"Newsreel Announcer: [Newsreel film of Notre Dame using the backfield shift] What is this new miracle that Rockne has wrought? This bolt of Irish lightning, that strikes from all sides with such blinding speed and fury! A 'shift' they call it. Yes, but Heisman at Georgia Tech also has a shift, so has Tad Jones at Yale. But theirs are simple tunes compared to Rockne's symphony! For this shift is music, the music of a master's hand! Knute Rockne, whose ingenious brain perfected the forward pass, has brought a great new thrill to football and its millions of followers!"

"Who can say for certain what a man was really born to be? That's God's will. Someday Knute will find his right place in the world, and when he does, whether it be science or not, I have a feeling it will be the one he was meant to do."

"Rock, someday when the team's up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, ask 'em to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, but I'll know about it. I'll be happy."

"We haven't got any use for gamblers around here. You've done your best to ruin baseball, and horse racing, and this is one game that's clean and is gonna stay clean."

"Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was long before your time, but you all know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame. And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock," he said, "but I'll know about it and I'll be happy.""

"If you're going to kill someone, do it simply."

"Leo G. Carroll - Captain George Melbeck"

"Reginald Sheffield - Reggie Wetherby"

"Auriol Lee - Isobel Sedbusk (final film role)"

"Heather Angel - Ethel (Maid)"

"Isabel Jeans - Mrs. Newsham"

"Dame May Whitty - Mrs. Martha McLaidlaw"

"Nigel Bruce - Gordon Cochrane 'Beaky' Thwaite"

"Cedric Hardwicke - General McLaidlaw"

"Joan Fontaine - Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth"

"Cary Grant - Johnnie Aysgarth"

"In his arms she felt safety...in his absence, haunting dread!"

"Oh, I beg your pardon. Was that your leg? I had no idea we were going into a tunnel. I thought the compartment was empty."

"Love in his Heart ... Tragedy in his Mind!"

"Each time they kissed... there was the thrill of love... the threat of murder!"

"General McLaidlaw: Good heavens! You can't expect me to remember every detail about everybody, can you?"

"I always think of my murderers as my heroes."

"You couldn't hurt a fly, Bertram, unless it was already dead."

"I must go now or I'll be late to luncheon. Anyway, if my father saw me come in both late and beautiful, he might have a stroke."

"Hello Monkeyface!"

"Well, well. You're the first woman I've ever met who said yes when she meant yes."

"[to Lina] I think I'm falling in love with you, and I don't quite like it."

"[about the professors' workroom] Say, who decorated this place? The mug that shot Lincoln?"

"Kathleen Howard — Miss Bragg"

"Ralph Peters — Asthma Anderson"

"Dan Duryea — Duke Pastrami"

"Aubrey Mather — Professor Peagram"

"Richard Haydn — Professor Oddley"

"Leonid Kinskey — Professor Quintana"

"Tully Marshall — Professor Robinson"

"S.Z. Sakall — Professor Magenbruch"

"Henry Travers — Professor Jerome"

"Oskar Homolka — Professor Gurkakoff"

"Dana Andrews — Joe Lilac"

"Gary Cooper — Professor Bertram Potts"

"Barbara Stanwyck — Catherine 'Sugarpuss' O'Shea"