“- Noodles: How's your sister?
- Fat Moe: I ain't seen her for years. She's a big star now.
- Noodles: We should have known, huh? You can always tell the winners at the starting gate. You can always tell the winners, and you can tell the losers.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
Larry Rapp - Fat Moe

“Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.”
Corey Parker - Arnold B. Epstein

“Mediocrities everywhere... I absolve you... I absolve you... I absolve you... I absolve you... I absolve you all.”
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“Your merciful God. He destroyed His own beloved, rather than let a mediocrity share in the smallest part of His glory. He killed Mozart and kept me alive to torture! 32 years of torture! 32 years of slowlywatching myself become extinct.”
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.”
Mackenzie Astin - David Shrader