"That was the day I stopped believing in the wild ardor of things. Perhaps in love, as well. That kind of love. The love in books and films. The love that tells us to abandon our lives and plans, all for one brief touch of Venus. So often we fail at that kind of love. The world just seems too fragile a place for it. And of every other kind, life remains full. Perhaps it's just we who are too fragile."

"Call me old fashioned, I just like all the men I'm around to be all men."

"What lies beneath the surface? What hides behind the walls? What imprisons desires of the heart?"

"Celia Weston - Mona Lauder"

"Olivia Birkelund - Nancy"

"What the hell those niggers doing out there?"

"Heath Ledger - Sonny Grotowski"

"Coronji Calhoun - Tyrell Musgrove"

"I went by our station on the way home... I like that sign. I think we're gonna be alright."

"And there's nothing else you care to share with your very own adoring wife?"

"I've learned my lesson about mixing in other worlds. I've seen the sparks fly. All kinds."

"A good society paper need not be a gossip rag."

"What imprisons desires of the heart?"

"Dennis Haysbert - Raymond Deagan"

"James Rebhorn - Dr. Bowman"

"Lindsay Andretta - Janice Whitaker"

"Barbara Garrick - Doreen"

"[to Sonny about Lawrence Musgrove] You fucked him up! You fucked up that man's last walk!"

"You ain't no man till you split dark oak."

"Damn porch monkeys! Your mother, she hated them niggers too."

"Billy Bob Thornton - Hank Grotowski"

"Sean Combs - Lawrence Musgrove"

"Mos Def - Ryrus Cooper"

"Peter Boyle - Buck Grotowski"

"I've always believed that a portrait captures a person far better than a photograph. It truly takes a human being to really see a human being."

"Oh, Raymond, Mrs. Whitaker sounds so formal! Won't you please... ask me to dance?"

"You're all man to me! All man..."

"I know it's a sickness, because it makes me feel despicable."

"Here is to being the only one."

"Cathy? Oh, she's been liberal ever since she played summer stock at college with all those steamy Jewish boys. Why do you think they used to call her "Red"?"

"Girlfriend of mine, Shirley Dawson, her husband - every night of the week. Plus, three more times on the weekend. Can you imagine?"

"You are the proud wife of a successful sales executive; planning the parties, and posing at her husband's side on the advertisements. To everyone here in Connecticut, you are - Mr. and Mrs. Magnatech."

"Dr. Bowman: Today, the general attitude regarding this sort of behavior is naturally more modern, more scientific than it ever has been before. But for those who do seek treatment, who possess the will and desire to lead a normal life, there still remains only a scant five to thirty percent rate of success - for complete heterosexual conversion."

"Julianne Moore - Cathleen "Cathy" Whitaker"

"Dennis Quaid - Frank Whitaker"

"Patricia Clarkson - Eleanor Fine"

"Viola Davis - Sybil"

"Michael Gaston - Stan Fine"

"Ryan Ward - David Whitaker"

"Jordan Puryear - Sarah Deagan"

"Edgar Kennedy - Pop Randall"

"Elizabeth Jenns - Anita Regis"

"J. C. Nugent - Mr. Blodgett"

"Owen Moore - Casey Burke"

"[to the radio audience] It took me more than 70... more than 60 years to get here, and here I mean to stay!"