"Sandahl Bergman, Eileen Casey, Bruce Anthony Davis, Gary Flannery, Jennifer Nairn-Smith, Danny Ruvolo, Leland Schwantes, John Sowinski, Candace Tovar, and Rima Vetter - Principal dancers"

"Anthony Holland - Paul"

"Chris Chase - Leslie Perry, film critic"

"Jules Fisher - Jules"

"John Lithgow - Lucas Sergeant"

"Deborah Geffner - Victoria Porter"

"[repeated line] It's showtime, folks!"

"William LeMassena - Jonesy Hecht"

"Max Wright - Joshua Penn"

"Michael Tokan - Dr. Ballinger"

"Erzsebet Foldi - Michelle Gideon"

"Ben Vereen - O'Connor Flood"

"Cliff Gorman - David Newman"

"Ann Reinking - Kate Jagger"

"Leland Palmer - Audrey Paris"

"Jessica Lange - Angelique"

"Roy Scheider - Joe Gideon"

"All that work. All that glitter. All that pain. All that love. All that crazy rhythm. All that jazz."

"Davis Newman: There's all this bullshit about death with dignity. You know what death with dignity is, man? You don't drool."

"Davis Newman: This chick, man, without the benefit of dying herself, has broken down the process of death into five stages: anger, denial, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Sounds like a Jewish law firm. "Good morning, Angerdenialbargainingdepressionacceptance!""

"Audrey Paris: You see, Sammy, in California everybody needs a car. I got a friend who bought a Mercedes just to get to the bathroom."

"[singing] Give it to me! Bye bye life, Bye bye happiness, hello loneliness, I think he's gonna die. Bye bye life, Bye bye happiness, Hello emptiness, I think he's gonna die. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Goodbye your life, goodbye."

"Folks! What can I tell you about my next guest? This cat allowed himself to be adored, but not loved. And his success in show business was matched by failure in his personal relationship bag, now — that's where he really bombed. And he came to believe that work, show business, love, his whole life, even himself and all that jazz, was bullshit. He became numero uno game player — uh, to the point where he didn't know where the games ended and the reality began. Like, for this cat, the only reality — is death, man. Ladies and gentlemen, let me lay on you a so-so entertainer, not much of a humanitarian, and this cat was never nobody's friend. In his final appearance on the great stage of life — uh, you can applaud if you wanna — Mr. Joe Gideon!"

"[last lines, Joe is dying] Hey, at least I won't have to lie to you anymore."

""[to God, during the "hospital escape" scene]" What's the matter, don't you like musical comedy?"

"The pain is gone. I'm OK. Nothing wrong with me a rewrite of the show wouldn't cure. A couple of good jokes is what I need."

"Stop smiling! Lay back! Lay back! Hold it, hold it, hold it. Candy, Casey, very good. You're gonna do it again, Victoria. Gary, Danny, let's go. Stop smiling, it's not the high school play. Count! Hold it. [to Victoria] Stand on your right foot. Point your left toe. Drop the shoulder. Now, that's not too hard, is it? Again!"

"Do you suppose Stanley Kubrick ever gets depressed?"

"[to Audrey] If I die, I'm sorry for all the bad things I did to you. [to Katie] And if I live, I'm sorry for all the bad things I'm gonna do to you."

"The almighty J.J. ...the columnist with sixty million believers ...his wrath is feared by the great and near great who worship the sweet smell of success!"

"Stephen Tobolowsky - Eric Kluster"

"Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace"

"Philip Baker Hall - Don Hewitt"

"Russell Crowe - Jeffrey Wigand"

"Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman"

"Two men driven to tell the truth... whatever the cost."

"Warning: Exposing the Truth May Be Hazardous"

"Fame has a fifteen minute half-life. Infamy lasts a little longer."

""Mike"? Try "Mr. Wallace." We work in the same corporation, doesn't mean we work in the same profession. What are you gonna do now? You gonna finesse me? Lawyer me some more? I've been in this profession fifty fucking years. You and the people you work for are destroying the most-respected, the highest-rated, the most-profitable show on this network!"

"Do me a favor, will you - spare me, for God's sake, get in the real world, what do you think? I'm going to resign in protest? To force it on the air? The answer's "no." I don't plan to spend the end of my days wandering in the wilderness of National Public Radio. That decision I've already made."

"Will you tell him that when I conduct an interview, I sit anywhere I damn please!"

"I never left a source hang out to dry, ever! Abandoned! Not 'till right fucking now. When I came on this job I came with my word intact. I'm gonna leave with my word intact. Fuck the rules of the game!"

"I'm Lowell Bergmann, I'm from 60 Minutes. You know, you take the "60 Minutes" out of that sentence, nobody returns your phone call."

"What do I tell the next source when the next tough story comes along, huh? 'Hang in with us, you'll be ok maybe'? What got broken here doesn't go back together."

"You pay me to go get guys like Wigand, to draw him out. To get him to trust us, to get him to go on television. I do. I deliver him. He sits. He talks. He violates his own confidentiality agreement. And he's only the key witness in the biggest public health reform issue, maybe the biggest, most-expensive corporate-malfeasance case in U.S. history. And Jeffrey Wigand, who's out on a limb, does he go on television and tell the truth? Yes. Is it newsworthy? Yes. Are we gonna air it? Of course not. Why? Because he's not telling the truth? No. Because he is telling the truth. That's why we're not going to air it. And the more truth he tells, the worse it gets!"

"You'd better take a good look, because I'm getting two things: pissed off and curious."

"Barbara Nichols - Rita"