"I guess the first thing I ever had my fist on was the American flag. I hitched my wagon to thirty-eight stars. And thirteen stripes. You know, I was six or seven years old before I realized they weren't celebrating my birthday on the Fourth of July."

"The Yankee Doodle Dandiest Entertainment of 'em all!"

"My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you."

"[reading posters advertising Cohan's latest success] "Cohan and Harris present George Washington, Jr. starring the author and composer George M. Cohan."..."George M. Cohan and his royal family. Books and lyrics, music and directed by George M. Cohan. Printed by Sam Divensky". That must be Cohan's alias."

"Ben Hon Sun - Monk"

"Zhang Jiong - Garrison Chief"

"Deng Ba Te Er - Daritai"

"He Qi - Dai-Sechen"

"Aliya - Oelun"

"The true story of a crime that shocked a nation."

"Elizabeth Moody - Miss Waller"

"Gilbert Goldie - Dr. Bennett"

"Peter Elliott - Bill Perry"

"Jed Brophy - John ("Nicholas")"

"Simon O'Connor - Herbert Rieper"

"Clive Merrison - Dr. Henry Hulme"

"Diana Kent - Hilda Hulme"

"Sarah Peirse - Honora Parker"

"Kate Winslet - Juliet Hulme"

"Melanie Lynskey - Pauline Parker"

"From a secret world no one could see...came a crime no one could believe."

"Not all angels are innocent."

"[about the murder of Honora Parker] I think she knows what's going to happen. She doesn't appear to bear us any grudge."

"Stick it up your bottom!"

"Affairs are much more exciting than marriages. [pause] As Mummy can testify."

"All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic."

"Only the best people fight against all obstacles in pursuit of happiness."

"It's a three act story with a tragic end."

"[narration] The next time I write in this diary, Mother will be dead. How odd... yet how pleasing."

"[narrating] This notion is not a new one but this time it is a definite plan which we intend to carry out. We have worked it out carefully and are both thrilled by the idea. Naturally we feel a trifle nervous, but the pleasure of anticipation is great."

"[from her diary] My new year's resolution is a far more selfish one than last year. It is to make my motto, eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow, you may be dead."

"[narrating] We realized why Deborah and I have such extraordinary telepathy and why people treat us and look at us the way they do. It is because we are MAD. We are both stark raving MAD!"

"[voiceover, from her diary] We have decided how sad it is for others that they cannot appreciate our genius."

"She is most unreasonable. Why could not mother die? Dozens of people are dying all the time, thousands, so why not mother? And father too."

"William Sanderson - Lee Dollarhide"

"Bob Hannah - Charlie Dick"

"Phyllis Boyens - Clary Webb"

"Levon Helm - Ted Webb"

"Beverly D'Angelo - Patsy Cline"

"Tommy Lee Jones - Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn"

"Sissy Spacek - Loretta Lynn"

"Lee Dollarhide: Doo, if you're born in the mountains, you got three choices, coal mine, moonshine or moving on down the line."

"[to Loretta] I'll call you on Monday and we'll go shopping. Anything we can't buy, we'll make. Anything we can't make, we'll steal!"

"I had something I wanted to tell y'all tonight. But Doo, he don't want me to say nothing. But I can tell you, friends, cause you wouldn't be here if you didn't care about me. See, things is moving too fast in my life. Always have. I mean. one day I was this little girl. The next day I was married. Next I was having babies. Next day I was out here singing for y'all. Patsy's always saying, "Little girl, you got to run your own life." But my life's running me."

"[after discovering Mooney with a young woman] I'm warning you, Doolittle, I'd better not ever catch you with trash like that again! I mean it!"

"Ernest Tubb - Himself"

"Peter Facinelli - Tommy Butcher"

"Sara Gilbert - Tina Barr"