"Everyone needs something, to find something. Everyone is cracked and broken. You have to find something to fix you, to give you what you need, to take you away and make you whole."

"I'm too vulnerable for a world full of pain and lies."

"Hey, John! [two loud pops are heard and Yoko stars screaming]"

"I flew all the way across the ocean from Hawaii, and it is an honour to meet you, Mr. Lennon. [shaking five-year-old Sean Lennon's hand]"

"I knew I was gonna do something big, I just didn't know if it was good or bad."

"I *am* Holden. [staring at himself in the mirror]"

"This is not a coincidence."

"I could feel it in my bones, that I'd never see this hotel room again."

"Take me somewhere nice. Not too expensive, just nice."

"I'll tip her well if she doesn't talk. [ordering a prostitute]"

"I am gonna kill John Lennon [whispering into the phone]."

"I believe in Holden Caulfield. And in the book, and what he was saying, what he was saying to a lost generation of phony people."

"Alan Rickman - Éamon de Valera"

"Stuart Graham - Tom Cullen"

"Ian McElhinney - Belfast Detective"

"Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Collins's Assassin"

"Charles Dance - Soames"

"Owen O'Neill - Rory O'Connor"

"Gerard McSorley - Cathal Brugha"

"Seán McGinley - Smith"

"Brendan Gleeson - Liam Tobin"

"Ian Hart as Joe O'Reilly"

"Julia Roberts - Kitty Kiernan"

"[Trying to convince the Dáil to accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty] I would plead with every person here. Make me a scapegoat if you will, call me a traitor if you will, but please, let's save the country. The alternative to this treaty is a war which nobody in this gathering can even contemplate. If the price of freedom, the price of peace is the blackening of my name, I will gladly pay it."

"Stephen Rea - Ned Broy"

"Aidan Quinn - Harry Boland"

"Liam Neeson - Michael Collins"

"An epic tale of passion and destiny."

"Ireland, 1916. His dreams inspired hope. His words inspired passion. His courage forged a nation's destiny. An epic tale of passion and destiny."

"Michael Collins was 31 when he died. Half a million people attended his funeral in Dublin. All parties to the conflict, both British and Irish, were temporarily united in grief. In his brief lifetime, he had fought the British Empire to a stalemate, negotiated the first Treaty of Independence for Ireland and overseen its transition to democracy. He died, paradoxically, in an attempt to finally remove the gun from Irish politics."

"That's why he died. He knew the risk he was taking when he went down there, but he thought them worth taking. He took them for us, for every gobshite in this country, no matter what side they were on."

"You've got to think of him the way he was. The way he cycled round Dublin in his pin-striped suit with £10,000 pounds on his head. "Why hide, Joe" he'd say "when that's what they'd expect?". But he never did what anyone expected. He got the British out of here and no one expected that. Some people are what the times demand, and life without them seems impossible. But he's dead. And life is possible. He made it possible."

"At the turn of the century, Britain was the foremost world power and the British Empire stretched over two-thirds of the globe. Despite the extent of its power, its most troublesome colony had always been the one closest to it, Ireland. For over seven hundred years, Britain's rule over Ireland had been resisted by attempts at revolution and rebellion, all of which ended in failure. Then, in 1916, a rebellion began, to be followed by a guerilla war that would change the nature of that rule forever. The mastermind behind that war was Michael Collins. His life and death defined the period, in its triumph, terror and tragedy. This is his story."

"Casey Bond - Chad Bradford"

"Arliss Howard - John W. Henry"

"Spike Jonze - Alán"