"(reading Claire's letter to Juliet, not quite the same as the prop, q.v.) I didn't go to him, Juliet. I didn't go to Lorenzo. His eyes were so full of trust. I promised I'd meet him and run away together because my parents don't approve. But, instead, I left him waiting for me below our tree, waiting and wondering where I was. I'm in Verona now. I return to London in the morning and I am so afraid. Please, Juliet tell me what I should do. My heart is breaking, and I have no one else to turn to. Love, Claire"

"(to Sophie) So, isn't your future fiance starting to get a tad lonely?"

"This isn't a good time because I'm in the middle of something."

"(upon seeing Claire) I went for a ride as an old man, and came back as a teenager."

"(about Juliet) I would have grabbed her from that blasted balcony and been done with it."

"Because the truth is, Sophie, I am madly, deeply, truly, passionately in love with you."

"It's over! Done! We've found Nemo!"

"(reading Sophie's letter as Juliet to Claire) Dear Claire, "What" and "If" are two words as non-threatening as words can be. But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: What if? What if? What if? I don't know how your story ended but if what you felt then was true love, then it's never too late. If it was true then, why wouldn't it be true now? You need only the courage to follow your heart. I don't know what a love like Juliet's feels like: love to leave loved ones for, love to cross oceans for, but I'd like to believe if I ever were to feel it, that I'd have the courage to seize it. And Claire, if you didn't, I hope one day that you will. All my love, Juliet"

"(to Sophie) Charlie doesn't approve, which makes it all the more fun."

"Charlie, say you're sorry."

"It's not supposed to be that way. We're supposed to want to be with each other all the time."

"I'm sorry, I didn't know love had an expiration date."

"(about Claire's letter) I think it's a story worth telling."

"(about Sophie to Charlie) Her mother chose to leave her. You always knew your parents loved you."

"(to Charlie) How many Sophies do you think there are on this planet? Don't wait fifty years like I did."

"James Harper as Willie Rainach"

"Robert Wuhl as Red Snyder"

"Paul Newman as Governor Earl Long"

"Lolita Davidovich as Blaze Starr"

"Jerry Hardin as Thibodeaux"

"Richard Jenkins as Picayune"

"Gailard Sartain as LaGrange"

"Jeffrey DeMunn as Eldon Tuck"

"I want you to meet the finest yes-men in Louisiana and their lovely wives."

"Brandon Smith as Arvin Deeter"

"The three best friends the poor people have ever had are Jesus Christ, Sears & Roebuck and Earl K. Long."

"Tom Selleck - George Matthias"

"Gloria Stuart - Eleanor"

"Geraldine McEwan - Miss Scattergoods"

"Tom Everett Scott - Johnny"

"Blythe Danner - Lillian MacFarquhar"

"Ellen DeGeneres - Janet Hall"

"Jack Black - Fisherman (uncredited)"

"Julianne Nicholson - Jennifer"

"No one knows who sent it. No one knows who it's for. But everyone's getting the same message."

"Kate Capshaw - Helen MacFarquhar"

"You don't save money, bud, you make it!"

"You show me a businessman believes in fate, I'll show you the first businessman who ever went broke. I started with a wagon, selling somebody's junk. And I got here in a silk suit, talking to a college know-it-all like you. If I lose it, I'll meet you right back here in this room, in a new silk suit."

"Don't Harvard talk me. I didn't make my money by being an idiot."

"Don Johnson as Paul Verrall"

"The whole damn history of the world is the story of the fight between the selfish and the unselfish."

"Melanie Griffith as Billie Dawn"

"Edward Herrmann as Ed Devery"

"Listen. Anybody that works in this room, tell them to do it good, do it fast, nobody gets hurt. I don't like a lot of people around all the time, and I don't like waiting for nothin'."

"You got money, Harry, but you got a cheap life."