals, man. They'll fuck you up."

"Well, it's a crazy, fucked up world! And we're all just barely floating along, waiting for somebody that can walk on water."

"I hate doctors, man. I hate 'em."

"You're like a poet, dude!"

"Those doctors can kiss my ASS!"

"How Goes It?"

"If somebody called me somethin' that I wasn't, I could see getting mad."

"Satan is in the house, he killed my mom and turned her into a bull."

"You're not Jesus! You're Bob!"

"You know what Bob? You ARE Jesus."

"If I get off this chair, I'll drown—you wanna know why, Bob? Because I can't swim..."

"Beauty is the end, Stevo. The end."

"Matthew Lillard as Stevo"

"Michael A. Goorjian as Heroin Bob"

"Annabeth Gish as Trish"

"Jennifer Lien as Sandy"

"Christopher McDonald as Stevo's dad"

"Devon Sawa as Sean"

"Jason Segel as Mike"

"Adam Pascal as Eddie"

"Til Schweiger as Mark"

"James Duval as John the Mod"

"Summer Phoenix as Brandy"

"Chiara Barzini as Jennifer"

"Kevin Breznahan as Chris"

"Christina Karras as Jamie"

"Russell Peacock as Jones"

"[From trailer] They say we all lose 21 grams... who will be next?"

"Did you know that eating alone could cause kidney damage? And that's BAD."

"Just... disappear."

"I can't keep going like this. The insemination, the child. It's like we're trying to put a Band-Aid on something that's just been bled dry."

"[After waking up in the emergency room] So this is death's waiting room."

"What I doing in this precorpse club?"

"[Quoting a poem] The earth turned to bring us closer. It turned on itself and in us, until it finally brought us together in this dream."

"There is a number hidden in every act of life, in every aspect of the universe. Fractals, matter-- there is a number screaming to tell us something... Numbers are a door to understanding a mystery that is bigger than us."

"We've been a fraud for a long time, Mary."

"There are so many things that have to happen for two people to meet."

"[Holding a glass jar containing his surgically removed heart] Ah. The culprit."

"How many lives do we live? How many times do we die? They say we all lose 21 grams... at the exact moment of our death. Everyone. And how much fits into 21 grams? How much is lost? When do we lose 21 grams? How much goes with them? How much is gained? How much is gained? Twentyone grams. The weight of a stack of five nickels. The weight of a hummingbird. A chocolate bar. How much did 21 grams weigh?"

"You know what I thought when mom died? I couldn't understand how you could talk to people again, how you could laugh... again. I couldn't understand how you could play with us. And no, no that's a lie, life does not just go on."

"Nothing I can do is going to bring them back."

"Whoever looks for the truth deserves punishment for finding it."

"I haven't spoken to anyone in months.*"

"You can't just walk up to a woman you barely know and tell her you like her. You don't know what she's going through.*"

"God knows when a single hair moves on your head."

"I just ran over a man and two little girls."

"If someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn your other to him also."

"[After hitting his son upside the head to punish him for hitting his sister] There's no hitting in this house."

"How much does life weigh?"

"They say we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death... everyone. The weight of a stack of nickels. The weight of a hummingbird... a chocolate bar."

"How much does love weigh?"

"How much does revenge weigh?"

"This Fall, fate weighs in."

"How much does guilt weigh?"

"When do we lose 21 grams, how much goes with them?"

"Sean Penn — Paul Rivers"

"Naomi Watts — Cristina Peck"

"Benicio Del Toro — Jack Jordan"

"Danny Huston — Michael"

"That fucking skeezer- you think I give a fuck about her? Fuck that ho bitch! I don't give a fuck about her!"

"I know damn well ain't nobody sucked your shriveled-up dick."

"A million dollar a week business reduced to fucking rubble!"

"Sit your five-dollar ass down before I make change!"

"Am I my brother's keeper? Yes, I am."

"Money talks and bullshit runs a marathon. So, see ya and I wouldn't want to be ya."

"Yo baby, we talkin' about combinating and consolidating, that's what's up!"

"You gotta rob to get rich in the Reagan era."

"[testifying in court] I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way."

"Cancel dat bitch! I'll buy another one!"

"Yeah, we takin' over the Carter. We gon' bum rush the whole damn thing. Now if the tenants cooperate, oh, it'll be lovely; they'll be loyal customers. If they don't, fuck it, it's like Beirut- they'll become live-in hostages."

"I never liked you anyway, pretty motherfucka!"

"This whole drug shit: it's not a black thing, it's not a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a shit about color."

"Look man, I don't know about all that "Change the World" shit, but what I do know, is that they be going crazy over this, man! I'm tellin' you! And the bitches? Oh, Lord! The bitches! Yo! They do anything for this, man! Yo, I had my jimmy waxed every day last week, ya understand?! Several times a day!"

"(talking to Uniqua) I knew I should've treated you like a hooker, you ain't nothing but a high-priced ho! Put Nino on the phone, bitch!"

"(talking to Duh Duh Man)...UNADULTERATED! Would you please shut the fuck up before you have a seizure!!"

"This ain't business, bitch- this is personal!"

"I wanna shoot you so bad, my dick's hard!"

"I should have killed you myself, bitch!"

"Oh shit, that's the kid I shot!"

"Man, a drug dealer is the worst kind of brother. I mean, he won't sell it to his sister, he won't sell it to his mother- but he'll sell it to one of his boys on the street."

"I don't know about you, man, but I'm ready to kill Nino Brown."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah- a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Now, back to the titties— what's goin' on in this drug store?"

"They got that shit hooked up like Mission Impossible, man!"

"(sobbing) I tried to kick... but that shit just be callin' me man, it be callin' me, man... I just got to go to it!"

"(Pooky describing a room used for freebasing) They call it the "Enterprise Room", man, because it's for people who wanna be beamed up to Scotty."

"[as Pooky peers into camera in despair] Scottie, help me - I'm gonna die!"

"(last lines) Idolator! Your soul is required in Hell! [shoots and kills Nino]"

"They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime."

"Where survival depends on friends, trust and power... An organized crime family out to run this city is up against cops who knows its streets."

"Wesley Snipes - Nino Brown"

"Ice T - Scotty Appleton"

"Allen Payne - Gee Money"

"Chris Rock - Pookie"

"Judd Nelson - Nick Peretti"

"Mario Van Peebles - Stone"

"Michael Michele - Selina"

"Bill Nunn - Duh Duh Man"

"Russell Wong - Park"

"Bill Cobbs - Old man"

"Christopher Williams - Kareem Akbar"

"Vanessa Williams - Keisha"

"Tracy Camilla Johns - Uniqua"

"Anthony DeSando - Frankie Needles"

"John Aprea - Don Armeteo"

"Fab Five Freddy - Master of Ceremonies"

"Flavor Flav - D.J."

"The motion picture you are about to witness may startle you. It would not have been possible, otherwise, to sufficiently emphasize the frightful toll of the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America in alarmingly-increasing numbers. Marihuana is that drug - a violent narcotic - an unspeakable scourge - The Real Public Enemy Number One! Its first effect is sudden violent, uncontrollable laughter; then come dangerous hallucinations - space expands - time slows down, almost stands still... .fixed ideas come next, conjuring up monstrous extravagances - followed by emotional disturbances, the total inability to direct thoughts, the loss of all power to resist physical emotions... leading finally to acts of shocking violence... ending often in incurable insanity. In picturing its soul-destroying effects no attempt was made to equivocate. The scenes and incidents, while fictionized for the purposes of this story, are based upon actual research into the results of Marihuana addiction. If their stark reality will make you think, will make you aware that something must be done to wipe out this ghastly menace, then the picture will not have failed in its purpose... . Because the dread Marihuana may be reaching forth next for your son or daughter... .or yours... .or YOURS!"

"Oh, why don't you button up your lip? You're always squawkin' about something. You've got more static than a radio."

"That's better! That's more like it. I know you'll like it. Really, you will. Just take a puff of that."

"It must be stopped! You and other parent groups around the country. And you must stand united on this and stamp out this frightful assassin of our youth."

"I'm going to ask you a straightforward question: isn't it true that you have, perhaps unwillingly, acquired a certain habit through association with certain undesirable people?"

"I saw him miss the ball by as much as three or four feet. This I understand can be attributed to the use of marihuana."

"It is only through enlightenment that this scourge can be wiped out. Out of the trafficking of these drugs, a lawlessness that we can scarcely estimate has grown and is now flourishing. It exist in almost every city and hamlet in the country."

"We must work untiringly so that our children are obliged to learn the truth. Because, it is only through knowledge that we can safely protect them. Failing this, the next tragedy may be that of your daughter - or your son - or yours - or yours... [points to camera] or yours!"

"Prosecuting Attorney: Your Honor, in this case the State waves the trial of the defendant, Ralph Wiley. It is convinced that he is hopelessly and incurably insane - a condition caused by the drug marijuana, to which he was addicted. It is recommended, your Honor, that the defendant be placed in an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his natural life."

"It's Public Enemy, Number One!"

"Women Cry For It - Men Die For It!"

"The Sweet "Pill" That Makes Life BITTER!"

"Adults Only!"

"Drug Crazed Abandon!"

"Sin - degradation - vice - insanity!"

"SEE youthful marijuana victims - what actually happens!"

"Tell your children!"

"65 years later, audiences are still hooked!"

"Dorothy Short - Mary Lane"

"Kenneth Craig - Bill Harper"

"Lillian Miles - Blanche"

"Dave O'Brien - Ralph Wiley"

"Thelma White - Mae Coleman"

"Carleton Young - Jack Perry"

"Warren McCollum - Jimmy Lane"

"Pat Royale - Agnes"

"Josef Forte - Dr. Alfred Carroll"

"Harry Harvey Jr. - Junior Harper"

"When I was born, the world was a far simpler place. It was all just cops and robbers."

"Always remember that one day all this drug monkey business will be legal. They won't leave it to people like me... not when they finally figure out how much money is to be made - not millions, fucking billions. Recreational Drugs PLC - giving the people what they want... Good times today, stupor tomorrow. But this is now, so until prohibition ends make hay while the sun shines."

"I mean, it's like selling anything: washing machines, handmade shoes, blow jobs. As long as you don't take the piss, people will always come back for more."

"Life is so fucking good, I can taste it in my spit."

"I'm not a gangster, I'm a businessman whose commodity happens to be cocaine."

"But as some Roman general once said: If you seek peace, plan for war."

"I hate guns! ... although, that one is very pretty."

"My name? If you knew that, you'd be as clever as me."

"Have a plan and stick to it."

"You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake, son."

"England. Typical. Even drug dealers don't work weekends"

"Opera Tonight. The damnation of Faust. Man sells his soul to the devil. All ends in tears, these arrangements usually do."

"The art of good business is being a good middleman."

"I've checked you out, son. You're a smart lad. But you keep very, very bad company."

"Somebody's about to get a fucking slap!"

"[About Duke] He's a fucking maniac, a relic, a throwback. Belongs to the Dark Ages, Gene."

"I'm not happy. This shit is out of control. You sort it out, or I'll sort you out."

"You don't fuck about, do you?"

"Jimmy Price: You know why people like you can't leave this business? Because you make too much money for people like me."

"Cody: Black! You can't have black. Black's the color for a hearse or a taxi."

"Shanks: Now, his party piece, right... is lopping people's heads off, then fetching 'em back to his boss."

"Gene: If you have to kill a person, never ever tell a living soul."

"Dragan: Don't piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining."

"Duke: Oh, you give a fuckin' aspirin a headache, pal!"

"Tammy: I was just rubbing the phone against my fanny. Oooh it's fresh this morning. And look at my nipples, standing up like little soldiers. What's a poor girl to do?"

"Crazy Larry: Fucking females is for poofs!"

