“My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42-years-old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“Life just gets dull and nothing like a little variety to spice things up.”
Raymond St. Jacques - Randolph

“- Bandit: What do you think they do for excitement in this town?
- Cledus Snow: Probably sit around and watch the cars rust.”
Burt Reynolds - Bandit
Jerry Reed - Cledus

“It's one of the ironies of my otherwise straight forward life that I have fallen in love twice. Both times with people who insist on living in this godforsaken town.”
Blythe Danner - Lillian MacFarquhar

“It's narrow. It's dull. It's a dull, narrow town full of dull, narrow people who don't know anything except what things are like right around here. They have no perspective whatsoever, no scope. They might as well be living in the 19th century 'cause they have no idea what's going on, and if you try and tell 'em that they wanna fucking kill you.”

Mark Ruffalo - Terry