"AL CAPONE. He ruled Chicago with absolute power. No one could touch him. No one could stop him. - Until Eliot Ness and a small force of men swore they'd bring him down."

"Never stop fighting till the fight is done"

"[to Ness] You got nothing. You're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge! You hear me? Cause you got nothing! You got nothing in court, you don't got the bookkeeper, you got NOTHING! NOTHING! And if you were a man, you would've done it now! You don't got a thing, you punk!"

"[to reporters] I'm gonna tell you something. Somebody messes with me? I'm gonna mess with him. Somebody steals from me? I'm gonna say you stole, not talk to him for spittin' on the sidewalk. Y'understand? Now, I have done nothing to hurt these people, but they're angered at me, so what do they do? Doctor up some "income tax", for which they got no case. To annoy me. To speak to me like men? No. To harass a peaceful man. I pray to God if I ever had a grievance I would have just a little more self respect. I'll tell you one more thing. You got an all-out prizefight? You wait until the fight is over, one guy's left standing, and that's how you know who won."

"I want you to get this fuck where he breathes! I want you to find this Nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna piss on his ashes!"

"Life goes on. A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms... Enthusiasms... What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? [grabs a baseball bat] Baseball! A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Teamwork.... Looks, throws, catches, hustles - part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on. If his team don't field... what is he? You follow me? No one! Sunny day, the stands are full of fans. What does he have to say? "I'm goin' out there for myself. But... I get nowhere unless the team wins." [Beats his henchman to death with his bat]"

"I grew up in a tough neighborhood. And we used to say, "You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word." And in that neighborhood, it might've been true. And sometimes a reputation follows you. There is violence in Chicago, of course. But not by me, and not by anybody who works for me, and I'll tell you why: because it's not good business."

"[after being told about an article describing him as the mayor of Chicago in all but name] Well, I tell you, you know, it's touching. Like a lot of things in life, we laugh because it's funny, and we laugh because it's true. Some people say, reformers here say, "Put that man in jail, what does he think he is doing?" Well, what I hope I'm doing, and here's where your English paper's got a point, is I'm responding to the will of the people. People are gonna drink! You know that, I know that, we all know that, and all I do is act on that. And all this talk of bootlegging - what is bootlegging? On a boat, it's bootlegging. On Lake Shore Drive, it's hospitality. I'm a businessman!"

"[chasing a knife-armed thug out of his house with a shotgun] Isn't that just like a Wop? Brings a knife to a gunfight! Get outta here, you Dago bastard! Go on, get your ass outta here!"

"[to Ness, preparing for the liquor raid at the border] Take it easy...take it easy! It'll all happen in time. This is the job. Don't wait for it to happen. Don't even want it to happen. Just watch what does happen."

"[When asked about if a cop is trustworthy] Well, he'd better be - he's my cousin."

"[about finding a team member not under Capone's influence] If you're afraid of getting a rotten apple, don't go to the barrel. Get it off the tree."

"That's the second rule of police work. If you want to keep a secret, don't tell the boss."

"You just fulfilled the first rule of law enforcement: Make sure when your shift is over, you go home alive."

"[to Ness] Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide."

"Julianne Moore — Dr. Anne Eastman"

"Joseph F. Kosala — Detective Rosetti"

"Ron Dean — Detective Kelly"

"Tom Wood — Deputy Marshal Noah Newman"

"L. Scott Caldwell — Deputy Marshal Poole"

"Daniel Roebuck — Deputy Marshal Robert Biggs"

"Jeroen Krabbé — Dr. Charles Nichols"

"Andreas Katsulas — Frederick Sykes"

"Joe Pantoliano — Deputy Marshal Cosmo Renfro"

"Sela Ward — Helen Kimble"

"Tommy Lee Jones — Marshal Samuel Gerard"

"Harrison Ford — Dr. Richard Kimble"

"A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins."

"We just got word from the U.S. Marshals that our old friend Richard Kimble is alive and well and has decided to come back home to Chicago. Now, we all know what high regard we hold for this scumbag, so I am personally donating a bottle of 12-year old Scotch to whoever puts the collar on this quack."

"Dr. Richard Kimble! There's no way out of here, Richard! The entire building is locked down! Give it up Richard, you don't have any time, Chicago police department thinks you're a cop killer, they WILL shoot you on sight! Richard, I know you're innocent! I know about Frederick Sykes! I know about Dr. Charles Nichols! Richard, he borrowed your car the night of your wife's murder, he had the keys! No forced entry, Richard! He telephoned Sykes from your car, Richard! Richard, give it up! Richard, I'm either lying or I'm gonna shoot you, what do you think? Give it up, It's time to stop running!"

"Stop that Man!!!"

"So he showed up not dead yet. Let that be a lesson to you, boys and girls. Don't ever argue with the Big Dog, because the Big Dog is always right."

"[On the phone receiving a dressing down from his superior that he was supposed to capture and interrogate Copeland, not kill him] What can I tell you, sir? Mr. Copeland was a bad man. He was going to kill one of my kids. Well, sir you can blame me, I mean I'm the one who shot him."

"Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimble. Go get him."

"You switched the samples, And the pathology reports! You kill Lentz, too?! Huh?! Did you?! He falsified his research, so that RDU-90 could be approved and Devlin McGregor could give you... Provasic!"

"[to a cop he stops while being chased by Gerard] Officer, there's a man in a blue topcoat waving a gun and screaming...at a woman. [The cops temporarily restrain Gerard]"

"(Listening to a description of Roxie's trial on the radio) Oh, mama, she stole my garter...(grabs radio and shakes it) She stole my garters! First she steals my publicity, then she steals my lawyer, my trial date, and now she steals my goddamn garter!"

"And then he ran into my knife. He ran into my knife ten times."

"Some men just can't hold their arsenic."

"[Billy Flynn goes to cross-examine Velma Kelly] Ladies and gentlemen...a tap dance."

"Mr. Billy Flynn and the press conference rag. Notice how his mouth never moves...almost."

"Miss Velma Kelly in an act...of desperation."

"In this town, murder's a form of entertainment."

"(Having been asked what the cost of a phonecall is) Come on, Vel, you know how I feel about you. You're like family to me, one of my own. ...I'll do it for fifty."

"(Singing) Ask any of the chickies in my pen, they'll tell you I'm the biggest mother... hen."

"Sometimes you get a little success, and it's good riddance to who put you there."

"(Singing) Let's all stroke together, like the Princeton crew. When you're strokin' Mama, Mama's strokin' you!"

"(Singing) The folks atop the ladder are the ones the world adores. So boost me up my ladder kid, and I'll boost you up yours!"

"As you know I'm here to take care of you. Now if anything hurts you, or upsets you in any way... don't run your fat-ass mouth off to me cause I don't give a shit. Now move out."

"I don't like to blow my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently."