- Lucious Lyon: You know something, you and I always made a real good team.
- Cookie Lyon: You damn right we did. I make you better. Don't you forget that.
- Lucious Lyon: Hakeem, I can't make you love your mother, but you will respect her. Because she's lived through a hell that you have to understand if your music is every going to elevate to the place of poetry where it resonates in the hearts of its listeners.
- Billy Beretti: If you go through with it, I will dig up the dirt of your past, and bury your Empire and everyone in it.