"[to Paparazzo] How can you be this way? It's not possible to be like you! Hyenas! You're worse than hyenas! You don't respect anyone! You make me sick! Cowards!"

"[to Emma] The day you understand that you love Marcello more than he does, you'll be happy."

"The Sweet Life."

"We must all think about tomorrow, but without forgetting to live today."

"[to Emma] A man who agrees to live like this is a finished man, he's nothing but a worm! I don't believe in your aggressive, sticky, maternal love! I don't want it, I have no use for it! This isn't love, it's brutalization!"

"I'm wasting time. I won't manage anything anymore. Once I had ambitions, but maybe I'm losing everything. I forgot everything."

"Don't be like me. Salvation doesn't lie within four walls. I'm too serious to be an amateur, but not enough to be a professional. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected."

"[to Sylvia] You are everything... everything! You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home."

"We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should love each other outside of time... detached."

"The film that shocked the critics...uncut, uncensored for all to see!"

"Transvestite: By 1965 there'll be total depravity. How squalid everything will be."

"Iris Tree - Herself"

"I'll ask myself: What is my favorite film? Or I'll skew the question slightly: What film would I most like to see again right now? The answer would not be "Kane." … Right now, this moment, the answer that would spring most quickly to mind is Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960). I've seen it, oh, at least 25 times, maybe more. It doesn't get old for me. Age has not withered, not custom staled, its infinite variety. I've grown so worked up just writing this paragraph that I want to slide in the DVD and start watching immediately. … I might add that it is one of the most visually fluid movies ever made, a movie that approaches music in its rushing passion, not simply because Nino Rota's score is one of the best ever recorded, but because the characters seem to move with music within them (joyful, lustful, exciting, doubtful, sad)."

"Desmond O'Grady - Himself"

"Kirk Bovill - Dorothea's Dinner Guest"

"Laura Wiggins - Lynette Winters"

"Nathalie Love - Cindy"

"Waleed Zuaiter - Charlie"

"Alia Shawkat - Trish"

"Alison Elliott - Julie's Mother"

"Billy Crudup - William"

"Lucas Jade Zumann - Jamie Fields"

"Darrell Britt-Gibson - Julian"

"Elle Fanning - Julie Hamlin"

"Greta Gerwig - Abigail "Abbie" Porter"

"Finn Roberts - Tim Drammer"

"Thea Gill - Abbie's Mother"

"Wondering if you're happy is a great shortcut to just being depressed."

"Men always feel that they have to fix things for women, but they're not doing anything. Some things just can't be fixed. Just be there, somehow that's hard for all of you."

"Whatever you think your life is going to be like, just know, it's not gonna be anything like that."

"Annette Bening - Dorothea Fields"

"Lucy Butler — Rhonda"

"Belinda Balaski — Stan's Mom"

"Naomi Watts — Shopping Cart Starlet"

"Robert Picardo — Howard, the Theater Manager"

"James Villemaire — Harvey Starkweather"

"Lucinda Jenney — Anne Loomis"

"Jesse White — Mr. Spector"

"Omri Katz — Stan"

"Lisa Jakub — Sandra"

"Kellie Martin — Sherry"

"Simon Fenton — Gene Loomis"

"Jesse Lee — Dennis Loomis"

"Cathy Moriarty — Ruth Corday / Carole"

"Dick Miller — Herb Denning"

"Herb's an interesting guy. He used to be kind of, uh... dishonest: shakedown artist, strong arm. Someone sent him to collect money from me just when I needed an inexpensive actor. Isn't it fun to know these things about your favorite stars?"

"[to theater staff] I know some of you have never been in the motion picture business before, and some of you have been at it a long time. But I want all of you to look at the faces out here during this picture. There's gonna be room in their heads for only one thought: "Don't let it get me!" They know we can't hurt 'em, but they're still gonna be scared half to death. And all of you, when you thread the projector, when you tear the tickets, when you sell the jujubes, you're all a part of it. And just when it gets the worst, when they're sitting there and their hearts are going like trapped animals out here in the dark, we save them. And they say, "Hey, it's all right! Thank God! Hey, can I see that again?" P.S., No, they can't. We clear between shows."

"[from TV spot] Monster movies, the end of civilisation, your first date - some things will always be scary!"

"Dr. Flankon: [to Carole] Young lady, human/insect mutation is far from an exact science."