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"Don Ameche as Arthur "Art" Selwyn"

"Wilford Brimley as Ben Luckett"

"Hume Cronyn as Joe Finley"

"Brian Dennehy as Walter"

"Jack Gilford as Bernie Lefkowitz"

"Herta Ware as Rose Lefkowitz"

"Steve Guttenberg as Jack Bonner"

"Maureen Stapleton as Mary Luckett"

"Jessica Tandy as Alma Finley"

"Gwen Verdon as Bess McCarthy"

"Tahnee Welch as Kitty"

"Barret Oliver as David"

"Linda Harrison as Susan"

"Tyrone Power, Jr. as Pillsbury"

"Clint Howard as John Dexter"

"Jim Fitzpatrick as Tony"

"Charles Lampkin as Pops"

"Jorge Gil as Lou Pine"

"Rance Howard as St. Petersburg Detective"

"James Ritz as DMV Clerk"

"Jim Meskimen - Ray Price"

"Whenever I have had my doubts, I remembered the construction worker in Philadelphia because he came up to me and he said "Sir I got only one criticism of that Cambodia thing; if you'd gone in earlier you might've captured the gun that killed my boy three months ago." So you're asking me do I regret going into Cambodia?... No, I don't. You know what, I wish I'd gone in sooner. And harder!"

"Patty McCormack - Pat Nixon"

"I don't blame anybody. I brought myself down. I gave them a sword, and they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I'd been in their place, I'd have done the same thing."

"I let them down. I let down... my friends. I let down... the country. And worst of all... I let down our system of government, and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government, but now they think: "Oh, it's all too corrupt," and the rest. Yeah... I let the American people down. And I'm gonna have to carry that burden with me, for the rest of my life... My political life is over."

"You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes great, complex ideas, tranches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot. At first I couldn't understand why Bob Zelnick was quite as euphoric as he was after the interviews, or why John Birt felt moved to strip naked and rush into the ocean to celebrate. But that was before I really understood the reductive power of the close-up, because David had succeeded on that final day, in getting for a fleeting moment what no investigative journalist, no state prosecutor, no judiciary committee or political enemy had managed to get; Richard Nixon's face swollen and ravaged by loneliness, self-loathing and defeat. The rest of the project and its failings would not only be forgotten, they would totally cease to exist."

"You have to set up that he has an anti-democratic personality. There's a reason they call him Tricky Dick."

"The man lost twenty-one thousand Americans and a million Indochinese during his administration. He only escaped jail because of Ford's pardon. Right now, I submit it's impossible to feel anything close to sympathy for Richard Nixon. He devalued the presidency and he left the country that elected him in trauma. The American people need a conviction, pure and simple. The integrity of our political system, of democracy as an idea, entirely depends on it. And, in years to come, if people look back and say that it was in this interview that Richard Nixon exonerated himself, that would be the worst crime of all."

"Well, in boxing, you know, there's always that first moment, and you see it in the challenger's face. It's that moment that he feels the impact from the champ's first jab. It's kind of a sickening moment, when he realizes that all those months of pep talks and the hype, the psyching yourself up, had been delusional all along. You could see it in Frost's face. If he didn't know the caliber of the man that he was up against before the interview started, he certainly knew it halfway through the President's first answer."

"400 million people were waiting for the truth."

"An epic battle for the truth."

"Frank Langella - Richard Nixon"

"Michael Sheen - David Frost"

"Sam Rockwell - James Reston"

"Kevin Bacon - Jack Brennan"

"Matthew Macfadyen - John Birt"

"Oliver Platt - Robert Zelnick"

"Rebecca Hall - Caroline Cushing"

"Toby Jones - Swifty Lazar"

"Andy Milder - Frank Gannon"

"Kate Jennings Grant - Diane Sawyer"

"Gabriel Jarret - Ken Khachigian"

"Kevin Pollak — Rool"

"Her name is not 'Sticks'. She's Elora Danan, the future Empress of Tir Asleen...and the last thing she's gonna want is a hairy chest!"

"Rick Overton — Franjean"

"Absolutely, under no condition whatsoever, is anyone in this family to fall in love with that baby!"

"You're a great warrior, and a swordsman. And you're ten times bigger than I am, stupid!"

"Goodbye, Sticks. If you really are a princess, take care of him."

"Well my mother raised me on blackroot. It's good for you. It puts hair on your chest, doesn't it, Sticks?"

"Let me out of here, Airk. Give me a sword, I'll win this war for you."