“- Henry Sikorsky: I'm the doctor until the doctor comes back!
- Billy Caufield: Okay, you be the doctor and I'll be the escaped mental patient, okay?”
Chris Lloyd - Henry Sikorsky
Michael Keaton - Billy Caufield

“- Conrad Brean: You watched the Gulf War, what do you see day after day? The one smart bomb falling down the chimney. The truth? I was in the building when we shot that shot - we shot in a studio, Falls Church, Virginia. One-tenth scale model of a building.
- Stanley Motss: Is that true?
- Conrad Brean: How the fuck do we know? You take my point?”
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean
Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss

“Good or bad, it's all playacting. If you act well, you can fool other people; if you do it badly, you can only fool yourself, and when you can't even fool yourself, you just can fool the ghosts.”
Saifei He - Meishan (Third Wife)

“- Joseph Donnelly: I pretend I love you.
- Shannon Christie: I pretend I love you, too.”
Tom Cruise - Joseph Donnelly
Nicole Kidman - Shannon Christie

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
Anna Massey - Miss Prism