"Daniel Craig - XXXX"

"Colm Meaney - Gene"

"Kenneth Cranham - Jimmy Price"

"George Harris - Morty"

"Jamie Foreman - the Duke"

"Michael Gambon - Eddie Temple"

"Marcel Iureş - Slavo"

"Tom Hardy - Clarkie"

"Tamer Hassan - Terry"

"Ben Whishaw - Sidney"

"Burn Gorman - Gazza"

"Sally Hawkins - Slasher"

"Sienna Miller - Tammy"

"Dexter Fletcher - Cody"

"Steve John Shepherd - Tiptoes"

"Louis Emerick - Trevor"

"Stephen Walters - Shanks"

"Paul Orchard - Lucky"

"Francis Magee - Paul the boatman"

"Dragan Mićanović - Dragan"

"Nick Thomas-Webster - Dragan's henchman"

"Nathalie Lunghi - Charlie"

"Jason Flemyng - Crazy Larry"

"[standing in the men's bathroom, talking to himself in a mirror with a "FUCK YOU" written on it] Yeah, fuck you, too. Fuck me? Fuck you, fuck this whole city and everyone in it. Fuck the panhandlers, grubbing for money, and smiling at me behind my back. Fuck the squeegee men dirtying up the clean windshield of my car. Get a fucking job! Fuck the Sikhs and the Pakistanis bombing down the avenues in decrepit cabs, curry steaming out their pores, stinking up my day. Terrorists in fucking training. SLOW THE FUCK DOWN! Fuck the Chelsea boys with their waxed chests and pumped up biceps. Going down on each other in my parks and on my piers, jingling their dicks on my Channel 35. Fuck the Korean grocers with their pyramids of overpriced fruit and their tulips and roses wrapped in plastic. Ten years in the country, still no speaky English? Fuck the Russians in Brighton Beach. Mobster thugs sitting in cafés, sipping tea in little glasses, sugar cubes between their teeth. Wheelin' and dealin' and schemin'. Go back where you fucking came from! Fuck the black-hatted Chassidim, strolling up and down 47th street in their dirty gabardine with their dandruff. Selling South African apartheid diamonds! Fuck the Wall Street brokers. Self-styled masters of the universe. Michael Douglas, Gordon Gekko wannabe motherfuckers, figuring out new ways to rob hard working people blind. Send those Enron assholes to jail for FUCKING LIFE! You think Bush and Cheney didn't know about that shit? Give me a fucking break! Tyco! Adelphia! Worldcom! Fuck the Puerto Ricans. 20 to a car, swelling up the welfare rolls, worst fuckin' parade in the city. And don't even get me started on the Dominicans, 'cause they make the Puerto Ricans look good. Fuck the Bensonhurst Italians with their pomaded hair, their nylon warm-up suits, their St. Anthony medallions, swinging their Jason Giambi, Louisville slugger, baseball bats, trying to audition for the Sopranos. Fuck the Upper East Side wives with their Hermes scarves and their fifty-dollar Balducci artichokes. Overfed faces getting pulled and lifted and stretched, all taut and shiny. You're not fooling anybody, sweetheart! Fuck the uptown brothers. They never pass the ball, they don't want to play defense, they take five steps on every lay-up to the hoop. And then they want to turn around and blame everything on the white man. Slavery ended 137 years ago. Move the fuck on! Fuck the corrupt cops with their anus violating plungers and their 41 shots, standing behind a blue wall of silence. You betray our trust! Fuck the priests who put their hands down some innocent child's pants. Fuck the church that protects them, delivering us into evil. And while you're at it, fuck JC! He got off easy! A day on the cross, a weekend in hell, and all the hallelujahs of the legioned angels for eternity! Try seven years in fuckin' Otisville, J! Fuck Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and backward-ass, cave-dwelling, fundamentalist assholes everywhere. On the names of innocent thousands murdered, I pray you spend the rest of eternity with your 72 whores roasting in a jet-fuel fire in hell. You towel headed camel jockeys can kiss my royal Irish ass! Fuck Jacob Elinsky. Whining malcontent. Fuck Francis Xavier Slaughtery, my best friend, judging me while he stares at my girlfriend's ass. Fuck Naturelle Riviera. I gave her my trust, and she stabbed me in the back. Sold me up the river. Fucking bitch. Fuck my father with his endless grief, standing behind that bar sipping on club sodas, selling whisky to firemen, cheering the Bronx Bombers. Fuck this whole city and everyone in it. From the row-houses of Astoria to the penthouses on Park Avenue, from the projects in the Bronx to the lofts in SoHo. From the tenements in Alphabet City to the Brownstones in Park Slope to the split-levels in Staten Island. Let an earthquake crumble it, let the fires rage, let it burn to fucking ash and then let the waters rise and submerge this whole rat-infested place. [pause] No. No, Fuck you, Montgomery Brogan. You had it all, and you threw it away, you dumb fuck!"

"[to Monty] You've never been west of Philly, have ya? This is a beautiful country Monty, it's beautiful out there, like a different world. Mountains, hills, cows, farms, and white churches. I drove out west with your mother one time, before you was born. Brooklyn to the Pacific in three days. Just enough money for gas, sandwiches, and coffee, but we made it. Every man, woman, and child alive should see the desert one time before they die. Nothin' at all for miles around. Nothin' but sand and rocks and cactus and blue sky. Not a soul in sight. No sirens. No car alarms. Nobody honkin' atcha. No madmen cursin' or pissin' in the streets. You find the silence out there, you find the peace. You can find God. So we drive west, keep driving till we find a nice little town. These towns out in the desert, you know why they got there? People wanted to get way from somewhere else. The desert's for startin' over. Find a bar and I'll buy us drinks. I haven't had a drink in two years, but I'll have one with you, one last whisky with my boy. Take our time with it, taste the barley, let it linger. And then I'll go. I'll tell you don't ever write me, don't ever visit, I'll tell you I believe in God's kingdom and I'll see you and your mother again, but not in this lifetime. You'll get a job somewhere, a job that pays cash, a boss who doesn't ask questions, and you make a new life and you never come back."

"You're a New Yorker, that won't ever change. You got New York in your bones. Spend the rest of your life out west but you're still a New Yorker. You'll miss your friends, you'll miss your dog, but you're strong. You got your mother's backbone in you, you're strong like she was. You find the right people, and you get yourself papers, a drivers license. You forget your old life, you can't come back, you can't call, you can't write. You never look back. You make a new life for yourself and you live it, you hear me? You live your live the way it should have been. But maybe, this is dangerous, but maybe after a few years you send word to Naturelle. You get yourself a new family and you raise them right, you hear me? Give them a good life Monty. Give them what they need. You have a son, maybe you name him James, it's a good strong name, and maybe one day years from now years after I'm dead and gone reunited with your dear ma, you gather your whole family around and tell them the truth, who you are, where you come from, you tell them the whole story. Then you ask them if they know how lucky they are to be there. It all came so close to never happening. This life came so close to never happening."

"This is my advice to you: When you get there, figure it out who's who. Find the man nobody's protecting. A man without friends. And beat him until his eyes bleed. Let them think you are little bit crazy, but respectful, too. Respectful of the right men."

"I have been in three different prisons, Montgomery. Three different countries. And you know what I learned? I learned prison is a bad place to be."

"Can you change your whole life in a day?"

"This life was so close to never happening"

"One wrong choice... one last night... 24 hours to live a lifetime"

"Edward Norton - Monty Brogan"

"Philip Seymour Hoffman - Jacob Elinsky"

"Barry Pepper - Frank Slaughtery"

"Rosario Dawson - Naturelle Riviera"

"Anna Paquin - Mary D'Annunzio"

"Brian Cox - James Brogan"

"Tony Siragusa - Kostya Novotny"

"(to Judge) I crossed an imaginary line with a bunch of plants!"

"Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine."

"15 kilos? I PISS 15 kilos."

"The favor was to pick up fifty kilos of cocaine. Fifty. That's a hundred and ten pounds. Not exactly a small favor. Not like bumming a cigarette, for example. But what the hell. I didn't have anything better to do that day. It's not like I was on parole or anything."

"This is grade:A, 100% pure Colombian cocaine, ladies and gentlemen. Disco shit. Pure as the driven snow."

"... maybe it was the Colombian guestlist... or the cocaine buffet..."

"It was the greatest feeling I ever had. Followed very abruptly by the worst feeling I ever had."

"The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance."

"You're my heart, kid. Now, can I live without my heart?"

"I was busted. Set up by the FBI and the DEA. That didn't bother me. Set up by Kevin Dulli and Derek Forreal to save their own asses. That didn't bother me. Sentenced to 60 years at Ottisville. That didn't bother me. I'd broken a promise. Everything I love in my life goes away."

"May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. And may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars."

"Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent."

"(last lines) In the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door."

"Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on."

"Money isn't real, George. It doesn't matter. It only seems like it does."

"Let me tell you something, George: you'd have been great at anything."

"Happy to see you George, my brother."

"Johnny Depp — George Jung"

"Penélope Cruz — Mirtha Jung"

"Franka Potente — Barbara Buckley"

"Rachel Griffiths — Ermine Jung"

"Paul Reubens — Derek Foreal"

"Jordi Mollà — Diego Delgado"

"Cliff Curtis — Pablo Escobar"

"Miguel Sandoval — Augusto Oliveras"

"No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud."

"[reading inscription] "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.""

"[while tripping on LSD] Oh Mother why didn't you tell me? Why didn't anybody tell me anything?...What are you doing to me now?...Shut up!...How could you make me hate you so?...Oh God, I hate you so much."

"[about marijuana] It gives you a whole new way of looking at the day."

"I never really thought of myself as a freak, ya know...but I Love to Freak!"

"Whew. Man, look, I gotta get out of here, man. Now we - we got things we want to do, man, like - I just - uh - I gotta get out of here, man."

"You gotta be kidding. I mean, you know who this is, man? This is Captain America. I'm Billy. Hey, we're headliners baby. We played every fair in this part of the country. I mean, for top dollar, too!"

"Well, you boys don't look like you're from this part of the country. You're lucky I'm here to see that you don't get into anything...Well, they got this here - see - uh - scissor-happy 'Beautify America' thing goin' on around here. They're tryin' to make everybody look like Yul Brynner. They used - uh - rusty razor blades on the last two long-hairs that they brought in here and I wasn't here to protect them. You see - uh - I'm - uh - I'm a lawyer. Done a lot of work for the A.C.L.U."

"You can get out of here, if you haven't killed anybody - at least nobody white."

"[to guard] Very groovy. Very groovy. See there. I bet nobody ever said that to you."

"Here's to the first of the day, fellas. To ol' D. H. Lawrence. Nik-nik-nik-f-f-f-Indians!"

"I must've started off to Mardi Gras six or seven times. Never got further than the state line."

"'Madame Tinkertoy's House of Blue Lights. Corner of Bourbon and Toulouse, New Orleans, Louisiana.' Now this is supposed to be the finest whorehouse in the South. These ain't no pork chops. These are U.S. Prime."

"You- you mean marijuana. Lord have mercy, is that what that is? Well, let me see that. Mmmmm-mmm. Mmmm...I-I-I couldn't do that. I mean, I've got enough problems with the - with the booze and all. I mean, uh, I - I can't afford to get hooked...it-it-it leads to harder stuff."

"That was a UFO, beamin' back at ya. Me and Eric Heisman was down in Mexico two weeks ago - we seen forty of 'em flying in formation. They-they-they've got bases all over the world now, you know. They've been coming here ever since nineteen forty-six - when the scientists first started bouncin' radar beams off of the moon. And they have been livin' and workin' among us in vast quantities ever since. The government knows all about 'em."

"Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."

"Well, they are people, just like us - from within our own solar system. Except that their society is more highly evolved. I mean, they don't have no wars, they got no monetary system, they don't have any leaders, because, I mean, each man is a leader. I mean, each man - because of their technology, they are able to feed, clothe, house, and transport themselves equally - and with no effort...Why don't they reveal themselves to us is because if they did it would cause a general panic. Now, I mean, we still have leaders upon whom we rely for the release of this information. These leaders have decided to repress this information because of the tremendous shock that it would cause to our antiquated systems. Now, the result of this has been that the Venutians have contacted people in all walks of life - all walks of life. [laughs] Yes. It-it-it would be a devastatin' blow to our antiquated systems - so now the Venutians are meeting with people in all walks of life - in an advisory capacity. For once man will have a god-like control over his own destiny. He will have a chance to transcend and to evolve with some equality for all."

"It doesn't make any difference what city. All cities are alike. That's why I'm out here now...cause I'm from the city, a long way from the city - and that's where I want to be right now."

"The people this place belongs to are buried right under you. You could be a trifle polite...It's a small thing to ask."

"You see, what happened here is these people got here late in the summer. Too late to plant. But the weather was beautiful and it was easy livin', and everything was fine. And then came that winter. There were forty or fifty of them here living in this one-room place down here. Nothing to eat - starvin'. Out by the side of the road lookin' for dead horses...Anything they could get ahold of. Now there's - there's eighteen or twenty of them left and they're city kids. Look at them. But they're getting this crop in. They're gonna stay here until it's harvested. That's the whole thing."

"Rancher: Turn that thing off. You're making my horse skittish. ... Sure is a good-looking machine."

"Sarah: We just can't take anymore, Stranger. Just too many people dropping in. Oh, I'm not talking about you and your friends, you know that. And like the week before, Susan dropped in with twelve people from Easter City. She wanted to take ten pounds of rice with her...Well naturally, we had to say no...So she gets all up tight and she breaks out some hash - and she won't give us any. Oh, and...that's not all. The next morning, they went outside to start their bus and they couldn't get it started..."

"Joanne: [reading from the I-Ching] Starting brings misfortune. Per-serverance brings danger. Not every demand for change in the existing order should be heeded. On the other hand, repeated and well-founded complaints should not fail to a hearing."

