“No beast so fierce without some trace of pity?”
William Hickey - Lars Hagstrom

“- Mattie Ross: Who's the best marshal they have?
- 'Sheriff': Bill Waters is the best tracker. The meanest one is Rooster Cogburn, a pitiless man, double tough, fear don't enter into his thinking.”
Kim Darby - Mattie Ross
John Wayne - Rooster Cogburn

“I feel bad for people who count calories. It's no way to live!”
Jack Black - Hal

“I pay my baby love and she pays me back with pity.”

John Mahoney - W.P. Mayhew

“- Jennifer Lyons: Poor daddy!
- Matthew Hollis: Oh, yours or Nicole's?
- Jennifer Lyons: Mine.
- Matthew Hollis: Oh, that poor daddy. You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting a poor daddy.”
Michelle Johnson - Jennifer Lyons
Sir Michael Caine - Matthew Hollis