"A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously. A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit. It hits all by itself. (to his teacher)"

"John Woo - Bartender"

"Philip Chan - Supt. Pang"

"Philip Kwok - Mad Dog"

"Anthony Wong - Johnny Wong"

"Bowie Lam - Benny"

"Bobby Au-Yeung - Lionheart"

"Kwan Hoi-Shan - Mr. Hoi"

"Tung Wei - Foxy:"

"Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God."

"[After his pants are set on fire and a baby urinates down his leg] You saved the day there, you little pisspot. Thanks a lot."

"More exciting than a dozen Die Hards"

"The most action-packed film of all time."

"From the director of "Hard Target" and "The Killer"."

"As a cop, he has brains, brawn, and an instinct to kill."

"There is no room for failure now. The innocent must die!"

"Slap yourself."

"I thought you were a supercop but you're just a man, like the rest."

"[holding Andy as hostage] The hard-boiled cop. You made it. Each side's lost some guys. We're about even so far. But when I kill this one, I win."

"[in English] This is a fucking order!"

"So busy being a gangster, I don't know which me is real."

"You know I hated making [paper] cranes. I make one each time I kill someone. How about it, should I make you one?"

"To you I'm a thief, to my mother, a son, to the Triads I'm a hero."

"[after shooting a guy while carrying a baby, covering the babies eyes] Woops, X-rated action"

"Guy goes through hell for a girl but she doesn't realize it."

"Roses are so obvious. Anyone would suspect them."

"A cop dies and I make a tune for him."

"Teresea Mo - Teresa Chang"

"Tony Leung - Tony"

"Chow Yun fat - Inspector "Tequila" Yuen"

"Tsui Hark - a music judge (cameo)"

"John Woo - Taiwanese police chief"

"Shing Fui-On - Shing's right-hand man"

"Tien Feng - the father of Ho and Kit"

"Waise Lee - Shing"

"Emily Chu - Jackie, the girlfriend of Kit"

"Chow Yun-fat - Mark Lee"

"Leslie Cheung - Sung Tse-Kit"

"Ti Lung - Sung Tse-Ho"

"Brothers by blood. Enemies by chance. Killers by nature."

"The movie that began it all........."

"Kenneth Tsang - Ken, the leader of the taxi company Ho joins"

"Kid, don't point the gun at my head! If you have the guts, shoot me dead! Shoot me...shoot me!"

"Kit, you're right. We live in separate worlds apart. Your world is the right one...I may have taken the wrong path, but I am willing to make things right again, even if it's not too late."

"That's enough!!! I don't need your pity!!...You don't owe me anything! I would never force my own friends to do something they wouldn't do! I have my own principles! I just don't want to live like this anymore!!...Do you think I like to beg!?...I've been in bad shape for three years, waiting for this opportunity! This is my only chance, not to prove that I'm the best, but to simply take back what I have lost!!!...Look at yourself. Look at what you've become!!...Back then, people rejected you! Now, you can't even take two steps without someone following you!!! Have you ever fought for a chance? You never have. Never!!!...I don't want to be like you..."

"Father was killed because of him! Why should you force me to accept him now!? He has no one to blame but himself!! I'm a cop, he's a criminal...in the eyes of the law, we are traveling on separate paths..."