“- Harriet Purdue: Fred, I showed you Ben Morgan's body. The man virtually exploded.
- Mayor: What do you expect out of somebody who was thrown out of a damned pickup truck?”
JoBeth Williams - Harriet Purdue
Gailard Sartain - Mayor

“- Joshua Foss: Enough bombs have been planted in this building to stop all the clocks in the hemisphere.
- Vice President: You'll die with us.
- Joshua Foss: Could be.
- Mrs. Baldwin: I don't think anyone with manicured fingernails wearing a ten-thousand-dollar wristwatch is planning on blowing himself up.”
Powers Boothe - Joshua Foss
Raymond J. Barry - Vice President
Diane Robin - Mrs. Baldwin

“Here's another explosion for your movie, kid.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Jack Slater

“I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there.”
Dean Stockwell - John Cavil

“- Captain David Trilling: What was that?
- Captain Linda Gilder: It is called an orgasm.”

David Gianopoulos - Captain David Trilling
Brenda Bakke - Captain Linda Gilder