“- 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: It's time to start digging.
- Ben: Digging?
- Governor Ratcliffe: Why, of course. Let's not forget what the Spanish found when they came to the New World. Gold! Mountains of it. Why, for years they've been ravaging the New World of its most precious resources. But now it's our turn.”
David Ogden Stiers - Governor Ratcliffe
Billy Connolly - Ben

“- 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