“- Officer Richard Lymangood: All those people. What do you suppose they're all doing down there?
- Officer Frank Murphy: Well, according to the latest statistics, about 1 million, 775 thousand of them are... getting it on!
- Officer Richard Lymangood: That many, eh!
- Officer Frank Murphy: The rest are waiting for 'Laverne and Shirley'!”

Daniel Stern - Officer Richard Lymangood
Roy Scheider - Officer Frank Murphy

“I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.”
Aaron Douglas Trimble

“Everybody obviously wants deeply to laugh at anything today. It's like the war years in that people wants escapism, big escapism. What the devil, it's a nervous world we live in. But it's the affluent society too and we're all on a spending spree.”
Burt Lancaster

“The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.”
Catherine Keener

“I don't know what's worse, church or jail?”
Mary Stuart Masterson - Idgie Threadgoode