“- Witherspoon: We know that certain gang elements in this prison want you dead.
- Declan Mulqueen: An entire government wants me dead, mister, yet here I am.”
J. K. Simmons - Witherspoon
Richard Tiffany Gere - Declan Mulqueen

“- Brett: If you don't get your hand off my leg you're gonna be wiping your ass with a hook the next time you take a dump.
- Camp Loman: I swear, I never heard no talk like that when I was a boy.”
Laura Harrington - Brett
Christopher Murney - Camp Loman

“- Donald Cunningham: Has anybody ever told you you're a real pain in the ass?
- Lt. Jack Cole: All the time.
- Donald Cunningham: You're not gonna have to hear it anymore. I'm gonna take care of you like I took care of your ex-wife.”

John M. Jackson - Donald Cunningham
Steven Seagal - Lt. Jack Cole

“- Don Masseria: Charlie, you're a swell guy. But from now on, if you look the wrong way... if you even fart in the wrong direction, then you end up like Rothstein.
- Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano: Joe, you're always complaining I don't eat. If I don't eat, how am I gonna fart?”
Anthony Quinn - Don Masseria
Christian Slater - Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano

“- Maggie Ryan: You don't act like a good girl, you don't talk like a good girl, and you don't dress like a good girl.
- Sarah Jane Ryan: I act and talk and dress exactly how I please. But technically I'm still a good girl.”
Una O'Connor - Maggie Ryan
Ann Sheridan - Sarah Jane Ryan