"[upon hearing her verdict] What ever fate awaits me, it cannot comp... compare to the pain I have... when all you hold dear is taken and you have nothing left, risk is of little consequence. And when a ray of hope came into view, I reached for it with all my might. I realise... I realise now that it is too late, that honor does not live in the name. It comes from what you carry in your heart. I realize, now that it is too late, that honor does not live in the name. It comes from what you carry in your heart."

"Holt McCallany — Machinist's Mate First Class Dylan Rourke"

"Joey Perillo - Filko"

"Charles Napier - Judge Garnett"

"Bradley Whitford - Jamey Collins"

"Joanne Woodward - Sarah Beckett"

"Mary Steenburgen - Belinda Conine"

"Antonio Banderas - Miguel Alvarez"

"Jason Robards - Charles Wheeler"

"Denzel Washington - Joe Miller"

"Tom Hanks - Andrew Beckett"

"No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system."

"Point number one, Andrew Beckett was - is a brilliant lawyer, great lawyer. Point number two, Andrew Beckett, afflicted with a debilitating disease, made the understandable, the personal, the legal choice to keep the fact of his illness to himself. Point number three, his employers discovered his illness, and ladies and gentlemen, the illness I am referring to is AIDS. Point number four, they panicked. And in their panic, they did what most of us would like to do with AIDS, which is just get it, and everybody who has it, as far away from the rest of us as possible.Now, the behavior of Andrew Beckett's employers may seem reasonable to you. It does to me. After all, AIDS is a deadly, incurable disease. But no matter how you come to judge Charles Wheeler and his partners in ethical, moral, and in human terms, the fact of the matter is, when they fired Andrew Beckett because he had AIDS, they broke the law."

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There's not gonna be any last minute surprise witnesses. Nobody's gonna break down on the stand with a tearful confession. You're gonna be presented with a simple fact: Andrew Beckett was fired. You'll hear two explanations for why he was fired: ours and theirs. It is up to you to sift through layer upon layer of truth until you determine for yourselves which version sounds the most true. There are certain points that I must prove to you."

"Some of these people make me sick, Philco. But a law's been broken. You remember the law, don't you?"

"Now, explain it to me like I'm a two-year-old."

"We're standing here in Philadelphia, the, uh, city of brotherly love, the birthplace of freedom, where the, uh, founding fathers authored the Declaration of Independence, and I don't recall that glorious document saying anything about all straight men are created equal. I believe it says all men are created equal."

"Drena De Niro - Caroline"

"Nathan Lane - Phil Webster"

"Bruce Davison - Dr. Charles Aaron"

"Steven Weber - Duncan Allanbrook"

"Kelly McGillis - Jennie Adamson"

"Val Kilmer - Virgil Adamson"

"Mira Sorvino - Amy Benic"

"Science gave him sight. She gave him vision."

"Only Love Can Bring You To Your Senses."

"Limbo is like New Jersey. You can see all the good stuff, you just have to get there."

"Virgil - look - you have to learn to see - just like you learned to speak. Only this is not like learning a new language - it's like learning language for the first time. Perception - sight - life, is about experience - about reaching out and exploring the world for yourself. It's not enough to just see Virgil—we've got to look as well."

"Amy - when Virgil was very young, he couldn't see those close to him - so he never learned to reach out. Don't expect him to reach out when he's in pain, or confused, or unhappy. If you really care about him you have to just be there for him."

"Hope is like fire, it can keep you warm - or it can burn you."

"When there's something you've adapted to, accepted - you'd just want to change it without even thinking about it?"

"I can tell he's sensing everything about me with a simple touch. He listens to my every word as if it's the only sound on the planet - I feel like even though he can't see me, he knows everything about me. He just moves me - does that sound crazy."

"I've spent the last five years of my adult life with a man who has the emotional content of a soap dish. The only time I saw him cry was doing our tax return three years ago. I need more than that, Betsy. For once in a long, long time I feel like I can breathe again. Just the way he touches me I know I found someone I can connect with."

"I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for."

"Growing up blind - I had two dreams. One was to see. The other - to play for the New York Rangers. After the 'miracle' of my short period of sight - I realize - I'd rather play for the Rangers. It's not that it was so awful - I saw many things - some good, some back some that I'm already forgetting. But I realized that our eyes aren't what make us see. We only live in darkness when we don't look - look at what is genuine about ourselves - genuine about others - you don't need eyes for that."

"I was better off blind. People don't have these expectations of you you can't live up to. You're blind - fine - they deal with it."

"I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I've woken up from a thirty year sleep - and the world's passed me by."

"This is just great - I don't believe this. What's that saying - stop the world I wanna get off."

"Amy. I want the chance to see. The chance to see Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, apples, raisins, a buffalo, a carburetor and the man in the moon. But I would give all that up - just to see this face."

"Just for a second I felt like I could see you - all of you."

"Of course, most people avoid the subject. You tell them you're blind and they act surprised. "You're blind? Really? I didn't know - you hide it so well." And then they wave their hand in front of your face just to make sure."

"The world is invisible to me - with my touch it comes alive. But only one thing at a time. But when it's raining, I feel everything at once. Sometimes, I wish it could rain inside rain all around us."

"Listening - the rain - it brings out the contours of everything, gives life to a room I can't see. You hear it?...on the roof dripping down the walls on every side. On the right, on the drainpipe, it's drumming with a deeper, steadier sound - - like a timpani - echoing across the room - tells me the room is large - open. You feel it - in your chest? On the left, the rain says...a fire escape, with its own rhythm - ping - ping. Then listen - there..."

"I may not have been a lot of places - but I read about things, then make an image up here --(points to his head)--that works for me."

"Some seeing eye dog, more like sleeping eye dog."

"Scotty Leavenworth - Ryan Kimball"

"Mike Weinberg - Adam Kimball"

"John Pankow - Bryan Burke"