“- Wilford: Curtis, everyone has their preordained position, and everyone is in their place except you.
- Curtis: That's what people in the best place say to the people in the worst place.”
Ed Harris - Wilford
Chris Evans - Curtis

“There has never been a people more purely artist, and therefore, more purely lover, than the Chinese.”
Nils Asther - Gen. Yen

“- Roland Sharp: I gave up alcohol about ten years ago.
- Professor Molly McCarthy: Didn't like yourself when you were drinking?
- Roland Sharp: Hell, I loved myself when I was drinking. It was the other people that had the problem!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp
Anne Archer - Professor Molly McCarthy

“If a human does happen to see you, just lay down, roll over and give your privates a good licking. They love it!”

Bruce Willis - RJ

“- Francis Phelan: She is a bum, or just a plain drunk?
- Rudy: She's been a bum all her life.
- Francis Phelan: No, nobody... 'been a bum all her life'. She had to be somethin' else before she was a bum.”

Jack Nicholson - Francis Phelan
Tom Waits - Rudy