"And so the question here is equality before the law, regardless of religion, color, wealth, or, as in this instance, sex...Law, like man, is composed of two parts: Just as man is body and soul, so is the law, letter and spirit. The law says, 'Thou shalt not kill,' yet men have killed, and proved a reason, and been set free. Self-defense, defense of others, of wife, of children, and home. If a thief breaks into your house, and you shoot him, the law will not deal harshly with you, nor indeed should it. So here, you are asked to judge not whether or not these acts were committed, but to what extent they were justified. Now, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I request that you join me in a revealing experiment. I ask you all to direct your attention to the defendant, Mrs. Attinger. Now keep looking at her, keep watching. Listen carefully and look at her. Look at her hard. Now imagine her a man. Go on now, use your imaginations. Think of her as a man sitting there accused of a like crime -- a husband, who is only trying to protect his home. Now hold it. Hold that impression and look at Beryl Caighn. Look at her. Look at her hard, a man, a slick home wrecker, a third party, a wolf! You know the type. Alright, hold that impression and look at Mr. Attinger, and suppose him a woman. Try, try hard. Ah, yes, there she is. The guilty wife! Look at her! Does she arouse your sympathy?! Alright! Now you have it! Judge it so! An unwritten law stands back of a man who fights to defend his home. Apply this same law to this maltreated wife, and neglected woman. We ask you no more: equality. Deep in the heart of South America, there thrives today a civilization far older than ours: a people known as the Loquiňanos, descended from the Amazons. In this vast tribe, members of the female sex rule and govern, and systematically deny equal rights to the men, made weak and puny by years of subservience, too weak to revolt. And yet, how long have we lived in the shadow of a like injustice?Consider this unfortunate woman's act as though you yourselves had each committed it. Every living being is capable of attack, if sufficiently provoked. Assault lies dormant within us all. It requires only circumstance to set it in violent motion. I ask you for a verdict of not guilty. There was no murder attempt here, only a pathetic attempt to save a home."

"First of all, I should like to say that I think the arguments advanced by the counsel for the defense were sound... MERE sound!"

"Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called in-breeding; from this comes idiot children... and other lawyers."

"Amanda, my love, why do you stay married to a legal beagle with ten thumbs?"

"I gotta leave you here, dude, I don't know what else to do with you."

"Justine Johnston as Aunt Pearl"

"Lawrence Tierney as Man in Diner Demanding Roll"

"Mark Margolis (uncredited) as Wedding guest"

"Barney Martin as Ralph Marolla"

"Phyllis Somerville as Saleslady"

"Lou Jacobi as Plant store owner"

"Paul Gleason as Executive"

"Liza Minnelli as Linda Marolla"

"John Gielgud as Hobson"

"Geraldine Fitzgerald as Martha Bach"

"Dudley Moore as Arthur Bach"

"Amy Wright - Rose Leary"

"David Ogden Stiers - Porter Leary"

"Jill Eikenberry as Susan Johnson"

"Ed Begley - Charles Leary"

"Kathleen Turner - Sarah Leary"

"The business traveler should bring only what fits in a carry-on bag. Checking your luggage is asking for trouble. Add several travel-size packets of detergent so you won't fall into the hands of unfamiliar laundries. There are very few necessities in this world which do not come in travel-size packets. One suit is plenty, if you take along travel-size packets of spot remover. The suit should be medium gray. Gray not only hides the dirt but is handy for sudden funerals. Always bring a book as protection against strangers. Magazines don't last, and newspapers from elsewhere remind you you don't belong. But don't take more than one book. It is a common mistake to overestimate one's potential free time, and consequently over-pack. In travel, as in most of life, less is invariably more. And most importantly, never take along anything on your journey so valuable or dear that its loss would devastate you."

"Last year, I exp... I lost... I experienced a loss. I lost... I lost my son. He was just... he went into a hamburger joint and someone came, a hold-up man, and shot him. I can't go to dinner with people. I can't... can't talk to their little boys. You have to stop asking me. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I'm just not up to this. Do you hear? Every day, I tell myself it's time to be getting over this - I know that people expect it of me. But if anything I'm getting worse. The first year was like a bad dream; I was there at his bedroom door in the morning before I'd remember he wasn't there to be wakened. The second year is real. I've stopped going to his door. I've sometimes let a whole day go by without thinking about him. I believe Sarah thinks I could have prevented what happened somehow - she's so used to my arranging her life. Now I'm far from everyone. I don't have any friends anymore. And everyone looks trivial and foolish, and not related to me."

"In turbulent, troubling times, a good marriage can be the one safe place we know we can go. Once we've been to that place, known that peace, we can never forget it."

"Geena Davis - Muriel Pritchett"

"I don't think marriage ought to be as common as it is. I really believe it ought to be the exception to the rule. Perfect couples could marry, maybe, but who's a perfect couple?"

"Stephen Elliott as Burt Johnson"

"Bill Pullman - Julian"

"Thomas Barbour as Stanford Bach"

"In the Southeast they say that if you want to go to heaven...you have to change planes in Atlanta."

"Ted Ross as Bitterman"

"William Hurt - Macon Leary"

"Neurotic is simply an intense form of introspection. You're be called introspective is good. You walk around with an opinon, with point of view, and some source of nice kind of direction."

"Did you just use my name as a verb?"

"Alan Cumming - Sebastian"

"Alfred Molina - Stephano"

"Russell Brand - Trinculo"

"Chris Cooper - Antonio"

"David Strathairn - Alonso, King of Naples"

"Tom Conti - Gonzalo"

"Reeve Carney - Ferdinand"

"Helen Mirren - Prospera"

"Ben Whishaw - Ariel"

"Djimon Hounsou - Caliban"

"Felicity Jones - Miranda"

"I didn't really have a male actor that excited me in mind, and yet there had been a couple of phenomenal females — Helen Mirren being one of them — who [made me think]: "My God, does this play change? What happens if you make that role into a female role?" … We did a reading to see if it was just a gimmick, and it worked so beautifully. The potential was there to enhance the play for people who know it — and for others it will just seem natural."

"We are such as dreams are made on, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep."