"[narrating] As time passed, my father struggled for more to hold on to, asking me again and again: had I told him everything. And finally I said to him, "maybe all I really know about Paul is that he was a fine fisherman." "You know more than that," my father said; "he was beautiful." And that was the last time we ever spoke of my brother's death."

"Ben Affleck - Bartender"

"Casey Affleck - Tom"

"Caleb Carr - Cynical Bar Patron"

"It's 11:59 on New Year's Eve. Do you know where your date is?"

"Nothing I have been told about these people is correct. They are not thieves or beggars. They are not the bogeymen they are made out to be. On the contrary, they are polite guests and I enjoy their humor."

"Everybody's having fun out here. They drinking, they fighting, they pissing on the streets. It's New Year's Eve. They loving the ladies."

"One of the ugliest bitches I've ever seen in my life rolled up, and I'm not one to call women ugly, but I think this woman was, because she had a penis."

"Dave Chappelle - Disco Cabbie"

"If you remember anything that I tell you, remember this: James Brown is the baddest motherfucker in show business."

"Throwing a party it's like... it's like an invitation for abuse. It's like the last desperate act of someone who hasn't had a lasting relationship since Junior High."

"So, how do you like your eggs done in the morning, scrambled or fertilized?"

"And I'm not gay, okay? I get that all the time. No, I'm not gay."

"You let somebody move in with you, you make all these little compromises to smooth things along, and the next thing you know, you're on some macrobiotic diet and you're listening to Joni Mitchell."

"Elvis Costello - Himself"

"Those clothes and my clothes would look good on my floor."

"Timothy Dalton - Neville Sinclair"

"Tiny Ron - Lothar"

"Paul Sorvino - Eddie Valentine"

"Alan Arkin - Peevy"

"[as the FBI catch Sinclair's SA commandos and Cliff blasts off nearby, picks up Tommy gun] Lousy Krauts, let 'em have it!! [opens fire]"

"William Campbell - Cliff Secord"

"Terry O'Quinn - Howard Hughes"

"Jennifer Connelly - Jenny Blake"

"Vondie Curtis-Hall - Father Wills"

"[to Peevy after a bad date with Jenny] Why don't you stick that welding torch in my ear, and call it the end of a perfect day."

"I've finally played a scene with Neville Sinclair."

"Kevin Corrigan - Clifford"

"I've dated enough narcissistically neurotic men to know that you are all just a pack of roving babies in search of a giant teat from which to suck the lifeblood out of me until I am a hollow shell."

"Tony Plana - Beniamano"

"Charlayne Woodard - Cheryl Clark"

"[to a pair of FBI agents] You chase a couple of two-bit crooks across our runway, crash into my pilot, and it's our fault?"

"Rene Russo - Rita Lewis"

"Anthony LaPaglia - Stevie Diroma"

"Benjamin Bratt - Felix"

"Michael Keaton - Artie Lewis"

"I can't imagine feeling any more for a kid of my own than I do for these little girls."

"They killed his partner, threatened his family... Now he'll do anything to keep them alive..."

"Rachel Ticotin - Grace"

"You bring me over here, and you tell me I'm the worst lover you ever had. And now you tell me it can't be helped."

"How far will one man go to be a good father and stay..."

"Kevin Conway - Lieutenant Danny Quinn"

"[speaking on the phone] Hello, Rit? We're alive. We're alive, partner."

"Did you know that cigarettes are a shield against meaningful interaction with people?"

"The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana."

"Any little fraulein who expects anything more from me than a little bit of pleasure, a little bit of danger, and a great set of pectorals, she's looking for a fall right on her ass."

"Noble Willingham - Roger Roy McClellan"

"William Forsythe - the Store Custodian"