“- Margaret Larsen: There can't be such devils out there.
- Jerry Black: There are such devils.”

Patricia Clarkson - Margaret Larsen
Jack Nicholson - Jerry Black

It's always these questions with you. "Did the kid see it?". Who gives a fuck? He's dead, his wife killed him. Anything else has nothing to do with us.
Daniel Zacapa - Detective Taylor

“- Nancy Thompson: Mother! What's with the bars?
- Marge Thompson: Security.
- Nancy Thompson: Security? Security from what?
- Marge Thompson: Not from what - from whom. Come down to the cellar. You wanna know who Fred Krueger was? He was a filthy child murderer who killed at least 20 kids in the neighborhood... kids we all knew.”
Heather Langenkamp - Nancy Thompson
Ronee Blakley - Marge Thompson

“- Bruce: A complex series of seductions and murders? That's just not something you see a woman do.
- Alexandra: Really? What part do you think a woman is not up to? The seduction or the murder?”
Terry O'Quinn - Bruce
Debra Winger - Alexandra

“We're trying to save women from getting pulled into vans and cut to pieces, not crucify some schoolmarm who hasn't done anything.”
Holt McCallany - Bill Tench