“It's a Saturday night thing when you feel cool like a gangster or a rockstar, just something to kill the boredom, you know? They call it a chippie, a small habit. It feels so good, you start doing it on Tuesdays... then Thursdays... then it's got you. Every wise ass punk on the block says it won't happen to them, but it does.”

Leonardo DiCaprio - Jim Carroll

“- Robert Wakefield: What are your policies towards treatment of addiction?
- General Arturo Salazar: Treatment of addiction? Addicts treat themselves. They overdose and then there's one less to worry about.”
Michael Douglas - Robert Wakefield
Tomas Milian - General Arturo Salazar

“Here is what it think of lottery... It's like, when you play the lottery, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose... But it's better than using drugs or alcohol - Because when you use drugs and alcohol, especially drugs, you always lose.”
Mark Borchardt - Filmmaker

- Michele Casey: Leo says I'm really going places. Just because he deals in dope, that doesn't tarnish me.
- Finley 'Critter' Jones : Oh, that's what you think, baby. Tarnish isn't a strong enough word for what he'll do to you. Try "corrode" for size.
Leslie McRay - Michele Casey
Jody Daniels - Finley 'Critter' Jones

“I'm not an addict. I'm a habitual user.”
Chris Eigeman - Des