“- Francis Phelan: She is a bum, or just a plain drunk?
- Rudy: She's been a bum all her life.
- Francis Phelan: No, nobody... 'been a bum all her life'. She had to be somethin' else before she was a bum.”

Jack Nicholson - Francis Phelan
Tom Waits - Rudy

“- Bruce: I hope you realize you've just committed assault.
- Henry Desalvo: I know. There was a time when you actually had to hit somebody.”

Michael McShane - Bruce
Dennis Farina - Henry Desalvo

“You want an answer? Okay, pappy, think of it as colors. There's black, and there's white, and in between is mostly gray. That's us. Now gray is a tough color, because it's not as simple as black and white - and for the media, certainly not as interesting. But... it's what we are.”
Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“You can't freeze people like hamburger.”
Michael Beach - Dr. David Arrington

“Don King talks black, lives white and thinks green.”
Nona Gaye - Belinda Ali