"Everybody thought I had a duster. Y'all thought ol' Spindletop Burke and Burnett was all the oil there was, didn't ya? Well, I'm here to tell you that it ain't, boy! It's here, and there ain't a dang thing you gonna do about it! My well came in big, so big, Bick and there's more down there and there's bigger wells. I'm rich, Bick. I'm a rich 'un. I'm a rich boy. Me, I'm gonna have more money than you ever thought you could have - you and all the rest of you stinkin' sons of... Benedicts!"

"You all think that the glory happened here in the East, don't you, with Valley Forge and Bunker Hill? Do you know about San Jacinto? Have you heard about the Alamo?"

"Elizabeth Taylor - Leslie Lynnton Benedict"

"Jett Rink was made to get to the top -- so he could have the fun of falling all the way down."

"Paul Fix - Dr. Horace Lynnton, Leslie's father"

"The legendary epic that's as big as Texas."

"Robert Nichols - Mort "Pinky" Snyth, Vashti's husband"

"Jane Withers - Vashti Hake Snyth, the Benedicts' neighbor"

"Fran Bennett - Judy Benedict, Leslie and Bick's older daughter"

"Earl Holliman - Robert "Bob" Dace, Judy's husband"

"Uncle Bawley: Bick, you shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill."

"Elsa Cárdenas - Juana Villalobos Benedict, Jordan III's wife"

"Debra Cole - Irene Davey"

"w:Jerry Hardin - George Harshaw"

"Jennifer Connelly - Gloria Harper"

"Don Johnson - Harry Madox"

"William Sadler - Frank Sutton"

"Virginia Madsen - Dolly Harshaw"

"[after having sex in a car lot] That was more fun than eating cotton-candy barefoot."

"If you fall out of bed again the cockroaches are gonna start talkin."

"There are only two things to do in this small town. One is watching TV..."

"Safe is never sex. It's dangerous."

"Film Noir Like You've Never Seen."

"Charles Martin Smith - Lon Gulick"

"Virgil Frye - Deputy Buck"

"Barry Corbin - the Sheriff"

"Jack Nance - Julian Ward"

"Leon Rippy - Deputy Tate"

"Bill Camp - Mr. Branholme"

"Gabriel Ebert - Benjamin Farley"

"Mare Winningham - Doris Boudlin"

"Elizabeth Marvel - Mrs. Gannett"

"Fred Hechinger - John Calley"

"Thomas Francis Murphy - Mr. Farley"

"[reading] "And within moments the entire wedding congregation was digging. Finally, poor Alfred Blackstone was pulled from the earth very much alive." [townspeople clap and cheer] And from his widow Blackstone's embrace, Alfred turned to the groom and said, and I quote, "Feller, when you get in that church and she says 'Till death us do part'... don't you believe a word of it!""

"Tom Hanks - Captain Kidd"

"[to Cicada, in Kiowa] You belong with me. You belong with me."

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's good to be back with you all here in Wichita Falls. My name is Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, and I'm here tonight to bring you news from across this great world of ours. Now, I know how life is in these parts, working a trade sunup to sundown. No time for reading newspapers. Am I correct? [townspeople murmur agreement] Let me do that work for you. And maybe, just for tonight, we can escape our troubles, and hear the great changes that are happening out there. Starting local, then. Our own Houston Telegraph from the first of February, this news. "The meningitis epidemic continues to spread without prejudice across the Panhandle and North Texas region. So far, it has claimed ninety-seven souls in just a two-month period.""

"See all those words printed in a line one after the other? Put 'em all together and you have a story."

"Helena Zengel - Johanna"

"Michael Angelo Covino - Almay"

"Ray McKinnon - Simon Boudlin"

"Somewhere between the buy, and the high... they forgot they were cops."

"Sam Elliott - Larry Dodd"

"How far do they go before they've gone too far?"

"Jason Patric - Jim Raynor"