Kenneth Branagh credited as playing...
Roman Strauss • Mike Church
- Cozy Carlisle: Someone's either a smoker or a nonsmoker. There's no in-between. The trick is to find out which one you are and be that.
- Mike Church: Yeah, well, you know, I'm - I'm trying to quit. So...
- Cozy Carlisle: Don't tell me you're trying to quit. People who say they are trying to quit are basically pussies who cannot commit. Find out which one you are. Be that. That's it. If you're a nonsmoker, you'll know.
- Cozy Carlisle: You take what you've learned from this life and use it in the next. That's karma.
- Mike Church: I thought karma was I do something bad in this life and I'm a termite in the next.
- Cozy Carlisle: Hey, if you ask me, pal, you're already a termite in this life in a shitty suit, OK?
- Mike Church: [Baker smokes a cigarette through the hole in his throat, and gives the pack back to Mike] Keep 'em. I just quit.
- Gray Baker: Aren't you afraid of dying?
- Roman Strauss: To die is different than what anyone supposes and luckier.
- Gray Baker: Is that a line from your opera?
- Roman Strauss: It's Walt Whitman. I can't take credit for everything, Mr. Baker.
- Gray Baker: You really believe that you're lucky to die?
- Roman Strauss: What I believe, Mr Baker, is that this is all far from over.
- Cozy Carlisle: Hey, thumb-dick, I was a damn good shrink. In 16 1/2 years I worked with a lot of people through a lot of shit. Okay. I slept with a patient or two. It's not like I didn't care about 'em.
- Mike Church: Okay.
- Cozy Carlisle: I loved being a doctor. I used to not charge half my patients. Then the fuckin' state comes along, they send some bitch undercover, and I'm fucked. It ain't fair, is it?
- Roman Strauss: It's not a bracelet, darling. It's an anklet, a very special anklet. Let's have your leg. It's really very old. The man I bought it from explained to me that when a husband gives this to his wife - they become - two halves of the same person. Nothing can - separate them. Not even death.
- Margaret Strauss: So we're stuck with each other.
- Franklyn Madson: Actually, I'm a hypnotist.
- Mike Church: OK, here's the water, there's the door, sorry about the stairs.
- [leaving Cozy Carlisle's freezer]
- Mike Church: Nice place you've got here.
- [under his breath]
- Mike Church: Fucking fruitcake.
- Pete: [jokingly talking about Grace who's outside the door] Oh, and you don't have to worry about forgetting her name... she's already forgotten it for you!
- Mike Church: [unamused] Right.
- Mike Church: You telling me to kill her?
- Cozy Carlisle: You do her before she does you.
- Mike Church: I thought karma was like, you learn something from one lifetime to another.
- Cozy Carlisle: Well, that's what you learned from this life. I mean, karmically, self-defence is quite cool.
- Grace: Why is it that I can recognize certain smells, that I know my right hand from my left, but I can't remember what my favorite color is or my favorite flower or - what kind of wine I like.
- Mike Church: Maybe you're lucky.
- Grace: Lucky? How so?
- Mike Church: You know, I was just thinking there must be a certain freedom that goes with living only in the present tense. At least you don't have to spend every day trying to forget your past.
- Mike Church: This is a claddagh ring. Irish wedding band. If you wear it with the crown up, it means you're taken. Crown down means you're not. How were you wearing it?
- Cozy Carlisle: Myron was impotent. Imagine that - a man lays pipe for a living and can't get it up at home.
- Mike Church: Yeah, well, Myron must've had a helluva hard-on when he made out his will.
- Mike Church: Cozy Carlisle?
- Cozy Carlisle: Fuck you. I'm on a break.
- Mike Church: Mr. Carlisle, I've been retained by the law firm of Opperman-Crowe to find you and tell you that Myron Spargo died last month.
- Cozy Carlisle: Who the fuck's Myron Spargo?
- Mike Church: He was a patient of yours.
- Cozy Carlisle: I had a lot of patients. Now beat it!
- Mike Church: Yeah, well, this one left you $11,000.
- Cozy Carlisle: [mood changes] Myron! Myron!