“- Gil Renard: My father started this business.
- Garrity: Look, perfection and principles, they don't belong in business. Not now or then. As a friend of your father's...
- Gil Renard: As a friend of my father - Keep your mouth shut. You know nothing about my father.”

Robert De Niro - Gil Renard
Dan Butler - Garrity

“- Alice Keach: Were you always in the... cleaning business, Mr Birkin?
- Birkin: My father traveled in... soap.”
Natasha Richardson - Alice Keach
Colin Firth - Birkin

- Luis Cali: What does your father do, William?
- William "Billy" Tepper: He's a contractor.
- Luis Cali: According to this he owns the third largest construction company in the world.
- William "Billy" Tepper: Yeah, he's a contractor.
Andrew Divoff - Luis Cali
Sean Astin - Billy Tepper

“- Jack: No time for regrets, Elvis. We were the best fathers we could be under the circumstances.
- Elvis Presley: Yeah, I guess, no time for regrets. We got business to take care of.”
Ossie Davis - Jack
Bruce Campbell - Elvis Presley

“When I started out I was just a peddler moving across the blind face of a distant land. Moving, always moving. Always gone... and in the end I'd always offer weapons. And they'd always take them. Of course I was gone before they realized what they'd purchased.”
Max von Sydow - Leland Gaunt