- Poppy: Is your name Chinese or English?
- "Mother" Gin Sling: Indeed Gin Sling is English. It's a nickname as common in this part of the world as the drink sold over the counter.
Gene Tierney - Poppy
Ona Munson - "Mother" Gin Sling

“- Tom Ludlow: What do they call you?
- Quicks: They call me fucking Quicks.
- Tom Ludlow: Quicks? Not quick enough.”
Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow
Noel Gugliemi - Quicks

“- Rick Latimer: Okay, what's your name?
- White Zac: Just call me White Zac. My real last name's O'Something-Or-Other, too long to say.
- Rick Latimer: Sweet. Well, Mr. O'Something-Or-Other, can you tell me what class this is for?”

Jim Belushi - Rick Latimer
J.J. Cohen - White Zac

- Henry Luce: These stories will appear in Life magazine under their own bylines: for example "by Betty Grissom", or "by Virgil I. Grisson", or...
- Gus Grissom: Gus!
- Henry Luce: What was that?
- Gus Grissom: Gus. Nobody calls me by... that other name.
John Dehner - Henry Luce
Fred Ward - Gus Grissom

- Henry Luce: Gus? An astronaut named "Gus"? What's your middle name?
- Gus Grissom: Ivan.
- Henry Luce: Ivan... ahem... well. Maybe, Gus isn't so bad, might be something there... All right, all right. You can be Gus.
John Dehner - Henry Luce
Fred Ward - Gus Grissom