“- Khan: You are very successful.
- Jake Gittes: Oh, I can't complain.
- Khan: Does that mean you are happy?
- Jake Gittes: Who can answer that question off the top of their head?
- Khan: Anyone who's happy.”
James Hong - Khan
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“- Maria: How many jobs did you have?
- Larry: I don't know. A lot. I change every two or three years. If it looks like I might be successful. I move on.
- Maria: You don't want to be successful?
- Larry: I want to be happy.”
Isabella Rossellini - Maria
Ted Danson - Larry

“- Sue Creighton: You're happy, aren't you?
- Richard Blake: Every man is when his dream is materialized.”
Virginia Gilmore - Sue Creighton
Robert Young - Richard Blake

“- Tom Bishop: Happy?
- Nathan Muir: Seventy-four casualties, an apartment block leveled, one dead terrorist? Yeah, happy.
- Tom Bishop: We have some fucked up barometer for success, don't we?”

Brad Pitt - Tom Bishop
Robert Redford - Nathan Muir

“- Radley: Who's that?
- Carla : Oh, that's just my friend Daniel, but I like to call him Danny.
- Radley: Yeah? Well Danny's kinda cute.
- Carla: Stop teasing dad!!!”
Tom Skerritt - Radley
Juliette Lewis - Carla