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"Keram Malicki-Sánchez - Freddy B."

"Desperate times call for desperate measures."

"Denzel Washington - John Quincy Archibald"

"Kimberly Elise - Denise Archibald"

"Daniel E. Smith - Michael "Mike" Archibald"

"James Woods - Dr. Raymond Turner"

"Anne Heche - Rebecca Payne"

"Robert Duvall - Lt. Frank Grimes"

"Ray Liotta - Chief Gus Monroe"

"Shawn Hatosy - Mitch Quigley"

"Heather Wahlquist - Julie Byrd"

"David Thornton - Jimmy Palumbo"

"Laura Harring - Gina Palumbo"

"Troy Beyer - Miriam Smith"

"Kevin Connolly - Steve Maguire"

"Troy Winbush - Steve Smith"

"Vanessa Branch - Nurse"

"Eddie Griffin - Lester Matthews"

"Martha Chaves - Rosa Gonzales"

"Larissa Laskin - Dr. Ellen Klein"

"Ethan Suplee - Guard Max Conlin"

"Obba Babatundé - Sgt. Moody"

"Paul Johansson - Tuck Lampley"

"Dina Waters - Debby Utley"

"My son is dying, and I'm broke. If I don't qualify for Medicare, who the hell does?"

"Your hospital's under new management now! Yeah! Yeah from now on, free health care for everyone!"

"I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!"

"[to Rebecca; angrily] I would tell you what I think of you...but I'm a Christian woman."

"[in a debate on healthcare] Shut up. Enough already. I've heard all the bitching and moaning I can stand for one day, alright? Look, if you want to regard me as some kind of blood-sucking vampire, then fine, great, I'll be the bad guy. [points at John] But who's holding the fucking gun?"

"Jimmy Palumbo: [Interviewed by Tuck Lampley] I've got to be honest this whole thing sucks, it could've all been avoided incredibly easy, none of this had to happen if John could've been a millionaire or if his last name was Rockefeller, sometimes he doesn't understand what we hold sacred in this country isn't values, its "value" that's important, we've got haves and we've got have not we've got white collar, blue collar and then we've got no collar, inside the hospital we've got "luck surgery" and "out of luck surgery", there's a lot of people out there who don't have two hundred fifty grand in their bill fold, seeing a man like that backing into a corner it seems to me "something" is out of whack, not "someone.""

"Give a father no options and you leave him no choice."

"Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Kate had been healthy, I'd probably still be up in heaven or wherever, waiting to be attached to a body down here on earth, but coincidence or not, I'm here."

"That's my sister Kate. She's dying."

"I'm important too, Mom! I'm important too!"

"That's my Mom and Aunt Kelly making dinner. Since my sister got sick, things have changed, Aunt Kelly only works part time and Mom quit her job as a lawyer. Her life now revolves around keeping Kate alive, cooking and cleaning, everything steamed, organic, and germ-free. I guess you could say we're a little dysfunctional, but we all love each other and we do the best we can."

"Once upon a time I thought I was put on earth to save my sister. And in the end I couldn't do it. I realize now that wasn't the point. The point was I had a sister. She was fantastic. One day I'm sure I'll see her again. But until then our relationship continues..."

"It's hard to imagine now, that there was a time before all this happened, when the kids were just kids and everyone was happy"

"Oncology? But that's cancer."

"I'm not going to let her die. You know that, right?"

"The radiation, which ultimately put Kate into remission, worked its magic by wearing her down. Taylor Ambrose, a drug of an entirely different sort, worked his magic by building her up."

"Nobody is saying anything, but seeing everyone together let's me know that this is serious. Our family is kind of disconnected. Dad's relatives are wealthy and distant, and Mom's side drive her crazy. So besides Aunt Kelly, we never get to really see everybody except on holidays or disasters."

"You know you're nuts, right?"

"She kicked the door down?!"

"Do I look pretty, Daddy?"

"I don't mind my disease killing me, but it's killing my family, too."

"I don't have any money, but 'll pay you in sexual favors."

"When Anna Fitzgerald first stepped into my office I thought she was selling girl scout cookies."

"I have an iron lung, and Judge helps me steer clear of magnets."

"The kid wasn't lying. The doctor started taking things from her the moment she was born. Cord blood as an infant, white blood cell transfusions, bone marrow, lymphocytes, injections to add more stem cells, then they took them, too, but it was never enough."

"Cameron Diaz"