“- Powder: Do you think I'm ugly?
- Lindsey: I don't know what I think when I look at you. But sometimes I think you're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.”
Sean Patrick Flanery - Jeremy 'Powder' Reed
Missy Crider - Lindsey Kelloway

“A ugly person who goes after a pretty person gets nothing but trouble. But a pretty person who goes after a ugly person gets at least cab fare.”
Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Arnold Beckoff

“I can't let you go. Now, you... you listen to me now. You're a good person. You're a good and beautiful person and I won't let you walk out on me. And I won't let you say those things - those things about how stupid you are and this and that. I won't stand for that. You want to be with me... then you be with me. You see?”

John C. Reilly - Officer Jim Kurring

“- Reuben Warshowsky: Best wishes don't seem hardly enough, but I'd like to thank you. I do. I, I thank you for your companionship, your stamina, your horse sense, and a hundred and one laughs. I also enjoyed very much looking at your shining hair and your shining face.
- Norma Rae: Reuben, I think you like me.
- Reuben Warshowsky: I do.”
Ron Leibman - Reuben Warshowsky
Sally Field - Norma Rae

“I didn't mean for any any of this to happen. But he's just so sweet... so pure. He understands what's good in me. No one else does. And, Mama, when he touches me... he's so gentle... so tender.”

Christina Ricci - Carolyn McDuffy