Keanu Reeves credited as playing...
Jack Traven
- Harry Temple: All right, pop quiz. Airport, gunman with one hostage. He's using her for cover; he's almost to a plane. You're a hundred feet away... Jack?
- Jack: Shoot the hostage.
- Howard Payne: [Payne wrestles with Jack for a deadman-switch detonator on top of a runaway subway train] I'm smarter than you, Jack! I'm smarter! I'm smarter!
- [Jack sees a hanging light approaching and forces Payne into its path. Payne looks up and screams before the light decapitates him]
- Jack: [grabbing the detonator before Payne's body falls away] Yeah? Well, I'm TALLER!
- Jack: You're crazy! You're fuckin' crazy!
- Howard Payne: NO! Poor people are crazy, Jack. I'm eccentric.
- Jack: STOP! L.A.P.D! Get out of the car!
- Maurice the Tune Man: Hey man, this is MY car, I OWN this car, it's NOT stolen.
- Jack: [pulls gun out and points it at him] It is now. Move over.
- Harry Temple: You shot me, I can't believe it. They're giving you a medal for shooting me, you little prick!
- Jack: Harry... you TOLD me to.
- Jack: Harry! Tell me good news, man.
- Howard Payne: Oh, I'm sorry, Jack. He didn't make it.
- Jack: You FUCK!
- Howard Payne: It was the watch that led him to me, wasn't it? Huh? It seemed a little hammy to me to build a bomb out of my precious retirement gift, but, you know, I figured a sign that said "Howard Payne" would be pushing it.
- Jack: I'm gonna rip your fucking spine out, I swear to God.
- Jack: Tell me again Harry, why did I take this job?
- Harry Temple: Oh come on, thirty more years of this, you get a tiny pension and a cheap gold watch.
- Jack: Cool.
- Howard Payne: This day has been rather disappointing, I don't mind saying.
- Jack: Why, because you didn't get to kill everyone?
- Howard Payne: There's gonna come a time, boy, when you will wish you never met me.
- Jack: Mister, I'm already there!