"The Devil: Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. We've come to play for our dinner. Or should I say, stay for our dinner. Or even slay for our dinner...We've come to drink your wine, taste your food and take pleasure in your women."

"Jack: [praying] We have planted our seeds. We ask that our efforts be worthy to produce simple food for our simple taste. We ask that our efforts be rewarded. And we thank you for the food we eat from other hands - that we may share it with our fellow man and be even more generous when it is from our own. Thank you for a place to make a stand."

"Prostitutes: [while tripping on LSD] I'm going to die. I'm dead...Do you understand?...Oh dear God, please let it be. Please help me conceive a child...I'm right out here out of my head...Please God, let me out of here. I want to get out of here...You know what I mean...You wanted me...You wanted me ugly didn't you? I know you johns - I know you johns."

"Peter Fonda - Wyatt"

"Dennis Hopper - Billy"

"Jack Nicholson - George Hanson"

"Luke Askew - The Stranger"

"Antonio Mendoza - Jesus"

"Phil Spector - Connection"

"Mac Mashourian - Bodyguard"

"Warren Finnerty - Rancher"

"Tita Colorado - Rancher's Wife"

"Luana Anders - Lisa"

"Sabrina Scharf - Sarah"

"Karen Black - Karen"

"Toni Basil - Mary"

"Love is a burning thing."

"Joaquin Phoenix — Johnny Cash"

"Reese Witherspoon — June Carter Cash"

"Ginnifer Goodwin — Vivian Cash"

"Robert Patrick — Ray Cash"

"Dallas Roberts — Sam Phillips"

"Johnny Holiday — Carl Perkins"

"Larry Bagby — Marshall Grant"

"Dan John Miller — Luther Perkins"

"Shelby Lynne — Carrie Cash"

"Tyler Hilton — Elvis Presley"

"Waylon Payne — Jerry Lee Lewis"

"Shooter Jennings — Waylon Jennings"

"The movie will begin in five moments," the mindless voice announced. All those unseated will await the next show. We filed slowly, languidly into the hall. The auditorium was vast and silent. As we seated and were darkened, the voice continued, "The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?"

"Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin..."

"It was the first time I tasted fear. I musta been about four, like a child is just like a flower, his head is floating in the breeze."

"The reaction I get now looking back is the soul of the ghosts of those dead Indians—maybe one or two of them were just running around freaking out and just leaped into my soul—and they're still there."

"We gotta take the planet back, reinvent the gods, make new myths."

"[to John] What's a rock and roll band for man, if you can't party all night and do bad things?"

"The music was new black polished chrome and came over the summer like liquid night."

"I like a man who wears his soul on his face."

"Hey! I am the Lizard King. I can do anything! Raise your hands if you understand! Alive, any of you alive—let's take a poll—how many of you know you're really alive?! [numerous people raise their hands and yell] BULLSHIT! Plastic soldiers in a miniature dirt war! C'mon! How many of you people know you're alive? How many of you people know you're really alive!"

"When the serpent appears, his head is ten feet long and five feet wide. He has one red eye and one green eye. He's deadly and he's seven miles long. As he moves—on his scales is written all the history of the world, all people, all actions, all of us our little pictures on the scales, God it's big! -- and it's eating as it moves all the time, devouring, digesting consciousness, power, a monster of energy! We must kiss the snake on the tongue, if it senses our fear, it will eat us instantly. But if we kiss it without fear, the snake will take us through the garden and out the gate. To our freedom -we must ride this snake. To the end of time."

"Some of the biggest mistakes in my life have been haircuts."

"Where's your will to be weird man?"

"Actually, I don't really remember being born. It musta happened during one of my blackouts."

"Y'all believe what you want to believe, you will anyway... but it does kinda show you what excites people? Fear, pity, horror—all those good things that count. It's sorta I guess like being on the edge of an orgasm, y'know... that mystery just before you come. When? If? Should I? Will you die for me, eat me, this way, the end..."

"Maybe I should always fuck my critics."

"Hatred is very underestimated emotion."

"I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me. Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality—that's-all—I was curious... I kinda always preferred to be hated. Like Eric von Stroheim in the movies, the man you love to hate, it's meant to be ironic, courage wants to laugh. Y'know it's a stupid situation."

"I go out on a stage and I howl for people. In me they see what they want to see—some say the Lizard King, whatever that means, or some black-clad leather demon whatever that means... but really I think of myself as a sensitive, intelligent human being but with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most crucial moment... a fake hero... The joke the gods played on me... it's okay, I accept the joke... and smile. Death old friend, death and my cock, I can forgive my injuries in the name of wisdom, luxury, romance. Words got me the wound and will get me well. All join now in lament of my cock, a tongue of knowledge in the feathered night. Boys get crazy in the head and suffer. I sacrifice my cock on the altar of silence."

"[to Pam] I'm the poet and you're my muse."

"[to audience] You're all a buncha fucking slaves!"

"Well uh, it's designed to wear you down y'know... when that rap sheet says the "United States of America versus You" it takes you down day by day, specially when no one really gives a shit about, y'know, the First Amendment that's on trial here... Nobody says anything about that, it's just uh did you take your pants off y'know, I mean that's not what it's about, it's about freedom, that's what it's about... but who cares, right? Freedom exists in a schoolbook."

"I can only open doors, Ma'am. I can't drag people thru 'em. I'm no savior."

"Take your time, Jim... There's no hurry, I'm all you have to do tonight."

"Jim, don't go away! Come dance with me!"

"You're a poet, not a rock star."

"What am I gonna do about these papers? Jim, Jim—you really need to organize this stuff! You handwriting's just like a little kid! My God look at this. I wonder if William Blake was ever this disorganized."

"I get scared thinking of all the choices inside. I could go. I could stay. I can live everywhere. I could die now if I wanted. It's limitless choice... and no one cares."

"[to Jim] You said you love pain man, but you run from it every chance you get."

"Well far as I'm concerned, Jim, I made music with Dionysus man. We had some moments on stage like no one will ever fucking know."

"I'm afraid of my father, I can't be what they want me to be."

"Ray Manzarek: [to Jim] Things are about to explode man. You can feel it in the air. Vietnam's right out there. Sides are being chosen. People wanna fight or fuck, love or kill, everything's gonna flame. The planet's screaming for change, Morrison. Make the myths man!"

"Patricia Kennealy: [to Jim] Come on rock god, fuck me, fuck me good."

"Gloria Stavers: [to Jim] You control the audience, like dogs, manipulate them Jim, one picture can control a million people, be anything you want—growl at them, be ugly, be frightened, be selfish. Be man, woman, whild, animal. Live, die, return again. Anything you want. Everything is permitted. Go on look at yourself, fall in love with yourself. You're your own audience now Jim. They want you. Worship and love and adore you...Jim Morrison, the god of Rock and Cock..."

"Andy Warhol: [handing Jim a golden telephone] Edie gave this to me and said mmmmm, I could talk to God with this. But I don't really have anything to say. So... mmmm now you can talk to God."

"Tom Baker: [to Jim] You're bored, you're not free. You tested all the limits, fame, fucking, money, -- whatcha gonna do now Jimbo? When the music's over, when you're too fat and ugly to get on a stage, whatcha gonna do for act three—puke on Heaven's door?"

"The ultimate story of Sex, Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll"

""There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors."—Jim Morrison"

"The ceremony is about to begin."

"Val Kilmer - Jim Morrison"

"Kyle MacLachlan - Ray Manzarek"

"Meg Ryan - Pamela Courson"

"Kevin Dillon - John Densmore"

"Frank Whaley - Robby Krieger"

"Kathleen Quinlan - Patricia Kennealy"

"Michael Wincott - Paul Rothchild"

"Michael Madsen - Tom Baker"

"Dennis Burkley - Dog"

"Billy Idol - Cat"

"Crispin Glover - Andy Warhol"

"Went into the store just to get a beer. Came out an accessory to murder and armed robbery. It's funny like that in the hood sometimes. You never knew what was gonna happen, or when. After that I knew it was gonna be a long summer."

"Now O-Dog was the craziest nigga alive. America's nightmare: Young, black, and didn't give a fuck."

"For all the bullshit they try to teach you in high school, I graduated with about half of it. But then, I didn't go to school but half the time. The other half, I was out selling dope. Growing up out here, there was shit that couldn't be learned in no classroom."

"My father sold dope and my mother was a heroin addict. Moms and Pops were real popular in the neighborhood. They would always be giving parties for friends of theirs who just got out of jail or was on their way to jail. They only got married 'cause I was born. My pop sometimes worked as an electrician or a cab driver or a plumber, but his main job was selling drugs. Sometimes Mom would use 'em all up before he could even sell 'em. Then he'd have to beat her up. Growing up with parents like that, I heard a lot and I saw a lot. I caught on to the criminal life real quick. Instead of keeping me out of trouble, they turned me on to it."

"I thought killing those fools would make me feel good, but it really didn't make me feel anything. I just knew that I could kill somebody, and if I had to, I could do it again."

"[as he dies in the street] After stomping on Ilena's cousin like that, I knew I was gonna have to deal with that fool someday, but damn. I never thought he'd come back like this—blasting. Like I said, it was funny like that in the hood sometimes. I mean, you never knew what was gonna happen or when. I'd done too much to turn back, and I'd done too much to go on. I guess in the end, it all catches up with you. My grandpa asked me one time if I care whether I live or die. Yeah, I do—and now it's too late."

"You need to be glad that you graduated from high school, and that you're alive at eighteen, and you need to do something with yourself before you end up like he (Pernell) did."

"Now what I want to talk to you two about is the trouble that you've been getting into. Boys, the Lord didn't put you here to be shooting and killing each other. It's right there in the Bible, Exodus 20:13: '"Thou shall not kill.'"

"You don't have any belief, boy. The Lord don't care about who's got the biggest house"

"Do you care whether you live or die?"

"This is the truth. This is what's real."

"Tyrin Turner - Kaydee (Caine) Lawson"

"Jada Pinkett - Ronnie"

"Larenz Tate - Kevin (O-Dog) Anderson"

"Samuel L. Jackson - Tat Lawson"

"MC Eiht - A-Wax"

"Glenn Plummer - James "Pernell" Richards"

"Clifton Powell - Chauncy"

"Marilyn Coleman - Mrs. Lawson"

"Arnold Johnson - Thomas Lawson"

"Pooh-Man - Doc"

"Julian Roy Doster - Anthony"

"Too Short - Lew-Loc"

"Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins - Tyrone"

"Khandi Alexander - Karen Lawson"

"Vonte Sweet - Sharif Butler"

"Ryan Williams - Stacy"

"Bill Duke - Detective"

"Dwayne L. Barnes - Basehead"

"Charles S. Dutton - Mr. Butler"

"Martin Davis - Carjacking Victim"

"Garen Holoman - Junior"

"Brandon Hammond - Five Year Old Caine"

"Saafir - Harold Lawson"

"Cynthia Calhoun - Jackee"

"Erin Leshawn Wiley - Ilena"

"Samuel Monroe Jr. - Ilena's Cousin"

"Clifton Collins, Jr. - Vato #2"

"[to his mother] You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! You don't know I'm good! I have good things that you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't fucking tell me I'm not!"

"What can you expect when you're on top? You know? It's like Napoleon. When he was the king, you know, people were just constantly trying to conquer him, you know, in the Roman Empire. So, it's history repeating itself all over again."

"You're not the boss of me, Jack. You're not the king of Dirk. I'm the boss of me. I'm the king of me. I'm Dirk Diggler. I'm the star. It's my big dick and I say when we roll. You know what? I'm the biggest star here, man. That's the way it is! I want to fuck! It's my big dick! So, everybody get ready fuckin' NOW!"

"[practicing his lines in a mirror] "I've been around this block twice now looking for something - a clue. Been looking for clues and something led me back here, yeah, so here I am. Could've been me who was at Ringo's place when the shit went down. Hey, I know how it is, I've been there. We've all done bad things. We've all had those guilty feelings in our hearts. You wanna take your brain out of your head and wash it and scrub it and make it clean. Well, no, but I'm gonna help you settle this. First we're gonna check for holes and see what we can find. Then, we're gonna get nice and wet, so you're gonna spread your legs. Oh, that's good, so you know me, you know my reputation. Thirteen inches is a tough load, I don't treat you gently. That's right. I'm Brock Landers. So I'm gonna be nice, and I'm gonna ask you one more time: where the fuck is Ringo?" I'm a star. I'm a star, I'm a star, I'm a star. I am a big, bright shining star. Yeah, that's right."

"[to Dirk] I got a feeling that behind those jeans is something wonderful just waiting to get out."

"We're about to make film history, right here... on videotape."

"[as Chest Rockwell] Let's go get some of that Saturday night beaver."

"Want to hear a poem I wrote? "I love you, you love me. Going down the sugar tree. We'll go down the sugar tree, and see lots of bees. Playing. Playing. But the bees won't sting, because you love me." That's it."

