"A brilliant young woman I know was asked once to support her argument in favor of social welfare. She named the most powerful source imaginable: the look in a mother's face when she cannot feed her children. Can you look that hungry child in the eyes? See the blood on his feet from working barefoot in the cotton fields. Or do you ask his baby sister with her belly swollen from hunger if she cares about her daddy's work ethics?"

"Saurabh Shukla - Sergeant Srinivas"

"Anil Kapoor - Prem Kumar"

"Madhur Mittal - Salim"

"Freida Pinto - Latika"

"Dev Patel - Jamal K. Malik"

"Prem Kumar: A few hours ago, you were giving chai for the phone walahs. And now you're richer than they will ever be. What a player!"

"Police Inspector: Money and women: the reasons for make most mistakes in life. Looks like you've mixed up both."

"I wake up every morning wishing I didn't know the answer to that question. If it wasn't for Rama and Allah, I'd still have a mother."

"[to Latika] I will wait for you, 5 pm everyday at the train station."

""Let me in without a shout"

"Let us not lose these stars on Earth."

"Idiot, duffer, lazy, crazy."

"John Benjamin Hickey - Mark Boland"

"Barbara Garrick - Weather reporter"

"Allison Janney - Dot Halford"

"Jonathan Freeman - Ted Franklin"

"Michael Cumpsty - Reverend Philip Edwards"

"Katie Holmes - Libbets Casey"

"David Krumholtz - Francis Davenport"

"Adam Hann-Byrd - Sandy Carver"

"Elijah Wood - Mikey Carver"

"Christina Ricci - Wendy Hood"

"Tobey Maguire - Paul Hood"

"Henry Czerny - George Clair"

"Sigourney Weaver - Janey Carver"

"Joan Allen - Elena Hood"

"Kevin Kline - Ben Hood"

"It was 1973, and the climate was changing."

"The American Dream was over. But the hangover was just beginning."

"Because of molecules we are connected to the outside world from our bodies. Like when you smell things, because when you smell a smell it's not really a smell, it's a part of the object that has come off of it, molecules. So when you smell something bad, it's like in a way you're eating it. This is why you should not really smell things, in the same way that you don't eat everything in the world around you because as a smell, it gets inside of you. So the next time you go into the bathroom after someone else has been there, remember what kinds of molecules you are in fact eating."

"I'll show you mine if you show me yours."

"Mikey's been out of it since the day he was born."

"[voiceover] When you think about it, it's not easy to keep from just wandering out of life. It's like someone's always leaving the door open to the next world, and if you aren't paying attention you could just walk through it, and then you've died. That's why in your dreams it's like you're standing in that doorway... and the dying people and the newborn people pass by you... and brush up against you as they come in and out of the world during the night. You get spun around, and in the morning... it takes a while to find your way back into the world."

"[voiceover] To find yourself in the negative zone, as the Fantastic Four often do, means all every day assumptions are inverted. Even the invisible girl herself becomes visible and so she loses the last semblance of her power. It seems to me that everyone exists partially on a negative zone level, some people more than others. In your life, it's kind of like you dip in and out of it, a place where things don't quite work out the way they should. But for some people, the negative zone tempts them. And they end up going in, going in all the way."

"[voiceover] In issue 141 of the Fantastic Four, published in November, 1973, Reed Richards had to use his anti-matter weapon on his own son, who Aannihilus has turn into the Human Atom Bomb. It was a typical predicament for the Fantastic Four, because they weren't like other superheroes. They were more like a family. And the more power they had, the more harm they could do to each other without even knowing it. That was the meaning of the Fantastic Four: that a family is like your own personal anti-matter. Your family is the void you emerge from, and the place you return to when you die. And that's the paradox - the closer you're drawn back in, the deeper into the void you go."

"Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on your hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it."

"[to Paul] On the self-abuse front - and this is important - I don't think it's advisable to do it in the shower. It wastes water and electricity and because we all expect you to be doing it there in any case. And, not on... under the linen... Well... Anyway, if you're worried about anything at all, just feel free to ask and we'll look it up."

"[to Elena] The only big fight we've had in years is about whether to go back into couples therapy."

"[Vikas Swarup, author of the book on which the movie is based] explained how he had named the protagonist Ram Mohammed Thomas, representing every street kid in India, while Boyle had changed this into Jamal Malik, a fully Muslim name. He communalized the plot, with Jamal’s mother being killed by Hindu communal rioters and a Rama impersonation presiding over the violence. Boyle turned the protagonist into a poor hapless Muslim and the Hindus into the bad guys. In this context, blinding a child-beggar to make him earn more by singing a Hindu religious song (a practice of which even the missionary sister Jeanne Devos says she has never come across an actual case during decades of social work in Mumbai), and of course not a Muslim song, adds to the image of Hinduism as gruesome. Briefly, he turned an innocent story into an anti-Hindu story... The fact that the writer, as a somewhat secularized Hindu, representative for dozens or even hundreds of millions of similar Hindus, fails to see the hostile intention and the very partisan effect of this manipulation, says a lot about the silly and ultimately suicidal mentality prevalent among Hindus. Only a community of sleepwalkers could willingly come to the humiliating situation of the Hindus in India and the flood of anti-Hindu slander in the media."

"Rubina Ali - Youngest Latika"

"Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail - Youngest Salim"

"Ayush Mahesh Khedekar - Youngest Jamal"

"Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar - Middle Latika"

"Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala - Middle Salim"