“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

“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

“In this modern complicated world, man breaks down under the strain, the bewilderment, disappointment, and disillusionment. He gets lost, goes crazy, commits suicide.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Alexander Tower

“Modern man is so confused, Raymond. Finally, it's much better to work in the theater... than in a mine.”

Jerzy Skolimowski - Colonel Chaiko