“Hey, baby, stop messing around with the crew and get back here. You belong at the Captain's table, don't ever forget that.”

Clark Gable - Verne

“- Swan: If you get separated, make it to the platform at Union Square. That's where we change trains.
- Ajax: I only got one question. Who named you leader? I got just as much right to take over as you.
- Fox: It was Cleon's choice, Swan's war chief.
- Ajax: Well, right about now, Cleon's most likely got a nightstick shoved halfway up his ass!”
Michael Beck - Swan
James Remar - Ajax
Thomas G. Waites - Fox

- Little Caesar, alias "Rico": I've taken orders from you too long.
- Sam Vettori: You'll keep on taking orders too or you'll get out of here so fast...
- Little Caesar, alias "Rico": Maybe it won't be me that gets out.
Edward G. Robinson - Little Caesar, alias "Rico"
Stanley Fields - Sam Vettori

“- Porter: Who makes the decisions?
- Carter: Well, a committee would make the decision in this case...
- Porter: One man... you go high enough you always come to one man... who?”
Mel Gibson - Porter
William Devane - Carter

“- Kathie Moffat: I'm running the show, don't forget it.
- Jeff Bailey: I doubt you'll ever let me.”
Jane Greer - Kathie Moffat
Robert Mitchum - Jeff Bailey