“- Ms. Kawasaki: He wants you to turn and look in camera. Okay?
- Bob Harris: Is that all he said?”

Akiko Takeshita - Ms. Kawasaki
Bill Murray - Bob Harris

“- Max Fischer: They are going to cancel Latin. They've got to make room for Japanese.
- Rosemary Cross: That's a shame because all the Romance languages are based on Latin.”

Jason Schwartzman - Max Fischer
Olivia Williams - Rosemary Cross

“- Nick Conklin: Just hope they got a Nip in this building who speaks fucking English.
- Matsumoto Masahiro: Assistant inspector Matsumoto Masahiro, criminal investigation section, Osaka prefecture police. And I do speak fucking English.”
Michael Douglas - Nick Conklin
Ken Takakura - Matsumoto Masahiro

“You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you were to walk through the jungle, you'd hear them speaking the most elaborate French. Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. Everything but religion.”

Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior

- Dirk Pitt: I'm sorry, I don't speak English.
- Gunboat 1 Officer: You are speaking English right now.
- Dirk Pitt: No, I only know how to say, "I don't speak English" in English.

Matthew McConaughey - Dirk Pitt
Nicholas Beveney - Gunboat 1 Officer