- Diner Regular: You're talking to a 72 year-old man with high cholesterol, eating a bacon and cheddar omelet with extra cheddar. Do I look like I'm afraid of death?
- [after his Corvette ZR1 is wrecked]
- Gabriel Cortez: You fucked up my car.
- Sheriff Ray Owens: You fucked up my day off.
- [Sheriff Owens jumps into the diner for cover]
- Irv: How are you sheriff?
- Sheriff Ray Owens: Old.
- Irv: Nah, you got a ways to go yet.
- [Mrs. Salazar shoots unsuspecting bad guy, saving Ray's life]
- Sheriff Ray Owens: Mrs. Salazar!
- Mrs. Salazar: Sheriff!
- Sheriff Ray Owens: Obliged.
- Mrs. Salazar: Put the hurt on 'em, Ray!
- [last lines]
- Mayor: Ray? Ray! What in God's name happened to my car?
- Sheriff Ray Owens: Well, next time don't park it in the fire zone.
- [Owens and his deputies turn around and walk into the diner]
- Sheriff Ray Owens: Schmuck.
- Sarah Torrance: I was scared shitless. I mean, I could barely keep my hands from shaking.
- Sheriff Ray Owens: That's quite normal. I mean, everyone feels like that during a firefight. I'll tell you a secret. I'm probably more afraid then you are right now.
- Sarah Torrance: Whoa... What? How can that be?
- Sheriff Ray Owens: Because I've seen enough blood and death. I know what's coming.
- Burrell: Who the hell are you?
- [Burrell pulls out his gun, but Owens shoots him in the forehead]
- Sheriff Ray Owens: I am the Sheriff.
- Gabriel Cortez: [having been stabbed in the leg with his own knife following a lengthy struggle] Okay... OKAY... 10... 20 million... 20 million dollars Just To Look The Other Way!
- Sheriff Ray Owens: [bluntly] My Honor Is Not For Sale!
- Gabriel Cortez: [screeching in frustration] FUCK YOUR HONOR!
- [futilely starts dragging himself along the bridge towards Mexico]
- The Lawyer: He says his arms hurts from where you grabbed him.
- Agent John Bannister: He was reaching for something. I was worried for my life. So I tried to hit you. I should have hit you the fuck harder.
- Man in Orange Suit: That's such bullshit.
- Agent John Bannister: Oh, so now you speak English?
- Man in Orange Suit: If you knew any Spanish, you'd know I was barely speaking it a minute ago.
- Gabriel Cortez: Death doesn't come when you expect it. Driving a racecar. Or in a gunfight. Death is waiting in the kitchen when you get up at night for a glass of milk. My niece. My sister's oldest. She was a good girl. I practically raised her. Then one night I find her pointing a Glock at me in the kitchen. If she hadn't hesitated, it would have been my brains splattered all over the marble floor instead of hers.
- Sheriff Ray Owens: [drops handcuffs at Cortez's feet] Put Them On
- [glowers]
- Sheriff Ray Owens: OR I WILL
- [first lines]
- State Trooper: [getting on the radio after being passed] Dispatch...
- Dispatcher: Go ahead...
- State Trooper: Contact the FAA and tell them some smart ass is flying a jet plane around out here without any lights.
- [FBI finally arrives after the battle]
- Frank Martinez: Here comes the cavalry.
- Agent John Bannister: John Bannister FBI.
- Sarah Torrance: Glad you could make it.
- Gabriel Cortez: [justifying] 3000 Mexicans come across the border, every day! You shouldn't mind, if one goes back?
- Sheriff Ray Owens: [annoyed] You Give Immigrants... A Bad Name/Don't make us immigrants, look bad!