“- Christina: If you need anything, just call me. I'll come, I'll send you the money.
- Martin: No, you'll forget about me.
- Christina: No, I won't. Why do you think I'll forget?
- Martin: Because you're going away. People always go away so they can forget where they were.”
Christine Forrest - Christina
John Amplas - Martin

“- Jarmilla Hanka: Darling, if you have to go, please take me with you.
- Karel Vavra: No, darling.
- Jarmilla Hanka: I'm not afraid.
- Karel Vavra: I'd be afraid for you. You're safer here.”
Patricia Morison - Jarmilla Hanka
Alan Curtis - Karel Vavra

“I have given the piano back to you. I've had enough. The arrangement is making you a whore, and me wretched. I want you to care for me. But you can't. It's yours, leave. Go on, go.”

Harvey Keitel - Baines

“- Shuck: I wouldn't make a lot of noise if I was you. You don't want to alert Stoney of your leaving.
- Charles: As if he would care if I left.
- Shuck: What makes you think he don't care?
- Charles: I don't know... What would you call no contact for nine years?
- Shuck: I'd call it being a man of few words.”
Kris Kristofferson - Shuck
Joseph Mazzello - Charles

“- Ulee Jackson: Once you're better, I don't care what you do. But you're not moving until all that poison's out of your body. Even if only for a day.
- Helen Jackson: Oh, man. You always think you know, don't you?
- Ulee Jackson: Well, I know better than to run from responsibility.”
Peter Fonda - Ulee Jackson
Christine Dunford - Helen Jackson