“- Records Clerk: I'm going to call the sheriff.
- David Waters: I'll give you $100.
- Records Clerk: Okay.
- David Waters: [stunned silence] O-okay... You know, you're lucky this investigation is so well funded.”
Lisa Mack - Records Clerk
Elijah Wood - Waters

“People are always putting New Jersey down. None of my friends can believe I live here. But that's because they don't get it: I'm living in a state of irony.”
Lara Flynn Boyle - Helen Jordan

“- Johnny Clay: A friend of mine will be stopping by tomorrow to drop something off for me. He's a cop.
- Joe Piano: A cop? That's a funny kind of a friend.
- Johnny Clay: Well, he's a funny kind of a cop.”
Sterling Hayden - Johnny Clay
Tito Vuolo - Joe Piano

“- Nora McPhee: Can't you stop being a cop for five minutes and just be a friend?
- Brian Costello: No, that's why I don't have too many friends.
- Nora McPhee: Well, if it's one less you want, you're doing a terrific job..”
Marsha Mason - Nora McPhee
Donald Sutherland - Brian Costello

“In just a few hours you can be assured of going down in history as the Typhoid Mary of Oz. G'day.”
Dougray Scott - Sean Ambrose