“- Samuel: I'll bring you back the kaiser's helmet.
- Colonel Ludlow: Bring yourself back. That'd please me more.”

Henry Thomas - Samuel Ludlow
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Col. William Ludlow

“- Katharine Clifton: Promise me you'll come back for me.
- Almásy: I promise, I'll come back for you. I promise, I'll never leave you.”
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Katharine Clifton
Ralph Fiennes - Almásy

“I know I told dad I wouldn't hurt Lawanda, but I never said the dog couldn't.”

Michael Oliver - Junior Healy

“- Bobby Darin: My momma used to tell me a story when I was a kid that in the Middle Ages, one of the knights in King Arthur's court, he laid down his sword between himself and Guinevere, and he promised that he would never cross over to the other side.
- Sandra Dee: Really?
- Bobby Darin: I am laying down this sword between us.”
Kevin Spacey - Bobby Darin
Kate Bosworth - Sandra Dee

“- Flora: How did you speak to him?
- Ada: I didn't need to speak. I could lay thoughts out in his mind like they were a sheet.
- Flora: Why didn't you get married?
- Ada: He became frightened and stopped listening.”

Anna Paquin - Flora
Holly Hunter - Ada