"Who knows. So many freaks out there doin' their little evil deeds they don't wanna do... "The voices made me do it. My dog made me do it. Jodie Foster told me to do it.""

"If we catch John Doe and he turns out to be the Devil… I mean, if he’s Satan himself, that might live up to our expectations. But… he’s not the Devil. He’s just a man."

"If John Doe's head splits open and a UFO should fly out, I want you to have expected it."

"A Warner Bros. Smash Hit!"

"JAMES CAGNEY in his new Warner hit "White Heat""

"New hit! - New heights!"

"His New Hit from Warner Bros."

"JAMES CAGNEY is red hot in "WHITE HEAT""

"[After beating FBI Special Agent McCafferty senseless…] See? That's federal property. This isn't. This is L.A. This is my town. Out here you're a trespasser. Out here I can pick you up, burn your house, fuck your wife, and kill your dog. And the only thing that'll protect you is if I can't find you. And I already found you."

"Daniel Baldwin — FBI Agent McCafferty"

"Jennifer Connelly — Allison Pond"

"Treat Williams — Colonel Nathan Fitzgerald"

"This isn't America, Jack. This is L.A."

"Chris Penn — Arthur Relyea"

"Michael Madsen — Eddie Hall"

"Chazz Palminteri — Ellery Coolidge"

"[Repeated line to Coolidge.] Is that what your psychiatrist told you?"

"Melanie Griffith — Katherine Hoover"

"Nick Nolte — Police Lieutenant Max Hoover"

"You're much more intelligent than you appear to be, Lieutenant. Must be a big advantage in your field. In my field, everyone was always so desperate to seem cleverer than they were."

"Louise Fletcher — Esther"

"Bruce Dern — LAPD Chief Bill Parker"

"Rob Lowe — Flynn's associate"

"Aaron Neville — Nite Spot Singer"

"William L. Petersen — Jack Flynn"

"Kyle Chandler — The Captain"

"John Malkovich — General Thomas Timms"

"Andrew McCarthy — Jimmy Fields"

"I'm a strong tree with branches for many birds. I'm good for somethin' in this old world, and I know it, too."

"Sally Jane Bruce - Pearl Harper"

"Billy Chapin - John Harper"

"Don Beddoe - Walt Spoon"

"Peter Graves - Ben Harper"

"Evelyn Varden - Icey Spoon"

"James Gleason - Birdie Steptoe"

"Lillian Gish - Rachel Cooper"

"Shelley Winters - Willa Harper"

"Robert Mitchum - Harry Powell"

"John Harper: [hitting Powell with the doll] Here! Here! Take it back. Take it back. I don't want it. It's too much. Here! Here!"

"Birdie Steptoe: [after finding Willa's body] They'll think it was me. They'll think it was poor old Uncle Birdie. Ah, if you could have seen it, Bess, down there in the deep place, with her hair waving soft and lazy like meadow grass under flood water, and that slit in her throat, like she had an extra mouth. You're the only human mortal I can go to, Bess. If I go to the law, they'll hang it on me. Sweet heavens, save poor old Uncle Birdie."

"[at Powell's trial] Lynch him. Lynch him. Bluebeard. Twenty-five wives, and he killed every last one of 'em."

"When you been married to a man forty years, you know all that don't amount to a hill o' beans. I been married to my Walt that long and I swear, in all that time, I just lie there thinkin' about my canning....A woman's a fool to marry for that. That's somethin' for a man. The good Lord never meant for a decent woman to want that, not really want it. It's all just a fake and a pipe dream."

"[to Willa] That fella is just aching to settle down with some nice woman and make a home for himself...If ever I saw a sign from heaven...Pearl dotes on him."

"[about Powell] It's a mighty good man would go out of his way to bring a word of cheer to a grieving widow."

"No woman is able to raise growing youngsters alone. The Lord meant that job for two...It ain't a question of want it or not want it. You're no spring chicken. You're a grown woman with two little young-uns. It's a man you need in the house, Willa Harper."

"[to Powell] I got tired of seein' children roamin' the woodlands without food. Children roamin' the highways in this here Depression. Children sleepin' in old abandoned car bodies and junk heaps. And I promised myself I'd never see the day when my young-uns would want."

"The rock in the smokehouse, no, the bricks in the grape arbor, no, no, they'll dig for it. Sure. That's the place."

"[to Powell] It ain't in the river, is it, Harry?...Ben never told you he throw'd it in the river, did he?...The children know where it's hid. John knows. Is that it, Harry? Then, it's still here amongst us, taintin' us. You must have known about it all along, Harry? But that ain't the reason why you married me. I know that much...He made you marry me, so you could show me the Way and the Life and the salvation for my soul. Ain't that so, Harry? So you might say that it was the money that brung us together. The rest of it don't matter."

"John, you always make up that lie. There is no money. Why can't you get that through your head?"

"You have all sinned. Which one of you can say, as I can say, that you drove a good man to murder because I kept a-houndin' him, for perfume, and clothes, and face paint? And he slew two human beings. And he come to me, and he said, 'Take this money, and buy yourself the clothes! And the paint!'...But brother-n, brother-n, oh that's where the Lord stepped in, that's where the Lord stepped in...He said, the Lord, to that man, 'You take that money, and you throw it in the river!'"