"He was no different from any other officer in the ward room, they were all disloyal. I tried to run the ship properly, by the book, but they fought me at every turn. The crew wanted to walk around with their shirt tails hanging out, that's all right, let them. Take the tow line, defective equipment, no more, no less. But they encouraged the crew to go around scoffing at me, and spreading wild rumors about steaming in circles, and then old yellow-strain. I was to blame for Lt. Maryk's incompetence and poor seamanship. Lt. Maryk was the perfect officer, but not Captain Queeg. Ah, but the strawberries, that's, that's where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist, and I've had produced that key if they hadn't pulled the Caine out of action. I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer. [He pauses - looked at all the questioning faces that stared back at him, and realizes that he has been ranting and raving] Naturally, I can only cover these things from memory. If I left anything out, why, just ask me specific questions and I'll be glad to answer them, one by one."

"I suppose you're wondering why I called this meeting. As you all know we had an excellent dessert for dinner tonight: ice cream and frozen strawberries. About an hour ago, I sent Whittaker to the pantry to bring me another portion. He came back with the ice cream, all right, but he said: "Sir, there ain't no more strawberries." Now, Gentlemen, I do not believe that the officers of this ship consumed a full gallon of strawberries. I intend to prove it."

"This is the captain speaking. Some misguided sailors on this ship still think they can pull a fast one on me. Well, they're very much mistaken. Since you've taken this course, the innocent will be punished with the guilty. There will be no liberty for any member of this crew for three months. I will not be made a fool of! Do you hear me?"

"Mr. Maryk, you may tell the crew for me that there are four ways of doing things aboard my ship: The right way, the wrong way, the Navy way, and my way. They do things my way, and we'll get along."

"Gentlemen, we'll be shipmates for a long time and I thought we ought to get acquainted. I've formed some good impressions. you're probably curious about me. Well, my background is simple enough. Just another naval officer. I've had seven tough years in the Atlantic. Believe you me, they made the last two mighty interesting. The way those subs ganged up on us I thought they had it in for me, personally. Now to get down to cases. Any one who knows me knows I'm a book man. I believe everything was put in it for a purpose. When in doubt, remember we do things by the book. Deviate from the book, and you'd better have good reasons and you'll still get an argument from me. And I don't lose arguments on board my ship. That's one of the nice things about being captain. I want you to remember one thing. Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard, standard performance is sub-standard, and sub-standard performance is not permitted to exist - that, I warn you."

"I can remember my first job singing with the band. And then one night stands clear across country by bus. Putting on nail polish in the ladies rooms of gas stations, waiting on tables. Wow! That was a low point. I'll never forget it. And I'll never never do that again, no matter what. But I had to sing. I somehow feel most alive when I'm singing."

"[seeing Norman drunk] Mr. Maine is feeling no pain!"

"Lucy Marlow - Lola Lavery"

"Amanda Blake - Susan Ettinger"

"Tommy Noonan - Danny McGuire"

"Charles Bickford - Oliver Niles"

"Jack Carson - Matt Libby"

"James Mason - Norman Maine (Ernest Sidney Gubbins)"

"Judy Garland - Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester"

"Destiny came at her with a leer!"

"The applause of the world -- and then this!"

"[to Vicki] Sympathy? That's not what you're getting from me, baby. You don't deserve it. You're a great monument to Norman Maine, you are. He was a drunk, and he wasted his life, but he loved you. And he took enormous pride in the one thing in his life that wasn't a waste, you. His love for you and your success. That was the one thing in his life that wasn't a waste. And he knew it. Maybe he was wrong to do what he did, I don't know. But he didn't want to destroy that, destroy the only thing he took pride in. And now you're doing the one thing he was terrified of, you're wiping it out! You're tossing aside the one thing he had left. You're tossing it right back into the ocean after him. You're the only thing that remains of him now. And if you just kick it away, it's like he never existed, like there never was a Norman Maine at all."

"If you'll be kind enough to glance between my shoulder blades, Mr. and Mrs. Gubbins, you'll find there a knife buried to the hilt. On its handle are your initials."

"There's nothing left anymore. It happened long before last night...20 years of steady and quiet drinking do something to a man."

"I shall have to introduce myself all over again to a lot of people. They won't know me when I'm not drinking."

"You know, Oliver, I sometimes think I was born with a genius - an absolute genius - for doing the wrong thing."

"Irving Bacon - Graves"

"Listen to me, Esther, a career is a curious thing. Talent isn't always enough. You need a sense of timing - an eye for seeing the turning point or recognizing the big chance when it comes along and grabbing it. A career can rest on a trifle. Like - like us sitting here tonight. Or it can turn on somebody saying to you, 'You're better than that. You're better than you know.' Don't settle for the little dream. Go on to the big one...Scared? Scared to take the plunge? Don't ever forget how good you are. And hang on to that. Because I'm right. [pause] I just want to take another look at you."

"[to Esther] You've got that little something extra that Ellen Terry talked about. Ellen Terry, a great actress long before you were born. She said that that was what star quality was - that little something extra. Well, you've got it."

"He gave me a look at myself I've never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it."

"SHE BELIEVES IN TWO THINGS...-love and violence!"

"We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together."

"Russ Tamblyn - Young Bart Tare, age 14"

"Nedrick Young - Dave Allister"

"Harry Lewis - Sheriff Clyde Boston"

"Anabel Shaw - Ruby Tare"

"Morris Carnovsky - Judge Willoughby"

"Stanley Prager - Bluey-Bluey"

"Berry Kroeger - Packett"

"John Dall - Bart Tare"

"Peggy Cummins - Annie Laurie Starr"

"Nothing Deadlier Is Known To Man..."

"Her Violent Loves! Her Vicious Crimes! Her Wild Escapes!"

"The Flaming Life of LAURIE STARR (The Lethal Blonde)"

"She was more than any man could handle!"

"Notorious LAURIE STARR! ...wanted in a dozen states... hunted by the F.B.I.!"

"Thrill crazy... Kill crazy..."

"Julie London - Billie Ellis"

"Chief Tahachee - Pio"

"J. Williams - Alcutt"

"Robert J. Wilke - Ponch"

"John Dehner - Claude"

"Royal Dano - Trout"

"Jack Lord - Coaley"