"[voiceover] Time travel has not yet been invented. But thirty years from now, it will have been. It will be instantly outlawed, used only in secret by only the largest criminal organizations. It's nearly impossible to dispose of a body in the future... I'm told. Tagging techniques, whatnot. So when these criminal organizations in the future need someone gone, they use specialized assassins in our present called "Loopers." And so, my employers in the future nab the target, they zap him back to me - their Looper. He appears, hands tied and head sacked, and I do the necessaries. Collect my silver. So the target has vanished from the future, and I've just disposed of a body that technically does not exist. Clean."

"[voiceover] There's a reason we're called Loopers. When we sign up for this job, taking out the future's garbage, we also agree to a very specific proviso. Time travel in the future is so illegal that when our employers want to close our contracts, they'll also want to erase any trace of their relationship with us ever existing. So if we're still alive thirty years from now, they'll find our older self, zap him back to us, and we'll kill him like any other job. This is called "closing your loop." You get a golden payday, a handshake, and you get released from your contract. Enjoy the next thirty years. This job doesn't tend to attract the most forward-thinking people."

"[voiceover, describing Abe] This man is from the future. He was sent back here by the mob, a one-way ticket, to run the Loopers. That's low effort, even for Abe. So to pass the time, he recruited some real muscle, the Gat Men, and now he runs the city. Any other city, that'd be impressive."

"[to Older Joe] This is my life now. I earned it. You had yours already. So why don't you do what old men do and die?"

"[voiceover] Then I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son; a man who would kill for his wife; a boy, angry and alone, laid out in front of him the bad path. I saw it. And the path was a circle, round and round. So I changed it. [kills self]"

"Paul Dano - Seth Richards"

"[to Young Joe] I don't want to talk about time travel because if we start talking about it then we're going to be here all day talking about it, making diagrams with straws."

"Jay R. Ferguson - Elmer Conway"

"Brent Briscoe - Bum / The Stranger / Visitor"

"Matthew Maher - Deputy Jeff Plummer"

"Liam Aiken - Johnnie Pappas"

"Casey Affleck - Deputy Lou Ford"

"Kate Hudson - Amy Stanton"

"Jessica Alba - Joyce Lakeland"

"Tom Bower - Sheriff Bob Maples"

"Simon Baker - Howard Hendricks"

"Ned Beatty - Chester Conway"

"Bill Pullman - Billy Boy Walker"

"I got a foot on both sides of the fence. They were put there early, and they stayed put. I can't move. I can't jump. All I can do is wait until I split, right down the middle."

"Nothing relieves tension like a good spanking!"

"Striking at people that way is almost as good as the other, the real way. The way I'd fought to forget—and had almost forgot—until I met her."

"[voiceover] Out here you say yes ma'am an no ma'am to anything with a skirt on. Out here if you catch a man with his pants down you apologize, even if you have to arrest him afterwards. Out here you're a man and a gentleman or you aren't anything at all. And god help you if you're not."

"It's always lightest just before the dark."

"John Vernon - Mal Reese"

"Sharon Acker - Lynne"

"Elias Koteas - Joe Rothman"

"James B. Sikking - Hired Gun"

"A weed is a plant out of place. I find a hollyhock in my cornfield, and it's a weed. I find it in my yard, and it's a flower. You're in my yard."

"Michael Strong - Stegman"

"[to Walker after he has handed her the stack of cash intended for her sister] You died at Alcatraz, all right. Goodbye, Walker."

"Brewster: Let me tell you something about corporations, Walker. This is a corporation. I'm an officer in a corporation. We deal in millions. We never see cash! I got about eleven dollars in my pocket."

"Frederick Carter: I said nobody was supposed to go up there! He could have done without a girl for one night."

"Steven Keats - Jackie Brown"

"Richard Jordan - Dave Foley"

"Peter Boyle - Dillon"

"Alex Rocco - Jimmy Scalise"

"Lee Marvin - Walker"

"And keep this mind. I've got more than five machine guns, and the rest are gonna be pointed at you."

"The only one fuckin' Eddie Coyle is Eddie Coyle."

"It's a grubby, violent, dangerous world. But it's the only world they know. And they're the only friends Eddie has."

"This life's hard man, but it's harder if you're stupid!"

"Joe Santos - Artie Van"

"Can you imagine being a kid like that. What is he, 24 or something. Greatest hockey player in the world. Number four - Bobby Orr. Geez, what a future he's got, uh?"

"Robert Mitchum - Eddie "Fingers" Coyle"

"Angie Dickinson - Chris"

"Kevin Anderson - Ben Woodward"

"Elizabeth Lawrence - Chloe Williams"

"Kyle Secor - Fleishman"

"Patrick Bergin - Martin Burney"

"She is a stranger in a small town. She changed her name. Her looks. Her life. All to escape the most dangerous man she's ever met. Her husband."