"I'm sick of feelin' totally alone. I want to have friends who like me for who I am. I want to have a family who loves me for who I am and not for someone I pretend to be to keep their love! I'm sick of hiding... of being sad and... scared."

"Charles Winninger - Abel Frake"

"Vivian Blaine - Emily Edwards"

"Dick Haymes - Wayne Frake"

"Dana Andrews - Pat Gilbert"

"Jeanne Crain - Margy Frake"

"YOUR HEART WILL SING OUT LOUD!"

"For the young in heart! And romantic oldsters, too!"

"[putting a drunk Wayne to bed] One shoe off and the other shoe off. Diddle diddle dumpling my son John. Hey, that don't rhyme like it used to."

"[quite drunk] As you are undoubtlessly aware, this distinguished award is given out only under the rarest shircum- circul- We don't give it out much..."

"Pickles and pigs, pigs and pickles, who cares about that silly old state fair any how?"

"Harry Morgan - Barker"

"Phil Brown - Harry Ware, Margy's fiance"

"Percy Kilbride - Dave Miller"

"Frank McHugh - McGee, a song plugger"

"William Marshall - Marty, the singer with Tommy Thomas` band."

"Donald Meek - Mr. Hippenstahl, the pickle and mincemeat judge"

"Fay Bainter - Melissa "Ma" Frake"

"I don't know much about women. I've been married for 28 years, you know."

"[to Preysing, after he tries to get 'familiar' with her by asking her to call him by his first name] You know I always say that nothing should be left hanging over. And names are like that. Suppose I met you next year and said, 'How do you do Mr. Preysing?' And you said, 'That's the young lady who was my secretary in Manchester.' That's all quite proper. But supposing I saw you and yelled 'Hi baby. Remember Manchester.' [he laughs] Yeah, and you were with your wife. How would you like that?"

"To life! To the magnificent, dangerous, brief, brief, wonderful life...and the courage to live it! You know, Baron, I've only lived since last night, but that little while seems longer than all the time that's gone before."

"Then we’ll go to Tremezzo. I have a villa there. The sun will shine! […] We’ll be happy and lazy. […] It will be divine ! Divine ! Divine !"

"I think Suzette, I've never been so tired in all my life.."

"The Grand Hotel. Always the same. People come. People go...nothing ever happens."

"Believe me, Mr. Kringelein, a man who is not with a woman is a dead man."

"What do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat. Sleep. Loaf around. Flirt a little. Dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall, and no one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed, and that's the end."

"When a man's collar is an inch too big for him I know he's ill."

"Edwin Maxwell - Dr Waitz"

"Murray Kinnell - Schweimann"

"Frank Conroy - Rohna"

"Tully Marshall - Gerstenkorn"

"Morgan Wallace - the chauffeur"

"Rafaela Ottiano - Suzette"

"Ferdinand Gottschalk - Pimenov"

"Purnell Pratt - Zinnowitz"

"Robert McWade - Meierheim"