“- Dave: I appreciate beautiful things.
- Heidi Schmidt: Beautiful fast things.
- Dave: Beautiful fast German things... Heidi, right?”

Matthew Modine - Dave
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson - Heidi Schmidt

“Beautiful? Sunsets are beautiful. Newborn babies are beautiful. This... this is fucking spectacular!”

Colm Meaney - Duncan Malloy

“Automobiles are a useless nuisance. Never amount to anything but a nuisance and they had no business to be invented.”
Tim Holt - George Minafer

“I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of the men's souls, I'm not sure. But automobiles have come and almost all outwards things will be different because of what they bring.”
Joseph Cotten - Eugene Morgan

“They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace. And I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles.”

Joseph Cotten - Eugene Morgan