"But Sidney's more than a mere bass player. He's a fabulous disaster. He's a symbol, a metaphor. He embodies the dementia of a nihilistic generation. He's a fuckin' star!"

"If I asked you to kill me, would you?"

"Never trust a junkie."

"Bernard Barrow - Inspector Roy Palmer"

"Ed Crowley - Barto"

"James Tolkan - Lieutenant Steiger"

"Woodie King Jr. - Larry"

"John Stewart - Waterman"

"Joseph Bova - Potts"

"Edward Grover - Inspector Lombardo"

"Norman Ornellas - Don Rubello"

"Allan Rich - District Attorney Herman Tauber"

"John Medici - Pasquale Serpico"

"Tony Roberts - Bob Blair"

"Cornelia Sharpe - Leslie Lane"

"Barbara Eda-Young - Laurie"

"[after seeing the size of his opponent] He did not just get off the fuckin' couch. If he did, I'm gonna buy a couch like that."

"Biff McGuire - Captain Inspector McClain"

"Jack Kehoe - Tom Keough"

"John Randolph - Chief Sidney Green"

"Al Pacino - Frank Serpico"

"You stupid fuck! You didn't know me? You fired without a warning, without a fucking brain in your head? Oh, shit. If I buy one, motherfucker, I ain't buying it from you."

"The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier."

"[given a detective's gold badge] What's this for? For bein' an honest cop? Hmm? Or for being stupid enough to get shot in the face? You tell them that they can shove it."

"[testifying before the Knapp Commission] Through my appearance here today... I hope that police officers in the future will not experience... the same frustration and anxiety that I was subjected to... for the past five years at the hands of my superiors... because of my attempt to report corruption. I was made to feel that I had burdened them with an unwanted task. The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist... in which an honest police officer can act... without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers. Police corruption cannot exist unless it is at least tolerated... at higher levels In the department. Therefore, the most important result that can come from these hearings... is a conviction by police officers that the department will change. In order to ensure this... an independent, permanent investigative body... dealing with police corruption, like this commission, is essential."

"[to a criminal in custody] I want to talk to you. I want to take you across the street, get you a cup of coffee... without cuffs. Now look, I didn't touch you upstairs, right? You take off on me, I'll put one in your back. Understand? Come on."

"Erica McDermott - Cindy "Tar" Eklund"

"Frank Renzulli - Sal LoNano"

"Jack McGee - George Ward, father of Micky."

"Melissa Leo - Alice Ward, mother of Dickie and Micky."

"Amy Adams - Charlene Fleming, Micky's girlfriend and now wife."

"Christian Bale - Dick "Dicky" Eklund"

"Mark Wahlberg - Micky Ward"

"Wolfie: This ain't any anti-Cambodian thing. White people do this to other white people, which is what makes the world go around."

"We're not talking about his trainer, sweetheart! We're talking about his manager. That's me!"

"Don't call me a skank. I'll rip the nasty hair right outta ya fuckin head bitch!"

"Oh, stop callin' me an MTV girl, whatever the fuck that means."

"That's the movie you wanted to see? There wasn't even any good sex in it. Had to read the whole fuckin' movie. Fuckin' subtitled. Some guy from a road crew recommended it to you, a fuckin' subtitled movie?"

"Who used to be the pride of Lowell? Right here. [points at himself] Who's the pride of Lowell now? [points at Micky] Right there."

"It's not fuckin' ladylike to be shoutin' in the street like this, all right?"

"[to Micky] Are you like me? Was just good enough to fight Sugar Ray? Never had to win, did I? You gotta do more in there. You gotta win a title. For you, for me, for Lowell. This is your time, all right? You take it. I had my time and I blew it. You don't have to. All right? You fuckin' get out there, and use all the shit that you've been through, all the shit we've gone through over the fuckin' years, and you put it in that ring right now. This is yours. This is fuckin' yours."

"[pointing at each member of his family] I'm the one fighting, okay? Not you, not you, and not you."

"[to Dickie] Why can't you just shut up and be happy for me? I spent the last ten years of my life in bad fights set up by you and Alice. I finally got a good thing going for me and you can't be fuckin' happy for me? Why?"

"You didn't give a fuck if I got killed by Mungin; now, all of a sudden, you're worried Sanchez is gonna hurt me? Why? I mean, come on, Dick. 'Cause you're stuck in here and can't be the center of attention no more?"

"What are you doing, running in here like a silverback fucking gorilla?"

"Tony Lo Bianco - cop"

"Judd Hirsch - cop"

"Conard Fowkes - cop"

"René Enríquez - Cervantes Teacher"

"Sam Coppola - cop"