"As for myself, I very often stay on at the office and work for an extra hour or two, especially when the weather is bad. It's not that I'm overly ambitious, it's just a way of killing time, until it's all right for me to go home. You see, I have this little problem with my apartment...I live in the West Sixties, just half a block from Central Park. My rent is $85 a month. It used to be eighty until last July when Mrs. Lieberman (Frances Lax), the landlady, put in a second-hand air conditioning unit. It's a real nice apartment - nothing fancy - but kind of cozy - just right for a bachelor. The only problem is - I can't always get in when I want to."

"Y'know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe. I mean shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand and there you were."

"Johnny Seven - Karl Matuschka"

"On November 1, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I know facts like this because I work for an insurance company - Consolidated Life of New York. We're one of the top five companies in the country. Our home office has 31,259 employees, which is more than the entire population of uhh... Natchez, Mississippi. I work on the 19th floor. Ordinary Policy Department, Premium Accounting Division, Section W, desk number 861."

"Joyce Jameson - The blonde"

"Willard Waterman - Mr. Vanderhoff"

"David White - Mr. Eichelberger"

"William Hall Jr. - Oscar"

"Muriel Moore - Miriam"

"Sylvia Kaler - Beulah"

"Joann Havrilla - Miss McClatchey"

"Dan Aykroyd - Boolie Werthan"

"Patti LuPone - Florine Werthan"

"Crystal R. Fox - Katey Bell"

"Esther Rolle - Idella"

"The comedy that won a Pulitzer Prize."

"The funny, touching and totally irresistable story of a working relationship that became a 25-year friendship."

"Morgan Freeman - Hoke Colburn"

"[Calling after Hoke as he drives away with Miss Daisy] Goodbye! Good luck! [To himself] Good God."

"[after Florene storms out when Katie Bell makes a mistake] Don't worry, Katie Bell, it's not quite the end of the world."

"Jessica Tandy - Daisy Werthan"

"George Coe – Jim O'Connor"

"JoBeth Williams – Phyllis Bernard (as Jobeth Williams)"

"Bill Moor – Gressen"

"Howard Duff – John Shaunessy"

"Meryl Streep – Joanna Kramer"

"Jane Alexander – Margaret Phelps"

"Howland Chamberlain – Judge Atkins"

"Justin Henry – Billy Kramer"

"[in court] There's a lot of things I didn't understand, a lot of things I'd do different if I could. Just like I think there's a lot of things you wish you could change, but we can't. Some things once they're done can't be undone. My wife, my ex-wife, says that she loves Billy, and I believe she does, but I don't think that's the issue here."

"If I understand it correctly, what means the most here is what's best for our son. What's best for Billy. My wife used to always say to me: 'Why can't a woman have the same ambitions as a man?' I think you're right. And maybe I've learned that much. But by the same token, I'd like to know, what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent simply by virtue of her sex? You know, I've had a lot of time to think about what it is it that makes somebody a good parent? You know, it has to do with constancy, it has to do with patience, it has to do with listening to him. It has to do with pretending to listen to him when you can't even listen anymore. It has to do with love, like, like, like she was saying. And I don't know where it's written that it says that a woman has a corner on that market, that, that a man has any less of those emotions than a woman does."

"Billy has a home with me. I've made it the best I could. It's not perfect. I'm not a perfect parent. Sometimes I don't have enough patience because I forget that he's a little kid. But I'm there. We get up in the morning and then we eat breakfast, and he talks to me and then we go to school. And at night, we have dinner together and we talk then and I read to him. And, and we built a life together and we love each other. If you destroy that, it may be irreparable. Joanna, don't do that, please. Don't do it twice to him."

"[having lunch with his boss] So the other morning, I'm at the refrigerator... you know, getting Billy ready for school. So I'm just in my underwear and he notices I've lost weight. And he comes in and pats me. He comes up to here... [touches his stomach]... and he says "Daddy, you've really lost a lot of weight", he looks up at me and he says "And it's all gone to your nose." [laughs] He was so cute. You know?"

"Jack Ramage – Spencer"