"[from her tape, which Dan is listening to] Hello, Dan. Are you surprised? This is what you’ve reduced me to. I guess you thought you'd get away with it. Well... you can't. 'Cause part of you is growing inside of me, and that's a fact, Dan. You'd better start... learning how to deal with it. ‘Cause, you know, I... I feel you. I taste you. I think you. I touch you. Can you understand? Can you? I'm just... asking you... to acknowledge your responsibilities. Is that so bad? I-I-I don't think so. I mean, I don't think it's unreasonable. And... you know, another thing... is that you thought you could just walk into my life, and turn it upside down, without a thought for anyone but yourself. You know what you are, Dan? You are a cock-sucking son of a bitch. I hate you. I bet you don't even like real girls, do you? Ha! You disappoint me, you fucking faggot!"

"Matt Bennett - Kyle Parker"

"Johnny Simmons - Jeff Jansen"

"You have no right to fuck with my head!"

"Blow it out your ass, Mr. Correctional Officer!"

"This experiment... is over."

"It's easy for you to say, 'Oh, I wouldn't have acted that way, but you don't know. That's - that's the truth. You don't know. And now, I know what I'm capable of, and it hurts."

"Tom Brennan - Howard Rogerson, Beth's father"

"Billy Crudup - Dr. Philip Zimbardo"

"Lois Smith - Martha, Dan's secretary"

"Mike Nussbaum - Bob Drimmer"

"Stuart Pankin - Jimmy"

"Ellen Foley - Hildy"

"Fred Gwynne - Arthur"

"Ellen Hamilton Latzen - Ellen Gallagher"

"Michael Angarano - Christopher Archer/"John Wayne" Guard"

"Meg Mundy - Joan Rogerson, Beth's mother"

"J. J. Johnston - O'Rourke"

"Anne Archer - Beth Rogerson Gallagher"

"A one-night fling, with no strings attached. That's what she said. That's what he believed."

"Once the woman begins behaving as if she had a right to a share in the lawyer's life, she becomes the dreaded lunatic of horror movies. But with a difference: she parrots the aggressively angry, self-righteous statements that have become commonplaces of feminist fiction, and they're so inappropriate to the circumstances that they’re the proof she's loco. They're also Lyne's and the scriptwriter James Dearden's hostile version of feminism."

"It's about men seeing feminists as witches, and, the way the facts are presented here, the woman is a witch. She terrorizes the lawyer and explains his fear of her by calling him a faggot. This shrewd film also touches on something deeper than men's fear of feminism: their fear of women, their fear of women's emotions, of women's hanging on to them."

"On the other side of drinks, dinner, and a one night stand...lies a terrifying love story."

"[to Beth] What are you doing here? Why are you here? He tried...to say goodbye to me last night. But he couldn't because...he and I feel the same way about each other. Do you know how it is when you meet somebody for the first time? And you get this instant attraction. And don't you think I understand what you're doing? You're trying to move him into the country...and you're keeping him away from me. And you're playing happy family. Aren't you? [begins to slice her own leg with a butcher knife] You wouldn't understand that because you're so...so selfish. He told me about you. He told me about you. He was very honest. If you weren't so stupid, you'd know that. But you're so stupid. You're so stupid! You're a stupid, selfish bitch!"