“What I do for a living may not be very reputable... but I am. In this town I'm the leper with the most fingers.”

Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“- Mitch Leary: Watching the President, I couldn't help wondering why a man like you would risk his life to save a man like that. You have such a strange job - I can't decide if it's heroic or absurd.
- Frank Horrigan: Why would a man like you want to risk his life to kill a man like that?”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“Spy work, that's easy. Keeping a family together, that's difficult. And that's the mission worth fighting for.”
Alexa PenaVega - Carmen Cortez

“You risked the lives of some damn fine pilots ... but that's my job!”
Lloyd Bridges - Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson

“- Rachel Marron: And you're ready to die for me?
- Frank Farmer: It's the job.
- Rachel Marron: And you'd do it? Why?
- Frank Farmer: I can't sing.”
Whitney Houston - Rachel Marron
Kevin Costner - Frank Farmer