"Found a culture, have you Rita? Found a better song to sing? No, you found a different song to sing, and on your lips it's shrill and hollow and tuneless."

"Did you know that Macbeth was a maggoty apple? Not many people know that!"

"In reply to the question "Suggest how you would resolve the staging difficulties inherent in a production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt", you have written, quote: "Do it on the radio." Unquote."

"Sometimes students end up being the best teachers."

"Christ! Me customer! She's still under the dryer. She only wanted a demi-wave, she'll come out lookin' like a friggin' muppet!"

"I'm beginning to find me. It's great. It is, you know, Frank. It might sound selfish, but all I want for the time being is what I'm finding inside me."

"I did join in the singing. But when I turned around, me mother had stopped singin', and she was cryin'. I said, 'Why are you cryin', Mother?' And she said, 'There must be better songs to sing than this.' And I thought, yeah - that's what I'm trying to do, isn't it? Sing a better song."

"But stay, O spite! But mark, poor knight! What dreadful dole is here! Eyes, do you see? How can it be? O fainting fox! O dear! Thy mantle good, What, stained with blood? Approach, ye Furies fell! O Fates, come, come, Cut thread and thrum. I’ll crush, conclude, OR QUELL."

"THE RAGING ROCKS AND SHIVERING SHOCKS SHALL BREAK THE LOCKS OF PRISON GATES!! And Phoebus' car shall shine from far and make and mar… THE FOOLISH FIGHTS."

"Françoise Faucher as Eve LeClaire"

"Jacques Tourangeau as Eugene Lyon"

"Gratien Gélinas as Father Martineau"

"Winston Rekert as Det. Langevin"

"Guy Hoffman as Justice Joseph Leveau"

"Meg Tilly as Sister Agnes Devereaux"

"Anne Pitoniak as Mrs. Livingston, the mother of Martha"

"Gabriel Arcand as Monsignor"

"So, you have questions. Fire away!"

"[last lines of the movie] I don't know the meaning behind the song she sang. Perhaps it was a song of seduction, and the father was a field hand. Perhaps the song was simply a lullaby she remembered from many years ago, and the father was hope, and love, and desire and a belief in miracles. I want to believe that she was blessed. And I do miss her. And I hope she's left something; some little part of herself with me. That would be miracle enough, wouldn't it?"

"Is she totally bananas or just slightly off-center?"

"Jane Fonda as Dr. Martha Livingston"

"Smoking is an obsession with me. Maybe someday I'll become obsessed with something else and give up smoking."

"Anne Bancroft as Mother Miriam Ruth (religious name); Anna Maria Burchetti (birth name)"

"Don Wyse as Doctor"

"Alexandra Masterson as Drugstore Waitress"

"David Romo as Mexican Man"

"Peggy Ann Byers as Downstairs Neighbor"

"Tony Torn as Twin"

"Kirk Sisco as Train Ticket Agent"

"Harvey Lewis as Second Bus Ticket Man"

"Gil Glasgow as Stationmaster, Gerard"

"John Torn as Twin"

"Mary Kay Mars as Rosella"

"Richard Bradford as Sheriff"

"I guess when you've lived longer than your house and your family, then you've lived long enough."

"Rebecca De Mornay as Thelma"

"Wezz Tildon as Bus Passenger"

"I don't know of anything prettier, than a scissortail flyin' through the sky!"