"Angela Phinlay: Imagine me on this beach here in my green bathing suit. Yipe! I almost bought a white one the other day, but it wasn't quite extreme enough. I mean, don't get me wrong, if I really went in for the extreme extreme, I would have bought a French one. Run for your life, girls, the fleet's in. Oh, Uncle Lon, am I excited? Yipe! referring to the magazine's pictures of a tropical resort Look, Uncle Lon, isn't it romantic? Real palms and ocean and everything."

"Louis Ciavelli: If you want fresh air, don't look for it in this town."

"Louis Ciavelli: I never saw a hooligan I did like. They're like left-handed pitchers, they all have a screw loose somewhere."

"Emmerich: I could tell them that I'd fence the stuff myself, you see, promise them cash on delivery. Then, when the time comes, I simply wouldn't have the cash, do you understand? I'd tell them it would take a few more days to raise it. I'm certain I could get them to leave the stuff with me while we're waiting...Well, then I'd disappear. I'd take a plane to another country, to another life. The gold and platinum, I could melt up and sell as bullion, you see. And the rocks - sell them one at a time. There'd be no hurry. They'd last a lifetime."

"Gus Minissi: Take my advice and knock off for a while. The happiness boys are on a rampage. Headquarters is givin' 'em a push...Go home, Dix, stay home. Don't get your flag at half-mast. Remember, you still got ol' Gus."

"Commissioner Hardy: [referring to Doc] He loses you five blocks from the depot and one of the most dangerous criminals alive is now at large in this city."

"Cobby: How can things go so wrong? How is it possible? One man killed, two others plugged. I'm out thirty grand. We got a load of rocks we can't even peddle...I must be awful stupid. Here I am with a good business, money rolling in, I-I gotta get mixed up in a thing like this. I ought to have my head examined."

"Cobby: Here's to the drink habit. It's the only one I got that don't get me into trouble."

"Dr. Swanson: He hasn't got enough blood left in him to keep a chicken alive."

"Let me put it this way. It's not anything strange that there are corrupt officers in police departments. The dirt they're trying to clean up is bound to rub off on some of 'em, but not all of 'em. Maybe one out of a 100. The other 99 are honest men trying to do an honest job. Listen... [One by one, he flipped the switch on police radios behind him that broadcast crime reports] I know you're police reporters and you hear this all day long, but I want you to listen with your conscience, not just your ears. We send police assistance to every one of those calls 'cause they're not just code numbers on a radio beam, they're cries for help. People are being cheated, robbed, murdered, raped. And that goes on 24 hours a day, every day in the year. And that's not exceptional, that's usual. It's the same in every city of the modern world. But suppose we had no police force, good or bad. Suppose we had [he flipped off all four radios] - just silence. Nobody to listen, nobody to answer. The battle's finished. The jungle wins. The predatory beasts take over. Think about it. Well gentlemen, three men are in jail, three men dead, one by his own hand. One man's a fugitive - and we have reason to believe seriously wounded. That's six out of seven, not bad. And we'll get the last one too. In some ways, he's the most dangerous of them all. A hardened killer. A hooligan. A man without human feeling or human mercy."

"Are you a man, or what? Trying to gyp and double-cross with no guts for it. What's inside of you? What's keeping you alive?"

"Why don't you quit cryin' and get me some bourbon?"

"Russell Hicks — J.J. Hogarth"

"Charles Kemper — Patch-eye Higgins"

"Arthur Loft — Dellarowe"

"Rosalind Ivan — Adele Cross"

"Jess Barker — David Janeway"

"Margaret Lindsay — Millie Ray"

"Dan Duryea — Johnny Prince"

"Joan Bennett — Katharine 'Kitty' March"

"Edward G. Robinson — Christopher Cross"

"Reporter on Train: [referring to being executed] I'd rather have a judge give me the works than to have to do it to myself."

"[upon entering a strange house for the first time] Where's the bedroom?"

"Can't you get those Lazy Legs off that couch, baby?"

"How can a man be so dumb...I wanted to laugh in your face ever since the moment I met you. You're old, ugly and I'm sick of you. Sick, sick, sick!"

"Well, I was going to do this myself, but, uh... [hands him toenail polish] Paint me, Chris!... They'll be masterpieces."

"If he were mean or vicious or if he'd bawl me out or something, I'd like him better."

"Lana Turner. John Garfield. M-G-Marvelous!"

"Their Love was a Flame that Destroyed!"

"Jeff York - Blair"

"Alan Reed - Ezra Liam Kennedy"

"Audrey Totter - Madge Gorland"

"Leon Ames - Kyle Sackett"

"Hume Cronyn - Arthur Keats"

"Cecil Kellaway - Nick Smith"

"John Garfield - Frank Chambers"

"Lana Turner - Cora Smith"

"[to Madge Gorland] With my brains and your looks, we could go places."

"Ken Niles - Leonard Eels"

"Dickie Moore - The Kid"

"Paul Valentine - Joe Stephanos"

"Virginia Huston - Ann Miller"

"Steve Brodie - Jack Fisher"

"Richard Webb - Jim 'Jimmy'"

"Rhonda Fleming - Meta Carson"

"Kirk Douglas - Whit Sterling"

"Jane Greer - Kathie Moffat"

"Robert Mitchum - Jeff Bailey, aka Jeff Markham"