“The reality is we're still 11-year-old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we'd escaped.”
Kevin Bacon - Sean Devine

“- Joanne: All those kids in there want to run away and join the circus.
- Helena: Great, they can have my life. I want to run away and join real life.”
Gina McKee - Joanne Campbell
Stephanie Leonidas - Helena

“You can never escape life. Never.”
Bruno Gouery - Luc

“They say that when a ship is sinking all the rats leave. Goodbye, rats! But you're mistaken if you think I'm sinking!”

Tyrone Power - Juan

“Those who escaped, the wicked ones, their legend haunts the village where I was born.”

Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed