"I once spent a year hearing children's confessions and I wound up a lemon drop junkie. The little wierdos keep breathing it on you along with all that pot. And between the two of them, I've got a feeling it's probably addictive."

"I've been standing out there for centuries. Four new popes have been elected. That's a lot of white smoke."

"Jesus loves you, everyone else thinks you're an asshole."

"We won... Bill. Now free me."

"Bill, now! Shoot now! Kill me now!"

"I have dreams of a rose... and falling down a long flight of steps."

"This I believe in... I believe in death. I believe in disease. I believe in injustice, and inhumanity, and torture, and anger, and hate. I believe in murder. I believe in pain! I believe in cruelty, and infidelity! I believe in slime, and stink, and in every crawling, putrid thing, every possible ugliness and corruption, YOU SON OF A BITCH! I BELIEVE... in you."

"My wife's mother is visiting, Father. And Tuesday night, she's cooking us a carp. It's a tasty fish, I've got nothing against it. But, because it's supposedly filled with impurities, she buys it live and for three days, it's been swimming... up and down... in my bathtub. Up and down... and I hate it. I can't stand the sight of it, moving its gills. Now, you're standing very close to me, Father; have you noticed? Yes. I haven't had a bath for three days. I can't go home until the carp is asleep because if I see it, swimming... I'll kill it."

"I was signaling beings on Mars. Sometimes they answer."

"On the entrance exam for new policemen, they ask, "What are rabies and what would you do for them?" Ryan said, "Rabies are Jewish priests and I would do anything I possibly could for them.""

"I cannot believe you just said that. What kind of a world is this? Are you an animal? Do you know what Macbeth is about? I'll tell you. It's a play about the numbing of the moral sense. I tell Ryan that we have nothing to go on in this case. You know what he says to me? "Win some, lose some." You're a racist, Ryan. Did you know that?"

"Julia Ormond - Susannah Fincannon-Ludlow"

"Bart the Bear - The Bear"

"Kenneth Welsh - Sheriff Tynert"

"John Novak - James O'Banion"

"Robert Wisden - John T. O'Banion"

"Tantoo Cardinal - Pet Decker"

"Paul Desmond - Decker"

"Christina Pickles - Isabel Ludlow"

"Gordon Tootoosis - One Stab"

"Sekwan Auger - Young Isabel II Decker"

"Karina Lombard - Isabel "Isabel II" Decker/Isabel Decker Ludlow"

"Henry Thomas - Samuel Ludlow"

"Aidan Quinn - Alfred Ludlow"

"Anthony Hopkins - Col. William Ludlow"

"Brad Pitt - Tristan Ludlow"

"The men of the Ludlow family. A woman's grace brought them together. Then her passion tore them apart."

"After the Fall from Innocence the Legend begins."

"He was a rock they broke themselves against however much he tried to protect them."

"I followed all of the rules, man's and God's. And you, you followed none of them. And they all loved you more. Samuel, Father, and my... even my own wife."

"Please excuse my father. It makes him feel young and powerful to treat us like idiot children."

"Stab speak English?! Ha! He wouldn't lower himself to speak English would you Stab?!"

"Tristan, I have nowhere to send this letter and no reason to believe you wish to receive it. I write it only for myself. And so I will hide it away along with all the things left unsaid and undone between us."

"Forever turned out to be too long Tristan."

"Indians! Indians were the issue in those days. I can assure you, gentlemen, there is nothing quite so grotesque as the meeting of a child with a bullet; or an entire village slaughtered while sleeping. That was the Government's resolution of that particular issue and I have seen nothing in its behavior since then that would persuade me that it has gained either in wisdom, common sense, or humanity."

"I thought Tristan would never live to be an old man. I was wrong about that. I was wrong about many things. It was those who loved him most who died young. He was a rock they broke themselves against however much he tried to protect them."

"Tristan died in 1963. The moon of the popping trees. He was last seen up in the North Country, where the hunting was still good. His grave is unmarked, but it does not matter. He had always lived in the borderland anyway, somewhere between this world and the Other."

"She was like the water that freezes inside a rock and breaks it apart. It was no more her fault than it is the fault of the water when the rock shatters."

"It's hard to tell of happiness, time goes by and we feel safe too soon."

"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legends."

"They Saved The Best For Last."

"Evil has finally met its match."

"Alice Cooper - Freddy's father (uncredited)"