- Kate: What would you tell your father if he came home and I was dead on the kitchen floor?
- Eugene Morris Jerome: "Don't go in the kitchen, Pa"?
Blythe Danner - Kate
Jonathan Silverman - Eugene Morris Jerome

“- Mary: No... I miss my daddy!
- Sharon: Oh, honey, I miss your daddy too.
- Mary: I want to go to heaven so I can see him again.”
Kimberly Cullum - Mary
Mimi Rogers - Sharon

“- Tucker: He drowned.
- Gilbert: You're kidding?
- Tucker: No. In that.
- Gilbert: Oh.
- Tucker: A kiddy pool. I don't get it.
- Gilbert: Wow.
- Tucker: It's like one foot deep. Weird, right?
- Gilbert: Yeah.
- Arnie: He drownded!”
John C. Reilly - Tucker Van Dyke
Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape
Leonardo DiCaprio - Arnie Grape

“He had the cardiac arrest... his head bent forward, his knees buckled, and then he just... fell ... face forward into the pool. When she found him he was already dead.”
Crispin Glover - Bobby McBurney

“After the tragic death of your father, I married your mother promising her I would raise you as my own. You chose not to take the Maggio name. I did not complain. And when you wanted to go to Beauty School, as boys who lose their fathers early in life often do, I did not snivel at interventions, did I?”
Christopher Walken - Salvatore 'Sal' Maggio