"I don't think you appreciate the gut reaction people have to these things...Martin, It's all psychological. You yell 'Barracuda,' everybody says 'Huh? What?' You yell 'Shark,' we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July."

"Here lies the body of Mary Lee; died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her virginity; not a bad record for this vicinity."

"Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish! Not like going down to the pond and chasing bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow ya whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back the tourists, that'll put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant! I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's too many captains on this island. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing."

"[the shark crashes into the boat killing the power] It ate the light."

"[about Mayor Vaughn] I'm not going to waste my time arguing with a man who's lining up to be a hot lunch."

"[aiming an M1 Garand] Smile, you son of a...! [shoots the air tank in the shark's mouth; causing the shark to explode]"

""Slow ahead." I can go slow ahead. Come on down here and chum some of this shit. [the shark suddenly appears, causing Brody to recoil in shock] You're gonna need a bigger boat."

"Lee Fierro - Mrs. Kintner"

"Jeffrey Kramer - Deputy Leonard 'Lenny' Hendricks"

"Mislaid. Mislaid among the broken wrists, the chest pains, the scalp lacerations, the man whose fingers were crushed in a taxi door, the infant with a skin rash, the child swiped by a car, the old lady mugged in the subway, the derelict beaten by sailors, the teenage suicide, the paranoids, drunks, asthmatics, the rapes, the septic abortions, the overdosed addicts, the fractures, infarcts, hemorrhages, concussions, boils, abrasions, the colonic cancers, the cardiac arrests - the whole wounded madhouse of our times."

"I am the fool for Christ, and Paraclete of Caborca."

"This is Dr. Ives. He's in the Nephrology Lab. I was in there a little while ago, and he was suddenly taken ill, and I thought I'd better get him over here right away. He had at that time perhaps an hour to live. Prompt treatment would have saved his life. As a staff doctor, he was seen without preliminaries... His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram... which revealed occasional ventricular premature contractions. An intern took his history... and then he was promptly... simply... forgotten to death."

"You're a very tired, very damaged man. You've had a hideous marriage, I assume a few tacky affairs along the way. You're understandably reluctant to get involved again. On top of that, here I am with this preposterous idea you throw everything up and go off with me to some barren mountains in Mexico. Utterly mad, I know. On the other hand, you obviously find this world as desolate as I do. You did try to kill yourself last night. So that's it, Herb. Either me and the mountains or - a bottle of potassium."

"Stockard Channing - E.R. Nurse"

"Frances Sternhagen - Mrs. Sally Cushing"

"David Hooks - Dr. Joe Einhorn"

"Katherine Helmond - Mrs. Marilyn Mead"

"Kate Harrington - Nurse Dunne"

"Arthur Junaluska - Mr. Blacktree"

"Richard Hamilton - Dr. Ronald Casey"

"Lenny Baker - Dr. Howard Schaefer"

"Roberts Blossom - Guernsey"

"Jordan Charney - Hitchcock, Hospital Administration"

"Nancy Marchand - Mrs. Christie, Head of Nurses"

"Donald Harron - Dr. Milton Mead"

"Andrew Duncan - William "Willie" Mead"

"Stephen Elliott - Dr. John Sundstrom"

"Richard A. Dysart - Dr. Welbeck"

"Barnard Hughes - Edmund Drummond (and an uncredited role as Dr. Mallory, the OB/GYN who discovers he's got the wrong patient.)"

"Robert Walden - Dr. Brubaker"

"Diana Rigg - Miss Barbara Drummond"

"George C. Scott - Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock"

"I may be crazy, but I think I've operated on the wrong patient."

"Watch them operate!"

"Madness, Murder and Malpractice."

"Behind the lab coat beats the heart of a man who's been pushed to the edge."

"Mrs. Cushing: Dr. Spezio, may I see you for a moment, Doctor, if you don't mind? Doctor is this your handwriting, if you don't mind? Am I supposed to read this? Was that a sprain? Was that a broken wrist? I can't read that scribbling. I mean I have to bill these people. I know you doctors are the ministering angels and I'm the bitch from the accounting department, but I've a job to do too. I mean, if you don't mind, Doctor."

"Mr. Blacktree disapproves of my miniskirt, the only thing I had to come to the city with. Back at the tribe, I wear ankle-length buckskin."

"Within a week, my father had closed his Beacon Hill practice and set out to start a mission in the Mexican Mountains. I turned in my SDS card and my crash helmet, and I followed him. It was a disaster, at least for me. My father had received the revelation, not I. He stood gaunt on a mountain slope and preached the Apocalypse to solemnly amused Indians. I masturbated a great deal. We lived in a grass wickiup, ate raw rabbit and crushed piñon nuts. It was hideous. Within two months, I was back in Boston. A hollow shell, disenchanted with everything, and dizzy with dengue. I turned to austerity, combed my hair tight, entered nursing school. I became haggard, driven - had shamelessly incestuous dreams about my father. I took up with some of the senior staff there. One of them a portly psychiatrist, explained I was generated by an unresolved lust for my father. I cracked up. One day, they found me walking to work naked and screaming obscenities. There was talk of institutionalizing me. So I packed a bag and went back to join my father in the Sierra Madre Mountains. I've been there ever since. That's three years. My father is, of course, as mad as a hatter. I watch over him, and have been curiously content. You see, Doctor, I believe in everything."

"I'm middle class. Among us middle class, love doesn't triumph over all - responsibility does."

"We've got a 23-year-old boy. I threw him out of the house last year. A shaggy-haired Maoist. I don't know where he is. Presumably, building bombs in basements as an expression of universal brotherhood."

"You're greedy, unfeeling, inept, indifferent, self-inflating, and unconscionably profitable. Besides that, I have nothing against you. I'm sure you play a hell of a game of golf."

"Now what in hell am I going to tell this boy Schaefer's parents? That a substitute nurse assassinated him because she couldn't tell the doctors from the patients on the floor? My God! The incompetence in this hospital is absolutely radiant... I mean, where do you train your nurses, Mrs. Christie, Dachau!?"

"Abe Vigoda – Sal Tessio"

"James Caan – Santino "Sonny" Corleone"

"One of my favorite books-and I emphasize the word book here because I'm not talking about the movie-is The Godfather, because that book took me to another world-not necessarily a real world, but it did make good guys of some rather unpleasant people. It did take me to another world."

"Victor Rendina – Philip Tattaglia"