"You're right about one thing. I don't want to be fair. I came here because I was told to go. I was told I had to talk to you. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to waste 10 seconds on you. It makes me sick, Johnson, what you did. What you are turns my stomach."

"You think you're a hard case? I was shouting and swearing when you still wet your bed."

"You've found it, haven't you? Something like the truth? Does it surprise you? Shock you? It's there in everyone. You must know that better than anyone. Surely you know that, eh? Of course, you think just everyone else, not you. I suppose, being a policeman, you have to. Twenty years thinking you're different. It must get to be a habit, thinking, "Thank God I'm not those other men." It's difficult. It's dangerous. But you're just the same, you see. In some ways you're one hell of a lot worse."

"Nothing I have done can be one half as bad as the thoughts in your head. I wouldn't have your thoughts!"

"Every single thing I've ever felt, wanted to feel, in one moment - hitting him. I had to hit him again. Somehow, I didn't have any choice. I wanted what he could give me, sitting there, letting me hit him. I wanted that. He knew. He was saying, like, "Welcome home." I had to kill him."

"They wouldn't know Christmas from pancake bloody Tuesday."

"Here in a room like this one, you find something about yourself. Something like the truth."

"Ian Bannen - Kenneth Baxter"

"Vivian Merchant - Maureen Johnson"

"Rod Steiger - Sol Nazerman"

"Geraldine Fitzgerald - Marilyn Birchfield"

"Brock Peters - Rodriguez"

"Jaime Sánchez - Jesus Ortiz"

"Juano Hernández - Mr. Smith"

"Baruch Lumet - Mendel"

"Marketa Kimbrell - Tessie"

"Raymond St. Jacques - Tangee"

"Linda Geiser - Ruth Nazerman"

"Bill McCutcheon - Danny Doheny (bar owner)"

"B.D. Wong - Jimmy Chui (Adam's former professor)"

"Deborah Rush - Michele Dempsey (Adam's lawyer)"

"Victoria Jackson - Christine (Adam's girl)"

"Janet Carroll - Margie (Jessie's girl)"

"Rosanna DeSoto - Elaine McMullen (as Rosana DeSoto)"

"Matthew Broderick - Adam McMullen"

"Dustin Hoffman - Vito McMullen"

"Sean Connery - Jessie McMullen"

"Come on. Let's pay our respects to the grieving widow before she falls flat on her face, drunk."