"[To June entering his quarters] A little bourbon before lunch? [June subtlety declines] No bourbon?! Kentucky girl like yourself?! Hmm. My dad always said that Kentucky mash was the secret to health. Hmm. This was his room. I kept it just the same. Hmm. "Maybe one day Dad'll come back if I just keep everything the same". Hmm-mm. That is silly. The magical thinking of orphan boys."

"See, what we call God depends upon our tribe, Clark Joe, 'cause God is tribal; God takes sides! No man in the sky intervened when I was a boy to deliver me from daddy's fist and abominations. I figured out way back if God is all-powerful, He cannot be all-good. And if He is all-good, then He cannot be all-powerful. And neither can you be."

"[Nicky announces Lex's presence at benefit gala] Me? Ah. Okay. [Gets on stage] Nicky. Uh... you're embarrassing me. Um... speech, speech. [Diana turns to look at Bruce] Blah, blah, blah. Uh... open bar. The end. Uh... [Bruce walks away] the word "philanthropist" comes from the Greek. Meaning a lover of humanity. It was coined about 2,500 years ago. [Alfred gives Bruce instructions of direction] Gods and men. Prometheus went with us. And he ruined Zeus' plan to destroy mankind, and for that, he was given a thunderbolt, boom! [Diane stares unimpressed] But on a serious note, the Library of Metropolis. But at one time, Dad could not buy them. No. My father could not afford books growing up. He had to root through the garbage for yesterday's newspaper. Books are knowledge and knowledge is power, and I am... [sheepishly chuckles] No. Uh, um... no. What am I? I... what was I saying? No. The bittersweet pain among men is having knowledge with no power, because... because that is paradoxical! And, um... [sheepishly chuckles] Thank you for coming. [Benefit gala guests start applauding] Please drink! Drink!"

"[To June over announcing blocking his license to mineral access] The redcapes are coming. The redcapes are coming. Hmm. [Sits on table near her and starts drumming table underside] You and your hearings. Galloping through the streets to warn us. One if by land, two if by air. [June stops his drumming] Hmm. Do you know the oldest lie in America, June? Can I call you June?"

"Laurie Heineman - Judge Constance Sweeney"

"Michael Cyril Creighton - Joe Crowley"

"Paul Guilfoyle - Peter Conley"

"Len Cariou - Cardinal Bernard Law"

"Neal Huff - Phil Saviano of SNAP"

"Gene Amoroso - Stephen Kurkjian"

"Jamey Sheridan - Jim Sullivan"

"Billy Crudup - Eric MacLeish"

"Stanley Tucci - Mitchell Garabedian"

"John Slattery - Ben Bradlee Jr."

"Brian d'Arcy James - Matt Carroll"

"Richard Jenkins - Richard Sipe"

"Break the story. Break the silence."

"The true story behind the scandal that shook the world."

"Michael Keaton - Walter "Robby" Robinson"

"To use “Spotlight” as an occasion to wax nostalgic for the vanishing glory of print would be to miss the point. The movie celebrates a specific professional accomplishment and beautifully captures the professional ethos of journalism. It is also a defense of professionalism in a culture that increasingly holds it in contempt."

"When you're a poor kid from a poor family, religion counts for a lot. And when a priest pays attention to you, it's a big deal. He asks you to collect the hymnals or take out the trash, you feel special. It's like God asking for help. So maybe it's a little weird when he tells you a dirty joke, but now you got a secret together, so you go along. Then he shows you a porno mag, and you go along. And you go along, and you go along, until one day he asks you to jerk him off or give him a blow job. And so you go along with that, too, because you feel trapped, because he has groomed you. How do you say no to God, right? See, it is important to understand that this is not just physical abuse, it's spiritual abuse, too. And when a priest does this to you, he robs you of your faith. So you reach for the bottle or the needle. Or if those don't work, you jump off a bridge. That's why we call ourselves survivors."

"Rachel McAdams - Sacha Pfeiffer"

"Peter Canellos: They say it's just physical abuse but it's more than that, this was spiritual abuse. You know why I went along with everything? Because priests, are supposed to be the good guys."

"Mr. McCarthy is a solid craftsman. The actors are disciplined and serious, forgoing the table-pounding and speechifying that might more readily win them prizes from their peers. Everything in this movie works, which is only fitting, since its vision of heroism involves showing up in the morning and — whether inspired by bosses or in spite of them — doing the job."

"We got two stories here: a story about degenerate clergy, and a story about a bunch of lawyers turning child abuse into a cottage industry. Which story do you want us to write? Because we're writing one of them."

"This is how it happens, isn't it Pete? Guy leans on a guy. And suddenly the whole town just looks the other way."

"Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I arrived, but all of you have done some very good reporting here. Reporting that I believe is going to have an immediate and considerable impact on our readers. For me, this kind of story is why we do this."

"Liev Schreiber - Marty Baron"

"This city, these people... making the rest of us feel like we don't belong. But they're no better than us. Look at how they treat their children. Mark my words, Mr. Rezendes. If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one."

"Mark Ruffalo - Michael Rezendes"

"Matthew Glave as Bennington Cotwell"

"Cynthia Nixon as Gilbertine"

"Eddie Bracken as Old Soldier"

"Fred Dalton Thompson as Dale Grissom"

"Joe Pantoliano as Norby"

"Dawn Maxey as Teenage Employee (Mother Goose Corner)"

"Lara Flynn Boyle as Laraine Cotwell"

"John Neville as Mr. Andrews"

"Adam Robert Worton and Jacob Joseph Worton as Baby Bink"

"Joe Mantegna as Eddie"

"Verne Troyer as Baby Bink's stunt double"

"Brian Haley as Veeko"

"Robin Baber as Ursula"

"Anna Thomson as Mrs. McCray"

"Trevor Dalton as Norm"

"Nathan Fillion — The Holy Avenger"

"Kevin Bacon — Jacques"

"Liv Tyler — Sarah Helgeland"

"[repeated line] Shut up, crime!"

"Rainn Wilson — Frank Darbo / The Crimson Bolt"