Choi Min-sik credited as playing...
- Dae-su Oh: Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.
- Dae-su Oh: If they had told me it was going to be fifteen years, would it have been easier to endure?
- Dae-su Oh: Even though I'm no more than a monster - don't I, too, have the right to live?
- Dae-su Oh: Can 10 years' worth of imaginary training... be put to use?
- Dae-su Oh: [Dae-su beats up his assailants] Apparently, it can.
- Dae-su Oh: [on receiving three chopsticks with his prison rations] All I could think about in that moment was the guy in the next room was eating with only one chopstick.
- Mi-do: [looking around the inside of Dae-su's "cell"] You stayed in a place like this for fifteen years?
- Dae-su Oh: Yeah, but after the first eleven it felt like home.
- Dae-su Oh: Who the hell are you?
- Woo-jin Lee: Me? I'm a sort of scholar. And my major is you. A scholar studying Dae-su Oh; an expert on Dae-su Oh.
- Dae-su Oh: [after getting knocked over and taking a drag of a cigarette] "Dick-shit"... a new word. Television doesn't teach you swear words.
- Dae-su Oh: Can the imaginary training of fifteen years be put to use?
- Dae-su Oh: [Dae-su tries to sexually assault Mi-do and gets clobbered] No. It can't.
- Dae-su Oh: Revenge is good for your health, but pain will find you again.
- Dae-su Oh: [after a huge fight] As I expected, I can't get along with anyone today either.
- Dae-su Oh: [after a very messy beating] Anyone here with an AB blood type, raise your hand.
- Dae-su Oh: If by any chance Mido should find out the truth, you son of a bitch, I'm going to rip you limb from limb. And your remains will never be found. Why? Because I'm going to swallow every last bit.
- Dae-su Oh: The TV is both a clock and a calendar. It's your school, your home, your church, your friend...
- [Dae-su masturbates to a pop star onscreen]
- Dae-su Oh: ... and your lover. But... my lover's song is too short.
- Dae-su Oh: How's life in a bigger prison, Dae-su?
- Dae-su Oh: You need not worry about the future, Imagine nothing.
- Dae-su Oh: If you stand aimlessly at a phone booth on a rainy day, and meet a man whose face is covered by a violet umbrella, I'd suggest that you get close to the TV.
- Dae-su Oh: [Dae-su is about to use a clawhammer to yank out someone's teeth] Each one I yank out will make you age for one year. Ready to talk?
