"Well, you boys don't look like you're from this part of the country. You're lucky I'm here to see that you don't get into anything...Well, they got this here - see - uh - scissor-happy 'Beautify America' thing goin' on around here. They're tryin' to make everybody look like Yul Brynner. They used - uh - rusty razor blades on the last two long-hairs that they brought in here and I wasn't here to protect them. You see - uh - I'm - uh - I'm a lawyer. Done a lot of work for the A.C.L.U."

"You gotta be kidding. I mean, you know who this is, man? This is Captain America. I'm Billy. Hey, we're headliners baby. We played every fair in this part of the country. I mean, for top dollar, too!"

"Whew. Man, look, I gotta get out of here, man. Now we - we got things we want to do, man, like - I just - uh - I gotta get out of here, man."

"I never really thought of myself as a freak, ya know...but I Love to Freak!"

"[about marijuana] It gives you a whole new way of looking at the day."

"[while tripping on LSD] Oh Mother why didn't you tell me? Why didn't anybody tell me anything?...What are you doing to me now?...Shut up!...How could you make me hate you so?...Oh God, I hate you so much."

"[reading inscription] "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.""

"No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud."

"Kamel Belghazi – Khalid"

"Ghin Ognianova – The old woman"

"Jacky Nercessian - Mustapha"

"Mohamed Majd - The Father"

"Nicolas Cazalé - Réda"

"A voyage beyond corporal life"

"Atik Mohamed – Le pélerin Ahmad"

"Val Kilmer - Elvis/Mentor"

"Christopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti"

"I always said, if I had to fuck a guy... I mean had to, if my life depended on it... I'd fuck Elvis."

"Dennis Hopper - Clifford Worley"

"Brad Pitt - Floyd"

"Gary Oldman - Drexl Spivey"

"Bronson Pinchot - Elliot Blitzer"

"Patricia Arquette - Alabama Whitman"

"Christian Slater - Clarence Worley"

"Not since Bonnie and Clyde have two people been so good at being bad."

"Stealing. Cheating. Killing. Who said romance is dead?"

"Big Don: I eat the pussy, I eat the butt, I eat every motherfuckin' thang."

"Virgil: Now the first time you kill somebody, that's the hardest. I don't give a shit if you're fuckin' Wyatt Earp or Jack the Ripper. Remember that guy in Texas? The guy up in that fuckin' tower that killed all them people? I'll bet you green money that first little black dot he took a bead on, that was the bitch of the bunch. First one is tough, no fuckin' foolin'. The second one... the second one ain't no fuckin' Mardi Gras either, but it's better than the first one 'cause you still feel the same thing, y'know... except it's more diluted, y'know it's... it's better. I threw up on the first one, you believe that? Then the third one... the third one is easy, you level right off. It's no problem. Now... shit... now I do it just to watch their fuckin' expression change."

"Drexl Spivey: Now I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties."

"Elliot Blitzer: Hi. How are you? My name's Elliot, and I'm with the Cub Scouts of America. We're... we're selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree."

"Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool. And sometimes Clarence asks me what I would have done if he had died, if that bullet had been two inches more to the left. To this, I always smile, as if I'm not going to satisfy him with a response. But I always do. I tell him of how I would want to die, but that the anguish and the want of death would fade like the stars at dawn, and that things would be much as they are now. Perhaps. Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis."

"I had to come all the way from the highways and byways of Tallahassee, Florida to Motor City, Detroit to find my true love. If you gave me a million years to ponder, I would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together. And to this day, the events that followed all seem like a distant dream. But the dream was real and was to change our lives forever. I kept asking Clarence why our world seemed to be collapsing and everything seemed so shitty. And he'd say, 'That's the way it goes, but don't forget, it goes the other way too.' That's the way romance is. Usually, that's the way it goes. But every once in awhile, it goes the other way too."

"I'm gonna go jump in the tub and get all slippery and soapy and then hop in that waterbed and watch X-rated movies 'till you get your ass back in my lovin' arms."

"Please shut up! I'm trying to come clean, okay? I've been a call-girl for exactly four days and you're my third customer. I want you to know that I'm not damaged goods. I'm not what they call Florida white trash. I'm a good person and when it comes to relationships, I'm one-hundred percent, I'm one hundred percent... monogamous."

"[Peeling out in reverse into oncoming traffic] We now return to Bullitt already in progress."

"I've been in America all my life. I've always wanted to see what TV in other countries looks like."

"[About Sonny Chiba] Well, he ain't so much a good guy as he is just a bad motherfucker. I mean, he gets paid by people to fuck guys up, you know?"

"If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it."

"You just said you love me, now if I say I love you and just throw caution to the wind and let the chips fall where they may and you're lying to me I'm gonna fuckin' die."

"Chris Penn - Nicky Dimes"

"James Gandolfini - Virgil"

"Saul Rubinek - Lee Donowitz"

"Samuel L. Jackson - Big Don"

"Tom Sizemore - Cody Nicholson"

"Michael Rapaport - Dick Ritchie"

"I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine."

"Boris Leskin — Grandfather"