“- Nick Hurley: When I was a kid all I wanted was to be able to afford to eat in restaurants like this.
- Alex Owens: Were you poor?
- Nick Hurley: I was so poor I had hand-me-down lunches.”
Michael Nouri - Nick Hurley
Jennifer Beals - Alex Owens

“- Alexander Sebastian: That's almost great.
- Jill Baker: Who painted it?
- Alexander Sebastian: A woman. No man could be so malicious.”
Burgess Meredith - Alexander Sebastian
Merle Oberon - Jill Baker

“- Ma Flodder: Where did you find that? That face I haven't seen for ten years.
- Johnnie: It was under your bed.
- Ma Flodder: Away with that. I don't want to be involved with your father.
- Dochter Kees: Is that my father?
- Ma Flodder: His father, not yours.”

Nelly Frijda - Ma Flodder
Huub Stapel - Johnnie
Tatjana Simic - Dochter Kees

“I think, instead of passport photographs, they should let you do a drawing of yourself.”
Joyce Deans - Stephanie

“He painted what he felt, not what he saw. People didn't understand, to them it seemed childlike and crude. It took years for them to recognize his actual technique.”

Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson