"We lived on Corvallis Street where all the houses looked alike. Ours was number 1143. I was always in the kitchen. I felt as though I'd been born in a kitchen and lived there all my life, except for the few hours it took to get married."

"[first lines and last words] Mildred!"

"Blood red kisses! White hot thrills! Mickey Spillane's latest H-bomb!"

"Personally, I don't think you're the type for the work. But against my better judgment, I'll give you a trial. Now you need white shoes. Ask for nurses' regulation. Any of the stores. $2.95. We furnish your uniform but it comes off your first check. $3.95. You get it at cost and keep it laundered. If you don't suit us, we charge you twenty-five cents on the uniform. That comes off your check too. Keep your own tips."

"I don't care what you do to me, Mike - just do it fast!"

"Jack Lambert - Sugar Smallhouse"

"Jack Elam - Charlie Max"

"Nick Dennis - Nick"

"Jerry Zinneman - Sammy"

"Maxine Cooper - Velda"

"Cloris Leachman - Christina Bailey"

"Leigh Snowden - Cheesecake"

"Gaby Rodgers - Gabrielle (Lilly Carver)"

"Paul Stewart - Carl Evello"

"Juano Hernandez - Eddie Yeager"

"Wesley Addy - Lt. Pat Murphy"

"Marian Carr - Friday"

"Genres collide in the great Hollywood movies of the midfifties cold-war thaw. With the truce in Korea and the red scare on the wane, ambitious directors seemed freer to mix and match and even ponder the new situation. The western goes south in The Searchers; the cartoon merges with the musical in The Girl Can’t Help It. Science fiction becomes pop sociology in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And noir veers into apocalyptic sci-fi in Robert Aldrich’s 1955 masterpiece Kiss Me Deadly, which, briefly described, tracks one of the sleaziest, stupidest, most brutal detectives in American movies through a nocturnal, inexplicably violent labyrinth to a white-hot vision of cosmic annihilation."

"Steven Geray - Paul, Headwaiter"

"Hadda Brooks - Singer"

"Jeff Donnell - Sylvia Nicolai"

"Robert Warwick - Charlie Waterman"

"Martha Stewart - Mildred Atkinson"

"Morris Ankrum - Lloyd Barnes"

"William Ching - Ted Barton"

"Art Smith - Mel Lippman"

"I lived a few weeks while you loved me. Goodbye, Dix."

"[about Dix] He's a sick man...There's something wrong with him....He's exciting because he isn't quite normal."

"[after the police tell her Dix is innocent] Yesterday, this would have meant so much to us. Now it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter at all."

"Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele"

"Gloria Grahame - Laurel Gray"

"Frank Lovejoy - Det. Sgt. Brub Nicolai"

"Carl Benton Reid - Capt. Lochner"

"[about Laurel] I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me."

"That's because they're not always telling each other how much in love they are. A good love scene should be about something else besides love. For instance, this one: me fixing grapefruit, you sitting over there, dopey, half-asleep. Anyone looking at us could tell we were in love."

"It's much easier to get people's names into the papers than to keep them out."

"He's a smart fellow, that Lochner. A couple times, he almost had me. It was his story against mine. But, of course, I told my story better...I was smart. I covered all the angles, I have an airtight alibi."

"It's a good thing you like my face. I'd have been in a lot of trouble without you."

"I've been looking for someone for a long time. I didn't know her name or where she lived. I'd never seen her before. When a girl was killed - and because of that, I found what I was looking for. Now I know your name, where you live, and how you look."

"That's the trouble with these Hollywood dames. They all have such a sketchy education. They know absolutely nothing about the community chest, but they know everything there is to know about community property. Their arithmetic is not so hot, but just ask them how many minks make a coat."

"Martha Wentworth - Sara"

"Byron Keith - Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence"

"Billy House - Mr. Potter"

"Edward G. Robinson - Mr. Wilson"

"Loretta Young - Mary Longstreet Rankin"

"Orson Welles - Franz Kindler / Professor Charles Rankin"

"Philip Merivale - Judge Adam Longstreet (Mary's father)"

"[to Judge Longstreet, about Mary] She has the facts now, but she won't accept them. They're too horrible for her to acknowledge. Not so much that Rankin could be Kindler, but that she could ever have given her love to such a creature. But we have one ally, her subconscious. It knows what the truth is and it's struggling to be heard. The will to truth within your daughter is much too strong to be denied."

"Why wasn't it I... Franz Kindler? Kill me. Kill me, I want you to. I couldn't face life knowing what I've been to you and what I've done to Noah. But when you kill me, don't put your hands on me! [Picks up a fireplace poker] Here! Use this!"

"Richard Long - Noah Longstreet (Mary’s brother)"