"Well, if three is a crowd, then seven must be a bit of a challenge for the pretty miss. I must say I have a hard time picturing her enjoying loneliness."

"Whatever? It must be hard, when you've got everything, to know what to say!"

"The secret ingredient to sex is love."

"[to her children, referring to Joe's bedroom] Let's go see daddy's favorite place! C'mon boys! Ooh, so this is were it all happened!"

"That's not how this goes. Most people don't scream until I hit them."

"[narrating] During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. ("The House of the Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe)"

"But you... you've fucked thousands of men."

"Cara Delevingne — Princess Sorokina"

"[to Young Joe] Would it be alright if I show the children the whoring bed? After all, they also have a stake in this event."

"The human qualities can be expressed in one word: Hypocrisy. We elevate those who say "right" but mean "wrong" and mock those who say "wrong" but mean "right." By the way, I can assure you that women who claim that negros don't turn them on, they're lying."

"Mea Vulva, Mea Maxima Vulva!"

"Charlotte Gainsbourg – Joe (ages 35–50)"

"Stellan Skarsgård – Seligman"

"It's said to be difficult to take someone's life. I would've said that it's more difficult not to. For a human being, killing is the most natural thing in the world. We're created for it."

"Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that I've always demanded more from the sunset. More spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon. That's perhaps my only sin."

"It's actually the souls of the trees we're seeing in the winter. In summer everything is green and idyllic but in the winter, the branches and the trunks all stand out. Just look at how crooked they all are. The branches have to carry all the leaves to the sunlight. That's one long struggle for survival."

"For me, love was just lust with jealousy added; everything else was total nonsense. For every hundred crimes committed in the name of love, only one is committed in the name of sex."

"They said that love was the secret ingredient in sex, but, to me, love was just lust, with jealousy added."

"Each time a word becomes prohibited, you remove a stone from the Democratic foundation. Society demonstrates its impotence in the face of a concrete problem by removing words from the language. And I say that society is as cowardly as the people in it, who in my opinion are also too stupid for democracy."

"Basically, we're all waiting for permission to die."

"We elevate those who say right but mean wrong, and mock those who say wrong but mean right."

"Alexandra Roach — Countess Marie Nordston"

"The kind of Woman most men want - but shouldn't have!"

"In her heart of hearts she knew it would happen this way!"

"A mother's love leads to murder."

"Please don't tell anyone what Mildred Pierce did!"

"Lee Patrick - Mrs. Maggie Biederhof"

"Moroni Olsen - Inspector Peterson"

"Butterfly McQueen - Lottie"

"Bruce Bennett - Albert "Bert" Pierce"

"Veda Ann Borg - Miriam Ellis"

"Ann Blyth - Veda Pierce Forrester"

"Jo Ann Marlowe - Kay Pierce"

"[last lines, to Mildred] You can go now. We'll call you when we want you. You know, Mrs. Beragon, there are times when I regret being a policeman."

"Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce Beragon"

"Jack Carson - Wally Fay"