“If you want your picture on the paper, you'll have to go out and kill somebody first.”

Richard Conte - Casey Mayo

“What I do for a living may not be very reputable... but I am. In this town I'm the leper with the most fingers.”

Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“- Detective Sapir: So nobody took the mummy.
- Night Watchman: I would've heard them.
- Detective Sapir: 'Course he would've. What a stupid question. Did you take him?
- Night Watchman: No sir!
- Detective Sapir: Just a shot.”

Stan Shaw - Detective Sapir
Ernie Brown - Night Watchman

“- Detective Sapir: That's it, Del. This case is too hard, man. Let's be firemen instead.
- Del - Sean's Dad: I'm glad you're gettin' major laughs outta this, Rich. The problem is two-thousand year-old dead guys do not get up and walk away by themselves.”

Stan Shaw - Detective Sapir
Stephen Macht - Del - Sean's Dad

“Are we making chemical weapons? Kiddie porn? Are we strip-mining? No! Why are they after me?”
Tim Robbins - Gary Winston