"[with knife at Sheriff Teasle's neck] I could have killed 'em all, I could kill you. In town you're the law, out here it's me. Don't push it. Don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe. Let it go. Let it go."

"Jackie Sawiris - Roz"

"Linda Dona — Wanda"

"Lindsay Wagner - D.A. Priscilla Brimleigh"

"Mary Ellen Trainor — Gail Wallens"

"Victoria Dillard — Alice Styles"

"Ice-T — Odessa"

"John Lithgow — Earl Talbott Blake"

"Nicole Kidman - Alice Harford"

"Denzel Washington — Nick Styles"

"This is one case that's going to be settled out of court."

"He's a cop accused of murder. And the only man who knows he's innocent is the killer who framed him."

"Odessa: Do you wanna know who's really got the power? Bring your ass to the tower."

"Chewalski: [meeting Blake for the first time] I know you. You're that dude got busted on America's funniest home video."

"I'm gonna do something far worse than kill you. I'm gonna let you live."

"[to Nick] I mean, there we were, both of us... at the beginning of our careers. Then all of a sudden, one of us... took off! Lit up the sky like a meteor. And why? Because he met the other."

"[After taking a female hostage] Pork, back off or else she's gonna need a paper bag over her head when her boyfriend fucks what's left of her!"

"[During the final showdown] Blake, I should thank you for this, you know. Going insane, it's strangely liberating, isn't it?"

"I guess a Beretta in the butt beats a butterfly in a boot, huh?"

"What the fuck is wrong with all y'all? Selling drugs to each other, 'cause ya damn sure ain't selling them in Beverly Hills. Killing yourselves, and for what? Make ya feel like a man? Or does it make ya dick hard? Punk motherfuckers."

"Rade Serbedzija - Mr. Milich"

"Leelee Sobieski - Milich's Daughter"

"Tom Cruise - Dr. William "Bill" Harford"

"Julienne Davis - Amanda "Mandy" Curran"

"Madison Eginton - Helena Harford"

"Stewart Thorndike - Nuala"

"Louise J. Taylor - Gayle"

"Sky Dumont - Sandor Szavost"

"Todd Field - Nick Nightingale"

"Leslie Lowe - Illona Ziegler"

"Sydney Pollack - Victor Ziegler"

"I can hook you up, though. You name the vice I name the price."

"Catherine Keener - Amy Welles"

"Chris Bauer - George Higgins/Machine"

"Anthony Heald - Daniel Longdale"

"Peter Stormare - Dino Velvet"

"James Gandolfini - Eddie Poole"

"Joaquin Phoenix - Max California"

"Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles"

"Some doors should never be opened."

"Be careful when you kill a monster, that you don't become one yourself."

"You are never prepared for the truth."

"You can't prepare for where the truth will take you."

"You know the only difference between you and me? I will survive this and profit by it, whereas you, you will not."