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"Christine Ebersole - Lucy Doolittle"

"Joel Wachs: All that we need are people in positions of power to remember to be who they were when they were voted in."

"Rex Blau: You shiny, gold, tall, inexpensive prick!"

"You have a warm smile, which is very powerful. And... you have a very Jewish nose."

"You're a goddamn fucking fighter, aren't you? I like that. I can see that. You come here trying to be all pretty for me, but really, you remind me... of a dog. Of an English pit bull dog... with sex appeal. And... a very Jewish nose."

"There's no gas-o in the goddamn car-o, Steve-o!"

"This is my nozzle, motherfucker!"

"[Alana shows her boobs] Can I touch them? [She slaps his face]"

"I met the girl I'm gonna marry one day, Greg."

"I don't understand, but... I'm sexy, right?"

"Fuck off, teenagers!"

"Ryan Heffington - Steve, Barbra Streisand's assistant"

"Harriet Sansom Harris - Mary Grady"

"John Michael Higgins - Jerry Frick"

"Mary Elizabeth Ellis - Momma Anita"

"Skyler Gisondo - Lance Brannigan"

"Benny Safdie - Joel Wachs"

"Bradley Cooper - Jon Peters"

"Tom Waits - Rex Blau"

"Sean Penn - Jack Holden"

"Cooper Hoffman - Gary Valentine"

"Alana Haim - Alana Kane"

"I have so much strength inside of me. You have no idea. I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine. I would say "That's that", Mattress Man."

"I didn't do anything. I'm a nice man. I mind my own business. So you tell me that's that before I beat the Hell from you."

"Lena. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry I left you at the hospital. I called a phone-sex line... I called a phone-sex line before I met you, and four blond brothers came after me and they hurt you, and I'm sorry. Then I had to leave again because I wanted to make sure you never got hurt again. And, and I have a lot of puddings, and in six to eight weeks it can be redeemed. So if you could just give me that much time, I think I can get enough mileage to go with you wherever you go if you have to travel for your work. Because I don't ever want to be anywhere without you. So could you just let me redeem the mileage?"

"I didn't ask for a shrink - that must've been somebody else. Also, that pudding isn't mine. Also, I'm wearing this suit today because I had a very important meeting this morning and I don't have a crying problem."

"Robert Smigel - Walter the Dentist"

"Luis Guzmán - Lance"

"Mary Lynn Rakskub - Elizabeth Egan"

"Philip Seymour Hoffman - Dean Trumbell"

"Emily Watson - Lena Leonard"

"Adam Sandler - Barry Egan"

"Lena: So, here we go."

"Dean Trumbell: Fuck you. You're a pervert. Think you can be a pervert and not pay for it?"

"I don't know if there is anything wrong because I don't know how other people are."

"Melora Walters - Claudia Gator"

"Philip Seymour Hoffman - Phil Parma"

"John C. Reilly - Jim Kurring"

"Ricky Jay - Burt Ramsey/Narrator"

"Philip Baker Hall - Jimmy Gator"

"It is in the humble opinion of this narrator that this is not just "something that happened." This cannot be "one of those things"... This, please, cannot be that. And for what I would like to say, I can't. This was not just a matter of chance. … These strange things happen all the time."

"Jeremy Blackman - Stanley Spector"

"William H. Macy - Quiz Kid Donnie Smith"

"Mark Flannagan - Joseph Green"

"Genevieve Zweig - Mrs. Godfrey"

"Julianne Moore - Linda Partridge"

"Pat Healy - Sir Edmund William Godfrey/Young Pharmacy Kid"

"Tom Cruise - Frank T.J. Mackey"

"Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours."

"Anderson's meandering multi-story megasoap with a message is over-ambitious, self-conscious, self-indulgent, self-important and clumsy into the bargain. But it's also one of the most enthralling and exhilarating American movies in ages. … Insofar as the film is about "story", little happens save that Anderson initially conceals information, and then slowly scatters snippets so that we can piece the jigsaw together. For all the humour, it's a dark portrait of loss, lovelessness and fear of failure in contemporary America, and not a film that trades in understatement."