“- Jack Taylor: Maggie, when you grow up and are incredibly beautiful and intelligent and possess a certain sweetness that's... that's like a distantpromise to the brave, to the worthy, could you please not beat to a pulp every miserable bastard that comes your way simply because you can? Could you not do that?
- Maggie Taylor: Okay Daddy.”
George Clooney - Jack Taylor
Mae Whitman - Maggie Taylor

“- Harry Whitney: Billy, we grew up together!
- Billy: I didn't like you then either!”
Keith Carradine - Harry Whitney
Keith Szarabajka - Billy Baker

“- Jill: Hal... I'm not attracted to you.
- Hal: So what? What, you think that everyone who goes out are always attracted to each other? Get real!”
Susan Ward - Jill
Jack Black - Hal

“- Romy White: Didn't you have a thing for Sandy in high school?
- Heather Mooney: I did not have a thing! I did not have a thing, I did not have a thing! I was very much in love with him! Very much in love and there's a difference!”
Mira Sorvino - Romy White
Janeane Garofalo - Heather Mooney

“- William Parrish: How perfect for you, to take whatever you want because it pleases you. That's not love.
- Joe Black: Then what is it?
- William Parrish: Some aimless infatuation which, for the moment, you feel like indulging, it's missing everything that matters.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish
Brad Pitt - Joe Black