“For a long time I didn't understand what he did that day. I figured he tossed a gold shield career into the shitter. But it started to hit me what the job had become for Buster. And for my too. Buster left his regrets, and what didn't work no more, in the Sing Sing Death House, and pushed on for better days. He never looked back.”
James Gandolfini - Det. Charles Hilderbrandt

“- Nate Johnson: Oh so I'm the bad guy? Because I wanted you to raise our kids.
- Dorothy Johnson: I can be a wife, a mother and pursue my career too, hey, my mother did it.
- Nate Johnson: Right ,yeah that's why the last time we saw your brother he was your sister.”
Cedric the Entertainer - Nate Johnson
Vanessa Williams - Dorothy Johnson

“- Coco LaBouche: Years of clawing my way to the top, have gone to waste. Why am I not some child standard mother? Why? Why? Why?
- Jean-Claude: Becuase you hate children, and men find you, to be a heartless shrew.”
Susan Sarandon - Coco LaBouche
John Lithgow - Jean-Claude

“It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.”
Holland Taylor

You must choose between an operatic career and what is usually called "a normal life". You can't do justice to both.
Frank Puglia - Villeneuve