"Oh, yeah. She's very pretty, for a convicted murder. I just came here as a professional courtesy since she's in New Orleans and plans on killing one of your prominent citizens."

"Oh, no you're not. You're a parole violator. You are coming back with me to Seattle... where I will demand a full pardon, a parade, and a little pink poodle. On a keychain."

"Bruce Campbell - Bartender at Party"

"Ed Evanko - Warren"

"Benjamin Weir - Matty Parsons (age 4)"

"Spencer Treat Clark - Matty Parsons (age 11)"

"John MacLaren - Rudy"

"I could shoot you in the middle of Mardi Gras, and they can't touch me."

"I don't want to kill you, Nick. I just want you to suffer."

"I haven't felt this good since the day my husband died."

"Damn it, woman. If you don't get out of this car and go to your kid, I'm going to have you arrested... for stupidity."

"Tom Cruise - Mitch McDeere"

"Jeanne Tripplehorn as Abigail "Abby" McDeere"

"They made him an offer he should have refused."

"Somewhere, inside, in the dark, the firm is listening."

"Power can be murder to resist."

"You want to know something funny? I discovered the law again. You actually made me think about it. I managed to go through three years of law school without doing that."

"Karina Lombard - a girl who seduces McDeere"

"Hey Ray, wouldn't it be funny if I went to Harvard, you went to jail and we both ended up surrounded by crooks."

"Tobin Bell - the Nordic Man, Morolto hitman"

"Dean Norris - the Squat Man, Morolto hitman"

"Steven Hill - F. Denton Voyles"

"Margo Martindale - Nina Huff"

"Gary Busey as Eddie Lomax"

"Paul Sorvino - mob boss Tommy Morolto (uncredited)"

"Terry Kinmey - Lamar Quinn"

"Wilford Brimley as Bill DeVasher"

"Joe Viterelli as mob boss Joey Morolto"

"Sullivan Walker - Thomas Abanks"

"Ed Harris - Agent Wayne Tarrance"

"Hal Holbrook - Oliver Lambert"

"Holly Hunter - Tamara "Tammy" Hemphill"

"Jerry Hardin - Royce McKnight"

"Being a tax lawyer's got nothing to do with the law. It's a game. We teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich. The IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them. It's a game..."

"David Strathairn - Ray McDeere"

"Jerry Weintraub as businessman Sonny Capps"

"Gene Hackman - Avery Tolar"

"Hume Cronyn - Justice Rosenberg"

"John Lithgow - Smith Keen"

"Stanley Tucci - Khamel"

"Anthony Heald - Marty Velmano"

"James B. Sikking - FBI Director Denton Voyles"

"William Atherton - Bob Gminski"

"Stanley Anderson - Edwin Sneller"

"Robert Culp - President"

"John Finn - Matthew Barr"

"Peter Carlin - Edward Linney"

"Denzel Washington - Gray Grantham"