“You either give me what I need or this switch will stay on until they turn the power off for lack of payment on the bill.”

Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills

“- April Wheeler: I hear you're a mathematician.
- John Givings: You hear wrong. Its all gone now.
- April Wheeler: All gone?
- John Givings: You know what electrical shock treatments are?
- April Wheeler: Yes. Yes, I do.
- John Givings: I had thirty-seven. It's supposed to jolt out the emotional problems. It just jolted out the mathematics.”
Kate Winslet - April Wheeler
Michael Shannon - John Givings

“- Elaine: This is an emergency!
- Power & Light man: It always is.
- Elaine: No, I am serious. My mother is a very sick woman. She's in the bed next to me with her kidney machine, which has kept her alive for seven years. This wonderful 84-year-old woman!”

Jane Curtin - Elaine
Garrett Morris - Power & Light Man

“This is a graphic example of biofeedback. We're converting the very low-voltage alpha wave energy into electricity to run that train. And that train will only run when my friend Hester is in alpha.”
Carol Eve Rossen - Dr. Ellen Lindstrom

“- Young Bobby Boucher: Mama, when did Ben Franklin invent electricity?
- Helen 'Mama' Boucher: That's nonsense, I invented electricity. Ben Franklin is the Devil!”
Jamie Williams - Young Bobby Boucher
Kathy Bates - Helen 'Mama' Boucher