"[Veronika counting the money] And what does he think I am? A whore? He can just pay me off 4000 pounds, not even the interest? What am I supposed to do with that? Buy a fucking time machine? Live my life all over again? Maybe this time without being robbed by my best fucking friend!"

"[Monologue that is a reference to the beginning of the first film, to Veronika in a restaurant] "Choose life." "Choose life" was a well-meaning slogan from a 1980s antidrug campaign. And we used to add things to it. So I might say, for example, choose... Designer lingerie in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. Choose handbags. Choose high-heeled shoes. Cashmere and silk to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window, and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South Asian firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand other ways to spew your bile across people you've never met. Choose updating your profile. Tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do. Choose live-blogging from your first wank to your last breath. Human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. Choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who'd had surgery. Choose screaming about abortion. Choose rape jokes, slut shaming, revenge porn, and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did, it was the Jews. Choose a zero-hour contract and a two-hour journey to work, and choose the same for your kids, only worse. And maybe tell yourself it's better that they never happened. And then sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody's fucking kitchen. Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you'd done it all differently. Choose never learning from your own mistakes. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it. Choose disappointment. And choose losing the ones you loved. And as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them. Until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone. And there'll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. Choose your future, Veronika. Choose life. Anyway, it amused us at the time."

"[Renton has just saved Spud from asphyxiating] You ruined my life, and now you're ruining my fucking death too!"

"What do they think I am eh? Do they think I am like one of these cunts in the bible that live forever?"

"Kelly Macdonald - Diane Coulston"

"These are not goals. These are political statements. It's still there. I've been there myself several times. You know nothing. You understand nothing. You live in the past. Where I come from the past is something to forget but here it's all you talk about. You are clearly so in love with each other that I feel awkward in your company. Instead of looking at me you should get naked and fuck each other."

"Anjela Nedyalkova - Veronika Kovach"

"Pauline Lynch - Lizzy"

"Irvine Welsh - Mikey Forrester"

"Simon Weir - Jailhoose"

"Steven Robertson - Stoddart"

"Scot Greenan - Frank Jr."

"Shirley Henderson - Gail Houston"

"James Cosmo - Mr Renton"

"Eileen Nicholas - Mrs. Renton"

"Louis Zorich - Nikos, the Greek millionaire"

"Frances Conroy - Lady from Palm Beach"

"[in a childlike voice] Oh, Lawrence! This is the happiest day of my life! I think my testicles are dropping!"

"Fellas, last year I made 3 million dollars, but your 50 thousand was the most fun. Are you ready? Then let's go get 'em."

"Steve Martin - Freddy Benson"

"I've got culture coming out of my ass."

"Freddy, as a younger man, I was a sculptor, a painter, and a musician. There was just one problem: I wasn't very good. As a matter of fact, I was dreadful. I finally came to the frustrating conclusion that I had taste and style, but not talent. I knew my limitations. We all have our limitations, Freddy. Fortunately, I discovered that taste and style were commodities that people desired. Freddy, what I am saying is: know your limitations. You are a moron."

"A poacher who shoots at rabbits may scare big game away."

"Michael Caine - Lawrence Jamieson"

"You've been banging on your pots again, haven't you? I've told you... if you keep on doing it, you won't have any pots left."

"Meagen Fay - Lady from Oklahoma"

"Anton Rodgers - Inspector Andre"

"Glenne Headly - Janet Colgate"

"Barbara Harris - Fanny Eubanks"

"Dana Ivey - Mrs. Reed"

"Ian McDiarmid - Arthur"

"Billy Beck as Flycatching Prisoner"

"Lee Purcell as Susan"

"Tony Burton as Guy who Punches Big Mean (uncredited)"

"Al Silvani as Inmate (uncredited)"

"Cedrick Hardman as Big Mean"

"Luis Avalos as Chico"

"Grand L. Bush as Slowpoke"

"Jonathan Banks as Jack Graham"

"Nicolas Coster as Warden Henry Sampson"

"Erland Van Lidth as Grossberger"

"Herbert Hirschman as Man at Dinner Party"

"Joel Brooks as Len Garber"

"JoBeth Williams as Meredith"

"Miguel Ángel Suárez as Jesus Ramirez"

"Craig T. Nelson as Deputy Ward Wilson"

"Georg Stanford Brown as Rory Schultebrand"

"Charles Weldon as Blade"

"Barry Corbin as Warden Walter Beatty"

"Richard Pryor as Harry Monroe"