“- Kitty Berman: Does it ever go away?
- Jake Gittes: What's that?
- Kitty Berman: The past.
- Jake Gittes: Well, I think you have to work real hard at that.”
Meg Tilly - Kitty Berman
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“Memory... strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago.”

Roddy McDowall - Huw

“I remember it like it was yesterday. Of course, I don't really remember yesterday all that well.”
Ellen Lee DeGeneres - Dory

“I get so used to saying what people want to hear I forget sometimes they might just want the truth.”
Matt Malloy - Howard

“- Rita Baker: She's gone, Jeff. She's gone. You may never know how or why, you just have to learn to accept that.
- Jeff Harriman: If Diane were here right now, I'd ask you to marry me. But the truth is, if I could turn back the clock to that day at the gas station just once, I would. Just to find out.”

Nancy Travis - Rita Baker
Kiefer Sutherland - Jeff Harriman