“- Gretta Milano: Do you believe in God?
- John Hobbes: Yeah, I mean, you know, I go to church every now and then. What I see in my line of work... faith's a little hard I sustain.”
Embeth Davidtz - Gretta Milano
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes

“- Sybylla Melvyn: You just want to get rid of me!
- Mother: I must do what I feel is right! Oh, I pray to God for guidance.
- Sybylla Melvyn: This is what he told you to do? God be damned!”

Judy Davis - Sybylla Melvyn
Julia Blake - Mother

“Congratulations. On a scale of one to ten on the perversity meter, you just hit a seventy-three.”

Geoffrey Rush - Stephen Price

“- Peaches: I'm having a dinner party Friday night, we're short one man.
- Oscar Madison: How about Abe here, he's a short man.
- Peaches: You can run Oscar, but you can't hide! See ya.
- Oscar Madison: Oh, that's such an original expression. I hate a woman who talks like Muhammed Ali.”
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison

“- Alice: We don't even have an apartment. How can we have a dinner party?
- Charlotte: Well, its another incentive to get one.”
Chloë Sevigny - Alice
Kate Beckinsale - Charlotte