“- 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

“That philanthropic cocksucker left all the money to the poor and not a dirty dime to me! Oh, Mary, Mother of God, what have I ever done to you? Life... without money is no goddamned life at all! You know that!”

Dana Ivey - Mrs. Essendine

“- James Gordon: Every dollar is a dollar we don't have, we're floating on credit, without a net.
- Jan Schlichtmann: Mortgaged my house, I don't care.
- James Gordon: I have, and Kevin's, and Bill's and mine, and I've cashed in our retirement plan, and our life insurance policies, it's gone.”
William H. Macy - James Gordon
John Travolta - Jan Schlichtmann

“- Harriet M. Welsch: I hatemoney.
- Sport: You'd like it a lot more if you didn't have any.”
Michelle Trachtenberg - Harriet M. Welsch
Gregory Smith - Sport

“- Peter: I would relax... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing.
- Lawrence: Well, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's broke, don't do shit.”

Ron Livingston - Peter
Diedrich Bader - Lawrence