“- Young Elizabeth: Did they live happily ever after?
- Polly Cronin: Of course, Elizabeth.
- Young Elizabeth: How do you know?
- Polly Cronin: Because, she was a good little girl, if she would have been naughty, the Prince would have run away.
- Young Elizabeth: What a pile of shit.”

Ashley Peldon - Young Elizabeth
Marsha Mason - Polly Cronin

“- Mack: You know I worked all night on the damn thing. Now Hazel cried when I tried it on him. You see, I got this aunt is Salinas. She lost both husbands in the flood...
- Doc: I didn't know you had an aunt is Salinas, Mack.
- Mack: I don't have an aunt in Salinas, for for christ's sake. That's the goddamned story.”

M. Emmet Walsh - Mack
Nick Nolte - Doc

“- Mickey: [reading Dennis a story] How can a train grow?
- Dennis Mitchell: He eats all his coal and gets plenty of sleep.
- Mickey: And what's the point of reading lies?
- Dennis Mitchell: It teaches kids to eat all their food, and go to bed when they're supposed to.”
Devin Ratray - Mickey
Mason Gamble - Dennis Mitchell

“- Billie Dawn: How about the story of your life?
- Paul Verrall: Oh no. Much too long... and mostly untrue.”
Judy Holliday - Billie Dawn
William M. Holden - Paul Verrall

“I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Robert Ford