“I'm not ver good at being a father, all right? I barely get by just being me.”
Nicolas Cage - Roy Waller

“- Rolfe Whitehouse: I was always careful around Pop. I was a careful child. And I'm a careful adult. But at least I was never afflicted with that man's anger.
- Wade Whitehouse: That's what you think.”
Willem Dafoe - Rolfe Whitehouse
Nick Nolte - Wade Whitehouse

“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”

Lucile Watson - Mrs. Morehead

“He seems to take pleasure in being mean and brutal. And yet, he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

Merle Oberon - Cathy

“Ellen, I am Heathcliff. Everything he's suffered, I've suffered. The little happiness he's ever known, I've had too. Oh, Ellen, if everything in the world died and Heathcliff remained, life would still be full for me.”

Merle Oberon - Cathy