"Jimmy Palumbo: [Interviewed by Tuck Lampley] I've got to be honest this whole thing sucks, it could've all been avoided incredibly easy, none of this had to happen if John could've been a millionaire or if his last name was Rockefeller, sometimes he doesn't understand what we hold sacred in this country isn't values, its "value" that's important, we've got haves and we've got have not we've got white collar, blue collar and then we've got no collar, inside the hospital we've got "luck surgery" and "out of luck surgery", there's a lot of people out there who don't have two hundred fifty grand in their bill fold, seeing a man like that backing into a corner it seems to me "something" is out of whack, not "someone.""

"[in a debate on healthcare] Shut up. Enough already. I've heard all the bitching and moaning I can stand for one day, alright? Look, if you want to regard me as some kind of blood-sucking vampire, then fine, great, I'll be the bad guy. [points at John] But who's holding the fucking gun?"

"[to Rebecca; angrily] I would tell you what I think of you...but I'm a Christian woman."

"I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!"

"Joan Plowright - Phyllis Grimshaw"

"Friends! Fellow members of the human race! We are gathered here for a purpose. Let us look together at mankind. What do we see? We see mastery. What wonders mankind can perform. He can cross the oceans and continents today, as easily as our grandfathers crossed the street. Tomorrow he will as easily cross the vast territories of space. He can make deserts fertile and plant cabbages on the Moon. And what does man choose? Alone among the creatures of this world, the human race chooses to annihilate itself. Since the last world conflict ended there has not been one day in which human beings have not been slaughtering or wounding one another in 230 different wars. And man breeds as recklessly as he lays waste. By the end of the century, the population of the world will have tripled. Two thirds of our plant species will have been destroyed, 55% of the animal kingdom and 70% of our mineral resources. Out of every hundred human beings now living 80 will die without ever knowing what it feels like to be fully nourished, while a tiny minority indulge themselves in absurd and extravagent luxuries. A motion picture entertainer of North America will receive as much money in a month as would feed a starving South American tribe for a hundred years! We waste! We destroy! And we cling like savages to our superstitions. We give power to leaders of state and church as prejudiced and small-minded as ourselves who squander our resources on instruments of destruction while millions continue to suffer and go hungry, condemned forever to lives of ignorance and deprivation. And why is this? It is because mankind has denied intelligence, the unique glory of our species... the human brain.Man is entering an era of infinite possibility, still imprisoned in a feeble, inefficient body. Still manacled by primitive notions of morality, which have no place in an age of science. Still powered by a brain that has hardly developed since the species emerged from the caves. Only a new intelligence can save mankind! Only a new human being of pure brain can lead man forward into the new era. I do not speak of dreams. Such a being exists already. I have created it! It is here, now! Prepare yourselves to meet the human of the future. Neither man nor woman. Greater than either. I have given it a name. Genesis. Birth. A new birth. A new beginning for mankind. People of today, behold your future!"

"An remember, an insult to me is an insult to every non-skilled operative in this hospital. Now just you think on."

"This celebration is for all of us. The old days are gone forever Vincent. Britannia belongs to all of us now."

"General Wetherby I didn't have 50 years in India to end up bedding down with a lot of wogs!"

"Malcolm McDowell - Mick Travis"

"Graham Crowden - Professor Millar"

"Leonard Rossiter - Vincent Potter"

"Brian Pettifer - Biles"

"John Moffatt - Greville Figg"

"Fulton Mackay - Chief Superintendent Johns"

"Vivian Pickles - Matron"

"Barbara Hicks - Miss Tinker"

"Jill Bennett - Dr. MacMillan"

"Peter Jeffrey - Sir Geoffrey"

"Robin Askwith - Ben Keating"

"Dave Atkins - Sharkey"

"Roger Martin - Demonstrator"

"Mark Hamill - Red"

"Richard Griffiths - Cheerful Bernie"

"Arthur Lowe - hospital patient"

"Alan Bates - Macready"

"Dandy Nichols - Florrie"

"Betty Marsden - Hermione"

"Liz Smith - Maisie"

"T.P. McKenna - Theatre Surgeon"

"Michael Medwin - Theatre Surgeon"

"Valentine Dyall - Mr Rochester"