“- Sid Lidz: He doesn't know what he believes. My brothers filled him with all that junk.
- Selma Lidz: Maybe they're right for once. What would you know? You work ten hours a day and then you lock yourself in that workshop.”

John Turturro - Sid Lidz
Andie MacDowell - Selma Lidz

“I don't care what your secrets are. But I can't go ahead without more confidence in you than I've got now. You've got to convince me that you know what this is all about, that you aren't just fiddling around, hoping that it will all come out right in the end.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“Drop by drop, Holmes. Drop by drop. Ah, in a way I'm almost sorry. You were a stimulating influence to me but it was obvious that I should win in the end.”

Lionel Atwill - Professor Moriarty

“The American people are conditioned by network TV, by local news, to believe that their communities are much more dangerous than they actually are.”
Arthur A. Busch - Himself

“I'm a bad guy because I sing some rock-and-roll songs, and who's a bigger influence, the President or Marilyn Manson? I'd like to think me, but I'm going to go with the President.”
Marilyn Manson - Himself