"Oh, sure, sure. I know—there must be some mistake. And poor Nick is innocent, and what a heel I am to be sitting here playing chess when he needs me. Well, you're wrong, honey. If he's innocent, this is the first time."

"Until we do away with the type of neighborhood that produced this boy, ten will spring up to take his place, a hundred, a thousand. Until we wipe out the slums and rebuild 'em, knock on any door and you may find Nick Romano."

"Live fast, die young, have a good-looking corpse."

"In every man's life, there are pinpoints of time that govern his destiny."

"What I used to say still goes. Live fast, die young... and have a good-looking corpse."

"I'm sure he means every other word he says!"

"Mrs. Odell: I wish I'd been born a princess. Instead I was born tired."

"She's the unsnoodiest person I've ever known."

"June Allyson - Leslie Odell"

"Robert Walker - Jimmy Dobson"

"Edward Gargan - 1st Cop"

"Patty Moore - Fae"

"Rags Ragland - Albert Weever"

"Carl Esmond - Baron Zoltan Faludi"

"Ludwig Stössel - Mr. Puft"

"Countess Zoe: Think of what history would say: Her Majesty Veronica the First, received the news that she had become Queen, while she was carousing in a Chop Suey joint with a bellboy."

"She's not plump. She's not unplump either. Well - she's perfect."

"Hedy Lamarr - Princess Veronica"

"George Cleveland - Dr. Elfson"

"Warner Anderson - Paul MacMillan"

"Konstantin Shayne - Yanos Van Lankovitz"

"Ben Lessy - Himself"

"Tom Trout - Hack"

"Agnes Moorehead - Countess Zoe"

"Judith Anderson - Mrs. Harriet Gordon"

"Betty Field - Cassandra "Cassie" Tower"

"Ronald Reagan - Drake McHugh"

"Charles Coburn - Dr. Henry Gordon"

"Claude Rains - Dr. Alexander Tower"

"Robert Cummings - Parris Mitchell"

"Douglas Croft - Drake MacHugh as a Boy"

"[referring to Drake] Funny thing, I sort of like that boy. Bold as brass, but he's the only young man in town beside Parris Mitchell who has grace enough to say 'sir' to his elders."

"[about the dying Madame von Eln] When she passes, how much passes with her! - a whole way of life, a way of gentleness and honor and dignity. These things are going, Henry, and they may never come back to this world."

"The town they talk of in whispers."

"I only know that you have to judge people by what you find them to be and not by what other people say they are."

"And in diagnosis, you must never underrate the value of subconscious observation. Instinct, if you want to call it that. Or, more properly, intuition. It's what makes a born physician."

"He mustn't know, Anna....Don't cry, Anna, for me. It will be worse for him. My troubles are almost over and his are just beginning. Growing up is so difficult, Anna. The disappointments and the heartbreaks. The frightening problems. The meannesses and the cruelties of the world. How often I have wished that his mother be lived, or his father. Or that I were his mother. It isn't fair that a young boy should be brought up by an old woman who will leave him when he needs her most. What's going to happen to him?...I've done my best to make him into a gentleman. And my best to provide for his future. For the rest, everything must be pleasant for him until he goes away. I will try to live until then."

"Have YOU been to KINGS ROW"

"Ann Sheridan - Randy Monaghan"

"Something's gonna happen, Drake. Something bad, I don't know what. It's just a feeling I've had lately. Something I can't stop happening, that maybe I'm even responsible for in some way."

"Nancy Coleman - Louise Gordon"

"Well, Mitchell, I don't know at all your approach to medicine. Perhaps you regard it as an opportunity to become one of those bedside manners with a list of proper pills to give the patient - particularly when you don't know what is the matter with him. Or perhaps your aim is to become an eminent carpenter with a knife and a chisel and a saw. Perhaps even you'll flow over with the nobility of relieving humanity's suffering. I'll tell you my approach to medicine! It is a game in which man pits his brains against the forces of destruction and disease. In the beginning I don't expect you to participate in the game. You'll only listen and accept. You will study and you will make notes and you will memorize... and you will do all this only because I tell you to."

"Kaaren Verne - Elise Sandor"

"Ernest Cossart - Pa Monaghan"

"Harry Davenport - Colonel Skeffington"