"Believe it or not, you make perfect sense to me. I should hang. I'm a hypocrite. I ask for sincerity and I lie. I denounce the system as I embrace it. I want money and power and prestige. I want ratings and success. I don't give a damn about you or the world. That's the truth. For this I could say I'm sorry, but I won't. Why should I? I mean, who the hell are you anyways, you - audience! You're on me every night like a pack of wolves because you can't stand facing what you are and what you've made! Yes, the world is a terrible place. Yes, cancer and garbage disposals will get you. Yes, a war is coming. Yes, the world is shot to hell and you're all goners! Everything's screwed up and you like it that way, don't you!"

"This country is in deep trouble people! This country is rotten to the core and somebody better do something about it! Now I want you to take your hand out of that bowl of Fritos, throw away your National Enquirer, and pick up the phone!"

"Barry Champlain is a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there."

"And what if a woman competes with you in the marketplace and takes your job? What if black men start dating and marrying white women? Oh! And what if homosexuals are teaching your children? And what if you're afraid to walk the streets at night? What if you see yuppies getting rich while you're standing in the unemployment line? And what if your government sends you to Vietnam to fight a war they have no chance of winning? And what if your country is slipping away, lost? I know the argument, friend. It's the great theory of history. I've heard it before. It says, "When things ain't good, instead of getting down and doing something about it, instead of changing your life, it's a hell of a lot easier to blame somebody else." And it just don't wash in my book."

"Daniel Day-Lewis as John Proctor"

"William Preston as George Jacobs, Sr."

"Sheila Pinkham as Sarah "Goody" Good"

"Ruth Maleczech as Goody Osbourne"

"Michael Gaston as Marshal George Herrick"

"Robert Breuler as Judge John Hathorne"

"Mary Pat Gleason as Martha Corey"

"George Gaynes as Judge Samuel Sewall"

"Tom McDermott as Francis Nurse"

"Elizabeth Lawrence as Rebecca Nurse"

"Ashley Peldon as Ruth Putnam"

"Frances Conroy as Ann Putnam"

"Rachael Bella as Betty Parris"

"Kali Rocha as Mercy Lewis"

"Charlayne Woodard as Tituba"

"Karron Graves as Mary Warren"

"Peter Vaughan as Giles Corey"

"Jeffrey Jones as Thomas Putnam"

"Rob Campbell as Reverend John Hale"

"Bruce Davison as Reverend Samuel Parris"

"Joan Allen as Elizabeth Proctor"

"Paul Scofield as Judge Thomas Danforth"

"Winona Ryder as Abigail Williams"

"[to Thomas Danforth] Let you beware, Mr. Danforth. Do you think yourself so mighty the Devil may not turn your wits?"

"I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned."

"We will not meet again, Abigail, in this World or the next."

"Hell and Heaven grapple on our backs, and all our old pretenses ripped away. God's icy wind will blow."

"Show honor now, show them a stony heart and sink them with it!"

"I say, I say, God is dead!"

"Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer."

"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them you have hanged! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"

"Some things can't be erased."

"Uma Thurman - Amy"

"Robert Sean Leonard - Jon"

"Ethan Hawke - Vince"

"Anne Francis - Georgia James"

"Kay Medford - Rose Brice"

"Omar Sharif - Nick Arnstein"

"Barbra Streisand - Fanny Brice"

"[singing] Don't tell me not to fly, I simply gotta If someone takes a spill It's me and not you Don't bring a cloud to rain on my parade."

"[singing] Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter."

""No law against waiting," I said, "people do it all the time." For once, I didn't say too much, I didn't say too little, I said just what I said and then walked."

"[looking in the mirror] Hello, gorgeous."

"Suppose all ya ever had for breakfast was onion rolls. Then one day, in walks a (gasp)bagel! You'd say, 'Ugh, what's that?' Until you tried it! That's my problem. I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls. Nobody recognizes me! Listen, I got 36 expressions. Sweet as pie and as tough as leather. And that's six expressions more than all them...Barrymores put together. Instead of just kicking me, why don't they give me a lift? Well, it must be a plot, 'cause they're scared that I got such a gift!..."

"Mae Questel - Mrs. Strakosh"

"Lee Allen - Eddie Ryan"