“- Dave Whiteman: Who's going to run my business? Who's going to pay my bills? Who's...
- Jerry Baskin: You got enough money to last ten lifetimes!
- Dave Whiteman: Maybe I ought to become a bum. No job, no responsibilities...
- Jerry Baskin: You wouldn't last five minutes.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dave Whiteman
Nick Nolte - Jerry Baskin

“Just because you were honest and you didn't take money like every other cop, I left you? No, you don't take money for one reason. To buy being dishonest about everything else. And that's worse than taking money.”

Carla Gugino - Laurie Roberts:

“I always say, when you've got a job to do, get somebody else to do it.”
Humphrey Bogart - George Hally

“I've dragged myself through the blood and sand of a thousand arenas. In the end there's only one thing I regret - I never learned to read or write. I was obliged to renounce education... but I make the whole world responsible for my ignorance.”

John Carradine - El Nacional

“With strength goes responsibility - to others and to yourselves. For you cannot conquer injustice with more injustice - only with justice and the help of God.”
Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd