“- Michael Cutler: How long will it take?
- Lincoln Hawk: I've got one more pick up. And say, two to three days, we'll be in California. And your mother doesn't go into surgery, say, until Wednesday morning.
- Michael Cutler: Do you really think you can make up 10 years in two to three days?
- Lincoln Hawk: No.”
David Mendenhall - Michael Cutler
Sylvester Stallone - Lincoln Hawk

“Anger, vanity, you mix that together with liquor, you've got two brothers that haven't spoken in ten years. Ah, whatever it was that made me and Lyle so mad... don't matter anymore. I want to make peace, I want to sit with him, look up at the stars... like we used to do, so long ago.”
Richard Farnsworth - Alvin

“- Alvin Straight: Well, they may be mad. I don't think they're mad enough to want to lose you, or your little problem.
- Crystal: I don't know about that.
- Alvin Straight: Well, of course, neither do I, but a warm bed and a roof sounds a mite better than eating a hot dog on a stick with an old geezer that's travelling on a lawnmower.”

Richard Farnsworth - Alvin
Anastasia Webb - Crystal

“- Alan Parrish, 1969: Whatever I said, Dad, I'm sorry.
- Samuel Alan Parrish: Oh, Alan, I was angry, ok? And I'm sorry, too. Look, you don't have to go to Cliffside if you don't want to. Let's talk it over tomorrow. Man to man.
- Alan Parrish, 1969: How about father to son?”
Adam Hann-Byrd - Young Alan
Jonathan Hyde - Sam Parrish

“- Senator Jummy Simpson: I've seen that girl somewhere before.
- Liza Prescott: She's a very particular friend of the director who's making this picture. He sticks her in every scene he can.”

Walter Kingsford - Senator Jummy Simpson
Billie Burke - Liza Prescott