"[about Percy] The man is mean and careless and stupid, and that's a bad combination in a place like this. Sooner or later, he's gonna get somebody hurt, or worse."

"Goddamn it, Percy, get the hell off my block! [Percy leaves]"

"What happens on the Mile, stays on the Mile. Always has."

"I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. Usually, death row was called "the last mile"; we called ours "the Green Mile" — the floor was the color of faded limes. We had the electric chair — "Old Sparky," we called it. Oh, I've lived a lot of years, Ellie, but 1935 — that takes the prize. That year, I had the worst urinary infection of my life, and that was also the year of John Coffey and the two dead girls."

"Woody Harrelson - Sergeant William Schumann"

"John Michael Higgins - John Levy"

"William H. Macy - CIA Agent Charles Young"

"Kirsten Dunst - Tracy Lime"

"Andrea Martin - Liz Butsky"

"Willie Nelson - Johnny Dean"

"Denis Leary - Fad King"

"Anne Heche - Winifred Ames"

"Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean"

"Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss"

"I was just on my way to get drunk."

"Albania's hard to rhyme."

"When the fit hits the shan somebody's going to have to stay after school."

"There are two things I know to be true. There's no difference between good flan and bad flan, and there is no war."

"Oh, God. What do we do now? Huh? Huh? What do we do now, huh, boy producer? Huh? Mister win-an-Emmy, social-conscience, whale-shit, save-the-rain-forest, peacenik-commie, fuckin'-hire-a-convict-shithead? Huh? What do we do now, liberal, affirmative action, shithead, peacenik commie fuck? What do you want to do now?"

"Corny? He says it's corny? Of course it's corny. We wouldn't be doing the flippin' thing if it wasn't corny."

"King, King, I got a thing here, a product placement, gonna have a bigger back-end than Hattie McDaniel."

"Johnny, I got a lot of people here who are a little depressed because the war just ended, please give me a new song."

"That's right. During the filming of 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,' three of the horsemen died two weeks before the ending of principle photography. This is nothing, this is nothing. This is... this is... this is act one- The War."

"Look at that! That is a complete fucking fraud, and it looks 100% real. This is the best work I've ever done in my life - because it's so honest."

"The war ain't over til I say it's over. This is my picture. You think you're in a spot? You think this is a tight spot? Try making the Hunchback of Notre Dame when your three lead actors die, two weeks from the end of principal photography."

"Y'know, producing is being a Samurai warrior. They pay you, day in, day out, for years, so that, ONE DAY, when called upon, you can respond, your training at Its peak, and save the day."

"This is nothing. D'you ever shoot in Italy? Try three Italian starlets wacked out on Benzedrine and grappa, this is a walk in the park..."

"You take the fruit of 40 years - hard lessons, mistakes - and you call it wisdom."

"Can't have a war without an enemy...You could have one, but it would be a very dull war..."

"This is a shitty business, and it needs no ghosts coming from the grave to tell us so. But Lord willing and Jesus tarries, in eight days I will be taking you into the second term."

"54, 40 or fight. What does that mean?...Remember the Maine...Tippecanoe and Tyler, too...They're war slogans Mr. Motss. We remember the slogans, we can't even remember the fucking wars. Y'know why? Cause its show business. That's why I'm here. Naked girl, covered in Napalm. Five marines Raising the Flag, Mount Suribachi. V for Victory, Y'remember the picture, fifty years from now, they'll have forgotten the war. Gulf War? Smart bomb, falling down a chimney. Twenty five hundred missions a day, 100 days, one video of one bomb Mr. Motss. The American people bought that war."

"All combat takes place at night, in the rain, and at the junction of four map segments."

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

"Maury Chaykin - Prison Warden"

"Julieta Rosen - Esperanza De La Vega"

"L. Q. Jones - Three-fingered Jack"

"Victor Rivers - Joaquín Murrieta"

"Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. - Don Pedro"

"Tony Amendola - Don Luiz"

"Matt Letscher - Captain Harrison Love"

"Stuart Wilson - Don Rafael Montero:"

"Catherine Zeta-Jones - Elena Montero:"

"Anthony Hopkins - Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro:"

"Antonio Banderas - Alejandro Murrieta / Zorro:"

"This summer, justice leaves its mark."

"No one has seen his face....but everyone....knows this mark."

"When freedom is a memory and justice is outlawed, the just must become outlaws."

"He was vigorous and young. (smiles then looks serious) He was very vigorous, Father."