“I love my wife. She likes to break beer bottles over people's heads. That's what she loves.”
Sean Penn - Eddie Quinn

“- Skip Donahue: I wonder what triggered all that violence? He seems so gentle. I see what it is. Nobody has ever just sat down and honestly talked to that man. Poor kid.
- Rory: I wouldn't sit with him. And I killed my step daddy.”

Gene Wilder - Skip Donahue
Georg Stanford Brown - Rory Schultebrand

“I did it. Tell them they can fry me. I did it! It was premeditated! I strangled her... I bludgeoned her... I set her on fire, and then I killed her! I did it!”

Al Pacino - Viktor Taransky

“You said don't shoot him, right? Well I didn't; I choked... look, Easy, if you ain't want him dead, why you leave him with me?”
Don Cheadle - Mouse Alexander

- Vince Larkin: [while in the surveillance truck] That's William Bedford, aka "Billy Bedlam".
- Smoke: The mass murderer?
- Vince Larkin: The same. He caught his wife in bed with another man. Left her alone, drove four towns over to his wife's family's house. Killed her parents, her brothers, her sisters, even her dog.
John Cusack - Vince Larkin
Don Charles McGovern - Smoke