"Everyone has one special thing."

"The life of a dreamer, the days of a business, and the nights in between."

"Mark Wahlberg - Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler"

"Julianne Moore - Amber Waves"

"Burt Reynolds - Jack Horner"

"Don Cheadle - Buck Swope"

"John C. Reilly - Reed Rothchild"

"William H. Macy - Little Bill"

"Heather Graham - Roller Girl"

"Nicole Ari Parker - Becky Barnett"

"Robert Ridgely - The Colonel James"

"Philip Seymour Hoffman - Scotty J."

"Ricky Jay - Kurt Longjohn"

"Melora Walters - Jessie St. Vincent"

"Philip Baker Hall - Floyd Gondolli"

"Thomas Jane - Todd Parker"

"I was taught that my prince would come and I would have his children... and on the weekends we would barbecue... and all the other princes and their princesses would come and they would say "delicious delicious..." Oh how boring ..."

"You wanna know who and what I am?... I'm a killer...."

"I kill with my cunt."

"Adrians dead, it's every man for himself."

"Whether or not I like someone doesn't depend on what kind of genitals they have."

"Michael Biehn - Matthew McRea"

"Bokeem Woodbine - Diquan Mitchell"

"William James Stiggers Jr. - Chucky"

"Starletta DuPois - Diquan's Mother"

"Kia Goodwin - Latisha Jordan"

"Chi Ali - Pharoah"

"Fredro Starr - Bamboo"

"Craig Wasson - Ben"

"Mike Farley - Cop"

"Hugh Hurd — Man In Hallway"

"David Austin Robinson - Boy At Mortuary Truck"

"Mary Hedahl - Secretary"

"Marcella Lowery - Fast Food Customer"

"Joe Gimpel - Fast Food Manager"

"Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins - Lay Lay"

"Nzingha - Aunt Viola"

"Dorothi Fox — Grandmother"

"Monie Love — Yvonne"

"Don Blakely — Desk Sergeant"

"Jay Devlin — Arraignment Judge"

"Wendell Pierce — District Attorney"

"Yul Vazquez — Latisha's Attorney"

"Samuel E. Wright — Dave"

"Jaime Tirelli — Mike"

"Isaiah Washington - Willie"

"Paul McCrane — Mitch Corman"

"Yolanda Whittaker — Ann"

"Mohandas Dewese — Chaz"

"Jack O'Connell — Thad"

"Dinah Meyer — Delivery Girl"

"Willie Hines — Tyrell"

"Tonya Pinkins — A.T.F. Officer"

"Angela Jones — Woman At Clinic"

"Busta Rhymes — Buster"

"Raymond Moy — Korean Grocer"

"Xiandia O. Stewart — Little Girl In Grocery Store"

"Samaria Graham — Mother In Grocery Store"

"John Di Benedetto — Arresting Officer"

"Malachy Cleary — Arresting Officer"

"Joe Pentangelo — Arresting Officer"

"Well, there's my excuse. I'm late because my tits caught on fire."

"Thank God for bar cars."

"[After crashing into Lily's wedding cake and ruining it] Don't worry, I'll replace it. Okay?"

"[Betty is confiscating inappropriate items from Gwen's bag] An eyelash curler? And what am I going to do with that? Stab myself? Curl my tongue to death?"

"Yeah, I know I drink a lot, I know I do because I'm a writer and that's what I do, I drink. I'm not like those people out there, I can control myself! I can, if - that - if I wanted to, I could, if I wanted. I can! I can!"

"You know, your carpet is filthy. And I only bring that up because carpet grit's responsible for a lot of major health problems. And that's the last thing that you need around here."

"Um, hey, um, listen, about the um, about that uh, jail thing... I-I-I- I can't. I-I I can't go. Um, uh, well, not because I don't want to go, but, um, it, uh, oh God, my hands, you know, they just keep doing that. That's not normal. I just-- there's something wrong with my hands-- um, well, with me. Cause, uh, what kind of person just jumps out of a- what kind of person jumps out of a window, you know? Because she can't sit still, you know? And be alone and, you know, in a room, without-- You know a person should be able to just be alone, right? You know, human beings should be able to just breathe. I can't breathe. And I feel that I think I know-- I think I know that if I go to jail... like this, you know, I'll die, and, uh, I don't wanna die."

"I am having a bad day! The worst damn day of my whole damn life! If it is not too much to ask will you all just back the fuck off!"

"Oh, so our therapist today is a very large, smelly, beast of burden."

"I am so tired by the way you people talk. You know, I mean, "one day at a time." What is that? I mean, like two, three days at a time is an option?"

"I'm not a lesbian!"

"You don't have to live my shitty little life, and until you do, do not tell me to give up the one person who matters to me, okay! Because, I know, he's not perfect, but he's the one person that will show up, on my birthday, and he'll say, "I'm glad you were born!""

"Santa Cruz watcher!"

"I understand. Marry a cute girl, move to the suburbs, spend your weekends mowing. You'll never want to do coke again."

"God, I love afternoons like this. You know what's missing in this afternoon? That I don't have a very dry vodka martini with two olives in a chilled glass. God, I miss that."

"Look, I know peoples perceptions of girls who screw other girls' boyfriends. I know what the world's perception is on someone who goes into a bar and realizes five hours later that I've left my three-year-old godson in the back of the car. I mean, people don't like people like that. They don't like-- I don't like people like that."

"Promise me we were safe."

"You're not like, uh, one of them paternity suit kind of gals."

"I bet you can't sit still and be quiet for even one minute."

"[In response to the others learning that he follows a soap opera] I only work every fifth day. Hell else am I supposed to do with my time."

"You know, lately I've been lying awake at night thinking of all the dumb-ass things I've done when I was messed up. One night last year, at dinner, I threw up all over my glazed ham. Then I was thinking, "Well, maybe nobody noticed.""

"Look, I messed up. I got riled up, and there isn't a lot I can do about it right now. Except I just want to say I'm sorry, and uh, you know, people make mistakes. If you can't handle that-- it you-- if you want to decide that, uh, my messing up means I'm not worth being your friend, then you aren't half as smart as you think you are."

"[Holding up a burnt bra] Is this yours, or mine?"

"[At Gwen's rehab] Who the hell do you have to know to get a drink around here?"

"Just break open the bread."

"This is so not how I saw this whole thing playing out!"

"No one adult human being is happy! People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and they realize life equals loss! The whole point of the game is to minimize the pain caused by that equation! Now some people do it by having kids, or making money, or taking up coin collecting, and others do it by getting wasted. Letting that little switch in the head turn the hot light off and the cool light on."

"Everybody hurts everybody it's the human condition!"

"I'll buy running shoes. We'll take up yoga-- or, jogging. You know, we'll be organized. Pay our bills, we'll floss our teeth. We won't set fire to the apartment anymore. I'll buy a goldfish, and we'll be like normal people."

"Gwen, you make it impossible to love you."

"You wanna know how I feel, Gwen? How I've always felt around you? Small. You have this... way. You know, it's that mom thing. That amazing gravitational force. Even when she was a mess, the world noticed her. You have that. And I guess... I figured... that you always knew that. I don't know. When I went back home and I started thinking... and maybe you don't know that. About yourself, I mean. I mean, who would have told you? Not me. The only thing I ever told you was what a pain in the ass you were."

"Well, I'm not a fan of all soap operas. Just Santa Cruz. I mean, it's just an incredible show. I saw it the first time, um, when I was in the hospital a while ago after I got out of my first rehab center. There was this girl on the show, who's Darien. She was also hospitalized, and it was like I was staring at myself. I mean, not physically, cause I don't have the curly hair and stuff. I mean, this whole thing had happened with her. She'd actually been impregnated by her brother, but, she obviously didn't know it was her brother at the time, and... And I don't have a brother, but I have sisters... So it's really sort of, um, been an inspiration... for me. And, it's really, sort of, helped me stay sober... off and on..."

"She didn't come. I waited all day for her. I did my hair."

"Yeah, you're an individual. The only person in the world who uses drugs and alcohol."

"Hey, listen. This isn't the last lousy day you're going to have here."

"Hi, my name is Cornell. I'm a drug addict, alcoholic, compulsive gambler-slash-liar."

"If that will make you happy, I will stop drinking. And then I would tell myself, "Tonight, I will not get wasted." And then something would happen. Or nothing would happen. And, uh, I'd get that feeling. I think you all know what that feeling is. When your skin is screaming and your hands are shaking. Uh, and your stomach feels like it wants to jump through your throat. And you know, that if anyone had a clue how wrong it felt to be sober, they wouldn't dream of asking you to stay that way. They would say, "Oh, geeze, I didn't know. Here. It's okay for you. Do that mound of cocaine. Have a drink. Have 20 drinks. Whatever you need to do to feel like a normal human being, you do it. And boy, I did it. I drank and I snorted, and I drank and I snorted, and drank and I snorted, and I did this day after day after day after night after night. And I didn't care about the consequences, because I knew they couldn't be half as bad as not using. And then one night, something happened. I woke up. I woke up on a sidewalk. And I had no idea where I was. I couldn't have told you the city I was in. And my head was pounding, and I looked down and my shirt is covered in blood. And as I'm lying there, wondering what happens next, I head a voice, and it said, "Man, this is not a way to live. This is a way to die.""

"I like those spider plants, but whatever turns you on."

"[shouts] Oh my God! Look at my package!"

"There's a time when you can share and you hold hands and be on the same path. But there's always a fork in the road... at some point. And sometimes you have to go on one part of the fork and they gotta go on the other part of the fork. [Sigh] Or just down the back part of the fork while you go forward. And they're like [Sigh] Or they got a salad fork and you have one of the big dinner forks and you have longer to go but they're like done because that's it, they're stuck on a piece of food, that they [Sigh]. Their dessert fork or like one of those, you know small little shrimp forks or crab forks and you're trying to get out a crab. They're like that and you're over here jumping to the huge serving fork or something like that, or a ladle, you know. [Sigh]"

"Eddie, you surprise me."

"I have a question. Once we all leave, we have needs that are going to need to be filled... by people... physically... at times. How and when can we do that? Not how, just when?"

"Oh. I killed the plant."

"What are you doing here? It's so good to see you! [Sobs]"

"We carry our own bags here, this isn't the Sheraton."

"No fraternization- that's romance and/or sex- between patients. Oh, and we chant here. Don't be put off by it. It's just some people prefer it to the serenity prayer."

"Don't forget tonight's lecture, at 8:30: "How many brain cells did I kill last night?""

"Tonight's lecture: Are you a blackout drunk, or don't you remember?"

"Tonight's lecture: "I've worked all 12 steps, can I go home now?""

"Attention all patients. Tonight's lecture is, "What's wrong with celebrating sobriety by getting drunk.""

"Don't miss tonight's lecture, "Is God an alcoholic?""

"Sandra Bullock - Gwen Cummings"

"Viggo Mortensen - Eddie Boone"

"Dominic West - Jasper"

"Elizabeth Perkins - Lily Cummings"

"Azura Skye - Andrea"

"Steve Buscemi - Cornell Shaw"

"Alan Tudyk - Gerhardt"

"Mike O'Malley - Oliver"

"Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Roshanda"

"Reni Santoni - Daniel"

"Diane Ladd - Bobbie Jean"

"Margo Martindale - Betty"

"I've been to India And saw the yogi light In South America The Indian smoke glows bright I'm reincarnated and so are we all And in this lifetime We'll rise before we fall"

"[singing] This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, the age of Aquarius!"

"Of course I'm crazy! We're all crazy. Let's shake on it."

"The draft is white people sending black people to make war on the yellow people to defend the land they stole from the red people!"

"Oh say, can you see / my eyes? If you can / then my hair's too short."

"This is the problem. This is what’s wrong with America. It’s gotten so big you can’t find your way."

"That's the way it is now: You can’t find the heart of anything to stick the knife."

"Forget it, Frank. There's no one in charge."

"It’s chaos. Every gorilla for himself."

"The man I worked for, he had one of the biggest companies in New York City- he ran it for more than fifty years. Fifteen years, eight months, nine days- I was with him every day. I looked after him, took care of him, protected him... I learned from him. Bumpy was rich, but he wasn't white man rich, you see he wasn't wealthy. He didn’t own his own company. He thought he did, but he didn’t. He just managed it. White man owned it so they owned him. Nobody owns me, though. Because I own my company. And my company sells a product that’s better than the competition at a price that’s lower than the competition."

"The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work, family, never forgetting where we came from. See, you are what you are in this world, that’s either one of two things: Either you're somebody ... or you’re nobody. I'll be right back"

"That basically the whole picture right there."

"[To Trupo]Detective. There are some things you don’t do. This is one of them. Not on a man’s wedding day."

