"Tammy: I was just rubbing the phone against my fanny. Oooh it's fresh this morning. And look at my nipples, standing up like little soldiers. What's a poor girl to do?"

"Duke: Oh, you give a fuckin' aspirin a headache, pal!"

"Dragan: Don't piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining."

"Gene: If you have to kill a person, never ever tell a living soul."

"Shanks: Now, his party piece, right... is lopping people's heads off, then fetching 'em back to his boss."

"Cody: Black! You can't have black. Black's the color for a hearse or a taxi."

"Jimmy Price: You know why people like you can't leave this business? Because you make too much money for people like me."

"You don't fuck about, do you?"

"I'm not happy. This shit is out of control. You sort it out, or I'll sort you out."

"[About Duke] He's a fucking maniac, a relic, a throwback. Belongs to the Dark Ages, Gene."

"Somebody's about to get a fucking slap!"

"I've checked you out, son. You're a smart lad. But you keep very, very bad company."

"The art of good business is being a good middleman."

"My name? If you knew that, you'd be as clever as me."

"England. Typical. Even drug dealers don't work weekends"

"You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake, son."

"Have a plan and stick to it."

"I hate guns! ... although, that one is very pretty."

"But as some Roman general once said: If you seek peace, plan for war."

"I'm not a gangster, I'm a businessman whose commodity happens to be cocaine."

"Life is so fucking good, I can taste it in my spit."

"I mean, it's like selling anything: washing machines, handmade shoes, blow jobs. As long as you don't take the piss, people will always come back for more."

"Always remember that one day all this drug monkey business will be legal. They won't leave it to people like me... not when they finally figure out how much money is to be made - not millions, fucking billions. Recreational Drugs PLC - giving the people what they want... Good times today, stupor tomorrow. But this is now, so until prohibition ends make hay while the sun shines."

"When I was born, the world was a far simpler place. It was all just cops and robbers."

"Mussawi: Rumors of Bob, but never Bob."

"Max Woodman: I want pig bacon!"

"Mark Strong - Mussawi"

"Tim Blake Nelson — Danny Dalton"

"Alexander Siddig — Prince Nasir Al-Subaai"

"Chris Cooper — Jimmy Pope"

"Jeffrey Wright — Bennett Holiday"

"Amr Waked - Mohammed Sheik Agiza"

"Christopher Plummer — Dean Whiting"

"Amanda Peet - Julie Woodman"