"Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse."

"He's a kid. Our unsub is a kid. That's why we couldn't match his prints. That's why he doesn't have a record. Now, I want you to contact the NYPD for every all-points juvenile runaways in New York City. And don't forget the airports. He's been kiting checks all over the country."

"How'd you do it Frank? How did you cheat on the bar exam in Louisiana?"

"[When asked why Frank won't flee to New York or Atlanta] Because I'm not in New York. I'm not in Atlanta."

"For the last six months, he's gone to Harvard and Berkeley. I'm betting he can get a passport."

"At this point, I would just like to say that what this committee is doing in theory is highly commendable. However, in practice, it sucks... and I'm not going to answer any more questions."

"Craig T. Nelson - Frank Bowers"

"Dominic Chianese - Carl Travers"

"Larry Bryggman - Warren Fresnell"

"Thomas Waites - Jeff McCullaugh"

"Robert Christian - Ralph Agee"

"Sam Levene - Arnie"

"Christine Lahti - Gail Packer"

"Jeffrey Tambor - Jay Porter"

"Lee Strasberg - Sam Kirkland"

"John Forsythe - Judge Henry T. Fleming"

"Jack Warden - Judge Francis Rayford"

"Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland"

"Carl Travers: I haven't left the scene of the accident, I'm in it!"

"Jeff McCullaugh: If everybody agrees I'm innocent, how come I'm going BACK to jail?"

"Prison should be a frightening place. Let those criminals create their own hellhole....I tell you, Arthur, the idea of punishment to fit the crime doesn't work. We need unjust punishment. Hang somebody for armed robbery. Try it! We've got nothin' to lose. Do you understand what I'm sayin' to you, for God's sake? You don't, do you? Oh! You fellas with your fancy ideas of rehabilitation. I tell you that the concept of rehabilitation is a farce. Do you honestly think that, that bringing Johnny Cash into prisons to sing railroad songs is gonna rehabilitate anyone? Most people are sick and tired of mugging and crime in the streets...[Arthur leaves] Arthur? Arthur?"

"[After he fires a gun in his courtroom, to stop an argument] Gentlemen, need I remind you we are in a court of law? [long pause] Now, let's proceed in an orderly fashion."

"Sixteen years of marriage and my wife still won't eat Chinese food. It's crazy, especially since we met in a Chinese restaurant."

"Sorry, Your Honor. Let's get back to justice. What is justice? What is the intention of justice? The intention of justice is to see that the guilty people are proven guilty and that the innocent are freed. Simple, isn't it? Only it's not that simple. However, it is the defense counsel's duty to protect the rights of the individual, as it is the prosecution's duty to uphold and defend the laws of the State. Justice for all. Only we have a problem here. And you know what it is? Both sides wanna win. We wanna win. We wanna win regardless of the truth. And we wanna win regardless of justice, regardless of who's guilty or innocent. Winning is everything!"

"[about Judge Rayford] This is a man bent on killing himself! It's no secret; a guard found him in his chambers once trying to hang himself! This is a man who's making value decisions on people's lives!"

"John Ortiz - Jose Yero"

"Luis Tosar - Arcangel de Jesus Montoya"

"Gong Li - Isabella Montoya"

"Barry Shabaka Henley - Lt. Martin Castillo"

"Justin Theroux - Det. Larry Zito"

"Domenick Lombardozzi - Det. Stan Switek"

"Elizabeth Rodriguez - Det. Gina Calabrese"

"Naomie Harris - Det. Trudy Joplin"

"Jamie Foxx - Det. Ricardo Tubbs"

"Colin Farrell - Det. James "Sonny" Crockett"

"Eddie Marsan - Nicholas"

"Tom Towles - Coleman"

"John Hawkes - Alonzo Stevens"

"Isaach De Bankolé - Neptune"

"Ciarán Hinds - FBI Agent John Fujima"

"I don't know where I'm being taken. I don't know what waits for me beyond the earth and sky. Maybe the things I don't understand will be clearer there, like when a fog blows away. Maybe Doris will be there, and maybe there I can tell her all those things they don't have words for here."

"Yeah, I guess I'm sorry about the pain I caused other people, but I don't regret anything. I used to. I used to regret being the barber."

"[about his lawyer's courtroom speech] And then it was Riedenschneider's turn. I gotta hand it to him, he tossed a lot of sand in their eyes. He talked about how I'd lost my place in the universe; how I was too ordinary to be the criminal mastermind the D.A. made me out to be; how there was some greater scheme at work that the state had yet to unravel. And he threw in some of the old "truth" stuff he hadn't had a chance to trot out for Doris. He told them to look at me, look at me close. That the closer they looked, the less sense it would all make; that I wasn't the kind of guy to kill a guy; that I was The Barber, for Christsake. I was just like them - an ordinary man. Guilty of living in a world that had no place for me, yeah. Guilty of wanting to be a dry cleaner, sure. But not a murderer. He said I was modern man, and if they voted to convict me, well, they'd be practically cinching the noose around their own necks. He told them to look, not at the facts, but at the meaning of the facts. Then he said the facts had no meaning. It was a pretty good speech. It even had me going until Frankie interrupted it."

"Time slows down right before an accident, and I had time to think about things. I thought about what an undertaker had told me once - that your hair keeps growing, for a while anyway, after you die, and then it stops. I thought, "What keeps it growing? Is it like a plant in soil? What goes out of the soil? The soul? And when does the hair realize that it's gone?""

"I sat in the house, but there was nobody there. I was a ghost; I didn't see anyone. No one saw me. I was the barber."