"Daniel: I mean, everybody and their momma knew you don't just come up and talk to Miles Davis. I mean, he may have looked like he was chilling, but he was absorbed. This one hip couple, one of them tried to shake his hand one day. And the guy says, "Hi, my name is..." Miles said, "Get the fuck outta my face, you jive motherfucker, and take your silly bitch with you.""

"Airport Man / Frank Martin: Enjoy L.A."

"If I'm wrong you get an apology, I already used up my free ride for tonight."

"I'm not Vincent, my name is Max! I'm a goddamn cab driver!"

"That's why I tossed the list -- the work ups, all of that shit. To protect, in part, your... Hermes, Facconable ass. What, do you think I like coming in here? But hey. Shit happens. Gotta roll with it. Adapt. Darwin, I Ching."

"[right before he crashes the cab, to Vincent] Go fuck yourself."

"[after seeing the guy fall on his cab's roof] My man, you all right?"

"[about Vincent] Definitely not from around here."

"There's no good reason, there's no bad reason to live or to die."

"Hey, Max, a guy gets on the MTA here in L.A. and dies. Think anybody will notice?"

"Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices."

"[Mockingly] "Someday, someday my dream will come?" One night you'll wake up and you'll discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you, and it never will. Suddenly you are old. It didn't happen, and it never will because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory, then zone out in your barcalounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life. Don't you talk to me about murder. All it ever took was a down payment on a Lincoln Town Car, and that girl... you can't even call that girl. What the fuck are you still doing driving a cab?"

"Get with it. Millions of galaxies of hundreds of millions of stars, and a speck on one in a blink. That's us, lost in space. The cop, you, me... Who notices?"

"[aims a handgun at Max] Red light, Max."

"Most people, ten years from now, same job, same place, same routine. Everything the same. Just keeping it safe over and over and over. Ten years from now. Man, you don’t know where you’ll be ten minutes from now . . ."

"You attract attention, you're going to get people killed who didn't need to be."

"Max, I do this for a living!"

"[after Max destroys his briefcase] All my prep was in there! You are screwing with my work! Let's see what else you can do."

"[after Max crashes the cab] Well, that was brilliant..."

"Yo, homie. Is that my briefcase?"

"If you open that trunk, they go inside."

"Don't get me cornered. You don't have the trunk space."

"I happen to know everything there is to know about maple syrup. I love maple syrup! I love it on pancakes, I love it on pizza! I love to take maple syrup and put a little bit in my hair when I've had a rough week. What do you think holds it up, slick?"

"Richard Riehle (uncredited) as Funeral guest"

"Kathryn Joosten as Mrs. Reinhold"

"Dwight Yoakam and Rebecca De Mornay as Mr. and Mrs. Kroger"

"Doria Baird as Vivian"

"Will Ferrell (uncredited) as Chazz Reinhold"

"Jenny Alden as Christina Cleary"

"Ron Canada as Randolph"

"Henry Gibson as Father O'Neil"

"Bradley Cooper as Sack Lodge"

"Keir O'Donnell as Todd Cleary"

"Ellen Albertini Dow as "Grandma" Mary Cleary (final film role)"

"Jane Seymour as Kathleen "Kitty Kat" Cleary"

"Isla Fisher as Gloria Cleary"

"Rachael McAdams as Claire Cleary"

"Christopher Walken as United States Secretary of the Treasury William Cleary"

"Vince Vaughn as Jeremy Grey"

"Owen Wilson as John Beckwith"

"Life's a party. Crash it."

"Life's a Blessing, Remember to Pray."

"Hide Your actual IQ rating."

"They're just a couple of guys who need a good wife."

"On July 15, they're coming to your wedding...with or without invitations."

"Husband: Hey, I got an idea, why don't you just kiss my left nut!"