"[regarding John] I see a beautiful little boy whose mother says "goodbye". I see the same little boy, blaming himself for his father's mistakes. Telling himself that everything is his fault. I see this little boy believing that the world is a dangerous place, and that there's nobody you can depend on to protect you. So you grow up trying to pretend that ordinary little things don't scare the hell out of you, but they do. I see... my old friend, who used to skip classes and wander off with me to the old graveyard, looking back at me, still putting himself and me through hell. And I see a frightened man who doesn't realize how beautiful he is!"

"Aidan Quinn as Paul McCartney"

"Neil Foster as Concierge"

"Robert Seelinger as Second Officer"

"Jared Harris as John Lennon"

"Why should anyone listen to you or me screamin' and moanin' about how bad things are, when we can go out and make bloody good music about it?"

"You bloody disappeared! All of a sudden, everything's "John and Yoko", where's John? You turned your back on us, remember? Bloody right, I was mad at her! I was really mad at you, it was just easier to hate Yoko!"

""The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." Actually -- I'm not sure I entirely agree with him. I mean, I think it helps to have some kind of... public recognition as well. Otherwise how do you know if what you've done is any good?"

"I love New York, it's a nice place! To visit."

"Y'know, the Buddhists that you've gotta rid yourself of all these illusions including the ultimate one, which is this concept of self. D'you know how basic that is? All this pain is wrapped up in this concept is that this thing called "I" exists. And that the real key is in perceiving this quiet reality that's so much simpler than anything we can imagine? 'Course, y'know, my problem is, the moment I get a taste of this quiet reality, y'know, my ego gets all excited 'cause I think "I think I'm on to something big here! The next great understanding, John, wa-hey!" Before I know it, my thoughts are running a show again, and I'm back conceptualizing and... I've gotta learn how to stop meself earlier! Y'know, I've gotta learn how to control me thoughts!"

"Do you know how many times people come up to me and said that they "Just love The Beatles!" And that their all-time favorite Beatles song just happens to be "Yesterday"? I ought to wear a bleedin' placard around me neck saying "It's a Paul song, piss off!""

"[regarding Trepanning] Just one thing though. What do you do when it rains?"

"[regarding the possibility of a Beatles reunion] Well, Tom... You never know."

"We're all hypocrites at heart, aren't we?"

"Well, you tell your sort-of girlfriend that you sort-of met one of the Beatles and he turned out to be just as much of a bastard as anybody else."

"[to Paul] I mean, it's not as though I think you're complete rubbish, you know? Of course, I like some things better than others, but overall, I'd say you're very good at being you."

"Joe Bostick as Elevator Attendant"

"When we split up and I was suddenly out of a job, uh... I'll tell you exactly what I did do: Nothing. I was at the farm, and at first I stopped washing. Then I stopped shaving. Then I just stopped getting out of bed. I just used to lay in bed for days on end, smoking and drinking and watching telly. It was really awful."

"Everybody's in pain, Paul. If you wanna do some real good, you ought to stop singing silly little love songs, mate. Just shut up for a while, and then... bloody scream."

"Look, Paul, when I met Yoko, everything changed. I couldn't care less about being in some little boys' club anymore, y'know? If you couldn't deal with Yoko, you had no business dealing with me!"

"I was making sure that Mercury isn't in retrograde, y'know what I mean? That's one of the few things I do know about -- Mercury in retrograde spells trouble. "Look out!" You're better off staying in bed."

"Music in the park? I'll have to write to me Senator."

"Jeremy Tracz as Political Activist"

"Ian Ryan as Dreadlocked Man"

"Scott Wickware as Officer Francis"

"John Carroll Lynch - Father Mileski"

"Sandra Oh - Kim"

"Molly Parker - Juliet Beck"

"Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce"

"Jennifer Connelly - Sarah Williams"

"Paul Hipp - Danny Pierce"

"Hal Holbrook - Isaac Green"

"Janet McTeer - Caroline Pierce"

"You are the incarnation of your family's ambition. I am the incarnation of your family's fear."

"I thought wanting you was going to go away. They told me it was going to go away."

"You have to love me too. Not an image, not an idea. And not in spite of who I am."

"Fielding's father: [giving Fielding some advice after a speech] And you get too personal. I mean, if anybody really knew Kennedy, you think they would've voted for him? You gotta be strong. So strong you're gonna want to blow your brains out. But you won't. So strong, people can say right to your face, "you're a dirty, lying son of a bitch", and it's not gonna make a bit of difference."

"We will never be apart. We may be at each other's throats or we may be separated by 5,000 miles, but we'll never be apart."

"Danny Pierce: It's a damn good feeling knowing you're out there patrolling New York Harbor, son. The fucking Cong could be shopping on Fifth avenue like that."

"I'm in this whole fucking room by myself, and I'm choking on the collective sense of superiority."

"There's something that I think I should tell you all. I'm not feeling very well. And I haven't been for a while. Something inside me has jumped the track. I'm confused. I'm not thinking right. I'm not sleeping right. And I- Just don't think I am complaining about this or asking for your help. Because there's nothing anyone can do about it. It's just happened and that's all there is to it. But I don't know what I'm going to say from one minute to the next. I really don't. I don't know what I'm going to say and I don't know what I'm going to do. Do you understand that? And I know this is coming at a bad time for everyone but there's nothing I can do about that. I'm tired and I'm- I don't see things the way that I used to. Everything, everything, everything is fucking strange and it's all completely out of control and I'm frightened. And maybe if you all could give me some real help, you know? That would be- And not your pity or generosity but some help; Take a look at me. I know that I am ruining everything but I can't- If I don't say this now I may never say it. Everything is going very fast. It's going very, very fast. It's completely out of control. And if I don't say it today, tomorrow may be too late. I may be too crazy to even know how crazy I am. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. Something has happened to me and I'm very lost. And it doesn't stop. It's not getting better. I don't get better. I'm not getting better. It's just going on and it's going on. And there's nothing that I can do about it. It's not stopping. It's not stopping."

"The thing about Harvard for somebody from the working class like us - we come from a working class background - is a terrible sense of isolation, of aloneness there."

"Barbara Crampton – Carol"

"Michael Kearns – Male Porno Actor"

"Jeremy Lawrence – Theatre Director"