“- Beth Cappadora: You self-righteous son of a bitch!
- Pat Cappadora: I'm not self-righteous, I'm right! Kids don't just vanish up in smoke, kids don't just get lost, people lose them!”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Beth Cappadora
Treat Williams - Pat Cappadora

“Where does it take place? Must be a bit awkward. I mean we've got two kids, he's got two kids not to mention a wife.”

Ben Kingsley - Robert

“You thought you could be Mrs. de Winter, live in her house, walk in her steps, take the things that were hers! But she's too strong for you. You can't fight her - no one ever got the better of her. Never, never. She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man, it wasn't a woman. It was the sea!”

Judith Anderson - Mrs. Danvers

“We never lost as much as we made.”
Everett Sloane - Mr. Bernstein

- Newswoman: If you could've found out what "Rosebud" meant, I bet that would've explained everything.
- Jerry Thompson: I don't think so; Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe "Rosebud" was something he couldn't get, or something he lost.
Petra R. de Silva - Newswoman
William Alland - Jerry Thompson