"Apart from being a bad film in the first place, aside from being superficially written, aside from being shot with little sense of time or place, the movie portrays Babe Ruth as a man almost completely lacking in the ability to have, or to provide, happiness. Spending these 115 minutes with the Babe is a little like being jammed into the window seat on a long-distance bus, next to a big guy with beer and cigars on his breath and nothing to talk about but his next meal and his last broad."

"There Was Only One."

"Less a biography than a baseball movie, "The Babe" is a muddy field of dreams fertilized with a whole lot of Bull Durham. Loosely based on George Herman Ruth's life, this shallow, soap-operatic treatment makes the man fit the myth. And bigger-than-life or not, he rattles around inside there like the prize in a Cracker Jack box."

"Irma P. Hall – Fanny Baily"

"John Goodman – Babe Ruth"

"You are the best, you are the best there's ever been."

"Stephen Caffrey – Older Johnny"

"Trini Alvarado – Helen Woodford Ruth"

"Half of everything I own just went down the drain with the "Gladiators of Broadway." The other half is in the pocket of The Sultan of Swat, and he wants a raise and his own suites during road games."

"W. Earl Brown – Herb Pennock"

"Rick Reardon – Ernie Shore"

"Thom C. Simmons – Bill McKechnie"

"Michael McGrady – Lou Gehrig"

"Danny Goldring – Bill Carrigan"

"Guy Barile – Johnny Torrio"

"Bernard Kates – Colonel Jacob Ruppert"

"Richard Tyson – Guy Bush"

"Ralph Marrero – Ping Bodie"

"Bob Swan – George Herman Ruth Sr."

"Bernie Gigliotti – Al Capone"

"Peter Donat – Harry Frazee, Red Sox owner"

"James Cromwell – Brother Mathias"

"Bruce Boxleitner – Jumpin' Joe Dugan"

"J.C. Quinn – Jack Dunn"

"Randy Steinmeyer – Ty Cobb"

"Ian McCabe – kid who fails math test"

"Joe Ragno – Miller Huggins"

"George DiCenzo - Mr. Favio"

"Robin Thomas - Steve Carlson"

"Elizabeth Perkins - Joan"

"Kevin Bourland - Ira"

"Rob Lowe - Danny"

"Catherine Keener - Cocktail Waitress"

"Making love was easy...being in love difficult."

"Tim Kazurinsky - Colin"

"Demi Moore - Debbie"

"Look, if he forgets to call one day, no big deal; two days, it's an oversight. Honey, he hasn't called you in three days; he's sleeping with somebody else."

"[to Danny] You know what your problem is? Your face. Come on, you're too good-looking. Girls go out with you and get nervous. They feel dumpy, they don't want to compete. They want a guy like... like me. A guy who'll make them look good. A basic Neanderthal type. The swarthy type. A man's man."

"Megan Mullally - Pat"

"Jim Belushi - Bernie"

"It's about men, women, choices, friendship, love, last night..."

"Rosanna DeSoto - Mrs. Lyons"