"Brand names mean something, Nicky. Consumers rely on them to know what they’re getting. They know the company isn’t going to try to fool them with an inferior product. They buy a Ford, they know they’re gonna get a Ford. Not a fuckin' Datsun. Blue Magic that's a brand name; Like Pepsi, that's a brand name. I stand behind it, I guarantee it. They know that even if they don’t know me any more than they know the chairman of General Mills."

"I do pay them, I pay them all. Cops, accountants, lawyers, who don’t I pay? Everybody. I pay them a fortune, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t satisfy them. The more you pay, the more they expect. You can’t start with them because they can’t stop. It’s like dope. They always want more."

"This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don't run from nobody. This is America."

"The number one fear of people isn't dying, it's public speaking."

"Pick up the fuckin' glass!"

"For a cop the uppermost thing is the arrest. For a prosecutor, the arrest is nothing without the evidence to convict. We don’t have any real evidence on anyone on this board, so they’re coming down. We’re starting over from the street."

"His name is Frank Lucas. Originally from Greensboro, North Carolina. Couple of arrests years ago. Gambling, robbery, unlicensed firearm. For fifteen years he was Bumpy Johnson’s collector, bodyguard and driver. He was with him when he died. Five brothers, he’s the oldest, lots of cousins, all living here now, spread out around the boroughs and Jersey. The brothers are Eugene Lucas in Brooklyn, Earl Lucas in Newark, Lester Lucas in Queens, Turner Lucas, the Bronx and Teddy Lucas, in Bergen County. Except for the chinchilla coat, which no one can explain, Frank’s life seems orderly and legitimate. He gets up early. Five a.m. Has breakfast at a Midtown place, usually alone. Then goes to work. Meeting with his accountant, or lawyer, dropping in on one of the several office buildings he owns. Nights, he usually stays home. When he does go out, it’s to a club or dinner - with his new wife - friends, celebrities, sports figures - never O.C. guys. Sundays he takes his mother to church. Then drives out to change the flowers on Bumpy’s grave. Every Sunday, no matter what."

"Won’t get any informants. Not inside. It’s like a Sicilian family. Like he’s structured his own family the same way to protect himself. Being with Bumpy long as he was, he would have been around Italians a lot. Enough to learn that much."

"Rossi: They seize it, arrest everybody, whack it up and sell it back to us. Our dope. They been living off it for years, these New York cops. They basically control the market with it. What the fuck has happened to the world, Frank?"

"Toback: What’re you doing counting this in front of everybody? Are you out of your fuckin' mind? Take it into a room. Now."

"Rivera: I’m a leper. Because I listened to you and turned in a million fucking dollars. You know who’ll work with me after that? Same as you. No one."

"Tango: What the fuck you gonna do Frank, huh? You gonna shoot me, in front of everybody? Huh? Come on..."

"Trupo: When’s the last time I was in Jersey? Let me think. Never. What’re you doing coming over here without letting anybody know? You don’t know you can get hurt doing that? You got your money. Now, never, ever, come into the city again unannounced. You come in to see a fuckin Broadway show you call ahead first to see if it’s okay with me."

"Cattano: I always wonder if people know when history’s being made. And what they’re doing at the time. This, for instance, could be a historic moment, and you’re sipping a glass of ice water."

"Laurie:What are you saying? That because you were “honest” and didn’t take money like every other cop, I left you? You don’t take money for one reason: to buy being dishonest about everything else. And that’s worse than taking money nobody gives a shit about - drug money, gambling money nobody’s gonna miss. I’d rather you took it and been honest with me. Or don’t take it, I don’t care. But don’t then go cheat on me. Don’t cheat on your kid by never being around. Don’t go out and get laid by your snitches and secretaries and strippers. I can tell just by looking, she’s one of them. You think you’re going to heaven because your “honest.” You’re not. You’re going to the same hell as the crooked cops you can’t stand."

"US Attorney: No fucking nigger has accomplished what the American Mafia hasn’t in a hundred years!"

"Cattano: Success. It's got enemies. You can be successful and have enemies or you can be unsuccessful and have friends."

"There are two sides to the American dream."

"Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas"

"Russell Crowe - Det. Richie Roberts"

"John Ortiz - Det. Rivera"

"Lymari Nadal - Eva"

"Chiwetel Ejiofor - Huey Lucas"

"Josh Brolin - Det. Trupo"

"Carla Gugino - Laurie Roberts"

"Ted Levine - Capt. Lou Toback"

"Ruby Dee - Mama Lucas"

"RZA - Moses Jones"

"Armand Assante - Dominic Cattano"

"Cuba Gooding Jr. - Nicky Barnes"

"Idris Elba - Tango"

"Jon Polito - Rossi"

"Roger Bart - U.S. Attorney"

"Clarence Williams III - Bumpy Johnson"

"T.I. - Steve Lucas"

"Common (rapper) - Turner Lucas"

"Sharon, it's just a drug. You're in pain, instead of doing heroin, you're doing God."

"Sharon, don't you understand what's going on? The world's a disaster. We have no power to make it better. You hate your job; you hate your life; but you want to feel special. Instead of letting me do that, you're rushing off to something that's not even there."

"Virgins. I love 'em. No diseases, no loose as a goose pussy, no skank, no nothin'. Just pure pleasure."

"Condoms don't work. They either break, or they slip off, or they make your dick shrink. Nah, but you still gotta use em, yo. At least I did once."

"When you're young, not much matters. When you find something that you care about, then that's all you got. When you go to sleep at night you dream of pussy. When you wake up it's the same thing. It's there in your face. You can't escape it. Sometimes when you're young the only place to go is inside. That's just it - fucking is what I love. Take that away from me and I really got nothing."

"There's a difference between making love, having sex, and then fucking."

"[singing, while drunk in the bathroom] I'm Casper, the friendly ghost / The dopest ghost in town / All the bitches love me 'cause I'm fuckin' Casper / The dopest ghost around."

"Taxi driver: You look like the prom queen. I dated the prom queen when I was your age. She was the first girl I stuck my tongue in."

"Leo Fitzpatrick — Telly"

"Justin Pierce — Casper"

"Chloë Sevigny — Jennie"

"Rosario Dawson — Ruby"

"Jon Abrahams — Steven"

"Harold Hunter — Harold"

"You ever have that dream, the one where you did something... you can't know why, but you can never go back?"

"[On the phone with Johnny Truelove] No matter where you go, no matter what you do, I'm gonna hunt you down. I'm gonna hunt you down and then I'm gonna slit your throat and then I'm gonna cut you open and then I'M GONNA EAT YOUR MOTHERFUCKING HEART! YOU BETTER PRAY, JOHNNY YOU BETTER FUCKING PRAY THAT THE COPS FIND YOU BEFORE I DO! GET ON YOUR COCKSUCKING KNEES AND PRAY! [Pause] HELLO? HELLO?!"

"Jesus. First you give me mouth, now you're giving me fucking tears. Do me a favor, Susan: have a period or something."

"[After breaking Jake's window with a rock] 97 miles an hour muthafucker!"

"Am I the only fucking person who thinks this is fucking wrong?"

"[First lines of film] You wanna know what this is all about? You can say its about drugs or guns or disaffected youth, or whatever you like. But this whole thing is about parenting. It's about taking care of your children. You take care of yours, I take care of mine."

"A drug dealer? No. Did he sell a little weed? Yeah."

"You've fucked up your life so bad! And the only way you're gonna UNFUCK it, is that you come clean now, Johnny, YOU COME CLEAN NOW!"

"They have their own rules in the drug world. They killed my son for twelve-hundred dollars. [Pause] They said there's a reason for everything. Well if God's got a purpose for me, he better get the fuck down and show me, cause I don't see it!"

"How did it ever go so far?"

"How did a crime with this many witnesses go so far?"

"Inspired by true events."

"One crime. 3 days. 38 witnesses."

"Emile Hirsch - Johnny Truelove"

"Justin Timberlake - Frankie "Nuts" Ballenbacher"

"Ben Foster - Jake Mazursky"

"Shawn Hatosy - Elvis Schmidt"

"Anton Yelchin - Zack Mazursky"

"Sharon Stone - Olivia Mazursky"

"Bruce Willis - Sonny Truelove"

"Chris Marquette - Keith Stratten"

"Dominique Swain - Susan Hartunian"

"Alex Solowitz - Bobby "911" Kaye:"

"Fernando Vargas - Tiko "TKO" Martinez"

"Olivia Wilde - Angela Holden"

"Amanda Seyfried - Julie Beckley"

"Vincent Kartheiser - Pick Giaimo"

"Lukas Haas - Buzz Fecske"

"Heather Wahlquist - Wanda Haynes"

"Harry Dean Stanton - Cosmo Gadabeeti"

"David Thornton - Butch Mazursky"

"Charity Shea - Sabrina Pope"

"Holt McCallany - Detective Tom Finnegan"

"Amber Heard - Alma"

"Some guys just can't handle Vegas"

"Whose baby is this?"

"Am I missing a tooth?"

"I stole a police car?!"

"What happened last night?"

"Where the hell is my tiger?"

"Have you seen this man?"

"Easy, tiger!"

"You mess with the wrong guy."

"Well, technically, I'm an escort."

"Bradley Cooper - Phil Wenneck"

"Ed Helms - Dr. Stuart "Stu" Price"

"Zach Galifianakis - Alan Garner"

"Justin Bartha - Doug Billings"

"Heather Graham - Jade"

"Sasha Barrese - Tracy Garner"

"Jeffrey Tambor - Sid Garner"

"Ken Jeong - Leslie Chow"

"Rachael Harris - Melissa"

"Mike Tyson - Himself"

"Mike Epps - Black Doug"

"Jernard Burks - Leonard"

"Rob Riggle - Officer Franklin"

"Cleo King - Officer Garden"

"Bryan Callen - Eddie Palermo"

"There are special people in this world. We don't ask to be special. We're just born this way. We pass you on the streets every day, unnoticed by most. It started in 1945. The Nazis were conducting experiments in psychic warfare, trying to turn those with psychic abilities into soldiers. Lots of us died. The war ended, but the experiments never stopped. Other governments around the world set up what they called "divisions", trying to do what the Nazis couldn't, to turn us into weapons. The divisions agents are trained to track and hunt us down like animals. Take us away from our families and friends. They test us and categorize us. I'm what they call a Watcher. We can see the future, even if that's not always as simple as it sounds. Others are called Movers, just an easy way of saying telekinetic. Pushers put thoughts in your head, and make whatever lie they come up with the truth. Sniffs, Shifters, Shadows, Bleeders... it goes on and on. In divisions' eyes, we're all just lab rats. Only one problem — we keep dying. No one has ever survived the drug meant to boost our powers. My name is Cassie Holmes. Division took my mom from me. Right now, the future I see doesn't look so great. The good news is, the future is always changing, in the largest of ways, by the smallest of things. They've been winning a lot of battles. Now it's our turn to win the war."

"You better do something quick, 'cause I'm sick of drawing dead bodies!"

"I'm thirteen, and I get told I look at least fourteen."

"Put the gun to your mouth. Pull the trigger."

"Chris Evans as Nick Gant"

"Joel Gretsch as Nick's father Jonah"

"Dakota Fanning as Cassie Holmes"

"Camilla Belle as Kira Hudson/Hollis"

"Djimon Hounsou as Agent Henry Carver"

"[after finding a feathered hat in the cabin, Rosie Carver looks fearful, but Bond tries to console her] Don't worry darling, it's just a hat, belonging to a small-headed man of limited means, who lost a fight with a chicken."

"I should have told you. Never go in there without a mongoose."

"Tee-Hee, on the first wrong answer from Miss Solitaire, you will snip the little finger of Mr. Bond's right hand. Starting with the second wrong answer, you will proceed to the more... vital... areas."

"[after stopping Kananga's henchman Adam for speeding] You gotta set of wheels that just won't quit, boy! If they's yours that is...[Adam reaches for his gun but Sheriff Pepper draws his first] UH-UH! Spin around boy! Ten fingers on the fender. Legs apart. I take it this ain't exactly your debut at this sort of thing. You picked the WRONG parish to haul ass through BOY! NOBODY cuts and runs on Sheriff J.W. PEPPER! And it's him who's speakin' by the by."

"Roger Moore is James Bond"

"More Action. More Excitement. More Adventure."

"Roger Moore - James Bond"

"Yaphet Kotto - Kananga / Mr. Big"

"Jane Seymour - Solitaire"

"Clifton James - Sheriff Pepper"

"Julius Harris - Tee Hee Johnson"

"Geoffrey Holder - Baron Samedi"

"David Hedison - Felix Leiter"

"Gloria Hendry - Rosie Carver"

"Bernard Lee - M"

"Lois Maxwell - Miss Moneypenny"

"[when Dan asks if she had sex with another man] Firstly, you don't know what you're talking about. Secondly, I hate the sound of your voice. Thirdly, why don't you just fuck off?"

