“- Coffee Man: Hey buddy. You forgot your change.
- Joe Moore: Makes the world go round.
- Bobby 'Bob' Blane: What's that?
- Joe Moore: Gold.
- Bobby 'Bob' Blane: Some people say love.
- Joe Moore: Well, they're right, too. It is love. Love of gold.”
Tony Calabretta - Coffee Man
Gene Hackman - Joe Moore
Delroy Lindo - Bobby 'Bob' Blane

“- Governor Ratcliffe: Wiggins, why do you think those insolent heathens attacked us?
- Wiggins: Because we invaded their land and cut down their trees and dug up their earth?
- Governor Ratcliffe: It's the gold! They have it and they don't want us to take it from them. Well, I'll just have to take it by force then, won't I?”
David Ogden Stiers - Governor Ratcliffe
David Ogden Stiers - Wiggins

“- The Frog - Jean-Baptiste: Gold would be your ruin, Captain. It would cost us our heads.
- Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red: It's easier to live without a head than without gold, you numbskull!”
Cris Campion - The Frog - Jean-Baptiste
Walter Matthau - Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red

“Man had been created with a hole in his heart, a hole that no possession, power, or knowledge could fill. And in his infinite greed, man dreamed of expanding his dominion over the entire Earth.”
Sir John Hurt - Professor Broom

“The humans have forgotten the gods, destroyed the Earth, and for what? Parking lots? Shopping malls? Greed had burned a hole in their hearts that will never be filled! They will never have enough!”
Luke Goss - Prince Nuada