“What's the trouble about that? That fine way. The Savior, He take my father up to fishermen's Heaven - with all his old friends.”

Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“The environment is us. And it's being mangled. And I'm gonna make something very clear to you. My people are violently ill. They're beginning to lose their faculties. They stagger and they fall, and this has nothing to do with alcohol, as these villagers claim. My people are fishermen; their lives are clean.”

Armand Assante - John Hawks

“- Snakebite Scruggs: Now get these trespassing tourists off my boat. I've got fishing to do!
- Jacques: That's old Snakebite Scruggs. He thinks the bayou is his own private reserve. He don't like anyone in it!”

Mark Hamill - Snakebite Scruggs
Jim Cummings - Jacques

“- Donna: Fisherman?
- Joe: Yeah, I was.
- Donna: Like it?
- Joe: While it lasted, yes.
- Donna: You didn't go on anymore?
- Joe: Nope.
- Donna: Why not?
- Joe: Unforeseen circumstances.”
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Donna De Angelo
David Strathairn - Joe Gastineau

“- Captain Richard Phillips: There's gotta be something other than being a fisherman and kidnapping people.
- Muse: Maybe in America, Irish. Maybe in America.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Richard Phillips
Barkhad Abdi - Muse