“There's little or no gold to be dug. He's plenty old and people don't mature anymore. They stay jackasses all their lives.”
Bill Erwin - Grandfather

“- Judge Fielding: That's quite enough horseplay, Nels. Try and act your age.
- Nels Gudmundsson: I think if I did that, Your Honor, I'd be dead.”
James Cromwell - Judge Fielding
Max von Sydow - Nels Gudmundsson

“- Alison Kantrowitz: I never have to listen to you ever again. I saw you. I was there. You should have seen yourself. You looked disgusting! I'm the teenager! Not you! You had your chance.
- Pearl Kantrowitz: No. I didn't.
- Alison Kantrowitz: Well then why do the rest of us have to suffer just because you fucked up your life!”

Anna Paquin - Alison Kantrowitz
Diane Lane - Pearl Kantrowitz

“I'm 56-years-old. I can't blame anybody for anything I do.”
Robert Forster - Max Cherry

“Let love guide your actions, and one day, you'll be a man, and will place your mark next to those of our ancestors.”
Joan Copeland - Tanana