"Notice, if you will, the half-caste child. Now, what is to happen to them? Are we to allow the creation of an unwanted third race? Should colours be encouraged to go back to the black? Or should they be advanced to white status and be absorbed in the white population?"

"If only they would understand what we are trying to do for them."

"Just because people have Neolithic tools, Inspector, doesn't mean they have Neolithic minds."

"George Michael as Himself"

"Karla Bonoff as Herself"

"Vince Gill as Himself"

"Brooks & Dunn as Themselves"

"Renée Zellweger as Buckle Bunny"

"Linden Ashby as Martin Hudson"

"Carrie Snodgress as Elsie Frost"

"James Rebhorn as Clyde Frost"

"Cynthia Geary as Kellie Kyle Frost"

"Red Mitchell as Cody Lambert"

"Stephen Baldwin as Tuff Hedeman"

"Luke Perry as Lane Frost"

"We're a tradition. Last of the dyin' breed."

"[about marriage] I guess it's like bull riding. You gotta stay on and try not to get bucked off."

"Victor Rasuk — Tony"

"Emile Hirsch — Jay"

"John Robinson — Stacy"

"Venice, man. Ghetto by the sea."

"[after Skip comes and slaps Tony across the face with his burger] Dude, he took my burger."

"It's dirty, it's filthy, it's uhh, paradise."

"[as the Z-Boys drive by two elderly women on the street] Hey! Kiss me, granny! Love to get me some of the vintage ass!"

"Dude, you just got patty slapped."

"Michael Angarano — Sid"

"Elden Henson — Billy Z"

"Heath Ledger — Skip"

"Nikki Reed — Kathy"

"Dylan Baker - Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara"

"Stephanie Romanov - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy"

"Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell"

"Bruce Greenwood - President John F. Kennedy"

"[The night prior to the beginning of the U.S. Navy's military "quarantine" of Cuba] You know, last summer, I read a book, The Guns of August. I wish every man on that blockade line had read that book. It's World War I, there's thirteen million killed; it was all because the militaries of both alliances believed they were so highly attuned to one another's movements and dispositions, they could predict one another's intentions, but all their theories were based on the last war. And the world and technology had changed, and those lessons were no longer valid, but it was all they knew, so the orders went out, and couldn't be rescinded. And your man in the field, his family at home; they couldn't even tell you the reasons why their lives were being destroyed. But why couldn't they stop it? What could they have done? Here we are, fifty years later. Think if one of their ships resists the inspection, and we shoot out its rudder, and board, they shoot down one of our planes in response, so we bomb their anti-aircraft sites, and in response to that, they attack Berlin...so we invade Cuba...and they fire their missiles...and we fire ours."

"This is not a blockade. This is language. A new vocabulary, the likes of which the world has never seen! This is President Kennedy communicating with Secretary Khrushchev!"

"Frank Wood - McGeorge Bundy"

"Elya Baskin - Anotoly Dobrynin"

"Kevin Conway - General Curtis LeMay"

"Peter White - John McCone"

"Len Cariou - Dean Acheson"

"Michael Fairman - U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson"

"I am the commander in chief of the United States, and I say when we go to war!"

"Ed Lauter - General Marshall Carter"

"Henry Strozier - Dean Rusk"

"Bill Smitrovich - General Max Taylor"

"Steven Culp - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy"

"Patricia Kennealy: [to Jim] Come on rock god, fuck me, fuck me good."

"Crispin Glover - Andy Warhol"