“- Peter Ludlow: Roland, there's a job for you in San Diego if you want it.
- Roland Tembo: No thank you. I believe I've spent enough time in the company of death.”
Arliss Howard - Peter Ludlow
Pete Postlethwaite - Roland Tembo

“- Frank Horrigan: Take my hand. If you don't, you'll die.
- Mitch Leary: Do you want to save me, Frank?
- Frank Horrigan: To be frank and honest with you, no. But it's my job.”

Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan
John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“I was thinking about the funny part. Here we are, oceanographers and we're gonna probably die in the desert, chained-chained to truck parts... so when they write our obituaries... that'll be the funny part.”

Steve Zahn - Al Giordino

“- Gilbert: Bobby, how's business?
- Bobby: Oh, not good... nobody's dying.”
Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape
Crispin Glover - Bobby McBurney

“- Clark Kent: Thanks for giving me my job back.
- Perry White: Don't thank me. Thank Norm Parker for dying!
- Jimmy Olsen: It was his time.”
Brandon Routh - Clark Kent
Frank Langella - Perry White
Sam Huntington - Jimmy Olsen