"I'll show them first crack that the Oklahoma Wigwam prints all the news all the time - knowing no law except the law of God and the government of the United States. Say, that's a pretty good slogan. Top of the page - just ahead of the editorial column."

"Nance O'Neil - Felice Venable"

"Sugar, if we all took root and squatted, there would never be any new country."

"[while addressing the jury, referring to the prosecutor in the case against Dixie Lee] Turn your eye to that figure that has so deservedly held your attention... this gifted person - Mr. Patrick Leary - is the only man in the glorious and brilliant southwest... nay, in this magnificent nation - of whom it may actually be said that he is able to strut sitting down. [laughter from the jury and spectators]"

"William Collier Jr. - The Kid"

"Irene Dunne - Sabra Cravat"

"Dixie Lees have been stoned in the market place for 2,000 years. You've got to drive the devil out first."

"Why, we've had enough of this Wichita. We're goin' out to a brand new two-fisted, rip snortin' country full of Indians, rattlesnakes, gun toters and desperados. Whoopee!"

"Never is a long time."

"There's loyalty, Sabra, that money can't buy."

"They will always talk about Yancy. He's gonna be part of the history of the great Southwest. It's men like him that build the world. The rest of them, like me... why, we just come along and live in it."

"Richard Dix - Yancey Cravat"

"Brad Pitt - Samuel Bass"

"Benedict Cumberbatch - William Ford"

"Paul Dano - John Tibeats"

"Lupita Nyong'o - Patsey"

"Adepero Oduye - Eliza"

"Sarah Paulson - Mary Epps"

"Clemens: If you want to survive, do and say as little as possible. Tell no one who you really are and tell no one that you can read and write. Unless you want to be a dead nigger."

"[singing] Run nigger run, run so fast/Stoved his head in a hornets nest/Run nigger run well the pattyroller'll get you/ Run nigger run well you better get away."

"Chiwetel Ejiofor - Solomon Northup"

"Paul Giamatti - Theophilus Freeman"

"[Upon meeting his family again after 12 years] I apologize for my appearance. But I have had a difficult time these past several years."

""And that servant which knew his Lord's will... which knew his Lord's will and prepared not himself... prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes..." D'ye hear that? "Stripes." That nigger that don't take care, that don't obey his lord - that's his master - d'ye see? - that 'ere nigger shall be beaten with many stripes. Now, "many" signifies a great many. Forty, a hundred, a hundred and fifty lashes... That's Scripture."

"I will not fall into despair. I will keep myself hardy, till freedom is opportune!"

"My name is John Tibeats, William Ford's chief carpenter. You will refer to me as Master. Mister Chapin is the overseer on this plantation. He is responsible for all of Ford's property. You too will refer to him as Master. This plantation covers many hundreds of acres, and you will traverse the Texas road between the forest site and the sawmill in double time. Any clever nigger on that path that gets a little light-footed, I will remind him that on one side men and bloodhounds patrol the border and on the other the bayou provides a hard living, with alligators and little to eat or drink that won't kill you. No slave has escaped here with his life. You're here to work niggers, so let's commence."

"Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps"

"There are so many aspects that often don't [appear in ] depictions of people in those oppressive circumstances. "12 Years a Slave," for example-one thing I missed in that film was some sense of joy, some sense of pleasure, some sense of humanity."

"12 Years a Slave is a scarifying, unblinking portrayal of life as it was for tens of thousands of people less than 200 years ago. It pulls no punches."

"In 12 Years a Slave, McQueen immerses viewers in the magnolia-scented hell to which Northup was exiled. You will recoil at every whiplash, feel each slur, wonder at man’s inhumanity to men and women he thought animals."

"Christopher Berry - James Birch"

"Bryan Batt - Judge Turner"

"Bill Camp - Radburn"

"Jay Huguley - Sheriff Villiere"

"Alfre Woodard - Mistress Harriet Shaw"

"Kelsey Scott - Anne Northup"

"Quvenzhané Wallis - Margaret Northup"

"Chris Chalk - Clemens Ray"

"Taran Killam - Hamilton"

"Michael K. Williams - Robert"

"Cameron Zeigler - Alonzo Northup"

"Rob Steinberg - Parker"