"Man, a drug dealer is the worst kind of brother. I mean, he won't sell it to his sister, he won't sell it to his mother- but he'll sell it to one of his boys on the street."

"Oh shit, that's the kid I shot!"

"I should have killed you myself, bitch!"

"I wanna shoot you so bad, my dick's hard!"

"This ain't business, bitch- this is personal!"

"(talking to Duh Duh Man)...UNADULTERATED! Would you please shut the fuck up before you have a seizure!!"

"(talking to Uniqua) I knew I should've treated you like a hooker, you ain't nothing but a high-priced ho! Put Nino on the phone, bitch!"

"Look man, I don't know about all that "Change the World" shit, but what I do know, is that they be going crazy over this, man! I'm tellin' you! And the bitches? Oh, Lord! The bitches! Yo! They do anything for this, man! Yo, I had my jimmy waxed every day last week, ya understand?! Several times a day!"

"This whole drug shit: it's not a black thing, it's not a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a shit about color."

"I never liked you anyway, pretty motherfucka!"

"Yeah, we takin' over the Carter. We gon' bum rush the whole damn thing. Now if the tenants cooperate, oh, it'll be lovely; they'll be loyal customers. If they don't, fuck it, it's like Beirut- they'll become live-in hostages."

"Cancel dat bitch! I'll buy another one!"

"[testifying in court] I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way."

"You gotta rob to get rich in the Reagan era."

"That fucking skeezer- you think I give a fuck about her? Fuck that ho bitch! I don't give a fuck about her!"

"Yo baby, we talkin' about combinating and consolidating, that's what's up!"

"Money talks and bullshit runs a marathon. So, see ya and I wouldn't want to be ya."

"Am I my brother's keeper? Yes, I am."

"Sit your five-dollar ass down before I make change!"

"A million dollar a week business reduced to fucking rubble!"

"Naomi Watts — Cristina Peck"

"Danny Huston — Michael"

"Benicio Del Toro — Jack Jordan"

"Sean Penn — Paul Rivers"

"When do we lose 21 grams, how much goes with them?"

"How much does guilt weigh?"

"This Fall, fate weighs in."

"How much does revenge weigh?"

"How much does love weigh?"

"They say we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death... everyone. The weight of a stack of nickels. The weight of a hummingbird... a chocolate bar."

"How much does life weigh?"

"[After hitting his son upside the head to punish him for hitting his sister] There's no hitting in this house."

"If someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn your other to him also."

"I just ran over a man and two little girls."

"God knows when a single hair moves on your head."

"You can't just walk up to a woman you barely know and tell her you like her. You don't know what she's going through.*"

"I haven't spoken to anyone in months.*"

"Whoever looks for the truth deserves punishment for finding it."

"Nothing I can do is going to bring them back."

"You know what I thought when mom died? I couldn't understand how you could talk to people again, how you could laugh... again. I couldn't understand how you could play with us. And no, no that's a lie, life does not just go on."

"How many lives do we live? How many times do we die? They say we all lose 21 grams... at the exact moment of our death. Everyone. And how much fits into 21 grams? How much is lost? When do we lose 21 grams? How much goes with them? How much is gained? How much is gained? Twentyone grams. The weight of a stack of five nickels. The weight of a hummingbird. A chocolate bar. How much did 21 grams weigh?"

"[Holding a glass jar containing his surgically removed heart] Ah. The culprit."

"There are so many things that have to happen for two people to meet."

"We've been a fraud for a long time, Mary."