“- Inspector Burgess: We used to talk about the criminal type. Criminal type my eye. It's not how a man looks, it's how his mind works that makes him a killer.
- Jack Marlow: You mean that all great murderers have been... insane?”
Thomas Gomez - Inspector Burgess
Franchot Tone - Jack Marlow

“- Mike Lafebb: Man, I never met anybody who did crime for a living. I mean I had a cousin once who held up a gas station on his bicycle, but he was nuts.
- Ernie Mullins: Runs in the family, huh?”
Casey Siemaszko - Mike Lafebb
Burt Reynolds - Ernie Mullins

“We are insane. Who else but crazy men would film their crimes?”
Karel Roden - Emil Slovak

“- Nurse Marino: She was in a group therapy session.
- Teddy Daniels: Huh. Anything unusual occur?
- Nurse Marino: This is a mental institution, Marshal, for the criminally insane. Usual isn’t a big part of our day.”

Nellie Sciutto - Nurse Marino
Leonardo DiCaprio - Teddy Daniels

“People think that we're crazy. It will never work. You're going to fail... Those are the beginning of every great success story.”
Ione Skye - Diane Court