"I wanted to stop acting. The director was like, 'It looks too real. It looks too painful. Can you be prettier when you cry? Cry pretty, Jessica. Don't do that thing with your face. Just make it flat. We can CGI the tears in.' And I'm like, But there's no connection to a human being. And then it got me thinking: Am I not good enough? Are my instincts and my emotions not good enough? Do people hate them so much that they don't want me to be a person? Am I not allowed to be a person in my work? And so I just said, 'F--k it. I don't care about this business anymore.'"

"Discover the secret of the Surfer."

"(After scaring away a bear by roaring at it) Yeah, that's right! Keep running, Boo-Boo! Overgrown furball."

"I'll show you a rockslide!"

"Please. Don't tell Mido. What has she done wrong? You know it was all my fault... I have committed an unforgivable sin, against your sister. And I also... did you wrong. But, please leave Mido alone... If by any chance Mido finds out the truth, you son of a bitch, I'll tear you limb from limb. And your remains will never be found. Why? Because I'm going to swallow every last bit."

"Erasing my memory and telling me to find the truth was cowardly. I won. So die like you promised."

"15 years forced in a cell, only 5 days given to seek revenge."

"End of confrontation, one must die."

"Imprisoned for 15 years... ...5 days to seek revenge"

"15 years of imprisonment, five days of vengeance"

"How's life in a bigger prison, Dae-su?"

"And now... now, what joy will I have left to live for?"

"Your tongue got my sister pregnant! It wasn't Woo-jin Lee's dick; it was Dae-su Oh's tongue!"

"Oh Dae-su talks too much."

"Your gravest mistake wasn't failing to find the answer. You can't find the right answer if you ask the wrong questions."

"I'm going to kill every woman you love until you die. You're notorious for not protecting your women."

"You really are the very monster I created, aren't you? But you won't find out the "why" of this if you kill me. Fifteen years of being curious would go to waste."

"What I am isn't important. Why is important."

"Remember this: "Be it a rock or a grain of sand, in water they sink as the same.""

"One month...I'm out in one month...One month, just one month...I'm out in one month! What if I am on the 50th floor? I don't care if I fall right down on the ground...I would still be out! [When licking his hands touched by the first raindrops he felt in 15 years after digging with a chopstick through the wall]"

"When the melody turns on, gas comes out. When the gas comes out, I fall asleep. I found out later it's the same Valium gas the Russians used on those Chechen terrorists."

"If you see a man whose face is hidden behind a violet umbrella...then... my advice is that you become good friends with Television."

"No...first I have to kill the bastard! [Responding in his mind to Mido about visiting his wife's grave]"

"I have truly become a monster..."

"As I expected, I can't get along with anyone today either."

"I will avenge for my fifteen years... for every tooth I pull out...you will age by one year. [Dae-Su to the man owing the complex where he was imprisoned]"

"I said... I want to eat something alive. [Before eating a live octopus and then faints at sushi bar counter]"

"[To a mob of thugs in hallway] Anyone here with an AB blood type, raise your hand. [Three thugs raise their hands]"

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you... weep, and you weep alone."

"Can fifteen years of imaginary training really be put to use? [Dae-su tries to sexually assault Mi-do and gets clobbered] No. It can't."

"Can fifteen years of imaginary training really be put to use? [Dae-su fights a gang of thugs] Apparently, it can."

"[The hypnotist quoting a line from his journal] Even though I'm no better than a beast, don't I have the right to live?"

"If they had told me it was going to be fifteen years, would it have been easier to endure?"

"The TV is both a clock and a calendar. It's your school, your home, your church, your friend... [Dae-su masturbates to a pop star onscreen] ... and your lover. But... my lover's song is too short."

"I thought I'd lived a simple life. But I've sinned too much."

"Andrew Tiernan – Ephialtes"

"Tyrone Benskin – Persian Emissary"

"Giovanni Antonio Cimmino – Pleistarchus"

"Stephen McHattie – Loyalist"

"Peter Mensah – Messenger"

"Rodrigo Santoro – Xerxes"

"Andrew Pleavin – Daxos"

"Tom Wisdom – Astinos"

"Michael Fassbender – Stellios"

"Vincent Regan – Captain Artemis"

"Dominic West – Theron"

"David Wenham – Dilios, Narrator"