“- Emily Reed: Why do I get the feeIing that... if I reach out and touch you, you'll disappear?
- James Wheeler: Why don't you try it and see?”
Carré Otis - Emily Reed
Mickey Rourke - James Wheeler

“l stayed at the Hartford one time. You should see the rooms. All satin and velvet. And the bed... royal blue, trimmed in lace clean as snow. Hard to believe a room like that don't change your life. But it don't. The bed may be magic, but the mirror isn't. Still wake up the same old Susie.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Susie Diamond

“- Noodles: It's true I have killed people, Mr. Bailey. Sometimes to defend myself, sometimes for money. And many people used to come to us. Business partners, rivals, lovers. Some of the jobs we took, and some we didn't. Yours is one we would never touch, Mr Bailey.
- Max: Is this your idea of revenge?
- Noodles: No. It's just the way I see things.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
James Woods - Max

“Who can take us seriously when we are so far from who we once were? Our strange behavior and fumbled sentences change other's perception of us and our perception of ourselves. We become ridiculous, incapable, comic. But this is not who we are, this is our disease.”
Julianne Moore - Dr. Alice Howland

“- Elvin Clyde: Who did you go as?
- Peter Appleton: A horny young man.”
Bob Balaban - Elvin Clyde
Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton