Cape Fear
Cape Fear

Sam Bowden: My wife found some marijuana in one of Danni's schoolbooks, we don't know if Cady gave it to her, but she's scared and won't talk to us, now this has gone far enough.
Claude Kersek: Did you call the police?
Sam Bowden: No I didn't call the police, what did you call them? Slow, slobbery, skeptical...

Cape Fear
Cape Fear

Max Cady: [hanging upside down, on the phone with Danielle] ... well, you can trust in me 'cause I'm the "Do-Right Man".

Cape Fear
Cape Fear

[Cady has just killed Kersek]
Max Cady: I learned that in prison... You white-trash piece of shit!

Cape Fear
Cape Fear

Max Cady: You will now have an opportunity. "What is that opportunity?", you ask. Why, here and now, we have an opportunity to depict and dramatize...
Leigh Bowden: Oh, no!
Max Cady: ...both the heights and the depths of a mama's true love for her daughter, if y'all get my meaning. C'mon out, baby, let's go. C'mon darling. Get out.


[shoves Danielle up on the table]
Max Cady: Get up here.

Cape Fear
Cape Fear

Lieutenant Elgart: So what happened, your wife let the dog out and Cady abducted him and...
Sam Bowden: No, my wife didn't let the dog out.
Lieutenant Elgart: So he came into the house? Now that's illegal entry...
Sam Bowden: No, he didn't come into the house either. Now look, I'm not a cop, I don't know how

he did it, all I know is that he DID it.

Cape Fear
Cape Fear

Max Cady: [to a snarling Sam] You already sacrificed me, counselor.