"I admire you so much. The stand you're taking. You didn't take the easy way out. Not setting up one of your friends. I couldn't do what you did. So it looks like you're the one teaching me what real character and integrity is all about. I love you, son."

"Helmut Dantine - Max"

"Isela Vega - Elita"

"Robert Webber - Sappensly"

"Dwayne Johnson as John Matthews"

"Gig Young - Johnny Quill"

"I will pay one million dollars. Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!"

"Why is his head worth one million dollars and the lives of 21 people?"

"I've been down this road before, and you don't know the way."

"It's got guts."

"I've killed people... and worse, a whole lot worse."

"Warren Oates - Bennie"

"Barry Pepper as Agent Cooper"

"You ought to be drunk in Fresno, California. This place is a palace."

"I've been no place I wanna go back to, that's for damn sure."

"I can smell shit 100 miles away... sometimes closer."

"There ain't nothing sacred about a hole in the ground or the man that's in it. Or you. Or me."

"Listen. The church cuts off the feet, fingers, any other goddamn thing from the saints, don't they? Well, what the hell? Alfredo's our saint. He's the saint of our money, and I'm gonna borrow a piece of him."

"[as he keeps shooting a man he has already killed] Why? Because it feels so goddamn good!"

"Don't you look at me with your Goddamn fucking eyes!"

"Benjamin Bratt as Juan Carlos 'El Topo' Pintera"

"A double bourbon with a champagne back, none of your tijano bullshit, and fuck off."

"Susan Sarandon as Joanne Keeghan"

"He's one man racing against time to stop the most explosive conspiracy in history."

"Gene Hackman is up against Tommy Lee Jones. Let the best man win!"

"Gene Hackman - U.S. Army Master Sergeant Johnny Gallagher"

"Joanna Cassidy - U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Gallagher"

"Chelcie Ross - General Hopkins"

"Nathan Davis - Soviet Press Secretary"

"Ike Pappas - himself"

"Carlos Sanz - Johnny's Field Soldier"

"Cody Glenn - Johnny's Field Soldier"

"Ron Dean - Karl Richards"

"Harry Lennix - Johnny's Field Soldier"

"Reni Santoni - Chicago Police lieutenant"

"Col. Glen Whitacre: There hasn't been a world war in over forty years, Sergeant! You ever wonder why? Because of nuclear weapons. We want them, the Soviets want them."

"Who is Walter Henke?"

"Tommy Lee Jones - Thomas Boyette"

"Terrorists sir? They were pretty well organized. It was like a military operation."

"John Heard - U.S. Army Colonel Glen Whitacre"

"I lost my package, a prisoner I was bringing back from Germany."

"Who the hell knows what is the truth and what is a lie?"

"Why would he want to smuggle himself in?"

"Dennis Franz - Chicago Police Lieutenant Milan Delich"

"[to Col. Whitacre] You and I, we're in separate armies, pal - but you're out in the light now, and I'm gonna see you get stepped on!"

"The point, John, is that the Soviets and the American military industrial complex has the entire flag waving patriotic world right by the balls."

"Pam Grier - U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Ruth Butler"