“- Dixie Leonard: You got three daughters. Why don't you give them the benefit of your wisdom?
- Eddie Sparks: Because my wisdom is for a son.”
Bette Midler - Dixie Leonard
James Caan - Eddie Sparks

“My second son weighed 300 pounds. Died in the arms of a whore in Paso Robles, California. My other son, lost all track of him. My two ex-wives won't speak to me, and my daughter, you know goddamn well won't speak to me, and Ty Cobb can't get it up anymore. Print it all!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

“- Dr. Austin Sloper: Do you remember her mother? Her mother who had so much grace and gaiety. This is her child.
- Elizabeth Almond: Austin, no child could compete with this image you have of her mother.
- Dr. Austin Sloper: You're not entitled to say that. Only I know what I lost when she died and what I got in her place.”

Ralph David Richardson - Dr. Austin Sloper
Selena Royle - Elizabeth Almond

“Right then I knew we'd lost her. She'll always love us of course, but not in the old way. From now on her love will be handed out like a farmer's wife tossing scraps to the family rooster.”

Spencer Tracy - Stanley T. Banks

“Had you not by wondrous fortune come, this vengeance on me had they executed! Revenge it, as you love your mother's life or be ye not henceforth called my children!”
Jessica Lange - Tamora