"[referring to drug epidemic] I know every time you turn on the TV that's what you see. Black People, pushing the rock, selling the rock, that's what you see. But see that wasn't a problem as long as it was here. [referring to Compton, Watts, other Black ghettos] It wasn't a problem until it was in Iowa or on Wall Street where there are hardly any black people."

"Addison Richards - The Judge"

"Minor Watson - The Bishop"

"Henry Hull - Dave Morris"

"Leslie Fenton - Dan Farrow"

"Mickey Rooney - Whitey Marsh"

"Gene Reynolds - Tony Ponessa"

"Edward Norris - Joe Marsh"

"I know that a mother can take a whip to the toughest boy in the world, and he forgets it because he knows that she loves him."

"There is no such thing as a bad boy."

"Greater than the imagination of the best writers!"

"The life story of a boy who was "born to be hung"!"

"The greatest heart drama of the year."

"Spencer Tracy - Father Flanagan"

"Clement Fowler - Mr. Simmons"

"Kelle Kipp - Diane"

"Michael Tucker - Bagel"

"Jessica James - Mrs. Simmons"

"Colette Blonigan - Carol Heathrow"

"Tim Daly - William 'Billy' Howard"

"Ellen Barkin - Beth Schreiber"

"Kevin Bacon - Timothy Fenwick Jr."

"Paul Reiser - Modell"

"Daniel Stern - Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber"

"Kathryn Dowling - Barbara"

"Mickey Rourke - Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell"

"We all know most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia."

"TV customer: [watching a black and white television program in the showroom] Is this show in color, or is there something wrong with the set?"

"You know what word I'm not comfortable with? Nuance. It's not a real word. Like gesture. Gesture's a real word. With gesture you know where you stand. But nuance? I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong."

"What they wanted most wasn't on the menu."

"Do you ever get the feeling that there's something going on that we don't know about?"

"[to his older brother] It's funny. You know, when I was a little kid I always wanted a brother. I told that to mom once and she said, "You have a brother". I said, "Oh, so that's who the asshole in the other bed is"."

"Suddenly, life was more than french fries, gravy and girls."

"I'll hit you so hard, I'll kill your whole family."

"If you want to talk, you always have the guys at the diner. You don't need a girl if you wanna talk."

"When you're dating, everything is talking about sex. Where can we do it? Why can't we do it? Are you parents gonna be out so we can do it? Everything is always talkin' about getting sex, and then planning the wedding, all the details. But then, when you get married... it's crazy, I dunno. You can get it whenever you want it. You wake up in the morning and she's there. You come home from work and she's there. So all that sex planning talk is over with. And so is the wedding planning talk, 'cause you're already married. So... ya know I can come down here and we can bullshit the entire night away but I cannot hold a 5 minute conversation with Beth. I mean it's not her fault, I'm not blaming her, she's great... It's just, we got nothing to talk about... But it's good, it's good."

"All I did was I parked the car on a nice lonely road, I looked at her, and I said fuck or fight."

"Steve Guttenberg - Edward 'Eddie' Simmons"

"Tom Cruise - Stefen 'Steff' Djordjevic"

"Craig T. Nelson - Coach Nickerson"

"Lea Thompson - Lisa"

"Terry O'Quinn - Freeman Smith"

"Leon - Shadow"

"George Betor - Tank"

"Paul Carafotes - Salvucci"

"Chris Penn - Brian"

"Gary Graham - Greg"

"Sandy Faison - Suzie"