“- Sam Mussabini: Eric Liddell? He's no real problem...
- Harold M. Abrahams: You could have fooled me.
- Sam Mussabini: Yeah, he's fast! But he won't go any faster. He's a gut runner, digs deep! But a short sprint is run on nerves. It's tailor-made for neurotics.”

Sir Ian Holm - Sam Mussabini
Ben Cross - Harold Abrahams

“- Al Stump: Come on, Ty, aren't you going to give Ruth credit for anything?
- Ty Cobb: He could run okay for a fat man.”

Robert Wuhl - Al Stump
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

“- Mary Todd Lincoln: Stephen Douglas has arrived. Listen to them cheering for him!
- Abe Lincoln: They ought to cheer. He paid them enough for it.”

Ruth Gordon - Mary Todd Lincoln
Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln

“- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Sometimes I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh-and-blood.
- Kane: Oh Emily, I don't spend that much time on the newspaper.
- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: It isn't just the time. It's what you print - attacking the President.”
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Orson Welles - Kane

“We will not deal with the question of pay as that is altogether too painful. But what we will deal with is the most important disillusionment of all, and that is that wherever she goes there is always in her life a permanently undefeated rival: her husband's ship.”

Celia Johnson - Mrs. Alix Kinross