“- Wang Ta: This is not China. This is a different world. And here a man has the right to choose his own wife.
- Wang Chi-Yang: And here he also has the right to get divorced every year and pick a new one.”
James Shigeta - Wang Ta
Benson Fong - Wang Chi-Yang

“Let me make an honest woman of you. Divorce me!”

David O'Hara - Sean Kelly

“- Teresa: You clearly don't know how to speak to women.
- Roland Sharp: I know how to speak to women. I clearly choose not to.”
Paula Garcés - Teresa
Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp

“- Sir William Cecil: Forgive me, Madam, but you are only a woman...
- Elizabeth I: I may be a woman but if I choose I have the heart of a man! I am my father's daughter. I am not afraid of anything.”
Richard Attenborough - Sir William Cecil
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I

- Lloyd Dobler: I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the "Gas 'n' Sip" on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?
- Joe: By choice, man.
John Cusack - Lloyd Dobler
Loren Dean - Joe