"This big, wonderful thing you've created: It's a dream, isn't it? ...And you're gonna give that up in the hopes that your husband will stop having an affair? I don't see how that adds up. You should feel nothing but great about what you've done, and I'd hate to see you let anyone take that away from you."

"Back in action. Thank god!"

"I still have music in me, absolutely positive about that!"

"Buster Keaton - Calvero's partner"

"What do you want meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. Desire is the theme of all life! It makes a rose want to be a rose and want to grow like that. And a rock want to contain itself and remain like that."

"There's something about working the streets I like. It's the tramp in me I suppose."

"That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else."

"Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination... and a little dough."

"Time is the great author. Always writes the perfect ending."

"I'm through clowning. Life isn't a gag anymore. I can't see the joke. From now on, I'm a retired humorist."

"As a man gets on in years he wants to live deeply. A feeling of sad dignity comes upon him, and that's fatal for a comic. It affected my work. I lost contact with the audience, couldn't warm up to them."

"It will move you to love, laughter and tears."

"The masterpiece of laughter and tears from the master of comedy!"

"Charles Chaplin - Calvero"

"Claire Bloom - Thereza "Terry" Embrose"

"Nigel Bruce - Postant"

"Sydney Chaplin - Ernest Neville"

"Norman Lloyd - Bodalink"

"Dale Dye — Charles Ivy"

"Susan Blommaert — Kimberly Cannon"

"Harry J. Lennix — Kenny Young"

"James Lally — Joe Spector"

"David Graf — Lee Danielson"

"John Roselius — Tom Bahlor"

"Richard Griffiths — Frederick"

"James Rebhorn — Howard Schaeffer"

"Edward Albert — Barry Carlisle"

"Austin Pendleton — Earl Fowler"

"Nicolas Cage — Doug Chesnic"

"Shirley MacLaine — Tess Carlisle"

"Do I still have any influence in that evil little town or have they forgotten all about me?"

"You should get a date, you should have a martini, you should drive with the top down, you should better yet give a tired old widow a break."

"The President is coming to Somersville. Will you have the cars and the machine guns ready in about an hour?"

"Since you've insisted on me staying, you should know I intend to do my job by the book which means we don't run errands, we don't make snacks and we don't check our guns at the door. Now if you don't like any of this, I suggest you call Washington and get yourself a new man."

"I'm a secret service agent, Mrs. Carlisle, not a caddy. You want that ball? I suggest you go get it yourself."

"James Handy — Neal Carlo"

"Hume Cronyn as Joe Finley"

"Don Ameche as Arthur "Art" Selwyn"