“- Noodles: How's your sister?
- Fat Moe: I ain't seen her for years. She's a big star now.
- Noodles: We should have known, huh? You can always tell the winners at the starting gate. You can always tell the winners, and you can tell the losers.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
Larry Rapp - Fat Moe

“I'm not okay with a mediocre job. I'm not okay with a mediocre apartment. I'm not okay with a mediocre life!”
Jim Carrey - Bruce Nolan

“It's psychotic! People keep coming up with new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional...”

Craig T. Nelson - Bob Parr

“There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.”
Mackenzie Astin - David Shrader

“Let's send Greg Stillson to the United States Senate - and mediocrity to hell!”
Martin Sheen - Greg Stillson