“- Phyllis Dietrichson: I don't want to kill him. I never did. Not even when he gets drunk and slaps my face.
- Walter Neff: Only sometimes you wish he was dead.
- Phyllis Dietrichson: Perhaps I do.
- Walter Neff: And you wish it was an accident and you had that policy for $50,000 dollars. Is that it?
- Phyllis Dietrichson: Perhaps that too.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Phyllis Dietrichson
Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff

“- Detective Kelly: Financially, you're not going to be hurting after this, are you? I mean, she was worth quite a bit of money.
- Dr. Richard Kimble: Are you suggesting that I killed my wife? Are you saying that I crushed her skull and that I shot her? How dare you!”
Ron Dean - Detective Kelly
Harrison Ford - Dr. Richard Kimble

- Dr. Richard Kimble: I found him, Chuck. I found the man who killed Helen.
- Dr. Charles Nichols: What?
- Dr. Richard Kimble: It was me they were after.
- Dr. Charles Nichols: Who? Who are "They"?
- Dr. Richard Kimble: Devlin MacGregor and Lentz.

Harrison Ford - Dr. Richard Kimble
Jeroen Krabbé - Dr. Charles Nichols

“- Stan Rothenstein: No, you're being booked for shoplifting. I'm being booked for accessory to shoplifting.
- Bill Gambini: No Stan, I'm being booked for murder, you're being booked for accessory to murder.”
Mitchell Whitfield - Stan Rothenstein
Ralph Macchio - Bill Gambini

“It is sad when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. I can't allow them to think I would commit murder. They'll put him away now as I should have years ago. He was always bad and in the end he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man, as if I could do anything but just sit and stare like one of his stuffed birds.”
Vince Vaughn - Norma Bates