“- Young Roland: You might fuck around and say some shit that'll get you shot.
- Young Mike: Shot?
- Young Roland: Shot? Ya know? Guns? Bang-bang? This nigga don't know nothin'!”
Trent Cameron - Young Roland
Sean Nelson - Young Mike

“- Hannah Green: I'm not the downy innocent you painted me as.
- Prof. Grady Tripp: That's a shame, we need all the downy innocents we can get.”
Katie Holmes - Hannah Green
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“It's a stinking hypocritical world isn't it Brent where rapists become pillars of the community, with stinking hypocritical people in it who wouldn't miss their own befouled lives much so... so... so what better way than to take away the only innocence they have left... their precious virginal children.”
Jay Mohr - Leonard Marliston

“I'm innocent. I've committed no crime. A crime's been committed against me.”
Denzel Washington - Rubin Carter

“- Terry: We all believe in your innocence.
- Rubin Carter: I've been innocence for 16 years. That's how long I've been in here. Innocence is a highly over-rated commodity.”
John Hannah - Terry
Denzel Washington - Rubin Carter