“People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world.”
Michael Clarke Duncan - John Coffey

“- Eddie Jessup: I can't live with it Emily, the pain is unbearable.
- Emily Jessup: We all live with it. That unbearable terror is what makes us such singular creatures. We hide from it, we succumb to it, mostly we defy it! We build fragile little structures to keep it out. We love, we raise families, we work, we make friends. We writepoems...”

William Hurt - Eddie Jessup
Blair Brown - Emily Jessup

“I certainly had a lot of nerve wanting to make a picture about human suffering.”
Joel McCrea - John L. Sullivan

“I've been knocked down, blown up, lied to, shit on, and shot at. So nothing surprises me much anymore, except the things that people do to each other.”
Jason Statham - Nick Wild

“Ever since we dispensed with God we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaninglesshorror of life. That first self is real... and I'm going to find the fucker.”
William Hurt - Eddie Jessup