"Metro Wave Broadcasting is a giant media corporation specializing in broadcast radio. It has 357 affiliate stations in the United States and Canada. Two minutes ago I received a phone call from the man who controls those 357 stations, the president of Metro Wave Broadcasting. He asked me if Metro Wave could pick up this show, pick up Barry Champlaign for national syndication, beginning Monday night. I've had these offers before, and I've been asked in the past if I could ever soften my touch, go a little easier, and my answer has always been the same; Take it or leave it. He took it. And so, beginning Monday night, this show, Night Talk, begins national broadcasting. That means the nation is listening. You better have something to say. I know I do."

"Alan Fudge - Ed Hobbs"

"Darren McGavin - Gus Sands"

"Robert Duvall - Max Mercy"

"Joe Don Baker - The Whammer"

"Richard Farnsworth - Red Blow"

"Barbara Hershey - Harriet Bird"

"Wilford Brimley - Pop Fisher"

"Kim Basinger - Memo Paris"

"Michael Madsen - Bartholomew 'Bump' Bailey"

"Glenn Close - Iris Gaines"

"Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs"

"From an age of innocence comes a hero for today."

"He lived for a dream that wouldn't die."

"Boyhood dreams, a bat made from a tree struck by lightning and most importantly, a never-ending passion for the game."

"The best there was!"

"You've got a gift Roy... but it's not enough - you've got to develop yourself. If you rely too much on your own gift... then... you'll fail."

"I wanted to win that pennant worse than I wanted any goddamned thing in my life. You'd think I could just this once, wouldn't you? I didn't care nothing about the Series. Win or lose, I would have been satisfied."

"People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!"

"[after his hand-made bat breaks] Pick me out a winner Bobby."

"Some mistakes I guess we never stop paying for."

"[Frank is in bed watching his mother, who is also watching him as she starts stepping up the stairs in Laman Griffin's residence] I thought mam would come and kiss me good night, to say thank you for sticking up for her. But no, she went to him."

"Peter Halpin as Older Malachy"

"Devon Murray as Middle Malachy"

"Shane Murray-Corcoran as Young Malachy (as Shane Murray Corcoran)"

"Andrew Bennett as Narrator (Geriatric Frank)"

"Eanna MacLiam as Uncle Pat"

"Liam Carney as Uncle Pa Keating"

"Pauline McLynn as Aunt Aggie"

"Ronnie Masterson as Grandma Sheehan"

"Michael Legge as Older Frank"

"Ciaran Owens as Middle Frank"

"Joe Breen as Young Frank"

"Robert Carlyle as Malachy (Frank's father)"

"Emily Watson as Angela McCourt (Frank's mother)"

"[To Angela] Give me a fag, woman. I'm telling you, that boy is a little shite!"

"[Puts a wafer on Frank's tongue] Will you stop your clucking and get back to your seat?! Corpus Christi."

"[At dancing lessons] Would you stop the frowning, McCourt?! You've a face on you like a pound of tripe!"

"We all miss Malachy. He's, uh, miss him? He... He's gone to join the army band! Playing the bugle. The bugle? Can you imagine that, playin' the bugle? Playin' the fool, more like."

"[Frank throws up his communion breakfast] I've got God in me backyard!"

"Everyone I know and half the poor of Limerick are here. They all owed the old bitch money. Well, not anymore. [Throws ledger book into the River Shannon]"

"Also, Mikey is the expert in the lane on girls' bodies... and dirty things in general."

"[[Frank is lying in bed recovering from fever in hospital and a doctor sitting near him has farted] And then Dr. Campbell came in and held my hand. It was then that I knew I was going to get better because a doctor would never fart in the presence of a dying boy."

"[Commenting on traditional Irish dancing] If my mates saw me making a pure eejit out of myself at the Irish dancing, I'd be disgrace forever. I want to be Fred Astaire. Irish dancers look like they have steel rods stuck up their arses."

"In the name of the father, the son and the holy toast."

"If I were in America, I could say "I love you, dad", the way they do in the films. But in Limerick they'd laugh at you. In Limerick you are only allowed to say you love God, and babies, and horses that win. Anything else is softness in the head."

"[Ship is sailing out of New York City] We must've been the only Irish family to be saying good bye to the statue of liberty rather than hello."

"Noni Hazlehurst - Elaine Wyatt"

"Tony Martin (comedian) - Jim Wyatt"

"Roberto Meza-Mont - Jorge"