- Max: The issue's not whether you're paranoid, Lenny, I mean look at this shit, the issue is whether you're paranoid enough.
- Lenny Nero: Are we still friends?
- Mace: I don't know Lenny. You see, friendship is more than one person constantly doing favors for another.
- Max: You know how I know it's the end of the world? Everything's already been done. Every kind of music's been tried. Every kind of government's been tried, every fucking hairstyle, bubble gum flavors, you know, breakfast cereal. What are we going to do? How are we going to make another thousand years? I'm telling you, man, it's over. We used it all up.
- Mace: This is your life, right here, right now! It's real-time, you hear me, real time! Time to get real, not playback. You understand me?
- Lenny Nero: See... I can get you what you want, I can. I can get you anything, you just have to talk to me, you have to trust me. You can trust me, 'cause I'm your priest, I'm your shrink... I am your main connection to the switchboard of the soul. I'm the magic man... Santa Claus of the subconscious. You say it, you think it, you can have it.
- Strickland: You're a disappointment, Nero. But you know what disappoints me more?
- Lenny Nero: Your sex life?
- Lenny: [to Mace, as he slips the disc into her hand] You see that guy over there? That's Deputy Commissioner Palmer Strickland, the sanctimonious prick who busted me out. His ass is so tight, when he farts only dogs can hear it. If there's one cop who's not dirty, it's him. Take it to him.
- Mace: You want me to trust a cop?
- Lenny: No. Trust me.
- Faith Justin: You know one of the ways movies are still better than playback? The music comes up, there's credits, and you always know when it's over.
- [turns to look at Lenny]
- Faith Justin: IT'S OVER!
- Mace: I can't believe you had to give them the damn tape.
- Lenny Nero: Yeah I know. It was one of my favorites: me and Faith in the hot tub on my birthday.
- [Lenny takes the actual tape out of his jacket]
- Lenny Nero: Are we impressed yet?
- Mace: Yeah... pretty impressed.
- Palmer Strickland: Nero.
- Lenny Nero: Strickland.
- Palmer Strickland: Commissioner Strickland!
- Lenny Nero: See, since you shit-canned my career, I don't even have to call you sir. One of life's small pleasures.
- Talk radio host: Now, just so the, the rest of us know how much time is left, when is the rapture supposed to hit exactly? Is it midnight New Year's Eve?
- Lori: That's right.
- Talk radio host: Aha. Is that midnight L.A. time or, or Eastern Standard Time, or what? I mean, what timezone is God in anyway?
- Max Peltier: You put that thing on the 11 o'clock news and by midnight you'll have the biggest riot in history. They'll see the smoke from Canada.
- Jeriko One: [during introduction to his music video] You make me think I did this to myself. But the drugs I smoke and the guns I tote came from your shelf.
- Lenny: When I met Faith, she was just another runaway, giving twenty dollar blowjobs to buy crack. Just another lost soul. But she had this voice... it was scary, like she could take all the hurt and rage of the entire world and lift it up to Heaven in one voice. I helped her. And I promised her I'd always just be there, to protect her. See, it's not about what's in her head, it's what's in mine. I can't let go of the promise. It's like it's all I have left.
- Jeriko One: You're gonna be in my next song. It's called "RoboSteckler." It's about a cop who met his worst nightmare: a nigga with enough political juice to squash your ass like a stinkbug! You gonna be famous, fucker!
- Lenny Nero: Look... everyone needs to take a walk to the dark end of the street sometimes, it's what we are.
- Mace: You're some piece of work, Lenny Nero. You're just calmly backstroking along in the big toilet bowl and somehow you never let it touch you. I mean, between working vice and your current so-called occupation, you must have seen every kind of perversion. But you're just like... some teflon man, you still come out this goofball romantic.
- Lenny Nero: It's my sword and my shield, Mace.
- Lenny Nero: [car has been riddled with bullets and as antagonists are about to incinerate the vehicle, yells out with cell phone in hand:] Goddamn it, 911 is busy!
- Lenny Nero: [to a SQUID-recording-newbie] I can use this, it's not bad, but, listen honey, you've got to move your eyes slower next time, much much slower. Like... like you're making love with your eyes, ok?
- Max: Only he doesn't know about me and Faith. So I say to myself, if I turn the job down, he just gets somebody else. And I lose Faith... to coin a phrase. So to buy time, I do the skank. I still gotta do something about Tran... I figure it's him or me... but I can't cap him without a chump to take the fall. And who better than his girlfriend's loser ex-boyfriend... a known criminal... who has been seen hassling them in public numerous times.
- Lenny Nero: And who was, regrettably, also your best fucking friend.
- Max: No plan is perfect, Lenny. Hey, cheer up. World's gonna end in ten minutes anyway.
- Jeriko One: You know what? You've pulled over the wrong black man, Officer Steckler! I'm the 800 pound gorilla in your mist, fucker! I make more money in a day than you make in a whole year! And my lawyer loves sending sorry-ass Aryan RoboCop fuckers like you to jail!
- Lenny Nero: [while immersed in a virtual reality session]
- [smiles]
- Lenny Nero: Oooh... a little B&E action.
- [last lines]
- Mace: Hey, Lenny, we made it!
- Lenny Nero: Yea, we did.
- Mace: You should get going.
- Lenny Nero: Yea, see you downtown.
- Mace: See you there.
- Mace: [Angry, to Lenny] Don't just be usin' the time that I'm talkin' to be thinkin' 'bout what you gonna say next.
- Lenny: I am the magic man. I am your link to the subconscious. I have what you want. I can get you what you can't have.
- Lenny Nero: This tie cost more than your entire wardrobe... it's the one thing that stands between me and the jungle.
- Lenny Nero: [remembering the exact word Iris used] She said *"they"* - "If they get me" - *"they"*. Which means this whole, like, random sex-killer thing is bullshit, which means somebody whacked her for a reason.
- Mace: So this guy's not a psycho?
- Lenny Nero: No, Macy, he's a psycho. To do what's on that tape?... He's not a well-adjusted human being.
- Mace: Lenny, would you relax? We're not being followed. Stop being so paranoid.
- Lenny Nero: The guy had a knife, to my throat, in my living room. Relaxing might be right out, okay?
- Mace: [grabs the playback tapes from Lenny] You're gonna get yourself killed for this? Huh? For this toxic waste BITCH?
- [throws the tapes on the floor]
- Lenny: What the fuck are you doing?
- [Mace stomps on the tapes, grabs Lenny and flings him roughly against the wall]
- Mace: This is your life! Right here, right now! It's real time! You hear me? Real time! Time to get real, not playback. You understand me? She doesn't love you anymore. Maybe she did once, I don't know, but she doesn't now! These are used emotions. It's time to trade em in! Memories are meant to fade, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason.
- Lenny: Have you ever been in love... with someone who didn't return that love?
- Mace: [painfully] Yeah, Lenny. I have.