"The kid wasn't lying. The doctor started taking things from her the moment she was born. Cord blood as an infant, white blood cell transfusions, bone marrow, lymphocytes, injections to add more stem cells, then they took them, too, but it was never enough."

"Cameron Diaz"

"Abigail Breslin"

"Sofia Vassilieva"

"Alec Baldwin"

"Scotty Leavenworth - Ryan Kimball"

"I put a gun to my father's head once. Ever think like that? He was passed out. Had just been yelling at my mom over nothing. Under-cooked meat. I went to my room, I held the barrel right up to his ear, and then I chickened out again. Of course it was a BB gun but still it would have hurt like hell."

"Twenty-five years ago, my father crossed a double line. Changed my life, and the life of a little girl forever for that mistake. I just cant's stop thinking about her. With every crash of every wave I hear something now. I never listened before. I'm on the edge of a cliff, listening. Almost finished. If you were a house Sam, this is where you'd want to be build. On rock, facing the sea, listening, listening."

"Hayden Christensen - Sam Monroe"

"Jena Malone - Alyssa Beck"

"Mary Steenburgen - Colleen Beck"

"Jamey Sheridan - Peter Kimball"

"Ian Somerhalder - Josh"

"Scott Bakula - Kurt Walker"

"Sam Robards - David Dokos"

"John Pankow - Bryan Burke"

"Mike Weinberg - Adam Kimball"

"You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant. It happened to me."

"I always thought of myself as a house. I was always what I lived in. It didn't need to be big. It didn't even need to be beautiful. It just needed to be mine. I became what I was meant to be. I built myself a life. I built myself a house."

"Do I still love you? Absolutely. There is not a doubt in my mind. Through all my mind, my ego... I was always faithful in my love for you. That I made you doubt it, that is the great mistake of a life full of mistakes. The truth doesn't set us free, Robin. I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it and all that does, the only thing, is remind us... that love is not enough. Not even close."

"The game was to make me smaller than he was; smaller always smaller. No matter what. He could be almost invisible as a human being, but I still had to be smaller. So if I got good grades in school then I was a pussy for not playing football. If I cut my hair for him it was never short enough, or if I shaved my head then I looked like a psycho. I never won the game, ever. And if he couldn't make me smaller with words..."

"Thank you for talking about me behind my back - that'll be useful in court."

"I think there has to be a door between where you eat and where you crap."

"Seen from a distance, it's perfect."

"Kevin Kline - George Monroe"

"Kristin Scott Thomas - Robin Kimball"

"You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ 'Has your life brought joy to others?'"

"You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you."

"[Narrating the end of the film]: Edward Perryman Cole died in May. It was a Sunday in the afternoon and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. He was 81 years old. Even now, I can't claim to understand the measure of a life, but I can tell you this: I know that when he died, his eyes were closed and his heart was open, and I'm pretty sure he was happy with his final resting place, because he was buried on the mountain, and that was against the law."

"[Speaking at Carter's funeral] Good afternoon. My name is Edward Cole. I don't know what most people say at these occasions because in all honesty, I've tried to avoid them. The simplest thing is I loved him and I miss him. Carter and I saw the world together, which is amazing when you think that only three months ago we were complete strangers. I hope that it doesn't sound selfish of me, but the last months of his life were the best months of mine. He saved my life, and he knew it before I did. I'm deeply proud that this man found it worth his while to know me. In the end, I think it's safe to say that we brought some joy to one another's lives, so one day, when I go to some final resting place, if I happen to wake up next to a certain wall with a gate, I hope that Carter's there to vouch for me and show me the ropes on the other side."

"Somewhere, some lucky guy is having a heart attack."

"As you get older, Never pass up a bathroom, never waste a hard-on, and never trust a fart"

"Halleluja Brother, now pass the mustard."

"We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round."

"If life has taught me anything, it's that 95 percent of the people are always wrong."

"John Marley - Phil Cavalieri"

"Tommy Lee Jones - Hank Simpson"

"Sydney Walker - Dr. Shapely"

"Russell Nype - Dean Thompson"

"Ray Milland - Oliver Barrett III"

"Ryan O'Neal - Oliver Barrett IV"

"Ali McGraw - Jennifer Cavalieri"

"[first lines] What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me?"

"Miki Odagiri - Toyo Odagiri, employee"

"Bokuzen Hidari - Ohara"

"Minoru Chiaki - Noguchi"

"Haruo Tanaka - Sakai"

"Shinichi Himori - Kimura"

"Takashi Shimura - Kanji Watanabe"