"[Sammy, Joey, and Peter come out on stage without wearing their trousers] There they are, folks. Tarzan, Jane, and the African Queen. Ohhhh, well I think I'm gonna make myself a little salad."

"[smiles, smoking a cigar] Life is good."

"[jokingly] I'm not really part of this show, folks, I just couldn't get a reservation."

"John Rowe as Head Waiter"

"Jonathan Harden as Wilhelm II, German Emperor"

"[older, waiting backstage, getting ready to perform] I miss my guys. I miss my guys."

"[on Dean] Could you believe him? He's the only guy in the world who could say "no" to me, and I gotta tell ya, I still love him."

"Tim McMullan as Tailor"

"Sophie Trott as Sophia of Prussia"

"Penny Ryder as Sophie of the Netherlands"

"[to Peter Lawford] I wanna help Jack get elected. Unless we wind up with another stuffed shirt. This country needs some shaking up. And I don't mean by Elvis."

"Joe Caffrey as Sous Chef"

"Amani Zardoe as Princess Helena of the United Kingdom"

"Robin Soans as Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham"

"Simon Callow as Giacomo Puccini"

"Julian Wadham as Alick Yorke"

"It's all about layers, Bobby, like a woman. Who wants a woman who just appears naked in your bed and spreads legs. Where's the sport in that? No, the name of the game is hide and seek. You have to cover the prize with sprinkles and then voila, pistachio."

"Simon Paisley Day as Mr Tyler"

"Help me put your brother in law in the White House. I mean, what else is there for a skinny Wop like me to accomplish in this world, huh?"

"Eddie Izzard as Albert Edward, Prince of Wales ("Bertie")"

"Adeel Akhtar as Mohammad Bakhsh"

"Ali Fazal as Abdul Karim"

"Tim Pigott-Smith as Henry Ponsonby"

"Michael Gambon as Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury"

"[last lines of the movie] Good morning, Your Majesty. How are you today?"

"[scheduling the timetable for Queen Victoria's jubilee] Jubilee celebrations. 9:00, breakfast in London. Quarter to 10:00, changing of the guard. 11:00, meeting with the Swedish Ambassador. 12:00, luncheon with Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, the Norwegian Ambassador, the Chief Under-Secretary of State for the Southern Norwegian Provinces, the Junior Under-Secretary of State for the Northern Norwegian Provinces. 2:00, ceremonial drive down the Mall. Half past 2:00, tea party at Hyde Park for 30,000 children. Half past 4:00, Household departs on the Royal train for Windsor. Half past 6:00, dinner in the Great Hall and the ceremonial presentation of a Mohur."

"Judi Dench as Queen Victoria"

"Paul Higgins as Sir James Reid, 1st Baronet"

"I am 81 years of age. I've had nine children and 42 grandchildren, and have almost a billion citizens. I have rheumatism, a collapsed uterus, I'm morbidly obese and deaf in one ear. I have known 11 Prime Ministers and passed 2,347 pieces of legislation. I've been in office 62 years, 234 days. Thus, I am the longest-serving monarch in world history. I'm responsible for five households and a staff of over 3,000. I am cantankerous, boring, greedy, fat, ill-tempered, at times selfish and myopic, both metaphorically and literally. I am perhaps disagreeably attached to power and should not have smashed the Emperor of Russia's egg. But I am anything but insane. If the household wish to disobey me, so be it. Let them do it to my face. I will see everyone in the Durbar Room at once."

"[speaking to her family and the entire household in the Durbar Room] I understand there is some concern over my desires on preferment. I understand feelings have run high, and I understand you have decided to resign rather than withstand my decision. If any one of you wishes to tender their resignation? It will be accepted, without any unfortunate consequences. But at least have the decency to do it to my face! Anyone wishing to resign, please step forward. [silence] I would like to inform you that I have decided against awarding any knighthoods at this moment. Instead, you'll be delighted to know that I have decided to make the Munshi a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, as a special token of my personal esteem for his services to the Empire. That is all."

"Olivia Williams as Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill"

"I suddenly feel a great deal better."

"Listen, little drop, give yourself up without regret and in return you will gain the ocean. Give yourself away and in the great sea you will be secure."

"Sam Giancana: [when being asked by Johnny Roselli to whack Sinatra and his Rat Pack group] Nah, I wanna hear Frank sing "Chicago" again. I love the way he does that. [lights his cigar]"

"I came out of law school with grand ideas in my mind about how to change the world. But Mr. McMillian made me realize we can't change the world with only ideas in our minds. We need conviction in our hearts. this man taught me how to stay hopeful, because I now know that hopelessness is the enemy of justice. Hope allows us to push for word, even when the truth is distorted by the people in power. It allows us to stand when they tell us to sit down, and to speak when they say be quiet."

"Fenella Woolgar as Harriet Phipps"

"They never let business get in the way of having fun."

"O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Anthony Ray Hinton"

"Barbara Niven - Marilyn Monroe"

"Deborah Kara Unger - Ava Gardner"

"Dan O'Herlihy - Joseph Kennedy"

"Željko Ivanek - Robert F. Kennedy"

"John Diehl - Joe DiMaggio"

"Don Cheadle - Sammy Davis Jr."

"Angus Macfadyen - Peter Lawford"

"Bobby Slayton - Joey Bishop"

"Ray Liotta - Frank Sinatra"

"Megan Dodds - May Britt"

"William L. Petersen - John F. Kennedy"

"Joe Mantegna - Dean Martin"