"A teacher has two jobs; fill young minds with knowledge, yes, but more important, give those minds a compass so that that knowledge doesn't go to waste."

"Robert Ridgely - Keno Manager"

"You work for 30 years because you think that what you do makes a difference, you think it matters to people, but then you wake up one morning and find out, well no, you've made a little error there, you're expendable. I should be laughing."

"If you stay in the game long enough, you'll see everything, win everything, and lose everything."

"Philip Baker Hall - Sydney Brown"

"Never ignore a man's courtesy."

"John C. Reilly - John Finnegan"

"Annette Bening - Myra Langtry"

"A symphony of life."

"I will fuck you up if you fuck with me, OK? I know three kinds of Karate: Jujitsu, Aikido, and regular Karate."

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

"When good luck is a long shot, you have to hedge your bets."

"Pat Hingle - Bobo Justus"

"Gwyneth Paltrow - Clementine"

"In a world divided by black and white, Easy Rawlins is about to cross the line."

"Olympia Dukakis - Principal Helen Jacobs"

"Henry Jones - Mr. Simms"

"Jay Thomas - Bill Meister"

"Jennifer Beals - Daphne Monet"

"Gailard Sartain - Joe"

"[voiceover] It was actually looking more and more like I might not make it through this little adventure I was having. But I was likin' the chill in my blood, and the freedom of working on my own. There were times in the war when I had felt like this. When life or death where the only two choices. That made it simple. And that was alright by me."

"[voiceover] It occurred to me that Coretta had found out a lot more about what I was up to than I had wanted her to. But I had found out that the rich man's woman had a colored boyfriend. It had cost me a sawbuck to get Coretta to give me that information. Well, let's just say somethin' had cost me ten dollars."

"[voiceover] I'd been thinking about Daphne, too...wondering if she meant what she said about what could have happened between us. But at the moment I was wondering if there was any such thing as a sprained chin. But other than that and a headache, a loose tooth and a kidney that a doctor would need to look at, I felt like five thousand, three hundred dollars. And unless Albright was alive somewhere, that feelin' was gonna last a while."

"Joanna Gleason - Governor Gertrude Lang"

"Beth Maitland - Deaf School Principal"

"Anthony Natale - Coltrane "Cole" Holland (age 28)"

"Jernard Burks - Dupree Brouchard"

"Alexandra Boyd - Sarah Olmstead"

"Nicholas John Renner - Coltrane "Cole" Holland (age 6)"

"Joseph Anderson - Coltrane "Cole" Holland (age 15)"

"Steven Randazzo - Benny Giacomo"

"Balthazar Getty - Stadler"

"Paul Adelstein - Sailor - Young Paul"

"Terrence Howard - Louis Russ"

"[gas needle reads empty] Story of my fuckin' life."

"Alicia Witt - Gertrude Lang"

"Charles Napier - Gloucester Hebbing"

"Damon Whitaker - Bobby Tidd"

"J.T. Walsh - Cole"

"[voiceover] It scared me to think about a world that could kill a man like DeWitt Albright. What could a world like that do to me?"

"Dwight Yoakam - Truck Driver"

"[voiceover] I had moved to Los Angeles right after the war with three hundred dollars and the G.I. Bill... And I liked coming home to a place that was mine. According to President Truman I had that comin' to me 'cause I had fought in 'the good war' against Hitler in Europe. But that didn't mean a damn thing to a lotta white folks, including the foreman on my job. So, here I was out of work needin' thirty-two dollars to pay the mortgage. That was three days pay on my old job—and I had about three days to get it."

"Lara Flynn Boyle - Suzanne Brown/Ann McCord"

"William H. Macy - Vice Principal (later Principal) Gene Wolters"

"Jean Louisa Kelly - Rowena Morgan"

"Joe Mantell - Lawrence Walsh"

"James Hong - Khan"