"My name is Schmidt, but I changed it to Smith. That's what I got against these guys more than anything else. They make me ashamed of the name I was born with. I got a lot of relatives in Germany. For all I know this guy may be one of them. I say throw him to the sharks!"

"Walter Slezak - Willi"

"Who goes Primitive first...A man...Or a woman...adrift in an open boat?"

"Stuart Graham - Tom Cullen"

"Dying together's even more personal than living together."

"We're not like you! You're made of iron, we're just flesh and blood! Hungry and thirsty flesh and blood!"

"Ian McElhinney - Belfast Detective"

"Mary Anderson - Alice MacKenzie"

"[to the delirious Gus] There's Rosie! She's waiting for you! [Willy pushes Gus overboard]"

"Ian Hart as Joe O'Reilly"

"Brendan Gleeson - Liam Tobin"

"Seán McGinley - Smith"

"Julia Roberts - Kitty Kiernan"

"Gerard McSorley - Cathal Brugha"

"Alan Rickman - Éamon de Valera"

"Owen O'Neill - Rory O'Connor"

"Charles Dance - Soames"

"Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Collins's Assassin"

"Aidan Quinn - Harry Boland"

"Stephen Rea - Ned Broy"

"Michael Collins was 31 when he died. Half a million people attended his funeral in Dublin. All parties to the conflict, both British and Irish, were temporarily united in grief. In his brief lifetime, he had fought the British Empire to a stalemate, negotiated the first Treaty of Independence for Ireland and overseen its transition to democracy. He died, paradoxically, in an attempt to finally remove the gun from Irish politics."

"Ireland, 1916. His dreams inspired hope. His words inspired passion. His courage forged a nation's destiny. An epic tale of passion and destiny."

"An epic tale of passion and destiny."

"That's why he died. He knew the risk he was taking when he went down there, but he thought them worth taking. He took them for us, for every gobshite in this country, no matter what side they were on."

"[Trying to convince the Dáil to accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty] I would plead with every person here. Make me a scapegoat if you will, call me a traitor if you will, but please, let's save the country. The alternative to this treaty is a war which nobody in this gathering can even contemplate. If the price of freedom, the price of peace is the blackening of my name, I will gladly pay it."

"You've got to think of him the way he was. The way he cycled round Dublin in his pin-striped suit with £10,000 pounds on his head. "Why hide, Joe" he'd say "when that's what they'd expect?". But he never did what anyone expected. He got the British out of here and no one expected that. Some people are what the times demand, and life without them seems impossible. But he's dead. And life is possible. He made it possible."

"Liam Neeson - Michael Collins"

"Li Fazeng - Governor Yu"

"Gao Xi'an - Bo"

"Hai Yan - Madam Yu"

"Sihung Lung - Sir Te"

"Zhang Ziyi - Jen Yu (English dubbed version) / Jiao Long (Mandarin version)"

"Chang Chen - Lo "Dark Cloud" / Luo Xiaohu"

"Li Kai - Gou Jun Pei"

"Cheng Pei-pei - Jade Fox"

"At the turn of the century, Britain was the foremost world power and the British Empire stretched over two-thirds of the globe. Despite the extent of its power, its most troublesome colony had always been the one closest to it, Ireland. For over seven hundred years, Britain's rule over Ireland had been resisted by attempts at revolution and rebellion, all of which ended in failure. Then, in 1916, a rebellion began, to be followed by a guerilla war that would change the nature of that rule forever. The mastermind behind that war was Michael Collins. His life and death defined the period, in its triumph, terror and tragedy. This is his story."

"Chow Yun-Fat - Master Li Mu Bai"

"Michelle Yeoh - Yu Shu Lien"

"Al Sapienza – Louis Carmelo"

"Susan Blackwell – Lauren Bratberg"

"Ashley Williams – Heather Burke"

"Demi Moore – Sarah Robertson"

"Zachary Quinto – Peter Sullivan"

"Penn Badgley – Seth Bregman"

"Simon Baker – Jared Cohen"

"Jeremy Irons – John Tuld"

"Do you know I built a bridge once? ... I was an engineer by trade... It went from Dilles Bottom, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia. It spanned nine hundred and twelve feet above the Ohio River. Twelve thousand people used this thing a day. And it cut out thirty-five miles of driving each way between Wheeling and New Martinsville. That's a combined 847,000 miles of driving a day. Or 25,410,000 miles a month. And 304,920,000 miles a year. Saved. Now I completed that project in 1986, that's twenty-two years ago. So over the life of that one bridge, that's 6,708,240,000 miles that haven't had to be driven. At, what, let's say fifty miles an hour. So that's, what, 134,165,800 hours, or 559,020 days. So that one little bridge has saved the people of those communities a combined 1,531 years of their lives not wasted in a fucking car. One thousand five hundred and thirty-one years."

"Kevin Spacey – Sam Rogers"