"Clean-up man: Mister, I've been converted five times. Billy Sunday, Reverend Biederwolf, Gypsy Smith, and twice by Sister Falconer. I get terrible drunk, and then I get good and saved. Both of them done me a powerful lot of good - gettin' drunk and gettin' saved. Well, good night."

"Lady in red on Christmas Eve: That's the trouble with this stinking world. Nobody loves nobody."

"George Babbitt: Besides, I'm for a free press, for free enterprise... and for whatever the hell the other freedoms are!"

"Sister Sharon Falconer: But tonight is a thousand years away."

"Oh, he gave me special instructions back of the pulpit Christmas Eve. He got to howlin' "Repent! Repent!" and I got to moanin' "Save me! Save me!" and the first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!"

"As long as I got a foot, I'll kick booze. And, as long as I got a fist, I'll punch it. And, as long as I got a tooth, I'll bite it. And, when I'm old and gray and toothless and bootless, I'll gum it till I go to heaven and booze goes to hell."

"I was accosted by three painted women. Your streets are made unsafe by shameless, diseased hussies, rapacious pick-pockets, and insidious opium-smokers."

"I have here in my pocket - and thank heaven you can't see them - lewd, dirty, obscene, and I'm ashamed to say this: French postcards. They were sold to me in front of your own innocent high school by a man with a black beard... a foreigner."

"Sin. Sin, Sin. You're all sinners. You're all doomed to perdition. You're all goin' to the painful, stinkin', scaldin', everlastin' tortures of a fiery hell, created by God for sinners, unless, unless, unless you repent."

"You think, uh, religion is for suckers and easy marks and molly-coddlers, eh? You think Jesus was some kind of a sissy, hey? Well, let me tell you, Jesus wouldn't be afraid to walk into this joint or any other speakeasy to preach the gospel. Jesus had guts. He wasn't afraid of the whole Roman army. [Pointing to a picture] Think that quarterback's hot stuff? Well, let me tell you, Jesus would have made the best little All-American quarterback in the history of football. Jesus was a real fighter - the best little scrapper, pound for pound, you ever saw. And why, gentlemen? Love, gentlemen. Jesus had love in both fists! And what is love? Love is the mornin' and the evenin' star. It shines on the cradle of the Babe. Hear ye, sinners. Love is the inspiration of poets and philosophers. Love is the voice of music. I'm talkin' about divine love - not carnal love."

"If there was a dollar to be made - Gantry would make it... If there was a soul to be saved - Gantry would save it..."

"You're all sinners... You'll all burn in hell!"

"Tell 'em, Gantry... save 'em from sin... lead 'em to salvation... tell 'em about everything - but not about your whiskey and your women!"

"Jean Simmons - Sharon Falconer"

"Arthur Kennedy - Jim Lefferts"

"Dean Jagger - William L. Morgan"

"Shirley Jones - Lulu Bains"

"Patti Page - Sister Rachel"

"Edward Andrews - George F. Babbitt"

"John McIntire - Rev. John Pengilly"

"Hugh Marlowe - Rev. Philip Garrison"

"Joe Maross - Pete"

"Dayton Lummis - Eddington"

"Tippi Hedren - Florence Peters"

"Nobu McCarthy - Mira Watanabe"

"Mako - Toshio Watanabe"

"Laurie Metcalf - Stephanie MacDonald"

"Michael Keaton - Carter Hayes/James Danforth"

"Matthew Modine - Drake Goodman"

"Melanie Griffith - Patty Palmer"

"They were the perfect couple, buying the perfect house. Until a perfect stranger moved into their lives."

"Where terror lives."

"They wanted a tenant in the worst way. And that's what they got."

"It seemed like the perfect house. He seemed like the perfect tenant...Until they asked him to leave."

"[before sex with Drake] I wish I had spurs."

"He won't pay his rent. He won't leave. And he's got the law on his side. Go figure...if you dare."

"[as James Danforth in the interrogation room] They're lying. These people are completely pathological. They took 1/2 a year's rent from me and they said I never paid them. They evicted me, they slandered me, they totally destroyed my credit. They physically assaulted me. They threatened my life. And now this. These people are parasites. Florence. [sighs] I am so sorry... that you were even touched by any of this. Oh, God, I'm so embarrassed. When I first met you, I was enchanted and I... I was dazzled. I'm sorry. No, it's not like I can't prove they're lying. I can prove, they're lying. It's gonna take a little time. [sighs] I'll have to take them to court, I guess, but for right now it's my word against theirs, isn't it? I don't know what these people want. You know that if they hadn't tied up my trust, I would never ask you for anything. But if the bail isn't paid, I can't get out of here, and I cannot prove to you, Sir. What I hope Florence already knows in her heart. At least I would hope that you know. Look... I'm just asking you to do... whatever it is your heart tells you to do."

"[to Drake] You're a brave and stupid man."

"Barbara Tyson - Amy"

"D.W. Moffett - Bill"

"Dan Hedaya - Loan Officer"

"Jerry Hardin - Bennett Fidlow"

"Luca Bercovici - Greg"

"Sheila McCarthy - Liz Hamilton"

"Carl Lumbly - Lou Baker"

"Dorian Harewood - Dennis Reed"

"Beverly D'Angelo - Ann Miller"