“Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louie Jordon, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonnyboy Williamson I and II, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Elvis Presley, Lieber and Stoller, and Robert K. Weiss.”

Dan Aykroyd - Elwood Blues

“Malcolm, Jib and Diggy used to be in the school marching band, but quit in protest after refusing to play the Harlem Shake.”
Forest Whitaker - Narrator

“- Romulus: Leave me alone. How did you get in here, anyway?
- Sheila: I rode in on your dreams.
- Romulus: Well, ride on out.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Romulus
Tamara Tunie - Sheila

“- Ray Castro: Why are hurricanes named after women?
- Montel Gordon: I don't know.
- Ray Castro: Because when they arrive, they're wet and wild, and when they leave they take your house and your car.”
Luis Guzmán - Ray Castro
Don Cheadle - Montel Gordon

“- Jack Foley: You were in Leavenworth?
- Hejira Henry: For a time.
- Jack Foley: What's that mean?
- Hejira Henry: Means, when the time came, I left.
- Jack Foley: You broke out?
- Hejira Henry: I prefer to think of it as an exodus from an undesirable place.”
George Clooney - Jack Foley
Samuel L. Jackson - Hejira Henry