"I'm out to make a new life for myself. I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure, now I've retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important."

"Paul Lukas - Arnold Iselin"

"Harlan Briggs - Tubby Pearson"

"I'm out to see the world I haven't seen and get a perspective on the USA. I might get to know myself at the same time. I might even get to know my wife."

"[about Armand] His eyes have made love to me all evening."

"I always look well when I'm near death."

"I'm afraid of nothing except being bored."

"Rory Calhoun - Eben"

"Cameron Mitchell - Tom Brookman"

"David Wayne - Freddie Denmark"

"Alex D'Arcy - J. Stewart Merrill"

"Marilyn Monroe - Pola Debevoise"

"Lauren Bacall - Schatze Page"

"Fred Clark - Waldo Brewster"

"Anne Buydens - Laura Page"

"The first rule is, gentlemen callers have got to wear a necktie!"

"Once you get one foot on the ground, you're really quite a jerk, aren't you?"

"[to Tom Brookman] Just as soon as I finish this, I never want to see you again."

"All my life ever since I was a little girl I've always had the same dream. To marry a zillionaire."

"Betty Grable - Loco Dempsey"

"William Powell - J.D. Hanley"

"Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband."

"[Being presented by the shop assistant to Tom Brookman] You know, of course, that diamonds are a girl's best friends. This is our proof of it."

"Men aren't attentive to girls who wear glasses."

"[Referring to older men marrying young women] Look at Roosevelt, look at Churchill, look at that old fella, what's his name in The African Queen."

"We'd better put a check on that one. Nobody's mother lives in Atlantic City on Saturday."

"Morgan Wallace - Fred Garrett"

"Alec Craig - Turnkey"

"Terry Moore - Paula Alquist – Age 14 (uncredited)"

"Tom Stevenson - PC Williams"

"Heather Thatcher - Lady Mildred Dalroy"

"Lawrence Grossmith - Lord Freddie Dalroy (final film role)"

"Barbara Everest - Elizabeth Tompkins"

"Emil Rameau - Maestro Guardi"

"Angela Lansbury - Nancy Oliver"

"Edmund Breon - General Huddleston"

"Joseph Cotten - Brian Cameron"

"Halliwell Hobbes - Mr. Mufflin"

"Dame May Whitty - Miss Bessie Thwaites"

"Jewels are wonderful things. They have a life of their own."