Edward Cole: Have I fired you lately? Thomas: Not since the Oprah incident.
Edward Cole: [to himself, about his relative wellness while looking in a mirror at his wan face and bald head adorned with a railroad track of baseball-like stitches from his brain surgery] My God. Somewhere, some lucky guy's having a heart attack.
Edward Cole: As something of an expert in diseases, I believe more people die from visitors than diseases.
Thomas: I'm proud of you. Edward Cole: Nobody cares what you think.
Edward Cole: I want my own room. Thomas: You run hospitals, not health spas. Two beds to a room, no exceptions.
Thomas: What are you doing here? Carter Chambers: Fighting for my life. You?
Carter Chambers: Forty-five years goes by pretty fast. Edward Cole: Like smoke through a keyhole.
Edward Cole: You're shitting me. Carter Chambers: No, the cats beat me to it!
Edward Cole: You want some too? I'll have Thomas fix you a plate. Carter Chambers: No thanks. Edward Cole: You sure? Best in L.A. [later, throwing up] Carter Chambers: It ain't the best in L.A. no more.
Edward Cole: [Carter's obsessing over a car] You gonna drive it or buy it a dress? Carter Chambers: Just getting to know each other.
Edward Cole: [Spoiler] [about his daughter and her husband] Edward Cole: The first time he hit her, she came to me. Wouldn't let me take care of it, said it was her fault, he'd had a rough day and too much to drink. The next time he hit her, she didn...
Carter Chambers: Is it Tommy or Thomas? Thomas: It's Matthew, actually. He thought that was too biblical...
[first lines] Carter Chambers: Edward Perriman Cole died in May. It was a Sunday afternoon, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky...
Edward Cole: [Angrily to Carter] Just because I told you my story - that does not invite you to be part of it!
Edward Cole: [to the nurse] Don't give me morphine while I'm sleepin'! It's a waste!
[from trailer] Carter Chambers: I hate your rotten guts!
Carter Chambers: Edward, I've had baths that were deeper than you.
Edward Cole: Kiss the most beautiful girl in the world. Carter Chambers: How are you going to do that? Edward Cole: Volume!
