- Christina Ford: A long time ago I decided that the key to life was pleasing men. I've gotten pretty good at it.
- Det. Lewis Stone: She says you shot her boyfriend, threw his body overboard, then went down to her cabin and raped her.
- Jack Lynch: Well, I - I didn't shoot anybody and I sure as hell didn't rape Christina.
- Det. Lewis Stone: I didn't mention the young lady's name. But I do have a nurse's report that says she had - a - sexual intercourse within the last 12 hours. And according to your statement, Mr. Ashby went overboard the night before. Now, who she have sex with, Jack, if it weren't with you? There weren't anybody else on board, was there?
- Det. Lewis Stone: They're just mad at me 'cause I won't give them my secret recipe for love or barbecue. And I ain't giving it to you either.
- Det. Lewis Stone: You know what I think the two most overrated things in the whole wide world are? White folks' barbecue and one-night stands away from home.
- Christina Ford: Do they always stare like this or is it just me? I don't think they would like it themselves.
- Dr. Richard Brooks: A real Cain and Abel story, those two. Good seed and bad seed. I didn't know the boys particularly well. It's just that Ted was usually in some kind of trouble due to his behavior. His lifestyle tended towards debauchery.
- Walter: The police say that you've got quite a reputation as a ladies' man.
- Jack Lynch: Yeah, well, got to have a bad habit, that ain't such a bad habit to have, huh?
- Dr. Richard Brooks: A real culture vulture, that one. Rumor has it that she used to do a little more than workout with the club trainer. If you know what I mean.
- Christina Ford: You should use your imagination. Don't you ever want to do something special with your life?
- Jack Lynch: Like what?
- Christina Ford: Look around you, Jack, life's a banquet. Most people are starving to death.
- Jack Lynch: Maybe I'm not as hungry as most people.
- Christina Ford: You and I are a lot alike, you know? We've seen enough to know what's out there and we're strong enough to get it. Sometimes I feel so trapped. I wish I could get free.
- Christina Ford: I had a dream about us. I was naked and pure white snow was falling on me. Everything was so clean.
- Ted: If he so much as lays a hand on you, I'll kill him.
- Christina Ford: And what if I put a hand on him, are you going to kill me too?
- Walter: Look, I'm not feeling too well. It's gonna take every bit of strength that I've got to save your butt, but don't you go and sandbag me, boy.
- Walter: You scratch my back a little, I'll scratch yours.
- Christina Ford: I have some experience in that area.
- Christina Ford: Jack, I fantasize about us. Do you like to play games?
- Jack Lynch: Yeah.
- Christina Ford: Would you like to play a game with me?
- Jack Lynch: Yeah.
- Christina Ford: I like to play bad.
- Judge Parker: This hearing has been overrun with a kind of malicious mendacity that I have never previously experienced in all my years on the bench.
- Walter: It's been my experience that when it comes to women, men can just be convinced of just about anything.
- Det. Lewis Stone: I mean, I've seen a whole lot of hard-boiled eggs in my time, but that one, he got to be 20 minutes.
- Det. Lewis Stone: It's all about money, my friend. It's all one big merry-go-round. Some of them get ahold of the brass ring, but most of them fall off the horse trying to get it.
- Jack Lynch: If you're surprised, I'm not surprised if you're surprised, 'cause I'm surprised.
- Walter: I'm not quite sure I know what you're saying.
- Det. Lewis Stone: You're taking any bets on what's gonna happen next?
- Walter: It's getting damn hard to figure out the horses without a scratch sheet.
- Singer: [singing] To share our love, Naked and gleaming, My star and slaves, You and me, And God painted gold, A flaming circle, Flesh to the bone, Pain and pleasure, Pleasure, Ooh, Sextacy...
- Jack Lynch: I just keep on thinking that it - just all should have turned out so different, you know.