"[singing] Climb ev'ry mountain, search high and low. Follow ev'ry byway, every path you know. Climb ev'ry mountain, ford every stream. Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream. A dream that will need all the love you can give Every day of your life for as long as you live..."

"[singing] How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her, many a thing she ought to understand ...How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?"

"[before he sings "Edelweiss" reprise version] My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now... a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die. [singing] Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me. Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me. Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss bless my homeland forever."

"The first three notes just happen to be, Do-Re-Mi. Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol [pronounced So]-La-Ti. Oh, let's see if I can make it easier. [singing] Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, a drop of golden sun Me, a name I call myself. Far, a long, long way to run. Sew, a needle pulling thread. La, a note to follow Sol Tea, a drink with jam and bread. That will bring us back to Do..."

"[singing] Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, Brown paper packages tied up with strings, These are a few of my favorite things."

"Paul Newman - "Fast" Eddie Felson"

"Vincent Gardenia - Bartender"

"Jake LaMotta - Bartender"

"Michael Constantine - Big John"

"Murray Hamilton - Findley"

"Myron McCormick - Charlie Burns"

"George C. Scott - Bert Gordon"

"Piper Laurie - Sarah Packard"

"Jackie Gleason - Minnesota Fats"

"Trapped by the underworld . . . they risked love and fortune in a desperate gamble!"

"It delves without compromise into the hungers that lie deep within us all."

"Only the angel who falls knows the depths of hell."

"They called him "Fast Eddie"... He was a winner... He was a loser... He was a hustler."

"A motion picture that probes the stranger... the pick-up... why a man hustles for a buck or a place in the sun!"

"[to Eddie] George Findley is a very rich man. His grandfather left him twenty-five percent of his tobacco company... He's a gentleman. Gentlemen gamble. He gets his kicks playin' a hustler. He's got an old Southern mansion with a pool table in the basement, drinks eight-year-old bourbon, smokes a cork-tipped cigarette... I never saw him play. They say he's one of the best... I've got confidence in Findley... That means I've got confidence that he's a loser, all the way a loser. You happen to be about only one-half loser, the other half winner."

"Now why did I do it, Sarah, why did I do it? I could've beat that guy, I could've beat him cold. He never would have known. But I just had to show him. Just had to show those creeps and those punks what the game is like when it's great, when it's really great. You know, like anything can be great, anything can be great. I don't care — brick-laying can be great if a guy knows. If he knows what he's doin' and why and if he can make it come off."

"[After discovering that Charlie kept some money from him] With that fifteen hundred, I could have beat him. That's all I needed, Charlie... You'd love to keep me hustlin' for ya, huh, wouldn't ya? I mean, a couple more years with me scufflin' around in them little towns and those back alleys, you might make yourself enough to get a little pool room back in Oakland, six tables and a handbook on the side... Lay down and die by yourself."

"He is great! Geez, that old fat man. Look at the way he moves, like a dancer... And those fingers, them marshmellow fingers. And that stroke, it's like he's, uh, like he's playin' a violin or somethin.'"

"Klaus Kinski — Kostoyed Amourski, the anarchist"

"Rita Tushingham — The Girl, Tonya Komarovsky, Lara's and Yuri's daughter"

"Tom Courtenay — Pasha Antipov AKA "Strelnikov""

"Rod Steiger — Viktor Komarovsky"

"Geraldine Chaplin — Tonya Gromeko"

"Julie Christie — Larissa "Lara" Antipova"

"Alec Guinness — General Yevgraf Zhivago"

"Omar Sharif — Dr. Yuri Zhivago"

"Turbulent were the times and fiery was the love story of Zhivago, his wife and the passionate, tender Lara."

"In a world of guns and ice there is the great noise of battle and the greater silence of lovers."

"A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution."

"They've shot the Czar, and all his family. Oh, that's a savage deed."

"A body, styling itself the Yuriatin Committee of Revolutionary Justice, has expropriated my house. In the name of the people. Very well. I'm one of the people too! [He picks up a shovel and makes to force his way in.]"

"I am a free man, Lickspittle, and there's nothing you can do about it. I am the only free man on this train. The rest of you are cattle!"

"Long Live Anarchy! Lickspittle! Bureaucrat!"

"I shouldn't admire it now. I should find it absurdly personal. Don't you agree? Feelings, insights, affections... it's suddenly trivial now. You don't agree; you're wrong. The personal life is dead in Russia. History has killed it. [...] The private life is dead - for a man with any manhood."

"You put your knife with a fork and a spoon and it looks quite innocuous. Perhaps you travel with a wife and child for the same reason."