“We act like we have all the answers and we're totally invincible, like our parents seem and their parents before them, and I'm sorry, that I have to be the one to say this, but it's fucking bullshit.”

Christopher Grace - Seth Abrahms

“- Ordell Robbie: This you and me talking, is this like a lawyer-client thing, and you can't repeat nothing I tell you?
- Max Cherry: You're not my client until you get busted and I bond you out.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie
Robert Forster - Max Cherry

“- Chief Painter: What are you doing here?
- Michael Shayne: Ask me later. I haven't thought of an answer yet.”

Donald MacBride - Chief Painter
Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne

- Mrs. de Winter: Our marriage is a success, isn't it? A great success? We're happy, aren't we? Terribly happy? If you don't think we are happy, it would be much better if you didn't pretend. I'll go away.
- "Maxim" de Winter: How can I answer you when I don't know the answer myself? If you say we're happy, let's leave it at that.
Joan Fontaine - Mrs. de Winter
Laurence Olivier - "Maxim" de Winter

- Dudley Smith: Bud White is a valuable officer.
- Ed Exley: White's a mindless thug.
- Dudley Smith: No, Edmund, he's just a man who can answer "Yes" to those questions I've asked you from time to time.
James Cromwell - Dudley Smith
Guy Pearce - Ed Exley