“- John McClane: You know how to pick this lock?
- Zeus Carver: Is this some black-shit again?
- John McClane: Hey will you stop that racial shit? Are you a fuckin' locksmith or not?”
Bruce Willis - John McClane
Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver

- Ray "Bones" Barboni: You must be one of those quick-draw artists, the way you've got your gun down on your belt like that.
- Ronnie Wingate: Whatta you got there, a wop 9? Fuckin' Fiat of guns, always jammin' on you at the wrong time.

Dennis Farina - Ray "Bones" Barboni
Jon Gries - Ronnie Wingate

“The only time black folks are safe, is when white folks is disarmed.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Major Marquis Warren

“- Terry Carmichael: Wow.
- Riley Hale: That was a first for me, too.”

Samantha Mathis - Terry Carmichael
Christian Slater - Riley Hale

“- Billy: You know how to use that thing?
- Sheriff Ike Slayton: My mother was full-blooded Cherokee, it's in the genes.”

Ken Foree - Billy
Brad Davis - Sheriff Ike Slayton