"Walter Loughlin: You're fired! Oh, I love how that sounds. I love that so much I'm going to say it again. You're fired. You're through. Oh, I love it!"

"The mission was a sham. The murders were real."

"O. J. Simpson - Commander John Walker, USN"

"Would you be shocked to find out that the greatest moment of our recent history may not have happened at all?"

"Anybody hungry? Oh, the marvels of American science. Here we are millions of miles from earth, and we can still send out for pizza."

"[after the astronauts have been removed from the rocket before the launch] Hey, Dr. Kelloway. Funny thing happened on the way to Mars."

"This is really wonderful. If we go along with you and lie our asses off, the world of truth and ideals is, er, protected. But if we don't want to take part in some giant rip-off of yours then somehow or other we're managing to ruin the country. You're pretty good, Jim. I'll give you that."

"Okay, here it is. I have to start by saying that if there was any other way, if there was even a slight chance of another alternative, I would give anything not to be here with you now. Anything. Bru, how long have we known each other? Sixteen years. That's how long. Sixteen years. You should have seen yourself then. You looked like you just walked out of a Wheaties box. And me, all sweaty palm and deadly serious. I told everybody about this dream I had of conquering the new frontier, and they all looked at me like I was nuts. You looked at me and said, "yes." I remember when you told me Kay was pregnant. We went out and got crocked. I remember when Charles was born. We went out and got crocked again. The two of us. Captain Terrific and the Mad Doctor, talking about reaching the stars, and the bartender telling us maybe we'd had enough. Sixteen years. And then Armstrong stepped out on the Moon, and we cried. We were so proud. Willis, you and Walker, you came in about then. Both bright and talented wise-asses, looked at me in my wash-and-wear shirt carrying on this hot love affair with my slide-rule, and even you were caught up in what we'd done. I remember when Glenn made his first orbit in Mercury, they put up television sets in Grand Central Station, and tens of thousands of people missed their trains to watch. You know when Apollo 17 landed on the Moon, people were calling up the networks and bitching because reruns of I Love Lucy were cancelled. Reruns, for Christ's sake! I could understand if it was the new Lucy show. After all, what's a walk on the Moon? But reruns! Oh, geez! And then suddenly everybody started talking about how much everything cost. Was it really worth 20 billion to go to another planet? What about cancer? What about the slums? How much does it cost? How much does any dream cost, for Christ's sake? Since when is there an accountant for ideas? You know who was at the launch today? Not the President. The Vice-President, that's who. The Vice-President and his plump wife. The President was busy. He's not busy. He's just a little bit scared. He sat there two months ago and put his feet up on Woodrow Wilson's desk, and he said, "Jim. Make it good. Congress is on my back. They're looking for a reason to cancel the program. We can't afford another screw-up. Make it good. You have my every good wish." His every good wish! I got his sanctimonious Vice-President! That's what I got! So, there we are. After all those hopes and all that dreaming, he sits there, with those flags behind his chair, and tells me we can't afford a screw-up. And guess what! We had a screw-up! A first-class, bona-fide, made-in-America screw-up! The good people from Con-Amalgamate delivered a life-support system cheap enough so they could make a profit on the deal. Works out fine for everybody. Con-Amalgamate makes money. We have our life-support system. Everything's peachy. Except they made a little bit too much profit. We found out two months ago it won't work. You guys would all be dead in three weeks. It's as simple as that. So, all I have to do is report that and scrub the mission. Congress has its excuse, the President still has his desk, and we have no more program. What's 16 years? Your actual drop in the bucket! All right. That's the end of the speech. Now, we're getting to what they call the moment of truth. Come with me. I want to show you something."

"You think it's all a couple of loony scientists, it's not! It's bigger. There are people out there, forces out there, who have a lot to lose. They're grown ups. It's gotten too big, it's in the hands of grown ups!"

"Hal Holbrook - Dr. James Kelloway"

"Brenda Vaccaro - Kay Brubaker"

"Charles Cioffi - Peter Cable"

"Roy Scheider - Frank Ligourin"

"Donald Sutherland - John Klute"

"Dorothy Tristan - Arlyn Page"

"You'd never take her for a call girl. You'd never take him for a cop."

"Lots of guys swing with a call girl like Bree. One guy just wants to kill her."

"Rita Gam - Trina"

"Jane Fonda - Bree Daniels"

"Men have paid $200 for me and here you are turning down a freebie. You could get a perfectly good dishwasher for that."

"And for an hour... for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world, and the best fuck in the world."

"What's the matter? You were terrific. A real tiger. Are you upset because you didn't make me come? I never come with a john. Don't feel bad about losing your virtue. I sort of knew you would. Everybody always does."

"[voiceover] I have no idea what's going to happen. I... I just can't stay in this city, you know? Maybe I'll come back. You'll probably see me next week."

"One man is missing. Two girls lie dead. ...and someone breathing on the other end of the phone."

"Nathan George - Det. Lt. Trask"

"Oh ho, you're very square, cookie. No, pimps don't do dates for you, they just take your money."

"Kelly Thordsen - Sheriff L.D. Wicker"

"Earl Hindman - Deputy Red"

"Hume Cronyn - Bill Rintels"

"[having sex with a john] Oh my angel! Oh my angel! [looks at her watch]"

"Paula Prentiss - Lee Carter"

"William Daniels - Austin Tucker"

"You're not gonna get hung up on me, are you?"

"Walter McGinn - Jack Younger"

"Gail: They say a martini is like a woman's breast: one ain't enough and three is too many."

"There is no conspiracy. Just twelve people dead."

"Ladies and gentlemen, you've been invited here today for the official announcement of the inquiry into the death of George Hammond. A complete transcript of the investigation is in preparation. This committee has spent nearly six months of investigation, followed by eleven weeks of hearings. After careful deliberation, it is concluded that George Hammond was assassinated by Joseph Frady. An overwhelming body of evidence has revealed that Frady was obsessed with the Carroll assassination, and in his confused and distorted state of mind seems to have imagined that Hammond was responsible for the senator's death. He was equally convinced that Hammond was somehow plotting to kill him. And it is for those reasons that Frady assassinated him. Although I'm certain that this will do nothing to discourage the conspiracy peddlers: there is no evidence of a conspiracy in the assassination of George Hammond. Those are our findings. The evidence will be available as soon as possible. Thank you. This is an announcement, gentlemen. There will be no questions."

"As American as apple pie."

"We're in the business of reporting the news, not creating it."

"Warren Beatty - Joseph Frady"

"It's just nerves, I'm a nervous broad, it doesn't mean anything."

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have been invited here today for the official announcement of the inquiry into the death of Senator Charles Carroll. This is an announcement, not a press conference. Therefore, there will be no questions. A complete transcript of the investigation is being prepared for publication on March 1. At that time, the committee will hold a full-scale press conference. After nearly four months of investigation, followed by nine weeks of hearings, it is the conclusion of this committee that Senator Carroll was assassinated by Thomas Richard Linden. It is our further conclusion that he acted entirely alone, motivated by a sense of patriotism and a psychotic desire for public recognition. The committee wishes to emphasize that there is no evidence of any wider conspiracy; no evidence whatsoever. It's our hope that this will put an end to the kind of irresponsible and exploitive speculation conducted by the press in recent months, as I've said in the complete text of the hearings, which provides the bases for the committee's findings which will be published on March 1. When you've had a chance to examine the evidence, you'll have every opportunity to ask those questions which remain unanswered, if they are any. That is all. Thank you."

"Telly Savalas - Albain"

"David Huddleston - Congressman Hollis Peaker"

"Robert Walden - Elliot Whitter"