- Gary: In my neighbourhood if you didn't fight you were a fruit. In prison if you didn't fight you spread ass.
- Man in bar: Me, queer! Jesus, I'm a married man, I've got 2 kids and a very expensive mistress. I'm an animal.
- Theresa: That's why you go to gay bars ?
- Theresa: First thing, on with the tv. Next - nothing. Just sit there on the bed watching the porno movie, I honest to God expect he's going to bring out a bag of popcorn. Finally, the big moment. He doesn't even take off his pants. And all the time he's doing it to me, he's watching them do it on tv.
- Theresa: Go set the world on fire.
- Tony Lo Porto: What? On a couple of lousy dollars? Come on.
- Theresa: Find a smaller world!
- Katherine: Last night I woke up in a room full of naked asses. Mine was one of 'em. I guess that's all I've ever been, just another piece of ass.
- Theresa: Most guys first time out they try to score, they expect it. And some of them get pretty nasty if they don't get it. So by the second or third time it's either fuck, fight, or forget it.
- [first lines]
- Martin: Next June you're supposed to graduate in college, *not* high school. You're supposed to write an essay about personal conflict. Obviously, most of you never hoped to write anything more literate than a personal check. This paper - is an exception. At least it's legible. May I?
- [Teresa nods yes]
- Martin: "The last time I went to confession I was 15. The booth was dark and hot. Of the seven deadly sins, I was guilty of three. Envy and lust were my sister's fault. I envied her beauty and lusted for her boyfriends. I was afraid to confess and afraid not to. I felt no contrition, not even shame. I still felt the same lust. Was it in my mind - or my body?"
- Katherine: Well, honey, you know, that I'm a little flaky and you never blame me. We all need somebody who won't blame us.
- Martin: Nothing! Nothing. Nothing ever happened between us. And if it does again, it *still* never happened! You understand? I will not be compromised. Not here on campus, not in my home, not at work.
- Mr. Dunn: Before I'm accused of being a tyrant or a - by the way, I'm not breaking any of the rules of the woman's holy crusade to burn their brassieres, am I?
- Tony Lo Porto: I'm going to make you an offer, you can't refuse.
- Theresa: Oh, really?
- Tony Lo Porto: You and me in bed, right.
- Theresa: Yeah? What can't I refuse, huh?
- Tony Lo Porto: You'd be passin' up the best fuck of your life.
- Tony Lo Porto: [looks at Theresa's copy of the book "The Godfather"] Oh, I've seen the movie. Al Pacino is something, right?
- Theresa: Mm-hmm.
- Katherine: This doctor is supposed to be the best safecracker in the business. Isn't that a perfect name for an abortionist?
- Mr. Dunn: Oh, alone in muggers' paradise. Well, that's great. Now we can worry about you day and night. Oh, make sense, girl, be yourself.
- Theresa: I can't stay here and be myself.
- Mr. Dunn: Your almighty self, is it? Well, if it wasn't yourself, just what the hell have you been around here?
- Theresa: What you wanted me to be.