"[first lines, playing over a montage of reunions at Heathrow Airport] Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there – fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge – they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that [the following words appear on screen] love actually is all around. [the screen turns black, showing the words "love actually"]"

"You came to see a race today. To see someone win. It happened to be me. But I want you to do more than just watch a race. I want you to take part in it. I want to compare faith to running in a race. It's hard. It requires concentration of will, energy of soul. You experience elation when the winner breaks the tape - especially if you've got a bet on it. But how long does that last? You go home. Maybe your dinner's burnt. Maybe you haven't got a job. So who am I to say, "Believe, have faith," in the face of life's realities? I would like to give you something more permanent, but I can only point the way. I have no formula for winning the race. Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way. And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. Jesus said, "Behold, the Kingdom of God is within you. If with all your hearts, you truly seek me, you shall ever surely find me." If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race."

"Richard Griffiths - the Head Porter at Caius College"

"Brad Davis - Jackson Scholz"

"Dennis Christopher - Charley Paddock"

"Daniel Gerroll - Henry Stallard"

"Peter Egan - the Duke of Sutherland, president of the British Olympic Committee"

"David Yelland - the Prince of Wales"

"Patrick Magee - Lord Cadogan, chairman of the British Olympics Committee"

"Nigel Davenport - Lord Birkenhead, member of the British Olympic Committee"

"Struan Rodger - Sandy McGrath"

"Alice Krige - Sybil Gordon"

"Cheryl Campbell - Jennie Liddell"

"Lindsay Anderson - Master of Caius College at Cambridge University"

"John Gielgud - Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University"

"Ian Holm - Sam Mussabini"

"Nigel Havers - Lord Andrew Lindsay"

"Nicholas Farrell - Aubrey Montague"

"Ian Charleson - Eric Liddell"

"Ben Cross - Harold Abrahams"

"With Wings on their Heels and Hope in their Hearts."

"Two men chasing dreams of glory!"

"This is the story of two men who run... not to run... but to prove something to the world. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals... Except their honour."

"[about the Prince of Wales] Protocol, Monty, protocol. He is here to show us what may be done, and, more essentially, what may not be."

"Aubrey, I've known the fear of losing but now I am almost too frightened to win."

"He is a strong man but is unsure about his religion."

"That was the miscalculation of my life."

"And now in one hour's time, I will be out there again. I will raise my eyes and look down that corridor; 4 feet wide, with 10 lonely seconds to justify my existence. But will I?"

"You, Aubrey are my most complete man. You're brave, compassionate, kind: a content man. That is your secret, contentment; I am 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit and I don't even know what I am chasing."

"I am a Cambridge man, first and last. I am an Englishman, first and last. What I have achieved – what I intend to achieve – is for my family, my university, and my country."

"[to a competitor] Good luck. Don't suppose I'll see you 'til after the race..."

"I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure."

"[to Otto] To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've known sheep that could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher IQs!"

"Tom Georgeson - Georges Thomason"

"Maria Aitken - Wendy"

"Michael Palin - Ken Pile"

"Kevin Kline - Otto"

"Jamie Lee Curtis - Wanda Gershwitz"

"John Cleese - Archie Leach"

"[to Otto] I knew you'd come along and fuck it up! I was dealing with something delicate. I'm setting up a guy who's important to us, who'll tell me where the loot is and if you'll be arrested, and you come loping in like Rambo without a jock strap and you dangle him out a fifth-floor window! Now, was that smart? Was it shrewd? Was it good tactics? Or was it stupid?"

"[to Otto] Even if you were my brother, I'd still want to fuck you."

"Oh look, it's K-K-Ken! C-C-Coming to k-k-kill me! How you gonna c-c-catch me, K-K-Ken?"

"[repeated] Don't call me stupid."

"You English! You think you're so superior, don't you? Well you're the filth of the planet! A bunch of pompous, badly dressed, poverty stricken, sexually repressed football hooligans!"

"[On finding George has moved the jewels, forestalling his and Wanda's attempted double-cross] Okay...Okay... DISAPPOINTED!!! Son of a bitch! What do you have to do in this life to make people trust you?!?!...People are always takin' advantage of me."

"Oh you English are SO superior aren't you? Well, would you like to know where you'd be without US the good old U.S. of A. to protect you? I'll tell you. The smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire, that's where! So DON'T call me stupid, lady. Just THANK me! ...If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking German, singing, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles!""

"An epic drama of adventure and exploration."

"I've tried to avoid doing this ever since the picture came out. When you just say the ideas they sound foolish, whereas if they’re dramatized one feels it, but I'll try. The idea was supposed to be that he is taken in by god-like entities, creatures of pure energy and intelligence with no shape or form. They put him in what I suppose you could describe as a human zoo to study him, and his whole life passes from that point on in that room. And he has no sense of time. It just seems to happen as it does in the film. They choose this room, which is a very inaccurate replica of French architecture (deliberately so, inaccurate) because one was suggesting that they had some idea of something that he might think was pretty, but wasn't quite sure. Just as we're not quite sure what to do in zoos with animals to try to give them what we think is their natural environment. Anyway, when they get finished with him, as happens in so many myths of all cultures in the world, he is transformed into some kind of super being and sent back to Earth, transformed and made into some sort of superman. We have to only guess what happens when he goes back. It is the pattern of a great deal of mythology, and that is what we were trying to suggest."

"Douglas Rain – HAL 9000 (voice)"

"Sean Sullivan – Dr. Bill Michaels"