“- Jack: I've never seen anything like that! What do you have in mind?
- Nick: I don't know, but if somebody built it, somebody can unbuild it.”

Edward Norton - Jack Teller
Robert De Niro - Nick Wells

“Maybe you're right. As you pointed out, there are certain similarities between the two crimes, but you missed perhaps the most important: both murders were discovered by the same man - you!”

Charles Waldron - District Attorney

“You're just like me, Kay. You want what you can't have.”

Lloyd Nolan - Del Davis

“One of you's gonna get married and the other one's going to jail, so you really got a lot in common.”
William Frawley - Sheriff McGee

“You needn't be afraid, Miss Brown. Not a bit. You see, we are like... two trains, halted for a moment at the same station. But we're going in different directions.”

Charles Boyer - Georges Iscovescu