"We all miss Malachy. He's, uh, miss him? He... He's gone to join the army band! Playing the bugle. The bugle? Can you imagine that, playin' the bugle? Playin' the fool, more like."

"[Frank throws up his communion breakfast] I've got God in me backyard!"

"Everyone I know and half the poor of Limerick are here. They all owed the old bitch money. Well, not anymore. [Throws ledger book into the River Shannon]"

"[Frank is in bed watching his mother, who is also watching him as she starts stepping up the stairs in Laman Griffin's residence] I thought mam would come and kiss me good night, to say thank you for sticking up for her. But no, she went to him."

"Also, Mikey is the expert in the lane on girls' bodies... and dirty things in general."

"[[Frank is lying in bed recovering from fever in hospital and a doctor sitting near him has farted] And then Dr. Campbell came in and held my hand. It was then that I knew I was going to get better because a doctor would never fart in the presence of a dying boy."

"[Commenting on traditional Irish dancing] If my mates saw me making a pure eejit out of myself at the Irish dancing, I'd be disgrace forever. I want to be Fred Astaire. Irish dancers look like they have steel rods stuck up their arses."

"In the name of the father, the son and the holy toast."

"If I were in America, I could say "I love you, dad", the way they do in the films. But in Limerick they'd laugh at you. In Limerick you are only allowed to say you love God, and babies, and horses that win. Anything else is softness in the head."

"[Ship is sailing out of New York City] We must've been the only Irish family to be saying good bye to the statue of liberty rather than hello."

"I remembered something to myself. The night he and I drove around together, he said, 'Laramie sparkles, doesn't it?' And where he was in that spot up there, if you sit exactly in that spot up there, Laramie sparkles. With the low-lying clouds, it's - uh - it's the blue lights that bounce off the clouds. And it goes over the whole city. I mean, I mean, it blows you away. And Matt was right there in that spot. And I can just picture - in his eyes - what he was seeing. And the last thing that he saw on this Earth was the sparkling lights of Laramie, Wyoming."

"Amy Madigan - Officer Reggie Flutty"

"Ben Foster - Aaron Kreifels"

"Joshua Jackson - Matt Galloway"

"John McAdams - Jonas Slonaker"

"Janeane Garofalo - Catherine Connolly"

"Greg Pierotti - Jon Peacock"

"Steve Buscemi - Doc O'Connor"

"Margo Martindale - Trish Steger"

"Summer Phoenix - Jen Malmskog"

"Michael Emerson - Reverend"

"Frances Sternhagen - Marge Murray"

"James Murtaugh - Reverend Fred Phelps"

"Clea DuVall - Amanda Gronich"

"Kelli Simpkins - Leigh Fondakowski"

"Grant Varjas - Greg Pierotti"

"Andy Paris - Stephen Belber"

"Camryn Manheim - Rebecca Hillicker"

"Jeremy Davies - Jedadiah Schultz"

"Peter Fonda - Dr. Cantway"

"Laura Linney - Sherry Johnson"

"My son, Matthew, did not look like a winner. He was rather uncoordinated and wore braces from the age of 13 until the day he died. However in his all-too-brief life, he proved that he was a winner. On October 6, 1998, he tried to show the world he could win again. On October 12, 1998, my first born son, and my hero, lost. On October 12, 1998, my first born son, and my hero, died. 50 days before his 22nd birthday. I keep wondering the same thing that I did when I first saw him in the hospital. What would he have become? How could he have changed his piece of the world to make it better? Matt officially died in a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. He actually died on the outskirts of Laramie, tied to a fence. You, Mr. McKinney, with your friend Mr. Henderson, left him there, by himself. But he was not alone. There were his lifelong friends with him, friends that he had grown up with. You're probably wondering who these friends were. First he had the beautiful night sky and the same stars and moon we used to see through a telescope. Then he had the daylight and the sun to shine on him. And through it all, he was breathing in the scent of the pine trees from the snowy range. He heard the wind, the ever present Wyoming wind for the last time. He had one more friend with him. He had God. And I feel better, knowing he wasn't alone. Matt's beating, hospitalization, and funeral focused worldwide attention on hate. Good is coming out of evil. People have said, 'Enough is enough.' I miss my son, but I am proud to be able to say that he was my son. Judy has been quoted as being against the death penalty. It has been stated that Matt was against the death penalty. Both of these statements are wrong. I, too, believe in the death penalty. I would like nothing better than to see you die, Mr. McKinney. However, this is the time to begin the healing process, to show mercy to someone who refused to show any mercy. Mr. McKinney, I am going to grant you life, as hard as it is to do so, because of Matthew. Everytime you celebrate Christmas, a birthday, the 4th of July, remember that Matt isn't. Everytime that you wake up in your prison cell, remember you had the opportunity and the ability to stop your actions that night. You robbed me of something very precious and I will never forgive you for that. Mr. McKinney, I give you life in the memory of someone who no longer lives. May you have a long life. And may you thank Matthew everyday for it."

"Mark Webber - Aaron McKinney"

"Lou Ann Wright - Judy Shepard"

"Terry Kinney - Dennis Shepard"

"Dylan Baker - Rulon Stacey"

"Christina Ricci - Romaine Patterson"

"Nestor Carbonell - Moisés Kaufman"

"Everyone Carries a Piece of the Truth."

"When a small town comes face to face with murder, everybody has a tale to tell."

""Live and let live" is, at best, a load of crap. It basically boils down to: 'If I don't tell you I'm a fag, you won't beat the crap out of me'. What kind of solution is that?"

"[about to make a statement with the hospital staff looking at the gathered crowd outside] Oh, my God... Anybody else wanna do this?"