"[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!"

"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."

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

"Owen Moore - Casey Burke"

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Lionel Stander - Matt Libby"

"Is the price of stardom a broken heart?"

"Elizabeth Jenns - Anita Regis"

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

"Janet Gaynor - Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester"

"Peggy Wood - Miss Phillips"

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

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

"[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."

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

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

"Fredric March - Norman Maine"

"Andy Devine - Daniel "Danny" McGuire"

"May Robson - Grandmother Lettie Blodgett"

"J. C. Nugent - Mr. Blodgett"

"Edgar Kennedy - Pop Randall"

"Guinn "Big Boy" Williams - posture coach"

"Adolphe Menjou - Oliver Niles"

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

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

"Bobby Cannavale - Eddie"

"Margaret Qualley - Elizabeth Weiland"

"Andrew Scott - w:Richard Rodgers"

"But to be a writer, you have to be kind of omni-sexual, don't you? You have to have, inside yourself - you know - everyone on earth: men women, horses. How can you give voice to the whole chorus of the world if the whole chorus of the world isn't already inside you?"

"Ethan Hawke - Lorenz Hart"

"Jonah Lees - Morty Rifkin"

"Simon Delaney - Oscar Hammerstein II"

"Oklahoma! With an exclamation point, no less! Fact - any title that feels the need for an exclamation point, you want to steer clear of."

"John Doran - Weegee"

"Patrick Kennedy - E. B. White"

"Anne Brogan - Frieda Hart"

"What do you call a tireless, relentless homosexual? 'Inde-faggot-ible.'"

"Cillian Sullivan - Stephen Sondheim"

"David Rawle - George Roy Hill"

"Rachael Carpani as Diane"

"T. K. Carter as Russ Durrett"

"Hayes MacArthur as Eric"

"Da'Vinchi as Devon Childress"

"Brandon Wilson as Brandon Durrett"

"Melvin Gregg as Marcus Parrish"

"John Aylward as Father Edward Devine"