"I admit that it's embarrassing for a man to compliment a woman on her breasts when only one of them is in bed. One of the people, that is. Not one of the breasts."

"I better be nice to this woman. Otherwise, the good doctor will dissolve her in water and inject her into me."

"Hello, I was just practicing lying here."

"How does a quadriplegic cross the road? He was stapled to a chicken."

"Some nurses and I went out for a little midnight skateboarding last night. The only trouble was that I was the skateboard."

"Charlie Sheen - Bud "Buddy" Fox"

"Oliver Stone - Investor"

"Jason Clarke - New York Fed Chief"

"John Buffalo Mailer - Robby"

"Vanessa Ferlito - Audrey"

"Sylvia Miles - Realtor"

"Austin Pendleton - Dr. Masters"

"Frank Langella - Louis Zabel"

"Susan Sarandon - Jake's Mother"

"Eli Wallach - Julius Steinhardt"

"Carey Mulligan - Winnie Gekko"

"Josh Brolin - Bretton James"

"Shia LaBeouf - Jacob "Jake" Moore"

"If it weren't for people who took risks, where would we be in this world?"

"I tell you, the government's worse than a wife. They got all the power, they got half the money. Now they're working on getting the other half."

"Stop telling lies about me and I'll stop telling the truth about you."

"Idealism kills every deal."

"Payback. Except I'm not in that business anymore - because the one thing I learned in jail is that money is not the prime asset in life. Time is."

"It's not about the money - it's about the game."

"They took my life - and when I got out - who's waiting for me? Nobody!"

"Hey, hey, stay positive, pal. Most people, they lose,they whine and quit. But you got to be there for the turns. Everybody's got good luck, everybody's got bad luck. Don't run when you lose. Don't whine when it hurts. It's like the first grade, Jerry. Nobody likes a crybaby."

"Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs? They get slaughtered."

"The mother of all evil is speculation."

"Money is a bitch that never sleeps!"

"Someone reminded me I once said "Greed is good". Now it seems it's legal. Because everyone is drinking the same Kool-Aid."

"Why you look like that? You look like some kind of vampire from outerspace or something."

"Julianne Nicholson as College student"

"Patrick Breen as Mr. Tweedy"

"Gerrit Graham as Oliver Most"

"James Eckhouse as District Attorney"

"Nicky Katt as Jordan Belzer"

"Lauren Graham as Jules"

"Tom Everett Scott as Brian Gulden"

"William Hurt as George Gulden"

"Renée Zellweger as Ellen Gulden"

"Meryl Streep as Kate Gulden"

"It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful."

"Your mother needs you, Ellen! Jesus Christ, you've got a Harvard education, but where is your heart?"

"An extraordinary encounter with another human being!"

"Pure energy has a name."

"The movies mistakes are: (1) to limit Powder's activities to the conventions of genre pictures, instead of exploring his effect in a more realistic world; (2) to prevent his enemies from learning from him; (3) to upstage his emotional insights with his electricity tricks; (4) to fail to explain his reality, so that there are no rules to create discipline in the plot, and (5) to expect us to be satisfied with an ending that settles less the more you think about it. The sad thing is, when movies like this fail, Hollywood executives think this proves there are no audiences for original, unusual pictures. Because they think they made one."

"Everyone in this movie seems a little slow to catch on that Powder is really special. There is, for example, Duncan (Brandon Smith), the intolerant local deputy sheriff, a redneck who likes to shoot deer. The deer hardly feel a thing, he explains, but then Powder acts as a conduit to carry the deer's fear and suffering into the deputy, who is so transformed that he sells his gun collection — yet still plays the heavy, making things tough on Powder. To quote Citizen Kane, there are some people who need more than one lesson. … Powder comes across as a cross between Cliff Robertson's Charly, the Elephant Man, Mr. Spock, E. T. and Jesus. He is wise beyond his years, has great compassion and insight, suffers much, and attracts intolerance and meanness even better than lightning. He is also very smart. After an I.Q. test, for example, a psychologist tells him, "All of the tests indicate you have the most advanced intellect in the history of mankind. Do you understand what that means?" (If Powder's so smart, why does he have to ask?)"

"There's not much fight in you, is there freak show? You really think you could be like us?"

"Well, what you know — the boogeyman's afraid of lightning."