"What do you think I'm trying to do?. Look, I got news for you. I'm not locked up in the men's room with a cop because it's a good time. Frankly, I've had better times, okay? I'm here because I think the story is wrong. Is it? Is it? If you have something, give it to me now, but don't stand there and act coy and say "Fuck you", because, quite frankly, it's a waste of all of our time. And you know what? I don't have any more time. I have no more fucking time. I need it fucking today, I need it right now!"

"Because your whole world can change in 24 hours."

"[Before attacking McDougal] Get outta my way!"

"Marisa Tomei as Martha Hackett"

"A clipboard and a confident wave will get you into any building in the world!"

"Michael Keaton as Henry Hackett"

"Haruko Sugimura - Shige Kaneko"

"Setsuko Hara - Noriko Hirayama"

"So Yamamura - Kōichi Hirayama"

"Chieko Higashiyama - Tomi Hirayama"

"Kuniko Miyake - Fumiko Hirayama"

"Chishū Ryū - Shūkichi Hirayama"

"Kyōko Kagawa - Kyōko Hirayama"

"Eijirō Tōno - Sanpei Numata"

"Nobuo Nakamura - Kurazō Kaneko"

"[Alicia has followed Graham into the men's restroom; she is met with awkward stares from the men] I'd love it if you weren't here."

"This is great! This is great! It writes like butter. I mean, there is actual butter coming out of my pen."

"[After firing a shot inside Henry's office] Let Marty talk to her husband. Please."

"Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me."

"[Martha wants to talk to Henry] I've got 64 seconds. What's wrong?"

"I can't stay. I have to put the paper to bed. But what do you say we all get together later and go have some dessert at that... place."

"You got an honest-to-God exclusive."

"Alicia's going to have to kiss my ass on this one. Come on, baby! Right here, baby!"

"Don't take the bat out of my hand. It's the ninth inning."

"[A very pregnant Martha struggles in the morning] Bladder control, you don't miss it until it's gone."

"Oh, come on! I dump a big, fat juicy steak in your lap, and you ask for sauce?"

"Shirō Ōsaka - Keizō Hirayama"

"I've bought the goddamn chair! Now it's your problem, Henry!"

"Big scoop from the TV guys. Pinhead's brother cancels trip."

"What a treat to sleep in my dead son's bed."

"[at dinner table following Tomi's funeral] Kyoko, did mother still have her summer sash? I'd like it for a keepsake. Is that alright with you? And that linen kimono she used to wear in summer? I want that too. You know where it is? Can you get it out?"

"But if I had known things would come to this, I'd have been kinder to her while she was alive."

"[to Tomi about leaving the hotel early] Anyway, this place is meant for the younger generation."

"Until I came up to Tokyo, I was under the impression that my son was doing better. But I've found that he is only a small neighborhood doctor. I know how you feel. I'm as dissatisfied as you are. But we can't expect too much from our children. Times have changed. We have to face it. That's what I think."

"[to her grandson Isamu] What are you going to be when you grow up? A doctor like your father? [Isamu doesn't answer and continues to pick grass] By the time you become a doctor, I wonder if I'll still be here."

"Sometimes I feel I can't go on like this forever. Often I wonder, when I can't sleep, what will become of me if I stay this way. Day passes and night comes, yet nothing happens, and I feel a kind of loneliness. My heart seems to be waiting for something."

"Sanpei Numata: I'm afraid we expect too much of our children. They lack spirit. They lack ambition. I've told that to my son. He said that there are too many people in Tokyo. That it's hard to get ahead. What do you think? Young people today have no backbone. Where is there spirit? That's not how I raised him!"

"As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief."

"In the daily lives of ordinary people, a sense of deep affection wells up."

"Akira Kubo - Yoshiteru Miki"

"Washizu soldier: A message from Lady Asaji! "If arrows cannot open the gates, then a corpse will.""