"Narrator: Nine-ball is rotation pool, the balls are pocketed in numbered order. The only ball that means anything, that wins it, is the 9. Now, the player can shoot eight trick shots in a row, blow the 9, and lose. On the other hand, the player can get the 9 in on the break, if the balls spread right, and win. Which is to say, that luck plays a part in nine-ball. But for some players, luck itself is an art."

"John Turturro - Julian"

"Orvis: You know who you got stakehorsin' here for you? This here's Fast Eddie Felson. Who the hell are you? The end of the world?"

"I think maybe the money's what's throwing you off here today."

"[To Grady Seasons] Hey, Grady, up your ass with the spot. Is that okay with you?"

"[To Carmen] I'm not your daddy, I'm not your boyfriend, so don't be playing games with me. I'm your partner."

"Bill Cobbs - Orvis"

"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned."

"[To Vincent] You win one more game, you're gonna be humping your fist for a long time. Got that, Vincent?"

"This ain't pool. This is for bangers. Straight pool is pool. This is like hand-ball, or cribbage, or something. Straight pool, you gotta be a real surgeon to get 'em, you know? It's all finesse. Now, every thing is nine-ball, 'cause it's fast, good for T.V., good for a lot of break shots... Oh, well. What the hell. Checkers sells more than chess."

"Vincent, get in the car, this is embarrassing. You're acting like some girl who got felt up at the drive-in."

"I can always go back to whiskey; it's been very good to me. I mean, you're sitting in it, and I'm wearing it."

"Pool excellence is not about excellent pool."

"[To Vincent] You gotta have two things to win. You gotta have brains and you gotta have balls. Now, you got too much of one and not enough of the other."

"Forest Whitaker - Amos"

"Iggy Pop - Skinny Player on Road"

"[to Carmen about Vincent] We got a racehorse here, a thoroughbred. You make him feel good, I teach him how to run!"

"[To Vincent] It's like a nightmare, isn't it? It just keeps getting worse and worse."

"How can we be happy behind the backs of people who trust us?"

"Newland, you couldn't be happy if it meant being cruel. If we act any other way, I'll be making you act against what I love in you most. And I can't go back to that way of thinking. Don't you see! I can't love you unless I give you up."

"[to Amsterdam] You get to know a lot butchering meat. We're made up of the same things - flesh and blood, tissue, organs. I love to work with pigs. The nearest thing in nature to the flesh of a man is the flesh of a pig...This is the liver. The kidneys. The heart. This is a wound—the stomach will bleed and bleed. [stabs the pig] This is a kill. [stabs the pig] This is a kill. Main artery. [stabs the pig] This is a kill."

"[to Boss Tweed] Mulberry Street... and Worth... Cross and Orange... and Little Water. Each of the Five Points is a finger. When I close my hand it becomes a fist. And, anytime that I wish, I can turn it against you."

"[to Boss Tweed] I don't see no Americans. I see trespassers, Irish harps. Do a job for a nickel what a nigger does for a dime & what a white man used to get a quarter for."

"Everything you see belongs to me, to one degree or another. The beggars and newsboys and quick thieves here in Paradise, the sailor dives and gin mills and blind tigers on the waterfront, the anglers and amusers, the she-hes and the Chinks. Everybody owes, everybody pays. Because that's how you stand up against the rising of the tide."

"The past is a torch that lights our way. Where our fathers have shown us the path, we shall follow. Our faith is the weapon most feared by our enemies. For thereby shall we lift our people up against those who would destroy us."

"Our name is called "The Dead Rabbits" to remind all of our suffering, and as a call to those who suffer still to join our ranks. However far they may have strayed from our common home across the sea. For with great numbers must come great strength in the salvation of our people."

"My father gave his life, making this country what it is. Murdered by the British with all of his men on the twenty-fifth of July, anno domini, 1814. Do you think I'm going to help you befoul his legacy, by giving this country over to them what's had no hand in the fighting for it? Why, because they come off a boat crawling with lice and begging you for soup?"

"In the end, they put candles on the bodies so's their friends, if they had any, could know them in the dark. The city did this free of charge. Shang, Jimmy Spoils, Hell-cat, McGloin, and more. Friend or foe, didn't make no difference now. It was four days and nights before the worst of the mob was finally put down. We never knew how many New Yorkers died that week before the city was finally delivered. My father told me we was all born of blood and tribulation, and so then too was our great city. But for those of us what lived and died in them furious days, it was like everything we knew was mildly swept away. And no matter what they did to build this city up again... for the rest of time... it would be like no one even knew we was ever here."

"It's a funny feeling being taken under the wing of a dragon. It's warmer than you'd think."

"When you kill a king, you don't stab him in the dark. You kill him where the entire court can watch him die."

"You know there's more of us coming off those boats everyday? Some say 15,000 Irish a week! Get all of us together and we ain't got a gang, we got an army!"

"Ears and noses will be the trophies of the day."

"Gary Lewis - McGloin"

"Brendan Gleeson - Walter 'Monk' McGinn"

"Stephen Graham - Shang"

"Eddie Marsan - Killoran"

"Jim Broadbent - Boss Tweed"

"John C. Reilly - Happy Jack"

"Henry Thomas - Johnny Sirocco"

"Cameron Diaz - Jenny Everdeane"

"Liam Neeson - 'Priest' Vallon"

"Leonardo DiCaprio - Amsterdam Vallon"

"Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting"

"There's no niggers among the Natives! Niggers and Rabbits is one thing! BUT A NIGGER IN THE CHURCH, THAT'S SOMETHING ELESE!"

"You're gonna end up on a stake like your man did! GYUUUUURRGH!"

"Father! Jesus, did you know there's NIGGER IN YOUR CHURCH?!"

"What's that *NIGGER* DOING IN THIS CHURCH?!"

"GO BACK TO AFRICA, NIGGER! GO BACK TO AFRICAAAAA!!!!!!"