"Bondar: [at Club Silencio] No hay banda! There is no band. Il n'est pas de orquestra! This is all a tape-recording. No hay banda! And yet, we hear a band. If we want to hear a clarinette, listen. … It's all a tape. It is an illusion."

"You know, there was a man that lived here once that had a prize-fighting kangaroo. Well, you just wouldn't believe what that kangaroo did to this courtyard!"

"Wilkins! Wilkins! If that damn dog craps in the courtyard one more time, I'm just gonna bake his little butt for breakfast!"

"Honey, you're a good kid, but what you're telling me is a load of horse puckey. Even though it comes from a good place."

"Hey, pretty girl, time to wake up."

"I want you to go back to work tomorrow. You were recasting the lead actress anyway. Audition many girls for the part. When you see the girl that was shown to you earlier today, you will say, "this is the girl." The rest of the cast can stay, that's up to you. But that lead girl is not up to you. Now, you will see me one more time if you do good. You will see me two more times if you do bad. Good night."

"This is the girl."

"What picture? What are you talking about?"

"I got the pool, she got the pool-man."

"Silencio. No hay banda."

"What are you doing? We don't stop here."

"You want me to make this easy for you? No fucking way! It's not gonna be. It's not easy for me!"

"She's letting me stay here while she's working on a movie that's being made in Canada. But I guess you already know that. Well, I couldn't afford a place like this in a million years... unless, of course, I'm discovered and become a movie star. Of course, I'd rather be known as a great actress than a movie star. But, you know, sometimes people end up being both. So that is, I guess you'd say, sort of why I came here. [pause] I'm sorry. I'm just so excited to be here. I mean I just came here from Deep River, Ontario, and now I'm in this dream place. Well, you can imagine how I feel."

"Her name wasn't really Sue Alabama... It was Sue something Greek and unpronounceable."

"He needed one hand for the money and the other for the gun... He wasn't good enough to handle both."

"Why is he tailing me all over town? Does he think I'm pretty or what?"

"I can't figure him for a cannon. The only thing Pen Pal would ever use is the U.S. Mail... Extortion."

"Sex was nearly all Sue Alabama ever needed, and she could use it the way some guys use a blackjack."

"She primed him and I went in on the cleanup."

"I knew you gone sour, Ryan, but I didn't know you gone simple."

"Tic-Tac: C'mon, Tom. Boss wants to see ya. He didn't have time to engrave nothin' formal."

"David Darlow - Lazarre's Messenger"

"Lanny Flaherty - Terry"

"Olek Krupa - Tad"

"Steve Buscemi - Mink"

"Thomas Toner - O'Doole"

"Richard Woods - Mayor Dale Levander"

"Al Mancini - Tic-Tac"

"Mike Starr - Frankie"

"Albert Finney - Liam 'Leo' O'Bannon"

"J.E. Freeman - Eddie Dane"

"Jon Polito - Johnny Caspar"

"John Turturro - Bernie Bernbaum"

"Marcia Gay Harden - Verna Bernbaum"

"Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan"

"Nothing is what it seems at Miller's Crossing."

"Up is down, black is white, and nothing is what it seems."

"Tic-Tac: You gotta remember to put one in his BRAIN. Your first shot puts him down, then you put one in his BRAIN. Then he's dead. Then we go home."

"Verna: That's you all over, Tom. A lie, and no heart."

"Verna: Maybe that's why I like you, Tom. I've never met anyone who made being a son of a bitch such a point of pride."

"Leo O'Bannion: [to Caspar] You ain't got a license to kill bookies and today I ain't sellin'. So take your flunky and dangle."

"You understand that if we don't find a stiff out here, we leave a fresh one."