"He was handsome, and a very good criminal."

"It was hot, the wax was melting off the trees."

"When I first met Candy, those were like the days of "juice" when everything was bountiful."

"I wasn't trying to wreck Candy's life. I was trying to make mine better."

"The future was a thing that gleamed, the present was so very very good..."

"We had a lot going for us. We'd found the secret glue that held all things together. In a perfect place, where the noise did not intrude, our world was so very complete."

"They say for every ten years you've been a junkie, you'll have spent seven of them waiting. On the one hand it anxiety was a full time job."

"Everything we ever did, we did with the best of intentions. But events tumbled and the years piled up. The world is very b think; I couldn't breathe. I was waiting for her to come back because she was everything. She was everything to me."

"When you can stop, you don't want to. When you want to stop, you can't."

"More is never enough."

"Candy Is Dandy But Sex Won't Rot Your Teeth."

"Abbie Cornish - Candy Wyatt"

"Heath Ledger - Dan"

"Geoffrey Rush - Casper"

"Tom Budge - Schumann"

"Roberto Meza-Mont - Jorge"

"Tony Martin (comedian) - Jim Wyatt"

"Noni Hazlehurst - Elaine Wyatt"

"More of this is true than you would believe."

"Your life is like a river. If you’re aiming for a goal that isn't your destiny, you will always be swimming against the current. Young Gandhi wants to be a stock car racer? Not gonna happen. Little Anne Frank wants to be a high school teacher? Tough Anne. That's not your destiny. But you will go on to move the hearts and minds of millions. Find out what your destiny is and the river will carry you."

"Every single one of Bill's soldiers fired high. They instinctively hadn't wanted to shoot another person. Later, Bill would come across a study which revealed that only 15-20% of fresh soldiers shot to kill. The rest aimed high, didn't fire at all, or pretended to be busy doing something else."

"Now, more than ever, we need the Jedi!"

"Jesus, Lyn. You had like the whole desert to drive in, Lyn!"

"We must be the first superpower to create super powers."

"Mother Earth, you're my life support system. As a soldier I must drink your blue water, live inside your red clay and eat your green skin. Help me to balance myself. As you hold in balance, the Earth, the sea, and the space environments. Help me to open my heart, knowing that the Universe will feed me. I pray my boots will always kiss your face, and my footsteps match your heartbeat. Carry my body through space and time. You're my connection to the Universe and all that comes after. I'm yours and you are mine. I salute you."

"I'm liberating this base!"

"I'm your commanding officer, and I'm ordering you to dance. DANCE, GODDAMMIT!"

"We can't afford to have the Russian's leading the field in the paranormal."

"There's a certain shabby nobility in failing all by myself."

"[voiceover] You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning and, though the details are fuzzy. You cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar."

"I hear rabies shots are really painful. They put needles in your dick or something."

"This man calls. He said he was her lawyer. Easiest thing all the way around, he said was for me to sue her for sexual abandonment. A legal term, he said."

"You have to go slowly. You'll have to learn everything all over again."

"I, believe it or not, took this bimbo back to her place on Fifth Avenue. Did some of her off-the-boat-quality drugs. We scooped it out of these tall Ming vases - did it off each other's naked bodies. Fucking beautiful, man."

"She's an Allagash. She has Allagash genes. She's a very attractive lady. She'll also inherit a little of the Allagash money."

"[rambling on aimlessly to himself] ...Siamese fighting fish in the water cooler... the old crew in the golden days of this magazine would have thought of it."

"Pygmies. I'm surrounded by pygmies."

"All that glitters is not gold."

"It's 6.00am. Do you know where you are?"

"He's a long way from Kansas."

"Michael J. Fox - Jamie Conway"

"Kiefer Sutherland - Tad Allagash"

"Phoebe Cates - Amanda"

"Swoosie Kurtz - Megan"

"Frances Sternhagen - Clara"

"Tracy Pollan - Vicky"

"John Houseman - Mr. Vogel"

"Charlie Schlatter - Michael"

"David Warrilow - Rittenhouse"

"Dianne Wiest - Mother (Mrs. Conway)"

"Alec Mapa - Yasu Wade"

"William Hickey - Ferret Man"

"Gina Belafonte - Kathy"

"Sam Robards - Rich Vanier"

"Jessica Lundy - Theresa"

"Kelly Lynch - Elaine"

"Annabelle Gurwitch - Barbara"

"Maria Pitillo - Pony Tail Girl"

"David Hyde Pierce - Bartender at Fashion Show"

"Peg Murray - Receptionist"

"Jason Robards - Alex Hardy"

"[after putting a teddy bear inside his dress to look like a pregnant woman] This is going to be one really surprised obstetrician..."

"Jennifer Lawrence - Ree Dolly"

"John Hawkes - Teardrop Dolly"

"Lauren Sweetser - Gail Lockrum"

"Garret Dillahunt - Sheriff Baskin"

"Dale Dickey - Merab"

"Ronnie Hall - Thump Milton"

"Sheryl Lee - April"

"Kevin Breznahan - Little Arthur"

"Shelley Waggener - Sonya"

"Isaiah Stone - Sonny Dolly"

"Ashlee Thompson - Ashlee Dolly"

"Tate Taylor - Mike Satterfield"

"Cody Shiloh Brown - Floyd"

"What's the matter, you never do blow before? Sometimes your heart stop, it start up again. Read a book."

"I do blow all night. Monkey jerk me off while I watch Stu make fuck with lady-boy."

"When a monkey nibbles on a penis, it's funny in any language."

"Bangkok has them now."

"We're in Bangkok?!"

"We made a pact, Wolfpack only."

"I have a demon in me."

"No one here has to know."

"We had a sick night!"

"We love to party!"

"Bradley Cooper - Phil Wenneck"

"Ed Helms - Stu Price"

"Zach Galifianakis - Alan Garner"

"Justin Bartha - Doug Billings"

"Ken Jeong - Leslie Chow"

"Jeffrey Tambor - Sid Garner"

"Sasha Barrese - Tracy Billings"

"Jamie Chung - Lauren Srisai"

"Mason Lee - Teddy Srisai"

"Paul Giamatti - Kingsley"

"So the end was terrible, even for the good people like my father. So the purpose of all our suffering was just more suffering."

"For God's sake, Arthur, is that how you imagine me? A respected and admired figure? A devoted father? A loving husband? Well, I've also published nearly two papers a year for the last seven years and not a fundamental piece of work in the lot. I sit around the living rooms of other young married faculty members talking infantile masturbation: "Who's sucking up to the head of the department?" "Whose tenure is hanging by a thread?""

"It's just possible I'm not mad, you know! I'm asking you to make a small quantum jump with me, to accept one deviant concept. That our other states of consciousness are as real as our waking state. And that reality can be externalized."

"This is an all-bets-are-off sort of thing. We may be opening a black box that may scrap our whole picture of space-time. We might even have a link to another universe."

"Of all the God damn men in this world, why do I have to love this one? I can't get him out of me. Do you know how many men I tried to fall in love with this past year? But it won't work. No matter who I'm in bed with I have to imagine it's him or nothing happens. No matter who I'm eating with or walking with there's always this pain because it isn't him. I'm possessed by him."

"Sex is a mystical experience for you. You carry on like a flagellant which can be very nice, but l sometimes wonder if it's me that's being made love to. I feel like I'm being harpooned by some raging monk in the act of receiving God."

"You are a Faust-freak, Eddie! You'd sell your soul to find the great truth. Well, human life doesn't have great truths. We're born in doubt. We spend our lives persuading ourselves we're alive. And one way we do that is we love each other."

"He doesn't love me. He never loved me. I was never real to him. Nothing in the human experience is real to him."

"He's a truth lover. Reality to Eddie is only that which is changeless, immutably constant. What happened to Eddie tonight, that was Eddie's idea of love. That was consummation. He finally - got it off with God. He finally embraced the absolute, was finally ravished by truth and it goddamn near destroyed him."

"Defy it, Eddie. You made it real. You can make it unreal. If you love me... If you love me, Eddie, DEFY IT!"

"This one has everything: sex, violence, comedy, thrills, tenderness. It's an anthology and apotheosis of American pop movies: Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Nutty Professor, 2001, Alien, Love Story. It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring—into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight. Madness is its subject and substance, style and spirit. The film changes tone, even form, with its hero's every new mood and mutation. It expands and contracts with his mind until both almost crack. It keeps threatening to go bonkers, then makes good on its threat, and still remains as lucid as an aerialist on a high wire. It moves with the loping energy of a crafty psychopath, or of film makers gripped with the potential of blowing the moviegoer's mind out through his eyes and ears. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Altered States."

"Altered States is one hell of a movie — literally. It hurls its characters headlong back through billions of years to the moment of creation and finds nothing there except an anguished scream of "No!" as the life force protests its moment of birth. And then, through the power of the human ego to insist on its own will even in the face of the implacable indifference of the universe, it turns "No!" into "Yes!" and ends with the basic scene in all drama, the man and the woman falling into each other's arms. But hold on just a second here: I'm beginning to sound like the movie's characters, a band of overwrought pseudo-intellectuals who talk like a cross between Werner Erhard, Freud, and Tarzan. Some of the movie's best dialogue passages are deliberately staged with everybody talking at once: It doesn't matter what they're saying, only that they're incredibly serious about it. I can tell myself intellectually that this movie is a fiendishly constructed visual and verbal roller coaster, a movie deliberately intended to overwhelm its audiences with sensual excess. I know all that, and yet I was overwhelmed, I was caught up in its headlong energy."

"The movie is based on a Paddy Chayefsky novel, which was, in turn, inspired by the experiments of Dr. John Lilly, the man who placed his human subjects in total immersion tanks — floating them in total darkness so that their minds, cut off from all external reality, could play along the frontiers of sanity. In Altered States, William Hurt plays a Harvard scientist named Jessup who takes such an experiment one step further, by ingesting a drug made from the sacred hallucinatory mushrooms of a primitive tribe. The strange thing about these mushrooms, Hurt observes in an easily missed line of dialogue in the movie, is that they give everyone who takes them the same hallucinatory vision. Perhaps it is our cellular memory of creation: There is chaos, and then a ball of light, and then the light turns into a crack, and the crack opens onto Nothing, and that is all there was and all there will be, except for life, which has its only existence in the mind. Got that? It hardly matters. It is a breathtaking concept, but Altered States hardly slows down for it. This is the damnedest movie to categorize. Just when it begins to sound like a 1960s psychedelic fantasy, a head trip — it turns into a farce."

"During the professor's last experiment, when he is disappearing into a violent whirlpool of light and screams on the laboratory floor, it is his wife who wades into the celestial mists, gets up to her knees in eternity, reaches in, and pulls him out. And this is despite the fact that he has filed for divorce. The last scene is a killer, with the professor turning into the protoplasm of life itself, and his wife turning into a glowing shell of rock-like flesh, with her inner fires glowing through the crevices (the effect is something like an overheated Spiderman). They're going through the unspeakable hell of reliving the First Moment, and yet as the professor, as Man, bangs on the walls and crawls toward her, and she reaches out, and the universe rocks, the Man within him bursts out of the ape-protoplasm, and the Woman within her explodes back into flesh, and they collapse into each other's arms, and all the scene really needs at that point is for him to ask, "Was it as good for you as it was for me?" Altered States is a superbly silly movie, a magnificent entertainment, and a clever and brilliant machine for making us feel awe, fear, and humor. That is enough. It's pure movie and very little meaning. Did I like it? Yeah, I guess I did, but I wouldn't advise trying to think about it very deeply."

"The scene in which the scientist becomes cosmic energy and his wife grabs him and brings him back to human form is straight out of my Dyadic Cyclone (1976) … As for the scientist's regression into an ape-like being, the late Dr. Craig Enright, who started me on K (ketamine) while taking a trip with me here by the isolation tank, suddenly "became" a chimp, jumping up and down and hollering for twenty-five minutes. Watching him, I was frightened. I asked him later, "Where the hell were you?" He said, "I became a pre-hominid, and I was in a tree. A leopard was trying to get me. So I was trying to scare him away." The manuscript of The Scientist (1978) was in the hands of Bantam, the publishers. The head of Bantam called and said, "Paddy Chayefsky would like to read your manuscript. Will you give him your permission?" I said, "Only if he calls me and asks permission." He didn't call. But he probably read the manuscript."

"If it is not wholly visionary at every juncture, it is at least dependably — even exhilaratingly — bizarre. Its strangeness, which borders cheerfully on the ridiculous, is its most enjoyable feature. The movie itself has many of the qualities of its chief character, who is obsessive, exciting, scary, wildly energetic, and a very odd bird indeed. Actually his leanings are more to the ape-like than the birdlike, and to call them leanings is to put it very mildly. … The movie, part joke and part nightmare, is the story of a man who experiments with hallucinogenic substances, searching for what he calls his unborn soul and longing to re-experience the birth of man. In the course of this adventure, he turns into an ape and scares the daylights out of everyone around him. Really, that's all you need to know. … The film is in fine shape as long as it revels in its own craziness, making no claims on the viewer's reason. But when it asks you to believe that what you're watching may really be happening, and to wonder what it means, it is asking far too much. By the time it begins straining for an ending both happy and hysterical, it has lost all of its mystery, and most of its magic."

