"You know what word I'm not comfortable with? Nuance. It's not a real word. Like gesture. Gesture's a real word. With gesture you know where you stand. But nuance? I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong."

"I'll hit you so hard, I'll kill your whole family."

"[to his older brother] It's funny. You know, when I was a little kid I always wanted a brother. I told that to mom once and she said, "You have a brother". I said, "Oh, so that's who the asshole in the other bed is"."

"Do you ever get the feeling that there's something going on that we don't know about?"

"All I did was I parked the car on a nice lonely road, I looked at her, and I said fuck or fight."

"When you're dating, everything is talking about sex. Where can we do it? Why can't we do it? Are you parents gonna be out so we can do it? Everything is always talkin' about getting sex, and then planning the wedding, all the details. But then, when you get married... it's crazy, I dunno. You can get it whenever you want it. You wake up in the morning and she's there. You come home from work and she's there. So all that sex planning talk is over with. And so is the wedding planning talk, 'cause you're already married. So... ya know I can come down here and we can bullshit the entire night away but I cannot hold a 5 minute conversation with Beth. I mean it's not her fault, I'm not blaming her, she's great... It's just, we got nothing to talk about... But it's good, it's good."

"If you want to talk, you always have the guys at the diner. You don't need a girl if you wanna talk."

"Sometimes you land on a small fish. You unhook him very carefully. You place him back in the water. You set him free so that somebody else can have the pleasure of catching him."

"Scott Adsit as cab driver"

"Benny Golson as himself"

"Michael Nouri as Max"

"Valery Nikolaev as Milodragovich"

"Stephen Mendel as First Class Steward"

"Rini Bell as Nadia"

"Guillermo Diaz as Bobby Alima"

"Corey Reynolds as Waylin"

"Jude Ciccolella as Karl Iverson"

"Eddie Jones as Salchak"

"Zoe Saldana as Dolores Torres"

"Kumar Pallana as Gupta Rajan"

"Barry Shabaka Henley as Thurman"

"Diego Luna as Enrique Cruz"

"Chi McBride as Joe Mulroy"

"Stanley Tucci as Frank Dixon"

"Catherine Zeta-Jones as Amelia Warren"

"Tom Hanks as Viktor Navorski"

"[panicking, after having reflexively shot Chad in the head] Oh, my fuck! I shot a fucking spook! Who the fuck are you, you fucker?!"

"Dermot Mulroney - Star of Coming Up Daisy"

"Olek Krupa - Krapotkin"

"Devin Rumer - Surveillance"

"Elizabeth Marvel - Sandy Pfarrer"

"Jeffrey DeMunn - Cosmetic surgeon"

"J. K. Simmons - CIA Superior"

"David Rasche - Palmer Smith"

"Richard Jenkins - Ted Treffon"

"Brad Pitt - Chad Feldheimer"

"Tilda Swinton - Katie Cox"

"I know who you are, fucker!"

"John Malkovich - Osbourne Cox"

"Frances McDormand - Linda Litzke"

"George Clooney - Harry Pfarrer"

"Intelligence is only their job."

"A high stakes love life and Jewel CIA shelter."

"Intelligence is relative."

"[on the phone] I'm sorry, I don't know the number to, uh, my savings account because, believe it or not, I don't spend my entire day sitting around trying to memorize the fucking numbers to my fucking bank accounts! MORON!"

"[to Bianca, after she is given flowers] Those are nice, huh? And they're not real, so they'll last forever."

"Maxwell McCabe-Lokos - Kurt"

"Karen Robinson - Cindy"

"Patricia Clarkson - Dagmar Berman, MD"