- Murry Wilson: Frankly, if you really want to know, I don't care for it. It's too wishy-washy. "If you leave me, why leave me? Life will go on. Why go on living?" It's not like a Beach Boys song. Your brothers are going to hate it.
- Brian: [devastated] It's a love song.
- Murry Wilson: It's a suicide note.

Bill Camp - Murry Wilson
Paul Dano - Young Brian

“You don't own the truth about how we get through this, Miss Brittain. Your opinion is just that, an opinion, and you'd do well to remember it.”
Miranda Richardson - Miss Lorimer

“You say that emotions are overrated. But that's bullshit. Emotions are all we've got.”
Harvey Keitel - Mick Boyle

“You don't hold elected office in this town. You run it because people think you do. They stop thinking it, you stop running it.”

Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan

“Mother never approved of Scraps jumping up like this. But then again, she never approved of anything.”

Johnny Depp - Victor Van Dort