“- Meneer Chrome: Thea! Please! Why won't you listen to me?
- Thea: Because you're saying nothing. Whisper your sweet nothings to my mother. She will hear you. I can't. Good-bye, Mr. Chrome, whoever you are.”
Ewan McGregor - Meneer Chrome
Carmen Chaplin - Thea

“- H.G. Wells: Amy, wait, listen to me!
- Amy Robbins: I have listened, and a bigger crock of shit I've never heard!”
Malcom McDowell - H.G. Wells
Mary Steenburgen - Amy Robbins

- Mrs. John Day - Peggy: Listen to the wheels, don't they seem to be saying something?
- Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary: No.
- Mrs. John Day - Peggy: Don't they seem to be saying "Go back, go back, go back, go back?".

Joan Fontaine - Mrs. John Day - Peggy
Norma Shearer - Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary

“When the heart speaks, Brother Orchid, other hearts must listen.”
Donald Crisp - Brother Superior

“- 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