“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

I appreciate what you're all trying to do, but let's not fool ourselves. "Ugliest face in all of Paris", remember? I don't think I'm her type.

Tom Hulce - Quasimodo

“- 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

“- Nancy Trainer: Is that all you're ever gonna want from me is sex?
- Brian McDermott: Yeah. Why, what do you want from me?
- Nancy Trainer: Your vote.”
Stockard Channing - Nancy Trainer
Tim Quill - Brian McDermott

“- Jacob: I like you. I want to stay with you. How come you don't like me?
- Alice: Who said I didn't like you?
- Jacob: My friend with the funny hand.”
Whit Hertford - Jacob
Lisa Wilcox - Alice