“- Thomas Alden: It's amazing, isn't it, how they follow her around like that?
- Glen Seifert: It's called imprinting. The first living thing a goose sees when it's born, it automatically assume is its mother.”

Jeff Daniels - Thomas Alden
Jeremy Ratchford - Glen Seifert

“- Margaret Lewin: Any animal can give birth. That doesn't make it a mother.
- Khaila Richards: Are you calling me an animal? If you think you're going to just take my baby from me like some puppy from a pound, you got another thing coming, lady!”
Jessica Lange - Margaret Lewin
Halle Berry - Khaila Richards

“No matter where you go or what they may call you, you will always be my son.”

Lupita Nyong'o - Raksha

“- Bud White: He tied me to the radiator. I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron. Then he left me there. Three days before a truant officer found us... they never found the old man.
- Lynn Bracken: Is that why you became a cop? To get even?
- Bud White: Maybe.”

Russell Crowe - Bud White
Kim Basinger - Lynn Bracken

“- Louis Booker: Sal won't kill you. He's married to your mother.
- Charlie Carbone: If Sal Maggio thinks I stole his money, he'll kill me in front of my mother and then make her clean it up.”
Anthony Anderson - Louis Booker
Jerry O'Connell - Charlie Carbone