"Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries."

"Look, Laura, believe me, I don't usually complain of an attractive jiggle, but just you save that jiggle for your husband to look at, if and when I get him out of jail."

"Lee Remick - Laura Manion"

"James Stewart - Paul Biegler"

"Brooks West - Mitch Lodwick"

"John Qualen - Deputy Sheriff Sulo"

"Joseph N. Welch - Judge Weaver"

"James Waters - Army sergeant"

"Ken Lynch - Sgt. James Durgo"

"Arthur O'Connell - Parnell Emmett McCarthy"

"Now, Mr. Dancer, get off the panties. You've done enough damage."

"For the benefit of the jury, but more especially for the spectators, The garment mentioned in the testimony was, to be exact, Mrs. Manion's panties. [spectators roar with laughter] I wanted to get your snickering over and done with. This pair of panties will be mentioned again over the course of this trial, and when it is, there will not be one laugh, one snicker, one giggle or even one smirk in my courtroom. There is nothing comic about a pair of panties that resulted in the violent death of one man and the possible incarceration of another."

"One judge is quite like another. The only differences may be in the state of their digestions or their proclivities for sleeping on the bench. For myself, I can digest pig iron. And while I might appear to doze occasionally, you will find that I am easily awakened, particularly if shaken gently by a good lawyer with a nice point of law."

"[after cross-examining a convicted felon] Your Honor, I don't think I can dignify this - -creature - - with any more questions."

"George C. Scott - Claude Dancer"

"The lieutenant goes to Quill's place and plugs Mr. Quill about five times, which causes Mr. Quill to promptly die of lead poisoning."

"Orson Bean - Dr. Matthew Smith"

"Murray Hamilton - Alphonse Paquette"

"Rusty Schwimmer as Big Betty"

"Linda Emond as Leslie Conlin"

"Jillian Armenante as Peg"

"Sissy Spacek as Alice Aimes"

"Woody Harrelson as Bill White"

"Tom Bower as Gray Suchett"

"Xander Berkeley as Arlen Pavich"

"Jeremy Renner as Robert "Bobby" Sharp"

"Richard Jenkins as Henry "Hank" Aimes"

"Michelle Monaghan as Sherry"

"Frances McDormand as Glory Dodge"

"You want a show?! Huh?! Is that what you want?! You can all go to Hell!"

"[first lines] Lady, you sit in your nice house, clean floors, your bottled water, your flowers on Valentine's Day, and you think you're tough? Wear my shoes. Tell me tough. Work a day in the pit, tell me tough."

"My name is Hank Aimes and I've been a miner all my life. And I've never been ashamed of it until now. You know when we take our wives and daughters to the company barbecue, I don't hear any of them calling them those names like bitches and whores and worse. I don't see anyone grab them by their privates or drawing pictures of them on the bathroom walls, it's unspeakable. Unspeakable! So what's changed? She's still my daughter! It's a heck of a thing, to watch one of your own get treated that way. You're all supposed to be my friends, my brothers. Well, right now I don't have a friend in this room. In fact the only one I'm not ashamed of is my daughter."

"Charlize Theron as Josephine "Josey" Aimes"

"Sean Bean as Kyle Dodge"