“- Evelyn Couch: Ed... If I'd answered the door wearing only cellophane, would you still be watching the baseball game?
- Ed Couch: No, honey, I'd probably be checking you into a loony bin.”
Kathy Bates - Evelyn Couch
Gailard Sartain - Ed Couch

“I'm Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs! Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!”

Paul Dano - Young Brian

“For a long time, I didn't care if they'd kill me. Most people spend their lives worrying about dying. For a long time, I wished I would die, or I wish somebody would kill me. It's been a long time for me, a long time full of crazy people.”
John Amplas - Martin

“- Pete Sandidge: Either I'm dead or I'm crazy.
- Dick Rumney: You're not crazy.”
Spencer Tracy - Pete Sandidge
Barry Nelson - Dick Rumney

“One of those boys was so crazy he sawed his own head off going 90 miles per hour.”
Dennis Hopper - Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright