"I'll tell you what you could do if you went away, Zan: if you could find some place where they pay wages for talkin' silly, you could make a fortune"

"Russell Hicks - William Marshall"

"Virginia Brissac - Mrs. Hewitt"

"You know what? When I look back on my little life and the birds I've known, and think of all the things they've done for me and the little I've done for them, you'd think I've had the best of it along the line. But what have I got out of it? I've got a bob or two, some decent clothes, a car, I've got me health back and I ain't attached. But I ain't got me peace of mind - and if you ain't got that, you ain't got nothing. I dunno. It seems to me if they ain't got you one way they've got you another. So what's the answer? That's what I keep asking myself - what's it all about? Know what I mean?"

"Richard Carlson - David Hewitt"

"Charles Dingle - Ben Hubbard"

"What I loved once and what I love now are two different things."

"What's it all about... Alfie."

"If you lose a bird you can always replace her. But with a child it's different."

"Vivien Merchant - Lily Clamacraft"

"Shirley Anne Field - Carla"

"I hope you die! I hope you die soon! I'll be waiting for you to die!"

"Sydney Tafler - Frank"

"I was lonely when I was young. Not in the way people usually mean. I was lonely for all the things I wasn't gonna get."

"Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you."

"Do you know, I'm beginning to think she was beautiful. After all, it ain't through the eyes that you feel beauty, it's how the heart hungers for something that makes it beautiful."

"Herbert Marshall - Horace Giddens"

"You've got to live for yourself in this world, not for others."

"Lucien Littlefield - Manders"

"It don't do to get dependent on nobody in this life."

"[about Gilda's appearance while she is pregnant] Mind you, she came over quite beautified for a while, particularly during the early months. And I told her: I said "Blimey, girl, you ain't as ugly as I thought"."

"Is every man an Alfie? Ask any girl."

"Alfie Bass - Harry Clamacraft"

"I've never told her that I love her - except at those times when you've got to say something for appearance's sake."

"Patricia Collinge - Birdie Hubbard"

"My understanding of women only goes as far as the pleasure. When it comes to the pain I'm like any other bloke - I don't want to know."

"A married woman, see. Every one of 'em in need of a good laugh. It don't never strike their husbands. I always say, make a married woman laugh and you're halfway there with her. Of course, it don't work with the single bird. Start you off on the wrong foot. You get one of them laughing, you won't get nothing else."

"I told Gilda from the start that I ain't the marrying sort. And do you know what? She don't mind. She's a stand-by and she knows it. And any bird that knows its place in this world can be quite content."

"When a married woman gets too hot on, it's time to cool off."

"I don't want no bird's respect - I wouldn't know what to do with it."

"She's got a little ginger moustache. But I find I'm quite willing to overlook the odd blemish in a woman, providing she's got something to make up for it. Well, that's what we're all here for, innit - to help each other out in this life."

"Shelley Winters - Ruby"

"Millicent Martin - Siddie"

"Jane Asher - Annie"

"Julia Foster - Gilda"

"Murray Melvin - Nat"

"Graham Stark - Humphrey"

"If a bird ain't got you one way, she's got you another."

"Charles R. Moore - Simon"