"Here's what I'm prepared to offer: you give me the money, the girl is safe. Forever. Nobody knows about her. She's off the map. I can't offer you the same. So, this is what I would suggest. We conclude our deal. We'll shake hands. You start the rest of your life. Any dreams you have, or plans, or hopes for your future... I think you're going to have to put that on hold. For the rest of your life you're going to be looking over your shoulder. I'm just telling you this because I want you to know the truth. But the girl is safe."

"My partner is a belligerent asshole with his back up against a wall, and now, so am I."

"Shut the fuck up, you fucking monkey!"

"[about Shannon] I used to produce movies. In the 80s. Kind of like action films. Sexy stuff. One critic called them European. I thought they were shit. Anyway, he arranged all the cars for me. Did all the stunts. I liked him. I liked having him around, even though he overcharged the shit out of me. His next business venture, he got involved with some of Nino's friends. They didn't go for the overcharging bit. They broke his pelvis. He's never had a lot of luck. The reason I'm telling you this is that he has a lot invested in you. And so do I. So anything you need, you call me. We're a team now."

"[After slapping Blanche and holding his hand over her mouth] Now, you just got a little boy's father killed and you almost got us killed and now you're lying to me. So how about this? From now on, every word out of your mouth is the truth or I'm going to hurt you."

"You know the story about the scorpion and the frog? Your friend Nino didn't make it across the river."

"[on the phone with Irene] Can I talk to you? I won't keep you long. I have to go somewhere and I don't think I can come back. But I just wanted you to know. Getting to be around you and Benicio was the best thing that ever happened to me."

"If I drive for you, you get your money. You tell me where we start, where we're going, where we're going afterwards. I give you five minutes when we get there. Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. No matter what. Anything a minute on either side of that and you're on your own. I don't sit in while you're running it down. I don't carry a gun. I drive."

"Hey, you want a toothpick?"

"There's a hundred-thousand streets in this city. You don't need to know the route. You give me a time and a place, I give you a five minute window. Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. No matter what. Anything happens a minute either side of that and you're on your own. Do you understand?"

"The name of my company is Video Production News, a professional news-gathering service. That's how it should be read and that's how it should be said. I also want to go to the next rung and meet your team, and the station manager, and the director, and the anchors, and start developing my own personal relationships. I'd like to start meeting them this morning. You'll take me around and you'll introduce me as the owner and president of Video Production News, and remind them of some of many other stories. I'm not done. I also want to stop our discussion over prices. This will save time. So when I say that a particular number is my lowest price, that's my lowest price and you can be assured that I arrived at whatever that number is very carefully. Now, when I say that I want these things, I mean that I want them, and I don't want to have to ask again. And the last thing that I want, Nina, is for you to do the things that I ask you to do when we're alone together in your apartment. Not like the last time."

"I feel like grabbing you by your ears right now and screaming, "I'm not fucking interested". Instead, I'm going to drive home and do some accounting."

"Michael Papajohn - Security Guard"

"Michael Hyatt - Detective Fronteiri"

"Jonny Coyne - Pawn Shop Owner"

"Eric Lange - Cameraman"

"Kathleen York - Jackie"

"Why you pursue something is as important as what you pursue."

"Kevin Rahm - Frank Kruse"

"Ann Cusack - Linda"

"Bill Paxton - Joe Loder"

"Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real."

"Riz Ahmed - Rick"

"Rene Russo - Nina Romina"

"Jake Gyllenhaal - Louis Bloom"

"What if my problem wasn't that I don't understand people but that I don't like them? What if I was the kind of person who was obliged to hurt you for this? I mean physically. I think you'd have to believe afterward, if you could, that agreeing to participate and then backing out at the critical moment was a mistake. Because that's what I'm telling you, as clearly as I can."

"...think of our newscast as a screaming woman running down the street with her throat cut."

"Excuse me, sir? I'm looking for a job. In fact, I've made up my mind to find a career I can learn and grow into. Who am I? I'm a hard worker, I set high goals, and I've been told that I am persistent. Now, I'm not fooling myself, sir. Having been raised with the self-esteem movement so popular in schools, I used to expect my needs to be considered. But I know that today's work culture no longer caters to the job loyalty that could be promised to earlier generations. What I believe, sir, is that good things come to those who work their asses off and that good people -- such as yourself -- who reached the top of the mountain didn't just fall there. My motto is: If you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket."

"You may be confused at times, and other times unsure. But remember -- I will never ask you to do anything that I wouldn't do myself."

"Nathan Bexton - Mannie"

"Gay men are so hot. It's tragic."

"Victor Sr.: You know what wakes me up in the middle of the night covered in a cold sweat? Knowing that you aren't any worse than anyone else in your whole screwed up generation. In the old days, you know how you got to the top? Huh? By being better than the guy ahead of you. How do you people get to the top? By being so fucking incompetent, that the guy ahead of you can't do his job, so he falls on his ass and congratulations, you are now on top. And now the top is down here, it used to be up here... and you don't even know the fucking difference."

"Singh: [to Simon] Just so we're clear, you stole a car, shot a bouncer, and had sex with two women?"

"life begins at 3am."

"When the lights go down, the world is yours."

"A weekend wasted is never a wasted weekend."

"William Fichtner - Burke"

"Desmond Askew - Simon Baines"

"Scott Wolf - Adam"

"Jay Mohr - Zack"

"Sarah Polley - Ronna Martin"

"Timothy Olyphant - Todd Gaines"

"Katie Holmes - Claire Montgomery"

"Tony Denman - Track Suit Guy"

"Taye Diggs - Marcus"

"Breckin Meyer - Tiny"