"You think ambushing me in some nightclub's gonna stop what makes people take drugs? This country spends $100 billion a year on getting high, and it's not because of me. All that time I was wasting in jail, it just got worse. I'm not your problem. I'm just a businessman."

"In the Big Apple, crime gets done on Frank White's terms...or else it doesn't get done at all."

"Theresa Randle - Raye"

"Brian Burke (actor) - Frankie's man"

"Michael Cumpsty - Frankie's man"

"Thomas G. Waites - Frankie's man"

"Frank Adonis - Paul Calgari"

"Mo Gaffney - Maureen"

"From now on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved. No blackjack no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it's my turn."

"Deirdre O'Connell - Irene"

"Christopher Walken - Frank White"

"John C. Reilly - Stevie McGuire"

"John Turturro - Nick"

"R. D. Call - Pat Nicholson"

"Ed Harris - Frankie Flannery"

"Gary Oldman - Jackie Flannery"

"A family ripped apart by violence. A love corrupted by betrayal. A friendship stained by blood."

"Joe Viterelli - Borelli"

"She thinks I'm an asshole. And if she thinks that about me, what in the long run is she going to think about you?"

"Corey Carrier - Jack"

"Either they forgot about us, or this entire fuckin' neighborhood better get ready to duck."

"Rocky Giordani - Bert"

"Rachel Ward - Fay Anderson"

"[at the church] I came here, I knelt down, I thought about Stevie as hard as I could... and I hoped it was praying."

"Bruce Dern - Garrett "Uncle Bud" Stoker"

"Burgess Meredith - Finn"

"[voiceover] We sat there for another half hour or so, and he was talking every minute of it. The words poured out of his mouth, and they didn't mean a thing to me. They were just a lot of noises coming from a sickish-looking face. What other people said had never meant a thing to him, and now it was his turn. Now he was meaningless and what he said was meaningless."

"Mike Hagerty - Truck Driver"

"George Dickerson - Doc Goldman"

"So I was in Boston, I just ended up there. Seemed far enough away. They come to me then, it just happened, you know how that is, things happen and other things happen and it's your life. They were looking to get somebody to go undercover here, they wanted to get somebody who knew the Kitchen who was known. And I coulda said no but I thought I could do it. It was like this opportunity in which I could look the entire thing in the eye. And you'd be gone, or married, forgot about me I thought. And Jack, I would leave him out of it. But it was only an idea. Nothing to do with the truth. It was just a fuckin' idea like... You believe in the angels or the saints or there's such a thing as a state of grace. And you believe it, but it's got nothing to do with reality. It just an idea. I mean you got your ideas and you got reality, and they're all... they're all fucked up."

"Nobody's doin' nothin' to nobody. It's all just happenin', see?"

"[voiceover] There's something inside of every man that keeps him going long after he has any reason to. For years I kept going when going didn't seem to make any sense. And now I just had to keep going. I had to have the end come."

"[voiceover] When a man stops caring what happens, all the strain is lifted from him. Suspicion and worry and fear, all things that twist his thinking out of focus are brushed aside, and he can see people exactly as they are at last - as I saw Fay then: weak and frightened but basically as good as a person could be and hating herself for not being better. Suddenly, the only thing that mattered was that she live, it was the only way my having lived would make any sense. It was why I had been made like I was - to do something for her that she could not do for herself, and then to protect her so that she could go on, so that she could have the reason for living that I'd never had."

"The Irish mob in Hell's Kitchen."

"Sean Penn - Terry Noonan"

"[voiceover] I wonder where I'll be tomorrow. I wonder why I didn't stay where I was a week ago and a thousand miles from here. I wonder whether I shouldn't go back. They really weren't doing me much good there, it was too over-crowded, too understaffed, too hard-up for money. But they were pretty nice to me, and if I hadn't gotten so damn restless, if they hadn't made it so easy to escape..."

"Robin Wright - Kathleen Flannery"

"I'd like to correct an erroneous impression you seem to have about me. you see, I'm not at all stupid. I may sound like I am, but I'm really not."

"Marco St. John - Jimmy Cavello"