“- Roger: I hope 1944 turns out well. They pass so quickly. Where do they all go?
- Biff Baxter: So quickly. Then we get old. And we never knew what any of it was about.”

David Warrilow - Roger
Jeff Daniels - Biff Baxter

“- Bernadine Harris: I give you eleven fucking years of my life and you're telling me you're leaving me for a white woman?
- John Harris, Sr.: Would it help if she was black?
- Bernadine Harris: No. It would help if you were black.”
Angela Bassett - Bernadine Harris
Michael Beach - John Harris, Sr.

“- Ashburn: I was actually married for six-some years.
- Mullins: Was he a hearing man?”
Sandra Bullock - Ashburn
Melissa McCarthy - Mullins

“You gotta do what your heart tells you to do. Let me tell you somethin' right now. You're only allowed three great women in your lifetime. They come along like the great fighters, every ten years.”
Chazz Palminteri - Sonny

“Every family has a kid who won't eat. My kid brother had not eaten voluntarily in over three years!”
Jean Shepherd - Ralphie as an Adult