"[to Beaumont] You know man, I hate be the kind of nigga that do a nigga a favor and then Bam! hit the nigga up for a favor in return, but I gots to be that kinda nigga."

"In any real city, you walk, you brush past people, and people bump into you. In L.A, nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other just so we can feel something."

"Hattie Winston - Simone"

"Tommy 'Tiny' Lister - Winston"

"Lisa Gay Hamilton - Sheronda"

"Now that there is the Tec-9, cheap-ass little spray gun made outta South Miami. It retails for $380. I get 'em for 2, sell 'em for 8. They advertise this Tec-9 as the most popular gun in American crime. Do you believe that shit? It actually says that in the little booklet that comes with it: "the most popular gun in American crime". Like they're actually proud of that shit."

"Chris Tucker - Beaumont Livingston"

"Michael Bowen - Mark Dargus"

"Richard T. Jones - Harold Wolfe"

"Robert De Niro - Louis Gara"

"Michael Keaton - Ray Nicolette"

"Bridget Fonda - Melanie Ralston"

"Robert Forster - Max Cherry"

"Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie"

"Pam Grier - Jackie Brown"

"My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass."

"Six players on the trail of a half a million in cash. There's only one question... Who's playing who?"

"LOOK OUT! Caught between the Feds and a cold blooded killer. With half a million dollars up for grabs. No one knows how it's going down. Except for maybe JACKIE BROWN."

"Daniel Dae Kim - Park"

"Ashlyn Sanchez - Lara"

"Yomi Perry - Maria"

"Ken Garito - Bruce"

"AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes."

"I have lived in the theater as a Trappist monk lives in his faith. I have no other world; no other life - and once in a great while, I experience that moment of revelation for which all true believers wait and pray. You were one. Jeanne Eagels another...there are others, three or four. Eve Harrington will be among them."

"Thelma Ritter - Birdie Coonan"

"Marilyn Monroe - Miss Caswell"

"Barbara Bates - Phoebe"

"Gregory Ratoff - Max Fabian"

"Hugh Marlowe - Lloyd Richards"

"Gary Merrill - Bill Sampson"

"Celeste Holm - Karen Richards"

"George Sanders - Addison DeWitt"

"Anne Baxter - Eve Harrington"

"Bette Davis - Margo Channing"

"Old Actor: [about Eve] We know her humility, her devotion, her loyalty to her art, her love, her deep and abiding love for us, for what we are and what we do, the theater. She has had one wish, one prayer, one dream - to belong to us. Tonight, her dream has come true. And henceforth, we shall dream the same of her."

"Max Fabian: She loves me like a father. Also, she's loaded."