"Lloyd Richards. He's going to leave Karen. We're going to be married...Lloyd loves me, I love him...I'm in love with Lloyd...Oh Addison, won't it be just perfect? Lloyd and I - there's no telling how far we can go. He'll write great plays for me, I'll make them great."

"I'll never forget this night as long as I live, and I'll never forget you for making it possible."

"If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights and wrapping you up."

"And there were theaters in San Francisco. And then one night, Margo Channing came to play in Remembrance and I went to see it. Well, here I am."

"But somehow, acting and make believe began to fill up my life more and more. It got so I couldn't tell the real from the unreal. Except that the unreal seemed more real to me."

"I've seen every performance...I'd like anything Miss Channing played in...I think that part of Miss Channing's greatness lies in her ability to pick the best plays."

"Nice speech, Eve. But I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be."

"Never have I been so happy...I'm forgiving tonight, even Eve, I forgive Eve...Do you know what I'm going to be?...A married lady...No more make believe off stage or on. Remember, Lloyd? I mean it now...I don't want to play Cora...It isn't the part. It's a great part in a fine play. But not for me anymore. Not for a four-square, upright, downright, forthright married lady...It means I finally got a life to live. I don't have to play parts I'm too old for, just because I've got nothing to do with my nights."

"The little witch must have sent out Indian runners, snatching critics out of bars and steam rooms and museums, or wherever they holed up. Well, she won't get away with it, nor will Addison De Witt and his poison pen. If Equity or my lawyer can't or won't do anything about it, I shall personally stuff that pathetic little lost lamb down Mr. De Witt's ugly throat."

"[responding to Karen's disbelief] In this rat race, everybody's guilty till they're proved innocent!"

"[to Bill] This is my house, not a theater. In my house, you're a guest, not a director."

"Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men."

"Lloyd, I am not twenty-ish. I am not thirty-ish. Three months ago, I was forty years old. Forty. Four oh - That slipped out. I hadn't quite made up my mind to admit it. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off."

"Funny business, a woman's career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman."

"So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me."

"I distinctly remember, Addison, crossing you off my guest list. What are you doing here?"

"Enchanté to you, too!"

"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."

"Suddenly, I've developed a big protective feeling for her. A lamb loose in our big stone jungle."

"Autograph fiends, they're not people. Those are little beasts that run around in packs like coyotes...They're nobody's fans. They're juvenile delinquents, they're mental defectives, they're nobody's audience. They never see a play or a movie even. They're never indoors long enough."

"Everybody has a heart - except some people."

"Gary Cooper - Jess Birdwell"

"Pat Boone, the sensational Dot Recording artist, can be heard singing the big hit title-song, "Friendly Persuasion""

"Anthony Perkins, the most exciting screen discovery since James Dean!"

"Jess is a big man and he walks the Indiana earth in a big way... a man of few words and many strengths... a man born with the gift of laughter and the knack for love, a power for good, a man who doesn't hold with killing. But now Jess faces a big decision -- to keep faith with what he lives by -- or to fight for what he loves... Only so great a theme could make so great a motion picture!"

"When You Looked At Jess Birdwell YOU LOOKED UP"

"Try FRIENDLY PERSUASION: It's Powerful!"

"It Will Pleasure You in a Hundred Ways!"

"WHAT FUN YOU'LL HAVE...AND WHAT A FAMILY! YOU'LL FEEL AS IF YOU ARE A PART OF IT...OR WOULD LIKE TO BE! (re-release print ad - all caps)"

"Frances Farwell - Ruby Hudspeth"

"Marjorie Durant - Pearl Hudspeth"

"Edna Skinner - Opal Hudspeth"

"Marjorie Main - the widow Hudspeth"

"John Smith - Caleb Cope"

"Theodore Newton - Major Harvey"

"Joel Fluellen - Enoch"

"Richard Hale - Purdy"

"Walter Catlett - Professor Quigley"

"Peter Mark Richman - Gard Jordan (as Mark Richman)"

"Phyllis Love - Mattie Birdwell"

"Robert Middleton - Sam Jordan"

"Richard Eyer - Little Jess Birdwell"

"Anthony Perkins - Josh Birdwell"

"Dorothy McGuire - Eliza Birdwell"

"Listen, baby, when we first met — you and me — you thought I was common. Well, how right you was. I was common as dirt. You showed me a snapshot of the place with them columns, and I pulled you down off them columns, and you loved it, having them colored lights goin.' And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here? And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here, hoity-toity, describin' me like a ape?"

"Karl Malden - Harold "Mitch" Mitchell"

"Kim Hunter - Stella Kowalski"

"Marlon Brando - Stanley Kowalski"

"Vivien Leigh - Blanche DuBois"

"Don't you ever talk that way to me. "Pig," "Polack," "disgusting," "vulgar," "greasy" — those kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's tongue just too much around here. What do you think you are, a pair of queens? Now just remember what Huey Long said — that every man's a king — and I'm the king around here, and don't you forget it."