“- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: You will go to prison.
- Agent Frank Haddad: You know what happens to women in prison?
- Elise Kraft: Mmmmm... yummm!”
Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard
Tony Shalhoub - Frank Haddad
Annette Bening - Elise Kraft

“- Frankie, the Big Kahuna: You look familiar. Have we met?
- Willy Gilligan: I don't think so. I've been away for a long time.
- Frankie, the Big Kahuna: Where? Prison?
- Willy Gilligan: No, worse then that. A tropical island in the Pacific. There were chicks there, but you couldn't touch them. Wanna hear about it?
- Frankie, the Big Kahuna: No!”
Frankie Avalon - Frankie, the Big Kahuna
Bob Denver - Willy Gilligan

“- Ed: You mean you busted out of jail.
- Evelle: No, ma'am. We released ourselves on our own recognizance.
- Gale: What Evelle here is trying to say is that we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us.”
Holly Hunter - Ed
William Forsythe - Evelle
John Goodman - Gale

“I am Solomon Northup. I am a free man; a resident of Saratoga, New York. The residence also of my wife and children who are equally free. I have papers. You have no right whatsoever to detain me... and I promise you, upon my liberation, I will have satisfaction for this wrong.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Solomon Northup

“The Emperor has been a prisoner in his own palace since the day that he was crowned, and has remained a prisoner since he abdicated. But now he's growing up, he may wonder why he's the only person in China who may not walk out of his own front door. I think the Emperor is the loneliest boy on Earth.”
Peter O'Toole - Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston