“I'm gonna tell you somethin', and I'm gonna tell you only once. Now you can accept it, or you can stick it up your ass. I am one guy. I am not a crime wave. And when you mess with the action outta New Orleans, you fuck with hundreds of people. Do you understand, Dave Robicheaux?”

Eric Roberts - Bubba Rocque

“- Andrew Nivens: I can't believe you shot me.
- Sam Nivens: Well, what would you have done?
- Andrew Nivens: Oh, I'd have shot you, of course.”
Donald Sutherland - Andrew Nivens
Eric Thal - Sam Nivens

“- Proximo: Can any of them fight? I've got a match coming up.
- Slave Trader: Some are good for fighting, others for dying. You need both, I think.”

Oliver Reed - Proximo
Omid Djalili - Slave Trader

“- Stella Atkins: Those guns... all that talk about fighting... what happened to you today. I'm scared!
- Jeff Castle: Honey, you just can't keep on turning the other cheek with a cemetery as big as we've got.”
Karen Sharpe - Stella Atkins
John Lupton - Jeff Castle

“You touch my sister again, I'll kill you.”

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone