"Holly said there was a wide, wide heaven beyond everything we knew; where there was no cornfield, no memory, no grave... but I wasn't looking beyond yet, I was still looking back."

"I was in the blue horizon between heaven and earth. The days were unchanging and every and every night, I dream the same dream. The smell of damp earth. The scream no one heard. The sound of my heart beating like a hammer against cloth and I would hear them calling, the voices of the dead. I wanted to follow them to find a way out but I would always come back to the same door. And I was afraid. I knew if I went in there I would never come out."

"Michael Imperioli - Detective Len Fenerman"

"Colm Meaney - Detective Dunnigan"

"Always, I would watch Ray; I was in the air around him, I was in the cold winter mornings he spent with Ruth Connors; and sometimes Ray would think of me, but he began to wonder maybe it was time to put that memory away, maybe it was time to let me go."

"Bruce McGill - Jonas Cantrell"

"I was slipping away, that's what it felt like, life was leaving me, but I wasn't afraid; then I remembered: "There was something I was meant to do; somewhere I was meant to be.""

"Kevin Conway - Lieutenant Danny Quinn"

"Tony Plana - Beniamano"

"Rachel Ticotin - Grace"

"Charlayne Woodard - Cheryl Clark"

"Rene Russo - Rita Lewis"

"Anthony LaPaglia - Stevie Diroma"

"Kevin Corrigan - Clifford"

"Benjamin Bratt - Felix"

"I can't imagine feeling any more for a kid of my own than I do for these little girls."

"They killed his partner, threatened his family... Now he'll do anything to keep them alive..."

"[speaking on the phone] Hello, Rit? We're alive. We're alive, partner."

"How far will one man go to be a good father and stay..."

"Michael Keaton - Artie Lewis"

"Vondie Curtis-Hall - Father Wills"

"Stipe Erceg - Peter"

"Burghart Klaußner - Hardenberg"

"It's not who invented the gun, man. It's who pulls the trigger."

"[to Jan at the end of film] Us three... That's more important than stuffy bourgeois ethics."

"We live in a capitalist dictatorship."

"Note on Wall (left for Hardenberg): "Some People Never Change.""

"Daniel Brühl - Jan"

"One day, you want a car that doesn't break down and some other conveniences. Then you have children and want security for them. Then one day, to your surprise, you find yourself voting conservative."

"Julia Jentsch - Jule"

"John Kapelos - Steven Arrocas"

"Hamlet Arman - Carlos"

"Annabella Sciorra - Heather Peck"

"Michael Beach - Dorian Fletcher"

"Katherine Borowitz - Tova Arrocas"

"Faye Grant - Penny Stretch"

"[to Raymond] You know all your friends from the force? You don't have them anymore."

"Trust him... he's a cop."

"What Oats said about your fellow officers respecting and honoring you is, as you probably know, complete crap. Most of the cops hate our guts. To the extent that they credit us with having any. They think we're climbers who went into I.A.D. for the promotions, which is true, not that we necessarily get them. So, they're polite because they're afraid of us. That's all."

"Andy García - Sergeant Raymond Avilla"

"How many cops you know, huh? Got nothing. Divorced, alcoholic, kids won't talk to them anymore, can't get it up. Sitting there in their little apartments, alone in the dark, playing lollipop with a service revolver?"

"Richard Gere - Officer Dennis Peck"

"[after decking Raymond in an elevator] Hi, Raymond! [about Raymond's wife] You know what she really wanted? You know? Yeah, I should have guessed. She liked it in the ass, Raymond. That's right. Right in the fucking ass! Drove her crazy. She came so much, for a second I thought she was going to pass out on me. [decks Raymond again] You know what they say about Latin fighters, Raymond? You know what they say? Too fucking MACHO! That's right. TOO FUCKING MACHO! They don't backpedal when they have to. So they're used up. Young. [dangles a pair of panties in front of Raymond, then gives them to him] Yeah, why don't you clean yourself up with that. That's right. Clean yourself up."

"Nancy Travis - Kathleen "Kathy" Avila"

"Laurie Metcalf - Sergeant Amy Wallace"

"Richard Bradford - Grieb"

"William Baldwin - Officer Van Stretch"