"Alright, I take it away, what then? He'd feel himself acceptable, what then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, just like plasters stuck on other objects we select? I mean, look at him! My desire might be to make of this boy an ardent husband, a caring citizen, a worshipper of abstract and unifying God; my achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost. I heal the rash on his body, I'll erase the welts cut into his mind by flying manes and when that's done I'll put him on a metal scooter and send him puttering off into the concrete world and he'll never touch hide again. Hopefully he'll feel nothing at his fork but approved flesh, I doubt, however, with much passion!"

"Forgive me. I'm not making much sense. Let me start properly, in order."

"Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. You won't gallop anymore, Alan, the horses will be quite safe. You can save your money each week and change that scooter for a car. You'll spend glorious weekends grooming that. You'll pop round to the betting shops and put fifty pence on a nag, forgetting they ever meant anything more to you than bearers of little profits and little losses. You will, however, be without pain; almost completely without...pain.. and now... for me... it never stops... the voice of Equus, out of the cave."

"Dora Strang: Alan is himself. Every soul is itself. If you added up everything we ever did to him, from his first day on earth to this, you wouldn't find why he did this terrible thing... because that's him: not just all of our things added up."

"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: "At least I galloped — when did you?""

"Hank Jones: Officer"

"Sorrell Brooke: Judge"

"Tom Pedi: Honest Harry"

"Fred Whalen: Sarasota Slim (Pool Hustler)"

"Howard Platt: Col. Woodruff"

"William Prince: Mr. Charlie Olympus"

"Afterwards, he says, they always embrace. The animal digs his sweaty brow into his cheek and they stand in the dark for an hour, like a necking couple. And of all nonsensical things, I keep thinking about the horse - not the boy, the horse - and what he might be trying to do. I keep seeing the huge head, kissing him with its chained mouth nudging through the metal, some desire absolutely irrelevant of filling its belly or propagating its own kind. What desire could this be? Not to stay a horse any longer? Not to remain reined up forever in those particular genetic strings? Is it possible, at moments we can't imagine, a horse can add its sufferings together, the non-stop jerks and jabs that are its daily life, and turn them into grief? What use is grief to a horse? You see, I'm lost. What use, I should be asking, are questions like these to an overworked psychiatrist in a provincial hospital? They're worse than useless - they are, in fact, subversive."

"Ralph Manza: Weasel"

"Jesse White: Earnest Ernie (the Gambling Dealer)"

"Alan Young: Dr. Winger (veterinarian)"

"McLean Stevenson: Dr. Norman Link"

"Hans Conried: Chief Dr. Heffel"

"James Hampton: Capt. Anderson"

"The thing is, I'm wearing that horse's head myself, all reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean hoofed onto a new track of being that only I suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump, because the bit forbids it and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little. The only thing I know for sure is this: A horse's head is finally unknowable to me. Yet I handle childrens' heads, which I presume to be more complicated, at least in the area of my chief concern. In a way, it has nothing to do with this boy - the doubts have been there for years, piling up steadily in this dreary place - it's the extremity of this case that's made them active. I know extremity is the point. All the same, whatever the reasons, these doubts are not just vaguely worrying, but intolerable."

"Roddy McDowall: Mr. Stallwood"

"Richard Burton - Martin Dysart"

"Ronnie Schell: Sgt. Duffy/Voice of Jake"

"Ken Berry: Dr. Franklin "Frank" Wilson"

"Sandy Duncan: Dr. Elizabeth "Liz" Bartlett"

"Peter Firth - Alan Strang"

"Harry Morgan: Gen. Stilton"

"Colin Blakely - Frank Strang"

"Eddie Egan - Walt Simonson"

"Sonny Grosso - Agent Klein"

"Bill Hickman - Bill Mulderig"

"Marcel Bozzuffi - Pierre Nicoli"

"Frédéric de Pasquale - Henri Devereaux"

"Harold Gary - Joel Weinstock"

"Gene Hackman - Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle"

"Fernando Rey - Alain Charnier"

"A record too good to be true....and Doyle knows it."

"Roy Scheider - Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo"

"A $32,000,000 chase turns into the American thriller of the year!"

"Tony Lo Bianco - Salvatore "Sal" Boca"

"Doyle is bad news - but a good cop."

"George Carlin - the Narrator"

"All right, Popeye's here! Get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!"

"Cybill Shepherd - Gold Girl"

"All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie."

"Tommy Lasorda - Dunphy"

"Jay Leno - Larry Miller"

"There are no rules and no holds barred when Popeye cuts loose!"

"Howard Hesseman - Margolis"