"When he heard his cry for help it wasn't human."

"In the basement of a university medical school Dr. Jessup floats naked in total darkness. The most terrifying experiment in the history of science is out of control... and the subject is himself."

"William Hurt - Dr. Edward "Eddie" Jessup"

"Blair Brown - Emily Jessup"

"Bob Balaban - Arthur Rosenberg"

"Charles Haid - Mason Parrish"

"Thaao Penghlis - Eduardo Echeverria"

"Drew Barrymore - Margaret Jessup"

"Megan Jeffers - Grace Jessup"

"Miguel Godreau - Primal man"

"Dori Brenner - Sylvia Rosenberg"

"Peter Brandon - Alan Hobart"

"Charles White-Eagle - The Brujo"

"John Larroquette - X-Ray technician"

"George Gaynes - Dr. Wissenschaft"

"Jack Murdock - Hector Orteco"

"Y'know, I was so bored once that I fucked a dog."

"[while trying to play the bass lines to "Pretty Vacant"] And we don't fucking care!"

"Never trust a junkie."

"If I asked you to kill me, would you?"

"But Sidney's more than a mere bass player. He's a fabulous disaster. He's a symbol, a metaphor. He embodies the dementia of a nihilistic generation. He's a fuckin' star!"

"Gary Oldman - Sid Vicious"

"Chloe Webb - Nancy Spungen"

"David Hayman - Malcolm McLaren"

"Debby Bishop - Phoebe"

"Andrew Schofield - Johnny Rotten"

"Xander Berkeley - Bowery Snax, drug dealer"

"Courtney Love - Gretchen"

"Perry Benson - Paul Cook"

"Tony London - Steve Jones"

"[talking to his plants] Ooh, Oaxaca. Ooh, sensi. How are you, my darling? Oh, God, your buds are getting so big. I have to get you a training bra. You got some lint in your belly button there. There you go. All right. Okay, you guys, be cool."

"Yeah, real funny, man... so funny I forgot to laugh..."

"Hey, scratch my balls, man... anybody scratch my balls!"

"The only way to catch a doper is when you yourself become a smoker. The surest way to make them bleed is when you bust their ass and steal their weed."

"You know we cannot trust our own instincts, now I want you send this down to the analyzer and have it labbed. I'll take care of it."

"[talking to a lizard] You... have beautiful eyes. Yes you do..."

"Would you like to have a hamburger?"

"You're the guy from the hamburger train, right? Yeah, the hambur- [sniffs]"

"The story of two enterprising young men who make an amazing amount of money selling ice cream."

"The High Life Never Tasted So Good!"

"Cheech Marin - Cheech"

"Tommy Chong - Chong "Man""

"Stacy Keach - Sarge Stedanko"

"Paul Reubens - Howie Hamburger Dude"

"Evelyn Guerrero - Donna"

"Peter Jason - Detective Drooler"

"Tim Rossovich - Detective Noodles"

"Timothy Leary - Himself"

"Sandra Bernhard - Girl Nut"

"Tony Cox - Midget Nut (Credited as Joe Anthony Cox)"

"Michael Winslow - Superman Nut"

"Cheryl Smith - Group Blonde #1"

"Linnea Quigley - Group Blonde #2"

"Obviously, I miscalculated a few things. Why is it that the moment your life exceeds your wildest dreams, a knife appears at your back? Well, I'll tell you one thing: I will never let them touch me."

"For a guy with a four-digit I.Q., I must have missed something. And I hadn't missed much."

"In the end, how much worse could it get? [takes NZT-48 for the first time]"

"I was blind, but now I see."

"It was all bubbling up in my frontal lobes, mixing itself together into a sparkling cocktail of useful information."

"I wasn't high, I wasn't wired; just clear. I knew what I needed to do and how to do it."

"A tablet a day and what I could do with my day was limitless."

"I suddenly knew everything. About everything."

"My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I had ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available."

"All my fear, all my shyness, gone. But mere lounging wasn't enough. Only problem? If I wasn't moving forward, I felt like I was going to explode."

"I don't have delusions of grandeur, I have an actual recipe for grandeur."

"Time somebody shook up the free world and got things done."

"How many of us ever know what it is to become the perfect versions of ourselves?"

"They've identified these receptors in the brain that activate specific circuits. And you know how they say that we can only access twenty percent of our brain? Well, what this does, it lets you access all of it."

"What if a pill could make you rich and powerful?"

"I knew from the beginning it would be a wonderful life experience to go through what this guy goes through. The script was unbelievable; when I read it, I thought, "I can see myself in it.""

"The fact that I finally, in the end, got to play him is a miracle for me."

"Bradley Cooper — Edward "Eddie" Morra"

"Robert De Niro — Carl van Loon"

"Abbie Cornish — Lindy"

"Andrew Howard — Gennady"

"Anna Friel — Melissa Gant"

"Johnny Whitworth — Vernon "Vern" Gant"

"Tomas Arana — Man in tan coat"

"Robert John Burke — Donald "Don" Pierce"

"Richard Bekins — Henry "Hank" Atwood"

"Ned Eisenberg — Morris Brandt"

"T. V. Carpio — Valerie"

"Patricia Kalember — Mrs. Atwood"

""C'est la vie" — Que se-fucking sera sera."

"She came along the alley and up the back steps the way she always used to. Doc hadn't seen her for over a year. Nobody had. Back then it was always sandals, bottom half of a flower-print bikini, faded Country Joe & the Fish t-shirt. Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot shorter than he remembered, looking just like she swore she'd never look."

"Back when they were together she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on Doc that he couldn't read at all."

"Doc ran through all the things he hadn't asked Shasta. Like how much she'd come to depend on Wolfmann's guaranteed level of ease and power? And least askable of all, how passionately did she really feel about old Mickey? Doc knew the likely reply, "I love him", what else? With the unspoken footnote that the word these days was being way too overused."

""Inherent vice" in a maritime insurance policy is anything that you can't avoid. Eggs break, chocolate melts, glass shatters, and Doc wondered what that meant when it applied to ex-old-ladies"

"Was it possible that at every gathering, concert, peace rally, love-in, be-in, freak-in, here up north, back east, where ever, some dark crews had been busy all along reclaiming the music, the resistance to power, the sexual desire from epic to everyday? All they could sweep up for the ancient forces of greed and fear? Gee he thought... I don't know."

"[about the police station] On principle he tried to spend as little time around the glass house as possible. All this strange alternative cop history and cop politics, cop dynasties, cop heroes and evil doers, saintly cops and psycho cops, cops too stupid to live and cops too smart for their own good, insulated by secret loyalties and codes of silence from the world they'd all been given the control."

"Well Mornin' Sam, like a bad luck planet in today's horoscope, here's the old hippie-hating mad dog himself in the flesh: Lieutenant Detective Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen. SAG member, John Wayne walk, flat top of Flintstone proportions and that evil, little shit-twinkle in his eye that says Civil Rights Violations."

"Denis: Like Godzilla says to Mothra man, let's go eat some place."

"Joaquin Phoenix - Larry "Doc" Sportello"

"Josh Brolin - Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen"

"Owen Wilson - Coy Harlingen"

"Katherine Waterston - Shasta Fay Hepworth"

"Reese Witherspoon - Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball"

"Benicio del Toro - Sauncho Smilax, Esq."

"Jena Malone - Hope Harlingen"

"Joanna Newsom - Sortilège"

"Jordan Christian Hearn - Denis"

"Hong Chau - Jade"

"Jeannie Berlin - Aunt Reet"

"Maya Rudolph - Petunia Leeway"

"Michael K. Williams - Tariq Khalil"

"Michelle Sinclair - Clancy Charlock"

"Martin Short - Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd"

"Sasha Pieterse - Japonica Fenway"

"Martin Donovan - Crocker Fenway"

"Eric Roberts - Michael Z. "Mickey" Wolfmann"

"Serena Scott Thomas - Sloane Wolfmann"

"Yvette Yates - Luz"

"Andrew Simpson - Riggs Warbling"

"Jefferson Mays - Dr. Threeply"

"Keith Jardine - Puck Beaverton"

"Peter McRobbie - Adrian Prussia"

"Sam Jaeger - Agent Flatweed"

"Timothy Simons - Agent Borderline"

"[voiceover] To the Turks, everything is "shurla burla", which means "like this, like that". You never know what will happen. All foreigners are "ayip", they're considered dirty. So is homosexuality, it's a big crime here, but most of them do it every chance they get. There are about thousand things that are "ayip", for instance, you can stab or shoot somebody below the waist but not above because that's intent to kill. So everyone runs around stabbing everyone else in the ass. That's what they call Turkish revenge. I know it must all sound crazy to you, but this place is crazy."

"[to the Turkish court] I just wish for once that you could be in my shoes, Mr. Prosecutor, and then you would know something that you don't know: mercy! That the concept of a society is based on the quality of that mercy; its sense of fair play; its sense of justice! But I guess that's like asking a bear to shit in the toilet. [In the red border clamshell VHS, He says: But I guess that's like asking a bear to use a potty trainer.]"

"[to the Turkish court] For a nation of pigs, it sure is funny you don't eat'em! Jesus Christ forgave the bastards, but I can't! I hate! I hate you! I hate your nation! And I hate your people! And I fuck your sons and daughters because they're pigs! [Red border clamshell VHS: And I hate your sons and daughters because they're pigs!] You're a pig! You're all pigs."

"Dear Susan: Poor Jimmy was caught and beaten so badly he got a severe hernia, and lost a testicle. He's been in the sanitarium for months. In comparison, my problems seem very small."

"What is a crime? What is punishment? It seems to vary from time to time and place to place. What's legal today is suddenly illegal tomorrow because society says it's so, and what's illegal yesterday is suddenly legal because everybody's doin' it, and you can't put everybody in jail. I'm not saying this is right or wrong. I'm just saying that's the way it is. But I've spent 3 1/2 years of my life in your prison, and I think I've paid for my error, and if it's your decision today to sentence me to more years, then I... [he becomes overcome with anger]"

"[Tex has a large revolver pointed at Billy whom he just recaptured trying to escape] You seem like a nice enough kid to me, Billy, but you try it and I'll blow your fuckin' brains out."

"Ahmet: Where are you going? Why don't you walk the wheel with us? What is the matter my American friend? What has upset you? Oh! I know. The bad machine doesn't know that he's a bad machine. You still don't believe it. You still don't believe you're a bad machine? To know yourself is to know God, my friend. The factory knows, that's why they put you here. You'll see... You'll find out... In time, you'll know."

"Everybody gave up on Billy Hayes—except Billy."

"A story of triumph."

"Walk into the incredible true experience of Billy Hayes, and bring all the courage you can!"

"Brad Davis - Billy Hayes"

"Irene Miracle - Susan"

"Bo Hopkins - "Tex""

"Paolo Bonacelli - Rifki"

"Paul L. Smith - Hamidou"

"Randy Quaid - Jimmy Booth"

"Norbert Weisser - Erich"

"John Hurt - Max"

"Kevork Malikyan - the Prosecutor"

"Yashaw Adem - the Airport police chief"

"Mike Kellin - Mr. Hayes"

"Franco Diogene - Yesil"

"Michael Ensign - Stanley Daniels"

"Gigi Ballista - the Judge"

"Peter Jeffrey - Ahmet"

"Michael Yannatos - Court translator"

"Nature just knows instinctually how to stay in harmony! It's mechanical. Everything doing its part."

"My parents died in a fire."

"And now, in keeping with tradition: Hjalmar and Josef will make three trips. If they make it back with the flame intact, our vintage will be abundant this year! On the other hand, if it burns out – that will be an omen of bad luck and we will know to prepare."

"[in Swedish] This high my fire. No higher. No hotter!"

"Please! What you just saw is a long, long, long observed custom. Those two who jumped have just reached the end of their Hårga life-cycle, and you need to understand it as a great joy for them. And when it is my turn, it will be a great joy for me. We view life as a circle. A re-cycle. The lady who jumped, her name was Ylva, yes? And that baby over there, who is not yet born, will inherit that name. Instead of getting old and dying in pain and fear and shame, we give our life – as a gesture. Before it can spoil. It does no good dying, lashing back at the inevitable. It corrupts the spirit."

"Well. We, um - have something regretful to announce. This morning, the nineteenth book of Rubi Radr was found missing, from the temple. We don't want to - point fingers, and yet we kindly ask that whoever took it return it, to its original place. You can leave it in the temple, which will be left unguarded, unwatched. Nobody need to know, it was you."

