“- Billy Kwan: That's the real Jakarta. Scrounging for a few handfuls of rice to keep them alive another day. That's a story you journalists don't tell in your reports.
- Guy Hamilton: Well, nobody wants to hear it.
- Billy Kwan: Tell them anyway!”
Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton

“- Frank Rittenhauer: If this factory goes under, the whole town goes under.
- Boardroom Lady: That's when the whores come in.
- Paul Barish: Excuse me, what was that?
- Boardroom Lady: Men laying their trick-money down. Twenty dollars to pay the rent? Maybe not. Maybe instead I'll spend it on the whore.”
Sean McCann - Frank Rittenhauer
Helen Hughes - Boardroom Lady
Rob Lowe - Paul Barish

“It occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.”
Denholm Elliott - Coleman

“- Etta Place: Sundance says it's because you're a soft touch, and always taking expensive vacations, and buying drinks for everyone, and you're a rotten gambler.
- Butch Cassidy: Well that might have something to do with it.”

Katharine Ross - Etta Place
Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy

“- Lidia Joanne Simmons: Anyone of you bring any money?
- Elvadine: All I got's 10 cent.”
Lexi Randall - Lidia Joanne Simmons
LaToya Chisholm - Elvadine