- Phil Dawn: You're my mother. You're my father. You're my mother. You're my whole family. You're even my friend, Gloria. You're my girlfriend too.
- [In a bar]
- Gloria Swenson: There's reasons I can't turn and just look, but is there a little kid headed in here or across the street or whatever?
- Gloria Swenson: You let a WOMAN beat ya, huh?
- [yelling at mobsters in the subway as she and the boy are escaping]
- Gloria Swenson: In exactly twenty seconds I'm going to start shooting through that door, so get down on your stomachs!
- Phil Dawn: Gloria, what are you doing?
- Gloria Swenson: I'm saving your life, stupid.
- Gloria Swenson: If I'm gonna get you out of here, I gotta have your help.
- Phil Dawn: How can I help you?
- Gloria Swenson: They're gonna kill us, you little jackass... I don't wanna die!
- Phil Dawn: I'm not going with you.
- Gloria Swenson: Hey; I got no time to play games with you, kid.
- Phil Dawn: I am the man. I am the man. I am the man, do you hear me? I am the man! I am the man! Not you, you're not the man! Do you hear me?I'll do anything I can. I am the man!
- Phil Dawn: [Gloria and Phil try to check in to a hotel, but, the clerk refuses them] He don't know the score, he sees a dame like you, and a guy like me, he don't know.