“Your mother is not crazy. And neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother crazy. He's merely miscast in a play. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river. With the ability to be able to do anything that he wants to do and... findin' nothin' that he wants to do. I mean nothing.”
Dennis Hopper - Father

“You have a genuine talent for slogans. It must be like having an ear for music.”

Ernest Truex - Mr. Baxter

“The voice you hear is not my speaking voice - but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six-years-old. No one knows why - not even me. My father says it is a dark talent, and the day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my last.”

Holly Hunter - Ada

“God doesn't give people talents that He doesn't want people to use. And He gave you The Touch. It's a power inside of you, down there where you keep your guts, boy. It's all you need to blast your way in and get back what they took from you.”

Louis Gossett Jr. - Charles "Chappy" Sinclair

“Michael Jordan plays ball. Charles Manson kills people. I talk. Everyone has a talent.”
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor