"[Tex has a large revolver pointed at Billy whom he just recaptured trying to escape] You seem like a nice enough kid to me, Billy, but you try it and I'll blow your fuckin' brains out."

"Ahmet: Where are you going? Why don't you walk the wheel with us? What is the matter my American friend? What has upset you? Oh! I know. The bad machine doesn't know that he's a bad machine. You still don't believe it. You still don't believe you're a bad machine? To know yourself is to know God, my friend. The factory knows, that's why they put you here. You'll see... You'll find out... In time, you'll know."

"Everybody gave up on Billy Hayes—except Billy."

"What is a crime? What is punishment? It seems to vary from time to time and place to place. What's legal today is suddenly illegal tomorrow because society says it's so, and what's illegal yesterday is suddenly legal because everybody's doin' it, and you can't put everybody in jail. I'm not saying this is right or wrong. I'm just saying that's the way it is. But I've spent 3 1/2 years of my life in your prison, and I think I've paid for my error, and if it's your decision today to sentence me to more years, then I... [he becomes overcome with anger]"

"A story of triumph."

"Dear Susan: Poor Jimmy was caught and beaten so badly he got a severe hernia, and lost a testicle. He's been in the sanitarium for months. In comparison, my problems seem very small."

"John Hurt - Max"

"Ewan Stewart - Coll"

"David Hayman - Tam Sibbalt"

"Shirley Henderson - Morag"

"Jason Flemyng - Gregor"

"Brian Cox - Killearn"

"Brian McCardie - Alasdair MacGregor"

"[voiceover] To the Turks, everything is "shurla burla", which means "like this, like that". You never know what will happen. All foreigners are "ayip", they're considered dirty. So is homosexuality, it's a big crime here, but most of them do it every chance they get. There are about thousand things that are "ayip", for instance, you can stab or shoot somebody below the waist but not above because that's intent to kill. So everyone runs around stabbing everyone else in the ass. That's what they call Turkish revenge. I know it must all sound crazy to you, but this place is crazy."

"Gilbert Martin - Will Guthrie"

"John Hurt - James Graham, 4th Marquess of Montrose"

"Tim Roth - Archibald Cunningham"

"Eric Stoltz - Alan MacDonald"

"Jessica Lange - Mary MacGregor"

"[to the Turkish court] I just wish for once that you could be in my shoes, Mr. Prosecutor, and then you would know something that you don't know: mercy! That the concept of a society is based on the quality of that mercy; its sense of fair play; its sense of justice! But I guess that's like asking a bear to shit in the toilet. [In the red border clamshell VHS, He says: But I guess that's like asking a bear to use a potty trainer.]"

"I love the bones of you, Robert McGregor, but you take too much to heart that canna' be helped."

"Liam Neeson - Robert Roy MacGregor"

"Andrew Keir - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll"

"[to the Turkish court] For a nation of pigs, it sure is funny you don't eat'em! Jesus Christ forgave the bastards, but I can't! I hate! I hate you! I hate your nation! And I hate your people! And I fuck your sons and daughters because they're pigs! [Red border clamshell VHS: And I hate your sons and daughters because they're pigs!] You're a pig! You're all pigs."

"Love is a dung hill, Betty, and I am but a cock that climbs upon it to crow."

"To these men, the truth is but a lie undiscovered."

"Rafael Luis Calvo - Simon of Cyrene"

"Tino Barrero - Andrew"

"Paco Morán - blind man of Bethsaida"

"Barry Keegan - Gestas, the Impenitent thief"

"Michael Wager - Thomas"

"Félix de Pomés - Joseph of Arimathea"

"Adriano Rimoldi - Melchior"

"David Davies - burly man"

"José Nieto - Caspar"