“- Robert Wakefield: What are your policies towards treatment of addiction?
- General Arturo Salazar: Treatment of addiction? Addicts treat themselves. They overdose and then there's one less to worry about.”
Michael Douglas - Robert Wakefield
Tomas Milian - General Arturo Salazar

- Michele Casey: Leo says I'm really going places. Just because he deals in dope, that doesn't tarnish me.
- Finley 'Critter' Jones : Oh, that's what you think, baby. Tarnish isn't a strong enough word for what he'll do to you. Try "corrode" for size.
Leslie McRay - Michele Casey
Jody Daniels - Finley 'Critter' Jones

“I'm not an addict. I'm a habitual user.”
Chris Eigeman - Des

“I'm a junkie, I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle. But it just didn't pay off. You know, you don't see my kind of people. Because my kind of people don't beg dope, they go out and get it.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“Sharon, it's just a drug. You're in pain. Instead of doing heroin, you're doing God.”
David Duchovny - Randy