“We do what you say, and we go to the bank. Anything goes wrong, you're gonna turn around and I'll be gone. Okay. And if that happens, from this day on, any time your kid leaves this house to go to school, go play, see a friend, to buy a fuckin' comic book, you're gonna have to ask yourself: Is today... Jimmy Shaker day?”

Gary Sinise - Det. Jimmy Shaker

“I'll gouge your right eye out with my thumb, I shit you not, you little freak! Now, will you get down here? I'm gonna punch you in the eye till it turns to jelly! I'll stab you with forks till you bleed, how bout that?”

Larry Miller - Max Berman

“- Vic Damico: Tell Gerald, that if he touches my son again, I'll kill him.
- Grace Damico: Really. It was nothing more than a tap. And Jed was being very rude.
- Vic Damico: I don't care if Jed was taking a piss on his head. He touches him again, he dies. Tell him.”

Randy Quaid - Vic Damico
Lindsay Crouse - Grace Damico

“The doctors told me it was pneumonia, but I knew what it was! A victim of the modern age! Poor, poor girl!”
Patrick Magee - Mr. Alexander

“It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.”
Paul Farrell - Tramp