“- Tom Frost: They say you murdered your wife. Is that true?
- Bill Lee: Who told you that?
- Tom Frost: Word gets around.
- Bill Lee: It wasn't murder. It was an accident.”
Sir Ian Holm - Tom Frost
Peter Weller - Bill Lee

“- Tom Frost: There are no accidents. For example, I've been killing my own wife slowly over a period of years.
- Bill Lee: What?
- Tom Frost: Well, not intentionally. I mean, on the level of conscious intention, it's insane, monstrous.”
Sir Ian Holm - Tom Frost
Peter Weller - Bill Lee

- Mike Mathews: It just happened, Joe. It...
- Joe Hallenbeck: Sure, sure, I know... it just happened. Could have happened to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, slipped on the floor and accidentally stuck your dick in my wife. "Whoops! I'm so sorry, Mrs. H. I guess this just isn't my week".

Bruce McGill - Mike Matthews
Bruce Willis - Joe Hallenbeck

“I was put out on the street with the threat not to shift again. Only the Sniffs caught up with me in Chicago. I was just trying to buy something nice for my wife. Next day, I get a call. She's dead. Car accident. But my wife doesn't drive.”

Cliff Curtis - Hook Waters

- Mrs. de Winter: But you didn't kill her. It was an accident!
- "Maxim" de Winter: Who would believe me? I lost my head. I just knew I had to do something, anything.

Joan Fontaine - Mrs. de Winter
Laurence Olivier - "Maxim" de Winter