They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? "I killed the Pesident of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?".

John Cusack - Martin Q. Blank

“I've been studying psychopathic criminology and I have a theory. Perhaps this was the work of a sadist or a paranoiac. If I saw it I might be able to tell.”

William Henry - Gilbert Wynant

“We're trying to save women from getting pulled into vans and cut to pieces, not crucify some schoolmarm who hasn't done anything.”
Holt McCallany - Bill Tench

“- Rick Leland: You never have any clothes on.
- Alberta Marlow: If anyone heard you complaining about it, they would put you in a psychopathic ward.”
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Leland
Mary Astor - Alberta Marlow

- Mrs. Henry Vale: The very word "psychiatry", doesn't it fill you with shame, my daughter, a member of our family?
- Dr. Jaquith: There's nothing shameful or frightening about it. It's simple, what I do. People come to a fork in the road. They don't know which way to go. I put up a signpost: "Not that way. This way".

Gladys Cooper - Mrs. Henry Vale
Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith