"Tragedy is a test of courage. If you can meet it bravely, it will leave you bigger than it found you. If not than you will have to live all your life as a coward, because no matter where you may run you can never run away from yourself."

"There are a couple of rats I raised from mice."

"Colonel Tom Stone: [Repeated line] You're improperly dressed."

"For every dream of yours you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak."

"C. Aubrey Smith - Major Hamilton"

"Fredric March - Norman Maine"

"Owen Moore - Casey Burke"

"We have ways to make men talk."

"Gary Cooper - Lieutenant Alan McGregor"

"Casey Burke: His work is beginning to interfere with his drinking."

"Franchot Tone - Lieutenant John Forsythe"

"Guy Standing - Colonel Tom Stone"

"Colin Tapley - Lieutenant Barrett"

"May Robson - Grandmother Lettie Blodgett"

"[When Esther is accepting her Academy Award] I won one of those once - They don't mean a thing! What I want is a special award for the worst performance of the year. Lord knows I earned it!"

"Lionel Stander - Matt Libby"

"Edgar Kennedy - Pop Randall"

"Well, I must say you spoke your mind, old colonial... If there's any virtue in that."

"Living dangerously...loving recklessly..fighting madly..an amazing spectacle of swashbuckling adventure and romance!"

"A Man's Story... That Women Love!"

"[to the radio audience] It took me more than 70... more than 60 years to get here, and here I mean to stay!"

"That's a charming match. A nice girl like Vicki and Public Nuisance Number One."

"Andy Devine - Daniel "Danny" McGuire"

"Janet Gaynor - Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester"

"Adolphe Menjou - Oliver Niles"

"Richard Cromwell - Lieutenant Donald Stone"

"Kathleen Burke - Tania Volkanskaya"

"Douglass Dumbrille - Mohammed Khan"

"Lumsden Hare - Major General Woodley"

"Fate raised her to fame - and killed the man she loved!"

"[last lines] Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine."

"I don't want to sound immodest, but I think I've stripped a gear."

"Do you mind if I take just one more look?"

"Is the price of stardom a broken heart?"

"Peggy Wood - Miss Phillips"

"Elizabeth Jenns - Anita Regis"

"J. C. Nugent - Mr. Blodgett"

"Guinn "Big Boy" Williams - posture coach"

"[to Esther] All the experts seem to think that your type is a little mild for present day's taste. But I'd rather believe that tastes change, like eyebrows. And I think that also like eyebrows, tastes are going back to the natural."

"Some day you won't laugh at me! I'm going out and have a real life! I'm gonna be somebody!"

"Danny McGuire: The program tonight's gonna be swell. Take this fella Beethoven: I'm a pushover for him. And Chopin - well, he's not so dusty, either."

"Now, I'm going to turn you over to our demon press agent, Libby. Don't let him frighten you. He has a heart of gold... only harder."

"If you've got one drop of my blood in your veins, you won't let Mattie or any of her kind break your heart, you'll go right out there and break it yourself."

"Stan Laurel – Himself"

"Oliver Hardy – Himself"

"Mae Clarke - Kitty (uncredited)"

"Clark Burroughs - Dutch (uncredited)"

"Frank Coghlan Jr - Tom as a Boy (uncredited)"

"Murray Kinnell - Putty Nose"

"Why that dirty, no good, yellow-bellied stool. I'm gonna give it to him right in the head the first time I see him."