"[farewell address to the Stonewall Brigade, prior to Fredericksburg] Throughout the broad extent of the country through which you have marched, by your respect for the rights and property of others, you have always shown you are soldiers, not only to defend, but able and willing both to defend and protect. You have already won a brilliant reputation throughout the army of the whole Confederacy, and I trust in the future by your deeds in the field, and by the assistance of the same kind Providence who has hitherto favored our cause, you will win more victories, and add luster to the reputation you now enjoy. You've already gained a proud position in the future history of this, our Second War of Independence. I shall look with anxiety to your future movements, and I trust that whenever I shall hear of the First Brigade on the field of battle, it will be of still nobler deeds achieved and higher reputation won. [draws his sword and holds it up in salute] In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac, you were the First Brigade! In the Second Corps of this army, you are the First Brigade! You are the First Brigade in the affections of your general, and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down the posterity as the First Brigade in this, our Second War of Independence! Godspeed!"

"Jack Davenport - Harris"

"Samantha Morton - Elizabeth Barry"

"Rosamund Pike - Elizabeth Wilmot (née Elizabeth Malet)"

"Tom Hollander - Sir George Etherege"

"John Malkovich - Charles II of England"

"[last words - May 10, 1863] Let us cross over the river...and rest under the shade of the trees."

"[Handing Rochester his winnings] No one likes a clever bastard."

"Johnny Depp - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester"

"Johnny Vegas - Charles Sackville"

"I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater."

"The theatre is my drug, and my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality."

"But life is not a succession of urgent nows. It's a listless trickle of why should I's."

"When I wake in the country, I dream of being in London. When I get here, it's full of people like you. (Speaking of the Merry Gang)"

"I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life."

"Allow me to be frank at the commencement. You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be repelled. You will not like me now and you will like me a good deal less as we go on. Ladies, an announcement: I am up for it, all the time. That is not a boast or an opinion, it is bone hard medical fact. I put it round you know. And you will watch me putting it round and sigh for it. Don't. It is a deal of trouble for you and you are better off watching and drawing your conclusions from a distance than you would be if I got my tarse up your petticoats. Gentlemen. Do not despair, I am up for that as well. And the same warning applies. Still your cheesy erections till I have had my say. But later when you shag – and later you will shag, I shall expect it of you and I will know if you have let me down – I wish you to shag with my homuncular image rattling in your gonads. Feel how it was for me, how it is for me and ponder. 'Was that shudder the same shudder he sensed? Did he know something more profound? Or is there some wall of wretchedness that we all batter with our heads at that shining, livelong moment. That is it. That is my prologue, nothing in rhyme, no protestations of modesty, you were not expecting that I hope. I am John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester and I do not want you to like me."

"Here he lies at the last. The deathbed convert. The pious debauchee. Could not dance a half measure, could I? Give me wine, I drain the dregs and toss the empty bottle at the world. Show me our Lord Jesus in agony and I mount the cross and steal his nails for my own palms. There I go, shuffling from the world. My dribble fresh upon the bible. I look upon a pinhead and I see angels dancing. Well? Do you like me now? Do you like me now? Do you like me now? Do you like me... now?"

"[at Fredericksburg, as the Army of the Potomac crosses the Rappahanock] In the Roman civil war, Julius Caesar knew he had to march on Rome itself, which no legion was permitted to do. Marcus Lucanus left us a chronicle of what happened. "How swiftly Caesar had surmounted the mighty Alps and in his mind conceived immense upheavals, coming war. When he reached the water of the little Rubicon, clearly to the leader through the murky night appeared a mighty image of his country in distress, grief in her face, her white hair streaming from her tower-crowned head, with tresses torn and shoulders bare, she stood before him and sighing said, 'Where further do you march? Where do you take my standards, warriors? If lawfully you come, if as citizens, this far only is allowed.' "Then trembling struck the leader's limbs, his hair grew stiff and weakness checked his progress, holding his feet at the rivers edge. At last he speaks, 'O Thunderer, surveying Rome's walls from the Tarpeian Rock. O Phrygian house gods of Iulus, Clan and Mystery of Quirinus who was carried off to heaven, O Jupiter of Latium seated in lofty Alda and Hearths of Vesta, O Rome, equal to the highest deity, favor my plans! Not with impious weapons do I pursue you. Here am I, Caesar, conqueror of land and sea, your own soldier, everywhere, now too, if I am permitted. The man who makes me your enemy, it is he who be the guilty one.' "Then he broke the barriers of war and through the swollen river swiftly took his standards. And Caesar crossed the flood and reached the opposite bank. From Hesperia's Forbidden Fields he took his stand and said, "Here I abandoned peace and desecrated law; fortune it is you I follow. Farewell to treaties. From now on war is our judge!'" [the Confederate cannons on Marye's Heights open fire] Hail Caesar! We who are about to die salute you!"

"Jamie Harris - Deptford Jim"

"Tom Wilkinson - Grant Richardson"

"Don Baker - Joe McAndrew"

"Corin Redgrave - Inspector Robert Dixon"

"Gerard McSorley - Detective Pavis"

"Anthony Brophy - Danny"

"Frank Harper - Ronnie Smalls"

"In the name of truth... In the name of justice... In the name of love."

"Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon"

"Pete Postlethwaite - Giuseppe Conlon"

"Falsely accused. Wrongly imprisoned. He fought for justice to clear his father's name."

"[after hearing of Gerry's father's death] Well, I think they ought to take the word 'compassion' out of the English dictionary."

"[to Robert Dixon at the appeal] Well then, would you be so kind as to read the statement that you took from him on the third of November 1974? A statement, Milord, which vindicates these people, all these innocent people. Someone, either that man, or his superior, or his superior's superior, ordered that these people be used as scapegoats by a nation that was baying for blood in return for the innocent blood spilled on the streets of Guildford! And by God, you've got your blood, Mr Dixon! You've got the blood of Giuseppe Conlon, you've got the lifeblood of Carole Richardson and you've got fifteen years of blood and sweat and pain from my client, whose only crime was he was bloody well Irish, and he was foolish and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time!"

"John Lynch - Paul Hill"

"Milord, this alibi for Gerry Conlon was taken by Mr Dixon one month after Gerry Conlon was arrested. This note was attached to it when I found it in police files. It reads "Not to be Shown to The Defence". [she holds up the note, to gasps of disbelief from the gallery] I have one question to ask you, Mr Dixon. Why was the alibi for Gerry Conlon, who was charged with the murder of five innocent people...kept from the defence?"

"[after his case is dismissed, and the guards try to escort him out] I'm a free man, and I'm going out the front door."

"Mark Sheppard - Paddy Armstrong"

"[outside the courtroom] I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are brought to justice, I will fight on. In the name of my father and of the truth!"

"Beatie Edney - Carole Richardson"

"Emma Thompson - Gareth Peirce"

"Susan Wood - Lady Sarah Lennox"

"Gennadi Yudin - Chactas"

"Jeffry Wickham - Colborne"

"Orazio Orlando - Constant"

"John Savident - Major-General Karl Freiherr von Müffling"

"Vladimir Druzhnikov - Gerard"

"Willoughby Gray - Ramsey"

"Roger Green - Duncan"

"Veronica De Laurentiis - Magdalene DeLancey"

"Oleg Vidov - Tomlinson"

"Charles Borromel - Mulholland"