"May I say something? I think Mark’s a genuine, sincere guy with good intentions and a good heart. I think, as I’ve been listening, that you, like all of us, have simply been looking for someone to love the rest of your life. And I don’t think you’re afraid of love. I think it must be scary for anybody to give yourself to someone else with complete confidence. To open yourself up like that. Saying ‘I love you’ is one thing. But it’s really saying ‘I trust you’ isn’t it? I mean, it must be a pretty intimidating thing I think, not knowing what will happen when you throw everything else out the window for somebody. When you truly mean it."

"Boy Meets Girl. Boy Loses Girl. Boy Meets Girl. Boy Loses Girl. Boy Meets Girl. Any Questions?"

"Finding Love Is One Thing. Knowing Is Another."

"She made me realize the feelings I had for someone else. Someone I should have never let go. I was stuck in a pattern. I was walking away from relationships with girls that I didn’t deserve in the first place. Rachel, Trish, Miranda, they’re all great, and they’re all what I thought I wanted, but uh, when they were ready to get serious I wasn’t. And I ran. But Claire, she was different. Claire was more than everything I wanted. She was everything I needed. We were perfect together. But I ran away from her just like all the others. I ran away only to realize that . . . she was the one that I wanted to run after. It took my relationship with Jess to learn that. It took you guys to realize that. This would have never happened without you."

"Lanea Amick-Mullins - Deb"

"Bryan Price - Mark"

"You've found it, haven't you? Something like the truth? Does it surprise you? Shock you? It's there in everyone. You must know that better than anyone. Surely you know that, eh? Of course, you think just everyone else, not you. I suppose, being a policeman, you have to. Twenty years thinking you're different. It must get to be a habit, thinking, "Thank God I'm not those other men." It's difficult. It's dangerous. But you're just the same, you see. In some ways you're one hell of a lot worse."

"You think you're a hard case? I was shouting and swearing when you still wet your bed."

"You're right about one thing. I don't want to be fair. I came here because I was told to go. I was told I had to talk to you. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to waste 10 seconds on you. It makes me sick, Johnson, what you did. What you are turns my stomach."

"Nothing I have done can be one half as bad as the thoughts in your head. I wouldn't have your thoughts!"

"The more I drink, the more sober I get."

"Here in a room like this one, you find something about yourself. Something like the truth."

"Sean Connery - Detective Inspector Johnson"

"Every single thing I've ever felt, wanted to feel, in one moment - hitting him. I had to hit him again. Somehow, I didn't have any choice. I wanted what he could give me, sitting there, letting me hit him. I wanted that. He knew. He was saying, like, "Welcome home." I had to kill him."

"Trevor Howard - Lieutenant Cartwright"

"They wouldn't know Christmas from pancake bloody Tuesday."

"Vivian Merchant - Maureen Johnson"

"Ian Bannen - Kenneth Baxter"

"Richard Tucker - Harry Lee"

"Yossele Rosenblatt - himself"

"Bobby Gordon - Jakie Rabinowitz (age 13)"

"Otto Lederer - Moisha Yudelson"

"Eugenie Besserer - Sara Rabinowitz"

"May McAvoy - Mary Dale"

"Hear what you see - see what you hear."

"The supreme triumph the world has ever known in the Motion Picture Industry."

"Mammy's favorite son!"

"See him---and hear him sing!"

"Here he belongs. If God wanted him in His house, He would have kept him there. He's not my boy anymore—he belongs to the whole world now."

"Do what is in your heart, Jakie—if you sing and God is not in your voice — your father will know."

"Al Jolson - Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin)"

"What a little boy learns - he never forgets."

"My son was to stand at my side and sing tonight – but now I have no son."

"My son came to me in my dreams—he sang Kol Nidre so beautifully. If he would only sing like that tonight—surely he would be forgiven."

"[Listening to Jakie cantoring at Yom Kippur services after the death of his father] A jazz singer...singing to his God!"

"I came home with a heart full of love, but you don't want to understand. Some day you'll understand, the same as Mama does."

"There are lots of jazz singers, but you have a tear in your voice."

"We in the show business have our religion too - on every day, the show must go on!"

"Warner Oland - Cantor Rabinowitz"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet! Wait a minute, I tell ya! You ain't heard nothin'! You wanna hear "Toot, Toot, Tootsie"? All right, hold on, hold on... [walks back to one of the band members] Lou, listen. Play "Toot, Toot, Tootsie", three chorus, you understand. In the third chorus, I whistle. Now give it to 'em hard and heavy, go right ahead."

"Hank Azaria - Agador Spartacus"

"Christine Baranski - Katharine Archer"

"Tom McGowan - Harry Radman"

"Calista Flockhart - Barbara Keeley"

"Nathan Lane - Albert Goldman"

"Dianne Wiest - Louise Keeley"

"Grant Heslov - National Enquirer photographer"

"Dan Futterman - Val Goldman"