"DIE, YOU ALIEN SHITHEAD! [Prepares to shoot, but a Martian notices him] Uh-oh. [Drops his gun and holds up a flag] I surrender! [The Martian disintegrates him with a ray gun]"

"I want to thank my Grandma for always being so good to me, and, and for helping save the world and everything."

"They blew up Congress! [laughs]"

"[After a Martian's head explodes] I think it must be my music!"

"[Talking on the phone] Hello? This is General Casey. I get to meet the Martian Ambassador! Ain't that great? Oh, it's a hell of an honor. But didn't I always tell you, honey, if I just stayed in place and never spoke up, good things are bound to happen! Yeah... Okay. [Makes kissing noises and hangs up the phone]"

"[As the Martians disintegrate Congress] Mr. Ambassador, please! What are you doing? This doesn't make sense! It's not logical! It's not - [A Martian knocks Kessler unconscious]"

"Hey! You're Tom Jones, right? "It ain't unusual"? Hey Tom, Tom! Can I have an autograph? Anyone got a pen?"

"[To Byron] Hey! Hey, just because you're dressed like King Tut doesn't mean you're our leader!"

"[Reporting in Pahrump, NV, where the Martians are landing] The teeming masses have gathered from who knows how many states. Waiting and watching. Why have they come? Curiosity? Or is it something more? Or is it simply to say "I was there. I was there when first man met Martian." Jason Stone, GNN. Pahrump."

"Harry Cording — Joe Burch"

"George Regas — Black Eagle"

"Ralph Forbes — Stephen Marlowe"

"Dickie Jones — Master Jerry Randolph"

"Aggie Herring — Mrs. Mary Burch"

"George O'Brien — Daniel Boone"

"Huntley Gordon — Sir John Randolph"

"Heather Angel — Virginia Randolph"

"Clarence Muse — Pompey"

"One of America's Greatest Heroes...Portrayed by a Great Adventure Star!"

"John Carradine — Simon Girty"

"Stephen Tobolowsky - Eric Kluster"

"Two men driven to tell the truth... whatever the cost."

"Russell Crowe - Jeffrey Wigand"

"Fame has a fifteen minute half-life. Infamy lasts a little longer."

"I'm Lowell Bergmann, I'm from 60 Minutes. You know, you take the "60 Minutes" out of that sentence, nobody returns your phone call."

"Will you tell him that when I conduct an interview, I sit anywhere I damn please!"

"Warning: Exposing the Truth May Be Hazardous"

"You'd better take a good look, because I'm getting two things: pissed off and curious."

"You pay me to go get guys like Wigand, to draw him out. To get him to trust us, to get him to go on television. I do. I deliver him. He sits. He talks. He violates his own confidentiality agreement. And he's only the key witness in the biggest public health reform issue, maybe the biggest, most-expensive corporate-malfeasance case in U.S. history. And Jeffrey Wigand, who's out on a limb, does he go on television and tell the truth? Yes. Is it newsworthy? Yes. Are we gonna air it? Of course not. Why? Because he's not telling the truth? No. Because he is telling the truth. That's why we're not going to air it. And the more truth he tells, the worse it gets!"

"I never left a source hang out to dry, ever! Abandoned! Not 'till right fucking now. When I came on this job I came with my word intact. I'm gonna leave with my word intact. Fuck the rules of the game!"

"Do me a favor, will you - spare me, for God's sake, get in the real world, what do you think? I'm going to resign in protest? To force it on the air? The answer's "no." I don't plan to spend the end of my days wandering in the wilderness of National Public Radio. That decision I've already made."

""Mike"? Try "Mr. Wallace." We work in the same corporation, doesn't mean we work in the same profession. What are you gonna do now? You gonna finesse me? Lawyer me some more? I've been in this profession fifty fucking years. You and the people you work for are destroying the most-respected, the highest-rated, the most-profitable show on this network!"

"What do I tell the next source when the next tough story comes along, huh? 'Hang in with us, you'll be ok maybe'? What got broken here doesn't go back together."

"Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman"

"Philip Baker Hall - Don Hewitt"

"Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace"

"Emily Rutherfurd - Cindy Hasboro"

"Shane Lyons - Charlie Bill"

"Tim Devitt - Mitch Baylor"

"Alice Marie Crowe - Aunt Lena"

"Ted Manson - Sad Joe"

"Jim Fitzpatrick - Rusty"