“- Gray Grantham: Do you want to talk about the brief?
- Darby Shaw: Everyone I have told about the brief is dead.
- Gray Grantham: I take my chances.”
Denzel Washington - Gray Grantham
Julia Roberts - Darby Shaw

“I'm dying. I know this because my physician has stopped talking about my health and begun discussing the weather.”
Albert Finney - Uncle Henry

“I went to see a woman who was supposed to have powers of communicating with those who had 'passed across' as she called it. She said that people who had passed across were picky about who they communicated with, not like most people you run into on this side. So you needed a guide, someone with a gift for talking to souls.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Ed Crane

“- Kate Fuller: Daddy, what would momma say?
- Jacob Fuller: Momma's got nothin' to say. She's dead!”
Juliette Lewis - Kate Fuller
Harvey Keitel - Jacob Fuller

“- Rose Castorini: How's the mother?
- Loretta Castorini: She's dying. But I could still hear her big mouth.”
Olympia Dukakis - Rose Castorini
Cher - Loretta Castorini