Niven: "Yes June, I'm bailing out...but there's a catch! I've got no parachute...June are you pretty...you've got a good voice...you've got guts too...you're life and I'm leaving you..."

Klaatu addresses the Earth's people: "There must be security for all - or no one is secure. This does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly..."

Clarence: "Harry wasn't there to save them, because you weren't there to save Harry! You see George, you really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away..."

Brother William of Baskerville advises young Adso of Melk about the Dolcinite zealots butchering innocents in God's name: "The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief..."

Freeman talks about the 'fresh fish': "Most come close to madness the first night...and when they put you in that cell...then you know it's for real...whole life thrown away in the blink of an eye..."

Tuco's sentence: "Wanted in 14 counties...crimes of murder, armed robbery, deserting his wife & children, theft of sacred objects, bigamy, receiving stolen goods, guilty of using marked cards..."

His refrigerator broken for 2 weeks, Matthau returns to poker with a "buffet". "I've got brown sandwiches & green sandwiches." "What's in the green?" "It's either very old cheese or very new meat."

A woman leans out of a tenement window and joins in on the John Cusack/Rob Reiner/Mary Louise Parker relationship debate; speaks the ultimate truth; "Love goes deep..sex only has to go a few inches.."

Perkins/Mother: "They're probably watching me...well let them...I'm not going to swot that fly...I won't move...They'll see...they'll know...why she wouldn't even harm a fly..."

Ed Begley: "I've lived among them all my life...I mean they're born liars!" Joesph Sweeney: "Only an ignorant man can believe that! Do you think you were born with a monopoly on the truth!"

Robin Williams finally gets through to Matt Damon about his father beating him as a child with a belt; Williams repeating the words he needs to hear, "It wasn't your fault. It wasn't your fault..."

"If Prescilla knew I was alive, would she come to see me? Would we still wanna fu*k or would we have to talk about it? When it comes down to it, is there anything to life other than food, sh*t & sex?"

A crowd gathers around the stilled hulk of King Kong at the base of the Empire State. "It was the fall that killed him". Carl Denham steps in. "No. It was beauty that killed the beast."