“- Chick Boyle: You shouldn't smoke. It causes cancer of the lungs. Each one of those little cigarettes is a stick of death.
- Meg Magrath: That's what I like about it Chick, taking a drag off death. What power! What exhilaration!”
Tess Harper - Chick Boyle
Jessica Lange - Meg Magrath

“The real demonstrated #1 killer in America is cholesterol. If we want to talk numbers, how about the millions of people dying of heart attacks?”
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“Don't trouble yourself, ma'am. Tuberculosis finished us off, more than half a century ago.”

Fionnula Flanagan - Mrs. Bertha Mills

“- Fuzzy: Is your father dead?
- Dr. Wilbur Larch: Cirrhosis. It's a disease of the liver.
- Fuzzy: What, a liver killed him?
- Dr. Wilbur Larch: No, alcohol killed him. He drank himself to death.”
Erik Per Sullivan - Fuzzy
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch

“- Hilary O'Neil: I told Estelle you have a terminal disease.
- Victor Geddes: What?
- Hilary O'Neil: Assholeitis.”
Julia Roberts - Hilary O'Neil
Campbell Scott - Victor Geddes