“All the wrong people knew who I was anyways, so I figured I'm just gonna put up a flag and hope a friend sees it.”

Edward Norton - Derek Vinyard

“You're a man with ideals. Well, I guess I better be going while you still got them.”

Mae West - Flower Belle Lee

“You have a right to have an ideal. Oh, I guess we all have one.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“You wanna be honest, don't you? You don't have to die to keep the John Doe ideal alive. Someone already died for that once. The first John Doe.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Ann Mitchell

“You'd try to kill the John Doe movement if you can't use it to get what you want? That certainly is a new low. I guess I've seen everything now... you think of deliberately killing an idea that's made millions of people a little bit happier.”

Gary Cooper - John Doe