"What y'all doing now? Ricky? Oh, my God. Ricky? Ricky, baby, get up. Get up. Wake up, baby. Ricky, get up. Get up. It's all right. Get up, baby. Get up. Tre, what happened? What happened to him? [sees Doughboy] Oh, my God! What did you do to him? What did you do? What did you do? You did this! You did this! I'll kill you! You did it! I know you did it! You did it! Yes, you did! YOU DID IT TO HIM, YOU DID THIS! I told you! I TOLD YOU! My baby! Oh, God! Oh, God! Oh, my God! Ricky, baby! Ricky!"

"Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children."

"[referring to drug epidemic] I know every time you turn on the TV that's what you see. Black People, pushing the rock, selling the rock, that's what you see. But see that wasn't a problem as long as it was here. [referring to Compton, Watts, other Black ghettos] It wasn't a problem until it was in Iowa or on Wall Street where there are hardly any black people."

"[to Tre, who has his gun in his hand, after Ricky had been shot] I want you to give me the gun. Oh, I get it. You gonna end like Doughboy? Like little Chris in a wheelchair? Give me the motherfucking gun, Tre!"

"[about TV news coverage] Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood. They had all this foreign shit. They didn't have shit on my brother, man."

"Baha Jackson - Young Darrin "Doughboy" Backer"

"Dedrick D. Gobert - Dookie"

"- John P. Blandish"

"- Anna Borg"

"- Eddie Hagan"

"- Dave Fenner"

"- Gladys "Ma" Grissom"

"The psychotic killer, the young heiress...the kidnapping that becomes a love story."

"- Barbara Blandish"

"- Slim Grissom"

"I've had it up to my ass with sedate."

"Timothy Carhart - Harlan Puckett"

"Brad Pitt - J.D."

"Stephen Tobolowsky - Max"

"[taunting Darryl at the police station] Hey! Thank your wife for me. [starts gyrating his hips and simulating having sex, causing Darryl to get livid]"

"Susan Sarandon - Louise Sawyer"

"Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies."

"Geena Davis - Thelma Dickinson"

"You said you 'n' me was gonna get out of town and for once just really let our hair down. Well darlin', look out 'cause my hair is comin' down!"

"Goddamn it! I've never been lucky! Not one time!"

"Harvey Keitel - Hal Slocumb"

"You get what you settle for."

"Michael Madsen - Jimmy"

"Christopher McDonald - Darryl"

"Christian Stolte – Charles Makley"

"Billy Crudup – J. Edgar Hoover"