"Christopher, not ten minutes ago I... I tried to kill a stray cat with a cabbage, and all but made love to the Lady Rowena. I succeeded is squashing the cabbage and badly frightening the lady. If only I could lay open my own brain as easily as I did that vegetable, what rot would be freed from its grey leaves?"

"His first wife is dead- but still a little CATTY!"

"CAT or WOMAN or a Thing Too Evil to Mention?"

"Even on her wedding night she must share the man she loved with the "female thing" that lived in the Tomb of the Cat!"

"You mean you'd exile one-third of the human race?"

"Robert Towne — Martin Joyce"

"Antony Carbone — Harold Gern"

"Betsy Jones-Moreland — Evelyn Gern"

"I've so little to say, and nobody who'll listen."

"If you take things as they come, if you do them step by step, we're going to be all right."

"Nancy Allen - Nancy"

"Michael Moriarty - First Lieutenant Marine Duty Officer"

"Carol Kane - Young Whore"

"Clifton James - M. A. A."

"Randy Quaid - Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows"

"[to Buddusky] I consider myself in jeopardy with you man, understand? In jeopardy. This ain't no farewell party n' he ain't retirin'. Understand? He's a prisoner n' we're takin' 'im to the jailhouse. N' you have a tendency to forget that. You're a menace, man. You ain't no simple shit Bad-Ass, you're a motherfuckin' menace. But from now on, MAA can go piss up a rope! You ain't no honcho! N' I wanna hear no more of this horseshit psychology jive! No more turnin' that boy's head around to prove what a fuckin' big man you are! You're a lifer like me! Navy's the best thing ever happened to me, n' I don't want'cha to fuck me up, y'understand?"

"Otis Young - Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall"

"[to Meadows] Boy, they really stuck it to ya, didn't they, kid! Stick it in and break it off. Up your giggy with a wah-wah brush, stick it in an' break it off."

"[to Meadows] Welcome to the wonderful world of pussy, kid."

"I hate this detail. I hate this fucking chickenshit detail!"

"Jack Nicholson - Signalman First Class Billy L. "Bad Ass" Buddusky"

"Jim Hohn - Nichiren Shoshu Member"

"Luana Anders - Donna"

"Gilda Radner - Nichiren Shoshu Member"

"Dean Norris - the Squat Man, Morolto hitman"

"You want to know something funny? I discovered the law again. You actually made me think about it. I managed to go through three years of law school without doing that."

"Hey Ray, wouldn't it be funny if I went to Harvard, you went to jail and we both ended up surrounded by crooks."

"Being a tax lawyer's got nothing to do with the law. It's a game. We teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich. The IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them. It's a game..."

"Somewhere, inside, in the dark, the firm is listening."

"Power can be murder to resist."

"They made him an offer he should have refused."

"Tom Cruise - Mitch McDeere"

"Jeanne Tripplehorn as Abigail "Abby" McDeere"

"Gene Hackman - Avery Tolar"

"Holly Hunter - Tamara "Tammy" Hemphill"

"Ed Harris - Agent Wayne Tarrance"

"Hal Holbrook - Oliver Lambert"

"Jerry Hardin - Royce McKnight"

"David Strathairn - Ray McDeere"

"Terry Kinmey - Lamar Quinn"

"Wilford Brimley as Bill DeVasher"

"Sullivan Walker - Thomas Abanks"

"Gary Busey as Eddie Lomax"

"Steven Hill - F. Denton Voyles"