"Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you."

"I was lonely when I was young. Not in the way people usually mean. I was lonely for all the things I wasn't gonna get."

"I'll tell you what you could do if you went away, Zan: if you could find some place where they pay wages for talkin' silly, you could make a fortune"

"Lucien Littlefield - Manders"

"Virginia Brissac - Mrs. Hewitt"

"Terry Nibert - Julia"

"Carl Benton Reid - Oscar Hubbard"

"Henry 'Hot Shot' Thomas - Harold"

"Patricia Collinge - Birdie Hubbard"

"River Phoenix - Danny Pope /Michael"

"Aren't we supposed to question authority? You taught me that! Who do you think you are, General Patton?"

"Christine Lahti - Annie Pope"

"[to Lorna] Now, I have no right in telling this to you. It's dangerous for you and it's dangerous for them, but I'm sorry I just couldn't stop myself. You can do what you want to, you can tell your dad; anything, I don't care. I just needed you to know... I don't know what I'm doing, and I love you."

"Judd Hirsch - Arthur Pope"

"Marcia Jean Kurtz - School Clerk"

"Lynne Thigpen - Contact at Eldridge St."

"L. M. Kit Carson - Gus Winant"

"David Margulies - Dr. Jonah Reiff"

"Ed Crowley - Mr. Phillips"

"[to Michael] Why do you have to carry the burden of someone else's life?"

"Steven Hill - Donald Patterson"

"You're certifiable. You're welcome!"

"You're strange. I cut. I didn't feel like having my picture taken with those sub-humans."

"Arthur Pope: Now, go out there and make a difference. Your mother and I tried. Don't let anyone tell you different."

"Annie Pope: What are we doing to these kids? They've been running their whole lives like criminals, and they didnt do anything!"

"...So, now that we've determined that I belong here, let's talk about you."

"Martha Plimpton - Lorna Phillips"

"Augusta Dabney - Abigail Patterson"

"Jonas Abry - Harry Pope"

"Mustafa Shakir as Sex Machine"

"John Beckwith as Eddie Vedder"

"Jim Belushi as Tom D'Amato"

"King Princess as Angelina"

"Michael Imperioli as Mark Shurilla"

"Fisher Stevens as Dr. Dave Watson"

"Good times never seemed so good."

"Kate Hudson as Claire/Thunder"

"Ella Anderson as Rachel"

"Hudson Hensley as Dana"

"I'm not a songwriter. I'm not a sex symbol but, I am an entertainer."

"If you live long enough you can see your dreams die a slow death. Young people don't know how good they have it. Not 'cause they can, uh, touch their toes and screw all night. They haven't learned that most things just don't work out.Most times, you just mess it up, so it's easier not to try. We're all just looking for some hope. But at my age, hope is hard. Hope's not enough."

"But that's Elvis' logo for "Taking Care of Business in a Flash". That's ME! That's my handle: TCB! I'm taking care of business! I'm the one and only Elvis impersonator in all Milwaukee!"

"Hugh Jackman as Mike/Lightning"

"Layla Crawford as Lyndrea Price"

"Tony Goldwyn as Paul Cohen"

"Mikayla LaShae Bartholomew as Tunde Price"

"Open stance!"

"Danielle Lawson as Isha Price"

"When I was a little boy, I grew up in Shreveport. One day, my father took me to town. He give me this money to pay this White man for something. Back in them days, Black folks weren't allowed to touch White peoples. So I went to give the man this money, and I accidently touched his hand. And he start beating on me. He knocked me down, his friends come over, they all start stomping on me and beating on me. And I look up and I see my father in the crowd, and he took off running. Left me there with these grown men beating on me. Now, I haven't been no great daddy... but I've never done nothing but try to protect you. This next step you about to take, it would... It would be hard for anybody. But for you, you not gonna just be representing you, you gonna be representing every little Black girl on Earth. And you gonna be the one gotta go through that gate. And I just never wanted you to look up... and see your daddy running away."