"[taunting Darryl at the police station] Hey! Thank your wife for me. [starts gyrating his hips and simulating having sex, causing Darryl to get livid]"

"Geena Davis - Thelma Dickinson"

"Brad Pitt - J.D."

"You said you 'n' me was gonna get out of town and for once just really let our hair down. Well darlin', look out 'cause my hair is comin' down!"

"Michael Madsen - Jimmy"

"Christopher McDonald - Darryl"

"Stephen Tobolowsky - Max"

"Timothy Carhart - Harlan Puckett"

"Susan Sarandon - Louise Sawyer"

"I've had it up to my ass with sedate."

"Harvey Keitel - Hal Slocumb"

"Goddamn it! I've never been lucky! Not one time!"

"You get what you settle for."

"Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies."

"That basically the whole picture right there."

"It’s chaos. Every gorilla for himself."

"[To Trupo]Detective. There are some things you don’t do. This is one of them. Not on a man’s wedding day."

"This is the problem. This is what’s wrong with America. It’s gotten so big you can’t find your way."

"Roger Bart - U.S. Attorney"

"Common (rapper) - Turner Lucas"

"Armand Assante - Dominic Cattano"

"Ted Levine - Capt. Lou Toback"

"Brand names mean something, Nicky. Consumers rely on them to know what they’re getting. They know the company isn’t going to try to fool them with an inferior product. They buy a Ford, they know they’re gonna get a Ford. Not a fuckin' Datsun. Blue Magic that's a brand name; Like Pepsi, that's a brand name. I stand behind it, I guarantee it. They know that even if they don’t know me any more than they know the chairman of General Mills."

"T.I. - Steve Lucas"

"Cuba Gooding Jr. - Nicky Barnes"

"Lymari Nadal - Eva"

"That's the way it is now: You can’t find the heart of anything to stick the knife."

"Forget it, Frank. There's no one in charge."

"The man I worked for, he had one of the biggest companies in New York City- he ran it for more than fifty years. Fifteen years, eight months, nine days- I was with him every day. I looked after him, took care of him, protected him... I learned from him. Bumpy was rich, but he wasn't white man rich, you see he wasn't wealthy. He didn’t own his own company. He thought he did, but he didn’t. He just managed it. White man owned it so they owned him. Nobody owns me, though. Because I own my company. And my company sells a product that’s better than the competition at a price that’s lower than the competition."

"The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work, family, never forgetting where we came from. See, you are what you are in this world, that’s either one of two things: Either you're somebody ... or you’re nobody. I'll be right back"

"Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas"

"Chiwetel Ejiofor - Huey Lucas"

"Idris Elba - Tango"

"Tango: What the fuck you gonna do Frank, huh? You gonna shoot me, in front of everybody? Huh? Come on..."

"Cattano: I always wonder if people know when history’s being made. And what they’re doing at the time. This, for instance, could be a historic moment, and you’re sipping a glass of ice water."

"Toback: What’re you doing counting this in front of everybody? Are you out of your fuckin' mind? Take it into a room. Now."

"Rossi: They seize it, arrest everybody, whack it up and sell it back to us. Our dope. They been living off it for years, these New York cops. They basically control the market with it. What the fuck has happened to the world, Frank?"

"Trupo: When’s the last time I was in Jersey? Let me think. Never. What’re you doing coming over here without letting anybody know? You don’t know you can get hurt doing that? You got your money. Now, never, ever, come into the city again unannounced. You come in to see a fuckin Broadway show you call ahead first to see if it’s okay with me."

"Cattano: Success. It's got enemies. You can be successful and have enemies or you can be unsuccessful and have friends."

"There are two sides to the American dream."

"Russell Crowe - Det. Richie Roberts"

"John Ortiz - Det. Rivera"

"Josh Brolin - Det. Trupo"

"Carla Gugino - Laurie Roberts"

"Ruby Dee - Mama Lucas"

"RZA - Moses Jones"

"Rivera: I’m a leper. Because I listened to you and turned in a million fucking dollars. You know who’ll work with me after that? Same as you. No one."

"Laurie:What are you saying? That because you were “honest” and didn’t take money like every other cop, I left you? You don’t take money for one reason: to buy being dishonest about everything else. And that’s worse than taking money nobody gives a shit about - drug money, gambling money nobody’s gonna miss. I’d rather you took it and been honest with me. Or don’t take it, I don’t care. But don’t then go cheat on me. Don’t cheat on your kid by never being around. Don’t go out and get laid by your snitches and secretaries and strippers. I can tell just by looking, she’s one of them. You think you’re going to heaven because your “honest.” You’re not. You’re going to the same hell as the crooked cops you can’t stand."

"Clarence Williams III - Bumpy Johnson"

"For a cop the uppermost thing is the arrest. For a prosecutor, the arrest is nothing without the evidence to convict. We don’t have any real evidence on anyone on this board, so they’re coming down. We’re starting over from the street."