| Quote from Winning Role | Actor/Actress and Role | Oscar category |
| 'Carbuncle! I'm a nothing! I'm a nobody!' | |
| 'He chose you, honey!' | |
| 'You sit there and you judge me, and you write them notes on your notepad, because you think you know who I am!' | |
| 'You dare try to poison me? After everything I gave you?' | |
| 'Duck, I says.' | |
| 'A whiskey bottle's about all you'd kill.' | |
| 'Just don't go busting my balls, Billy, okay?' | |
| 'When you really are enjoying what it is you do, who needs balance?' | |
| 'In their final moments, people show you who they really are. So in a way, I knew your friends better than you ever did. Would you like to know which ones were cowards?' | |
| 'Yeah. Right here. On the Oriental. With all the lights on.' | |
| 'Don't spill none of that liquor, son. It eats right into the bar.' | |
| 'The first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!' | |
| 'What a tremendously hostile world that a rat must endure. Yet not only does he survive, he thrives.' | |
| 'You do death alone, but I coulda helped her with the dyin' part.' | |
| 'I don't like the way this script of ours has turned out. It's turning into a seedy little drama.' | |
| 'I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes - at an absolute beauty.' | |
| 'My secret is, I always use fresh tomatoes, never canned.' | |
| 'How's the chicken cacciatore?' | |
| | Quote from Winning Role | Actor/Actress and Role | Oscar category |
| 'Get 'em all in a back room, smack 'em around, no more big shot, without his gun.' | |
| 'There was that house in Fond Du Lac that John Hollister built - do you remember?' | |
| 'I'm not a bad person. I'm a real good person.' | |
| 'You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.' | |
| 'You stay out of this one, you stupid, old drunk!' | |
| 'What's worth doing is worth doing for money.' | |
| 'Do you want to be left as you are, or do you want your eyes and your soul to be blasted by a sight that would stagger the devil himself?' | |
| 'It takes a wolf to catch a wolf.' | |
| 'Your mother and I are old friends. You know that.' | |
| 'Love? I'm made of love!' | |
| 'Ah, my sister is a precious jewel!' | |
| 'Just payin' back the call that you and your men did to my boys this mornin'. Sorry I wasn't there to give you the proper welcome.' | |
| 'I don't need money. People gives me things because they believe in me.' | |
| 'Because he tried to hold me, he tried to tie me down! Nobody holds me!' | |
| 'It's K-k-k-k-Ken, C-c-c-c-coming to k-k-k-kill me!' | |
| 'Where's your head, Agent Kujan?' | |
| 'A lot of folks say they like what I did but they don't like the way I did it.' | |
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