"(on the security phone) Security, this is Duncan. Have the main breakers gone? (whispering to Senator Parker after getting the bad news) The whole system's failed."

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry. You'll have to move back into the Promenade Room, and we'll be taking you down by the scenic elevator. Now these express elevators can be activated by fire. And with the probability of short circuits, the cars might stop on the floor where the fire is. So please we'll use the scenic elevator, over there. (a panicked group of guests enter an express elevator anyway despite Duncan's warnings) FOR GOD'S SAKE, GET OUT OF THERE! (elevator door closes with the panicked guests in the elevator car, which would soon bring them to their firey doom) Please, back!! (pushes the elevator button to try to get the elevator car back up to cancel the trip down, but to no avail)"

"Ladies and gentlemen. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? It seems that we have a small fire. In one of our storage rooms, 50 floors below. Now I assure you there's no danger. But in accordance with the fire department's orders, a purely precautionary procedure, we're going to have to move the party down to the lobby for a while and we'll be serving cocktails and champagne in our Continental Room. But I promise you - dinner will not be delayed. Now if we can all move to the elevators."

"We've got a fire, and if it was caused by anything you did I'm going to hang you out to dry, and then I'm going to hang you!"

"For God sakes, why?!"

"Did you change any of Doug's electrical specifications?"

"(on the phone with Doug) Doug, I think you're overreacting. Now, I feel sorry for Will Giddings, but he'll be taken care of. But I am not going to concern myself with a fire in a storage room on 81, because it can't possibly affect us up here! Not in this building! Now, have someone call me when the fire department arrives. In the meantime, get in your dinner jacket and come up to join the party, now come on! (hangs up the phone)"

"Now Doug, one piece of scorched wire from a burned-out circuit breaker is hardly conclusive."

"Oh they'll find some dumb son of a bitch to bring them up."

"When there's a fire, I outrank everybody here."

"For what it's worth, Architect, this is one building that I figured wouldn't burn."

"Now you know there's no sure way for us to fight a fire in any place above the seventh floor, but you guys just keep building them as high as you can."

"Walter Matthau – Drunk"

"Victoria Principal – Rosa Amici"

"Lloyd Nolan – Dr. James Vance"

"Barry Sullivan – Dr. Willis Stockle"

"Marjoe Gortner – Jody"

"Richard Roundtree – Miles Quade"

"Geneviève Bujold – Denise Marshall"

"Lorne Greene – Sam Royce"

"George Kennedy – Sgt. Lew Slade"

"Ava Gardner – Remy Royce-Graff"

"Charlton Heston – Stewart Graff"

"When the big one finally hits L.A."

"An event..."

"Earthquakes bring out the worst in some people."

"You know, if it wasn't 7:30 in the morning, I would have a drink."

"Darren McGavin – Stan Buchek"

"George Kennedy – Joe Patroni"

"James Stewart – Philip Stevens"

"Olivia de Havilland – Emily Livingston"

"Joseph Cotten – Nicholas St. Downs III"

"Brenda Vaccaro – Eve Clayton"

"Lee Grant – Karen Wallace"

"Jack Lemmon – Capt. Don Gallagher"

"All new, bigger, and more exciting than AIRPORT 1975!"

"Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle... passengers still alive, trapped underwater..."

"Benjy, I'm your Grandpa."

"Who else have I got to blackmail? I don't get to fool around that much. See you on the ground."

"Excuse me, I don't mean to intrude, but could you move your ass, dear?"

"Beauty is in the eyes of beholder."

"I want to harvest the sea of food and save millions of people from starvation."

"Your grandfather has a lot of expensive toys, Benjamin"

"Myrna Loy – Mrs. Devaney"

"Austin Stoker – Air Force Sgt."

"Kip Niven – Lt. Thatcher"

"Aldine King – Stewardess Aldine"