"Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised."

"You now have a Swiss bank account if anybody asks. Crédit Nationale Du Génève code name 'PADDY'. Lavish awkward gesture. All of fifteen Swiss Francs in it, but if you ever want to impress anybody, they can find out you have a Swiss account. But, Swiss law prohibits the bank from revealing the balance. Thus are all men made equal."

"Good people, bad people, they generally look like what they are."

"You never know who anybody is, except me. I am who I am."

"Ben Gazzara - Mr. Klein"

"Mr. Klein: If we all do our jobs, we will each be rewarded according to our just desserts."

"Worry is like interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due."

"Can you really trust anyone?"

"Ben Johnson - Jack Benyon"

"Steve McQueen - Carter 'Doc' McCoy"

"Ali MacGraw - Carol Ainsley McCoy"

"It takes two to make it ......... The big two."

"Jim Thompson - Judge Baxter Wilson Grayle"

"You run the job, but I run the show."

"Jack O'Halloran - Moose Malloy"

"They're Hot."

"Harry Dean Stanton - Detective Billy Rolfe"

"Joe Spinell - Nick"

"Charlotte Rampling - Helen Grayle"

"John Ireland - Lt. Nulty"

"They're Hot - McQueen/MacGraw"

"Sylvia Miles - Jessie Halstead Florian"

"Kate Murtagh - Frances Amthor"

"Sally Struthers - Fran Clinton"

"[voiceover] It was one of those transient motels, something between a fleabag and a dive."

"[voiceover] I sparred with the night clerk for a couple of minutes, but it was like trying to open a sardine can after you broke off the metal lip. There was something about Abraham Lincoln's picture that loosened him up."

"[on being shaken by the lapels] Now wait a minute. I've been slapped, scratched, punched, knocked unconscious, drugged, and shot at, looking for your Velma, so quit trying to make a milkshake out of my insides, will you?"

"[voiceover, to himself] You've been beaten up, slapped, shot full of hop until you were as crazy as two waltzing mice; now let's see you do something really tough, like getting up."

"Sylvester Stallone - Jonnie"

"[looking at the dead bodies of Moose and Velma] Moose never would have hurt her. It didn't matter to him that she hadn't written in 6 years. It didn't matter that she turned him in for a reward. The big lug loved her... and if he was still alive... it wouldn't matter to him that she'd pumped 3 bullets into him... What a world."

"[voiceover] The house itself wasn't much. It was smaller than Buckingham Palace and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler building."

"[voiceover] She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."

"Melinda McGraw - Jenny Ferguson"

"Viggo Mortensen - Guy Foucard"

"Anthony Zerbe - Laird Brunette"

"John Spencer - Jack"

"Skeet Ulrich - Danny Boudreaux"

"William Fichtner - Law"

"Walter McGinn - Tommy Ray"

"Billy Rolfe: You're not a detective, Marlowe, you're a slot machine. You'll do anything for six bits."

"Frankie Faison - ATF Agent Marv Rose"

"Joe Mantegna - A.T.F. Agent G.D. Browning"

"[voiceover, opening lines] This past spring was the first that I felt tired and realized I was growing old. Maybe it was the rotten weather we'd had in L.A. Maybe the rotten cases I'd had. Mostly chasing a few missing husbands and then chasing their wives once I found them, in order to get paid. Or maybe it was just the plain fact that I am tired and growing old."

"Deliberate sacrifice for deliberate gain."

"They Planned The Perfect Crime... Until It All Went Perfectly Wrong!"