"That was the night that I died, and someone else was saved. Someone who was afraid of water, but learned to swim. Someone who knew there would be one moment, where he wouldn't be watching. Someone who knew that the darkness of the broken lights would show the way."

"[on phone with the police, with gun aimed at Martin] Come quickly. I've just killed an intruder."

"Claudette Nevins - Dr. Rissner"

"There's the telephone. You could call the police. I know your every thought, Laura. You're wondering if they can protect you. Who knows? They may issue an order instructing me to stay away from my own wife. Nothing can keep me away. I love you, Laura. I can't live without you. And I won't let you live without me."

"Timothy Carhart - Deputy Matt Greytack"

"Dwight Yoakam - Truck Driver"

"Lara Flynn Boyle - Suzanne Brown/Ann McCord"

"J. T. Walsh - Wayne Brown/Kevin McCord"

"Don't piss on the seat, even if they did. It's bad luck."

"Where nothing is as it seems."

"All Roads Lead To Intrigue."

"Suzanne... why you're as pretty as the Everglades. You're pretty near good enough to eat!"

"L. Scott Caldwell - Hattie May Parsons"

"Barry Shabaka Henley - Woodcutter"

"Nicolas Cage - Michael Williams"

"[gas needle reads empty] Story of my fuckin' life."

"John Roselius - Detective Mason, LAPD"

"Beau Starr - Detective Jack Mille, LAPD"

"Steven Randazzo - Benny Giacomo"

"Dennis Hopper - Lyle from Dallas"

"Scott Lincoln - Richard McGee"

"Don Cheadle - Mouse Alexander"

"Maury Chaykin - Matthew Terell"

"Terry Kinney - Todd Carter"

"Jennifer Beals - Daphne Monet"

"Private detective Easy Rawlins has been caught on the wrong side of the most dangerous secret in town."

"Denzel Washington - Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins"

"Mel Winkler - Joppy"

"Tom Sizemore - DeWitt Albright"

"[voiceover] It was actually looking more and more like I might not make it through this little adventure I was having. But I was likin' the chill in my blood, and the freedom of working on my own. There were times in the war when I had felt like this. When life or death where the only two choices. That made it simple. And that was alright by me."

"[voiceover] I'd been thinking about Daphne, too...wondering if she meant what she said about what could have happened between us. But at the moment I was wondering if there was any such thing as a sprained chin. But other than that and a headache, a loose tooth and a kidney that a doctor would need to look at, I felt like five thousand, three hundred dollars. And unless Albright was alive somewhere, that feelin' was gonna last a while."

"[voiceover] It scared me to think about a world that could kill a man like DeWitt Albright. What could a world like that do to me?"

"[voiceover] It occurred to me that Coretta had found out a lot more about what I was up to than I had wanted her to. But I had found out that the rich man's woman had a colored boyfriend. It had cost me a sawbuck to get Coretta to give me that information. Well, let's just say somethin' had cost me ten dollars."

"Albert Hall - Degan Odell"

"In a world divided by black and white, Easy Rawlins is about to cross the line."

"[voiceover] I had moved to Los Angeles right after the war with three hundred dollars and the G.I. Bill... And I liked coming home to a place that was mine. According to President Truman I had that comin' to me 'cause I had fought in 'the good war' against Hitler in Europe. But that didn't mean a damn thing to a lotta white folks, including the foreman on my job. So, here I was out of work needin' thirty-two dollars to pay the mortgage. That was three days pay on my old job—and I had about three days to get it."

"Lisa Nicole Carson - Coretta James"

"Jernard Burks - Dupree Brouchard"

"David Wolos-Fonteno - Junior Fornay"

"Whit Bissell - Navy psychiatrist Lieutenant Commander Dickson, Medical Corps"

"Lee Marvin - "Meatball" (Dlugatch)"

"Warner Anderson - Captain Blakely, president of the court-martial"

"Claude Akins - "Horrible" (Everett Black)"

"Arthur Franz - Lieutenant, junior grade, H. Paynter Jr."

"May Wynn - May Wynn"

"Tom Tully - Lieutenant Commander (later Commander) (William H.) DeVriess"