"I'm so much happier now that I'm dead. Technically missing. Soon to be presumed dead. Gone. And my lazy lying shitting oblivious husband will go to prison for my murder. Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder. Let the punishment fit the crime."

"[to Amy] You. Fucking. Bitch."

"[Opening lines] When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, trying to get answers. The primal questions of a marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other?"

"[Last lines]What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?"

"Elvis is in Missouri!"

"Everyone knows that 'complicated' is a code word for bitch."

"I swear, you two are the most fucked up people I've ever known and I specialize in fucked up!"

"Ben Affleck — Nick Dunne"

"Brent Hinkley - Jerry"

"S. Epatha Merkerson - Elsa"

"Kyle Gass - Tony"

"Ving Rhames - George"

"Jason Alexander - Mr Geary, the lawyer"

"Patricia Kalember - Sarah"

"Lewis Black - Jacob's doctor"

"Eriq La Salle - Frank"

"Elizabeth Peña - Jezebel "Jezzie" Pipkin"

"Danny Aiello - Louis Denardo"

"Matt Craven - Michael Newman"

"Tim Robbins - Jacob Singer"

"Perry Lang - Jacob's assailant"

"Army Officer: Mr. Singer. What an appropriate name for a man who can't shut up."

"Elsa: [reading Jacob's palm] See. According to this, you're already dead. [laughs]"

"Pruitt Taylor Vince - Paul"

"Macaulay Culkin - Gabe Singer (uncredited)"

"Eckhart saw Hell too. You know what he said? He said: "The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life; your memories, your attachments... they burn them all away." But, "they're not punishing you" he said, "they're freeing your soul". So the way he see's it, if you're frightened of dying and-and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But, if you've made your peace then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth. It's just a matter of how you look at it, that's all. So don't worry, okay?"

"Konstantin Shayne - Konrad Meinike"

"Byron Keith - Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence"

"Billy House - Mr. Potter"

"Richard Long - Noah Longstreet (Mary’s brother)"

"Edward G. Robinson - Mr. Wilson"

"Loretta Young - Mary Longstreet Rankin"

"Martha Wentworth - Sara"

"Philip Merivale - Judge Adam Longstreet (Mary's father)"

"[to Judge Longstreet, about Mary] She has the facts now, but she won't accept them. They're too horrible for her to acknowledge. Not so much that Rankin could be Kindler, but that she could ever have given her love to such a creature. But we have one ally, her subconscious. It knows what the truth is and it's struggling to be heard. The will to truth within your daughter is much too strong to be denied."

"Why wasn't it I... Franz Kindler? Kill me. Kill me, I want you to. I couldn't face life knowing what I've been to you and what I've done to Noah. But when you kill me, don't put your hands on me! [Picks up a fireplace poker] Here! Use this!"

"Mr. Potter: [after Meineke's body is dug up] I knew darn well it was the same feller. 'Course, he's changed some. Uh, being buried in the earth does it."

"In prison, in Czechoslovakia, a war criminal was awaiting execution. This was Konrad Meinike, one time executive officer for Franz Kindler. He was an obscenity on the face of the earth. The stench of burning flesh was in his clothes. But we gave him his freedom on the chance that he might lead me to Kindler. He led me here, Mrs. Rankin. And here, I lost him. Until yesterday. Your dog, Red, found him for me. But unfortunately, Meinike was dead and buried. Now, in all the world, there is only one person who can identify Franz Kindler. That person is the one who knows, knows definitely, who Meinike came to Harper to see."

"Orson Welles - Franz Kindler / Professor Charles Rankin"

"Oh, blast all this discussion! What good are words? I'm sick of words. Hang the repercussions and the responsibility! If I fail, I'm responsible. Leave the cell door open. Let him escape. Let him! It's our only chance! Let them threaten me with the bottom pits of hell and still I insist! This obscenity must be destroyed! Do you hear me? Destroyed!"

"Well, who but a Nazi would deny that Karl Marx was a German because he was a Jew?"

"Gregory Peck - Lee Heller"

"Martin Balsam - Judge"

"Illeana Douglas - Lori Davis"

"Robert Mitchum - Lt. Elgart"

"Jessica Lange - Leigh Bowden"

"Juliette Lewis - Danielle Bowden"