"The International Sand Club: misfits, buggers, fascists, and fools - God bless us every one. Oops! mustn't say international - dirty word, filthy word."

"[to Caravaggio] No...I was never a spy. [to Caravaggio]"

"[to Caravaggio] Thousands of people did die. Just different people."

"[upon seeing Katherine in the plane wreckage] Katherine? My God, Katherine what are you doing here?"

"[to Katherine] I'm not agreeing. Don't think I'm agreeing, because I'm not."

"[to Hana] I long for the rain on my face."

"[to Katherine] Maddox knows I think - he keeps talking about Anna Karenina - I think it's his idea of a man to man chat...well it's my idea of a man to man chat."

"[to Katherine] Swoon, They'll catch you."

"[to Katherine] I can still taste you. I try to write with your taste in my mouth."

"[to himself in the Cave of Swimmers] My God...they're swimming. Swimming."

"K at dawn - silhouetted."

"[to Katherine] Mrs. Clifton...I believe you still have my book."

"[to Katherine] Could I ask you, please, to paste your paintings into my book? I should like to have them. I should be honored."

"[to Katherine] Let me tell you about winds. [to Katharine]"

"[to Katherine] I apologize if I appear abrupt. I am rusty at social graces."

"[to Katherine] In a few minutes there'll be no stars - the air is filling with sand."

"[to Katherine] We planned badly."

"[to Katherine] There's really no need. This is just a scrapbook. They are too good. I should feel obliged. Thank you."

"[to Katherine] I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed to the horizon and said, Faya! That was a good day."

"Its probably none of my business - your wife...do you think it is appropriate to leave her?"

"A very...plum...plum."

"I think I was a pilot."

"Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever…matter."

"It is only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found."

"I need to believe that something extraordinary is possible …"

"He Saw the World in a Way No One Could Have Imagined."

"The Only Thing Greater Than the Power of the Mind Is the Courage of the Heart"

"There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad your tie is."

"Josh Lucas – Martin Hansen"

"Paul Bettany – Charles Herman"

"Christopher Plummer – Dr. Rosen"

"Jennifer Connelly – Alicia Larde Nash"

"Ed Harris – William Parcher"

"Russell Crowe – John Forbes Nash"

"Dr. Rosen: [to Alicia] John has schizophrenia, people with this disease are often paranoid."

"Dr. Rosen: Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?"

"Helinger: Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes, and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians … like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph, we need results. Publishable, applicable results. Now, who among you will be the next Morse? The next Einstein? Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom, and discovery? Today, we bequeath America's future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen."

"Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart."

"[In his Nobel acceptance speech] I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask: 'What truly is logic?' 'Who decides reason?' My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional…and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. [Looking at Alicia] I'm only here tonight because of you. You're the only reason I am…you are all my reasons."

"There's no point in being nuts if you can't have a little fun."

"I find you very attractive. Your aggressive moves towards me indicates that you feel the same way. However, ritual requires that we engage in a number of platonic activities before we have sex. I am proceeding with those activities when, in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible. You going to slap me now?"

"Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity."

"Remember those posters that said, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"? Well, that's true of every day but one - the day you die."

"Barry Del Sherman - Brad Dupree"

"Sam Robards - Jim Berkley"

"Scott Bakula - Jim Olmeyer"

"Chris Cooper - Col. Frank Fitts, USMC"