"Ulf: [shouting in Swedish to Mark] You're pissing on my people! [to Pelle] Your little fucking American friend! He's pissed on the Rotvälta!"

"Ulla: Christian? [snaps fingers twice] Christian... Hi. Hello! There you are! Listen: You can't speak. You can't move. [smiles] All right? [smiles] Good."

"Maja: [in Swedish after being impregnated by Christian during the mating ritual] I feel it! I can feel the baby!"

"Florence Pugh – Dani Ardor"

"Jack Reynor – Christian Hughes"

"William Jackson Harper – Josh"

"Vilhelm Blomgren – Pelle"

"Will Poulter – Mark"

"Ellora Torchia – Connie"

"Archie Madekwe – Simon"

"Henrik Norlén – Ulf"

"Gunnel Fred – Siv"

"Isabelle Grill – Maja"

"Agnes Rase – Dagny"

"Julia Ragnarsson – Inga"

"Liv Mjönes – Ulla"

"Louise Peterhoff – Hanna"

"Lars Väringer – Sten"

"Dag Andersson – Sven"

"How far do they go before they've gone too far?"

"Somewhere between the buy, and the high... they forgot they were cops."

"Jason Patric - Jim Raynor"

"Jennifer Jason Leigh - Kristen Cates"

"Sam Elliott - Larry Dodd"

"Max Perlich - Walker"

"Gregg Allman - Will Gaines"

"Tony Frank - Nettle"

"William Sadler - Monroe"

"Dennis Letts - Senior District Attorney"

"Dennis Burkley - Motorcycle Guy"

"Merrill Connally - Defense Attorney"

"Michael Kirkland - Assistant DA"

"Special K McCray - Willie Red"

"The word Sicario comes from the zealots of Jerusalem, killers who hunted the Romans who invaded their homeland. In Mexico, Sicario means hitman."

"Nothing will make sense to your American ears, and you will doubt everything that we do, but in the end you will understand."

"You're asking me how a watch works. For now we'll just keep an eye on the time."

"[in Spanish] Time to meet God."

"[shoots Kate in her bulletproof vest] Don't ever point a gun at me again."

"You look like a little girl when you're scared."

"Fausto Alarcon "El Verdugo". Every day across that border, people are kidnapped or killed by his hand or with his blessing. To find him would be like discovering a vaccine. You understand the value of that?"

"You should move to a small town where the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf. And this is the land of wolves now."

"[after interrogating Ted] You know what the beauty is of you being so beat to a pulp? 'Cause no one's gonna notice a few more scratches."

"You saw things you shouldn't have seen."

"Emily Blunt - Kate Macer"

"Josh Brolin - Matt Graver"

"Benicio del Toro - Alejandro Gillick"

"Daniel Kaluuya - Reggie Wayne"

"Victor Garber - FBI Supervisory Special Agent Dave Jennings"

"Jon Bernthal - Ted"

"Jeffrey Donovan - Steve Forsing"

"Raoul Trujillo - Rafael"

"Julio Cesar Cedillo - Fausto Alarcón"

"Hank Rogerson - Phil Coopers"

"Bernardo Saracino - Manuel Díaz"

"Maximiliano Hernández - Silvio"

"Edgar Arreola - Guillermo"

"I would do anything to make sure my momma and daddy never had to live in poverty ever again."

"There's a lot of people saying a lot of things. But in the end, you got to listen to yourself."

"If I can't move, I can't sing."

"I'm ready. Ready to fly."

"I'm going to show you what the real Elvis is like tonight!"

"I‘m so tired of playing Elvis Presley. People rely on me."

"I need to get back to who I really am."

"Some people wanted to put me in jail, because of the way I was moving."

"You know, the first thing I ever recorded, the very first thing was an old rhythm and blues type song called "That's All Right little Mama", and uh back then we only had two or three instruments at the time. But this ain't no nostalgia show. We're gonna do something different."

"I'm going to do what I want to do. Sing the music that I want."

"I just got to be making the most of this thing while I can. This could be over in a flash."

"A reverend once told me, "When things are too dangerous to say... sing.""

"The papers say I shot my mother and smoke marijuana."

"For those of you who are wondering who this fella here is, I am the legendary Colonel Tom Parker. I am the man who gave the world Elvis Presley. Without me, there would be no Elvis Presley. And yet, there are some who'd make me out to be the villain of this here story."

"No, no, I didn't kill him. I made Elvis Presley. Nothing all those muckrakers said in their books was true. Me and Elvis, we was partners. It was Elvis the Showman and the Colonel the Snowman. I always knew I was destined for greatness. As an orphan, I ran away to the carnival, where I learned the art of the "snow job," of emptying a rube's wallet while leaving them with nothing but a smile on their face. But a carnival act that would get you the most money, the most snow, had great costumes and a unique trick, that gave the audience feelings they weren't sure they should enjoy. But they do. And I knew if I could find such an act, I could create the greatest... show... on... Earth."

"It doesn't matter if you do ten stupid things, as long as you do one smart one."

"Comic book heroes all find their superpowers. Elvis found music."

"Are you born with a destiny? Or does it just come knocking at your door?"

"In that moment, in a flash of lightning, I watched that skinny boy transform into a superhero."

"Now, I don't know nothing about music. But I could see in that girl's eyes, he was a taste of forbidden fruit. She could have eaten him alive!"

"It was the greatest carnival attraction I'd ever seen. He was my destiny. Right under my nose... in Memphis. Just why a truck driver from Memphis, Tennessee, liked to hang out on Beale Street, I do not know. But it did him no favors, fitting into them white housing projects. He was crazy for that Beale Street music. Beale Street style. He had Beale Street stars in his eyes."

"That night, I happened to see him. Alone. Lost. A snowman is only as good... as his attraction."

"Tomorrow, all America will be talking about Elvis Presley!"

"He had no idea what he had done."

"Since the day he was born, she had feared losing her second son. While he was in basic training, she worried and drank. Worried and drank."

"Those know-it-all hippies had brainwashed Elvis, acting like he was one of them radicals, throwing his career away to sing spirituals with a bunch of longhairs."

"I always said, when it came to music, my boy knows best. But the special was my idea. It was a tremendous hit. We was back on top. But some people were putting ideas in his head that he didn't need me no more."

"Now you listen to me. The only thing that matters is that that man gets up on that stage tonight!"

"I'm a promoter. That's what I do."

"The Man. The Legend. The King of Rock & Roll."

"Austin Butler - Elvis Presley"

"Tom Hanks - Col. Tom Parker"

"Olivia DeJonge - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley"

"Helen Thomas - Gladys Presley"

"Richard Roxburgh - Vernon Presley"

"Kelvin Harrison Jr. - B.B. King"

"Xavier Samuel - Scotty Moore"

"David Wenham - Hank Snow"

"Kodi Smit-McPhee - Jimmie Rodgers Snow"

"Luke Bracey - Jerry Schilling"

"Leon Ford - Tom Diskin"

"Dacre Montgomery - Steve Binder"

"Alton Mason - Little Richard"

"Yola Quartey - Sister Rosetta Tharpe"

"Gary Clark Jr. - Arthur Crudup"

"Kate Mulvany - Marion Keisker"

"Josh McConville - Sam Phillips"

"Christopher Sommers - Horace Logan"

"Nicholas Bell - Senator James Eastland"

"Anthony LaPaglia - Bernard Lansky"

"Christian Kisando - Smoky"

"John Mukristayo - Jimmy"

"Miles Burton - Bobby"

"Gad Banza - Doc"

"Adam Dunn - Bill Black"

"Terepai Richmond - D.J. Fontana"

"Patrick Shearer - Dewey Phillips"

"Liz Blackett - Minnie Mae "Dodger" Presley"

"Cle Morgan - Mahalia Jackson"

"Shonka Dukureh - Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton"

"I am taking the f***ing children home!"

"When the plane's going down, the pilot knows where to dump our load and we just go and get it."

"They are gonna come after me, my family, if I don't get them every penny's worth."

"No, I'm not leaving without that cocaine!"

"I'd love to not remember this. But it kind of seems like the thing that stays with a man forever."

"That was so messed up. That little man was an expert on bears, but he didn't know that bear was the cocaine bear."

"News Anchor: Millions of dollars worth of cocaine fell from the sky this morning in Knoxville, Tennessee."

"Bob: Apex predator... high on cocaine... and you're going towards it?"

"Eddie: The bear, it fucking did cocaine. A BEAR. DID. COCAINE!"

"Elsa: We have such good luck in nature."

"Stache: It's like cocaine Christmas."

"Inspired by true events."

"Get in line."

"— Ranger Liz"

"Ray Liotta — Syd"

"Aaron Holiday — Stache"

"Ayoola Smart — Officer Reba"

"Kahyun Kim — Beth"

"Scott Seiss — Tom"

"[to Maguire] Let's see now: you've lost half a million dollars, confiscated a ton of useless coke, and been responsible for the murder of a federal informant, and that... that's just tonight."

"What is it? You need some chap stick or lip gloss or something? Because your lips keep getting stuck on your teeth. Or is that your idea of a smile?"

"You son of a bitch! How could you do this? Friendship is the only choice in life you can make that's yours! You can't choose your family, God damn it - I've had to face that! And no man should be judged for whatever direction his dick goes - that's like blaming a compass for pointing north, for Christ's sake! Friendship is all we have! We chose each other. How could you fuck it up? How could you make us look so bad?"

"I think it's time for both of us to quit. I've seen it coming for some time now, cocaine is no goddamn good for anyone. The future, the future is grass... grass, buddy. I got sixty ton of Thai stick coming in... it's on the way. [slumps over dead]"

"I don't know what it is about going to high school with someone that makes you feel you're automatically friends for life. Who says, who says friendship lasts forever? We'd all like it to, maybe. But maybe... it just wears out like everything else. Like tires. There's just so much mileage in them and then you're riding around on nothing but air."

"You meet at Orville and Wilbur's every Christmas. He throws his Chevrolet keys on the bar. You throw your Porsche keys on the bar. You pick up your drink with a gold Rolex on your wrist. He wears a Timex. Even if he wasn't a cop he'd hate your guts."

"A dangerous cocktail."

"A business on the line. A friendship on the edge. A woman caught in the middle."

"A dangerous mix.Scott"

"Mel Gibson - Dale "Mac" McKussic"

"Michelle Pfeiffer - Jo Ann Vallenari"

"Kurt Russell - Lieutenant Nick Frescia"

"Raul Julia - Commandante Xavier Escalante / Carlos"

"J. T. Walsh - DEA Agent Hal Maguire"

"Gabriel Damon - Cody McKussic"

"Ely Pouget - Barbara"

"Arliss Howard - Gregg Lindroff"

"Arye Gross - Andy Leonard"

"Daniel Zacapa - Arturo"

"Budd Boetticher - Judge Nizetitch"

"Ann Magnuson - Shaleen McKussic"

"[As he has raw sex with Jilly Miranda] Jack and Jilly went up the hilly to fetch a pale of water!"

"You are one daffy invididual!"

"I like it... Hit the road, flee for your life, meet a doll who's got "once and a lifetime girl of my dreams and reason to believe" written all over her like so much graffiti. It could only happen to the god of fuck."

"[After the alligator boy screams] That be a cry laden with pain and sorrow"

"Desmond the alligator boy is a major happener"

"When you think about it, the world is divided into 2 groups... pandas and alligator boys"

"[Telling Jack that the whore thought Pilot was sexually confused] Sexual confusion... I mean, you don't think I have sexual confusion, do you?"

"So, it was cool, you know? I told her about my troubles and she was like, 'sexual confusion's a tricky thing'. Sexual confusion? I mean, easy on the sexual confusion tip, baby. You make me sound like a guy in a raincoat with a fistful of vaseline, you know? [Laughs] Sexual confusion... I mean, you don't think I have sexual confusion, do you...?"

"[To Jack and Pilot] Are you guys by any chance, in love?"

"A field... I need a field... A field in which to frolic!"

"Congratulations you just became the Sir Edmund Hillary of assholes. You climbed the highest mountain, Pilot. There's five big ones."

"[Walks up to Pilot] You the boyfriend? You like alligator dick? [Touches Pilot's lips] Like to suck it?"

"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? ...it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies...""

"Jared Leto as Jack"

"Jake Gyllenhaal as Pilot"

"Selma Blair as Cassie"

"John C. McGinle as Johnny the Fox"

"Jeremy Piven as Scawldy"

"Arden Myrin as Lucy"

"Kimberley Kates as Jilly Miranda"

"Mark Rolston as Burt Miranda"

"Jarret Thomas as Kid #1"

"Stephen Shellen as Clark Hayes"

"Matthew Davis as Booty"

"Madeline Parquette as Pilot's Mom"

"George Spielvogel III as Boneman"

"Come as you are"