- Ian: Alone on a boat for nine months? You're either drunk or mad.
- Donald Crowhurst: Well, then we should have another drink immediately, so that we can rule out madness. As Chichester said, "any fool can circumnavigate the world sober, it takes a really good sailor to do it drunk." Same again?
Jonathan Bailey - Ian Wheeler
Colin Firth - Donald Crowhurst

“You are a hallucination brought on by alcohol... Russian vodka poisoned by Chernobyl!”

Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“The fact is, Morgan is an uncivilized brute. Sometimes he drinks heavily. A night like this will set him going and once he's drunk he's rather dangerous.”
Ernest Thesiger - Horace Femm

“I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.”

Nancy McLoughlin - Lizbeth

“Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding