“- Dudley Smith: For the love of God, don't be a detective. Stick to assignments where you don't have...
- Ed Exley: Dudley, I know you mean well, but I don't need to do it the way you did. Or my father.”

James Cromwell - Dudley Smith
Guy Pearce - Ed Exley

- Sydney: Are you required to flirt, to behave as you do toward that table of men over there? Maybe... it's some part of your job?
- Clementine: They don't say to do it.
- Sydney: But if you don't?
- Clementine: Then I get questioned, like: "Why were so rude to them?" and, I mean, I can't talk back.

Philip Baker Hall - Sydney
Gwyneth Paltrow - Clementine

“The key to French waiters: if you're nice to them, they treat you like shit. Treat them like shit, they love you.”
Meg Ryan - Kate

“- Captain Briggs: Is it your job to harass and incite an old man into a heart attack?
- Harry Callahan: My job is to investigate homicide. That old man happens to be one of the biggest crime lords on the west coast. How the hell was I supposed to know he was gonna vapor-lock?”
Bradford Dillman - Captain Briggs
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“- Harold 'Happy' Loman: Bob Harrison, he said you were tops, and then you go and do some damn fool thing like whistling whole songs in the elevator like a comedian.
- Biff Loman: Well, so what? I like to whistle sometimes.
- Harold 'Happy' Loman: You don't raise a guy to a responsible job who whistles in the elevator!”
Stephen Lang - Harold 'Happy' Loman
John Malkovich - Biff Loman