"Learning's always a painful process. Like when you're little and your bones are growing and you ache all over. Do you believe I can remember the sound of my own bones growing? Like this grinding under the skin. Everything's different now. Like sounds are music that I can understand, like fluids. It's funny, I used to be so concerned with who I was and what I wanted to be, and now that I have access to the furthest reaches of my brain, I see things clearly and realize that what makes us "us" — it's primitive. They're all obstacles. Does that make any sense? Like this pain you're experiencing. It's blocking you from understanding. All you know now is pain. That's all you know, pain. Where are the others? The others carrying the drugs. I need the rest of it. For medicinal purposes."

"I AM EVERYWHERE"

"I think Scarlett Johansson is going to become our new alien overlord – of Earth, and life as we know it — based on Her, in which she plays a sentient computer system that ends up expanding to fill the universe, based on Under the Skin in which she plays an extraterrestrial creature attached to some sort of hive-mind, and definitely based on Lucy, Luc Besson's new movie. … She plays the sort of average American dimwitted student in Taiwan who accidentally ingests a new drug that allows her to access a hundred percent of her brain — which turns her into, by the end of the movie — I don't want to give too much away, but basically — she's God, by the end of the movie."

"Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?"

"As she goes through her changes, the heroine’s demeanor changes from scared to awed to . . . preoccupied. Maybe even a little robotic (and here the similarity to Under the Skin seems overt). Cursed and blessed with a giant throbbing brain, the poor woman multitasks away, searching the cellular data she can see streaming from our phones (it ascends to the skies like multicolored marionette strings), typing on two laptops at once, and generally taking care of ontological business while the other characters pester her like gnats. Make that heavily armed gnats. … It’s all ridiculous and enjoyable, and at the movie’s center is an actress creatively guessing at what omniscience might feel like. I don’t know any other movie star going where Johansson has gone lately — certainly among the crop that sells magazine covers — and it’s probably beside the point asking whether she’s tired of the standard roles offered to pillow-lipped young actresses or is actively engaged in exploring the outer limits of power and perception. Of classic stars it was said “They had faces then.” Well, Johansson has a brain, and it appears to be expanding at an alarming rate. Somebody call the professor."

"Johansson plays Lucy as a mouthy hanger-on who’s transformed into a ninja Carrie White in The Matrix. Chinese assassins move fast, but she moves faster. She’s not, I should point out, a vigilante avenger. She’s beyond human emotion. It’s true that someone accessing, say, 50 percent of her brain probably has more cerebral things to do with her time. But in a way, this is cerebral. She throws one glance at the advancing hordes and it’s a bloody Busby Berkeley ballet of flying bodies."

"I think it is such an interesting imagination Luc has going on there … We always think and hear terms like, "We only use 10 percent of our brains" but did anyone ever imagine what it would be like if you could use more? So here comes Luc imaging what could happen if you could use more … With Luc Besson you have a knock-down, drag-out action film but then you have one that also makes you feel and think … It gives a little spark to your imagination to say "What if? What would I do? How would it be?""

"Don Wilson - Mr. Kettering"

"Lurene Tuttle - Mrs. Kettering"

"Russell Collins - Mr. Qua"

"Richard Allan - Patrick"

"Jean Peters - Polly Cutler"

"Max Showalter - Ray Cutler"

"Will Wright - Boatman"

"Denis O'Dea - Inspector Starkey"

"A raging torrent of emotion that even nature can't control!"

"Marilyn Monroe and Niagara the high water mark in suspense!"

"Marilyn Monroe - Rose Loomis"

"Marilyn Monroe and "Niagara" a raging torrent of emotion that even nature can't control!"

"Joseph Cotten - George Loomis"

"I met her in a beer hall. She was the most popular waitress they ever had."

"Why should the Falls drag me down here at 5 o'clock in the morning? To show me how big they are and how small I am? To remind me they can get along without any help? All right, so they've proved it. But why not? They've had ten thousand years to get independent. What's so wonderful about that? I suppose I could too, only it might take a little more time."

"Too bad, they can't play it for you now, Rose."

"Dan Duryea - Heidt/Tim, the Doorman"

"Thomas E. Jackson - Inspector Jackson, Homicide Bureau"

"Dorothy Peterson - Mrs. Wanley"

"Edmund Breon - Dr. Michael Barkstane"

"Edward G. Robinson - Professor Richard Wanley"

"Joan Bennett - Alice Reed"

"Arthur Loft - Claude Mazard/Frank Howard/Charlie the Hat check Man"

"Raymond Massey - Dist. Atty. Frank Lalor"

"Dr. Michael Barkstane: We've decided she's our dream girl just from that picture."

"Heidt: I don't want to make trouble for anybody. I can, of course, but I don't want to."

"It was the look in her eyes that made him think of murder."

"We rarely arrest people just for knowing where the body was."

"[Sees Alice Reed for the first time, after just seeing her painting in the window] I-I couldn't have drunk that much."

"In the District Attorney's office we see what happens to middle-aged men who try acting like colts."

"The screen's supreme adventure in suspense!"

"[lecturing] The Biblical injunction "Thou shalt not kill" is one that requires qualification in view of our broader knowledge of impulses behind homicide. The various legal categories such as first and second degree murder, the various degrees of homicide, manslaughter, are civilized recognitions of impulses of various degrees of culpability. The man who kills in self defense, for instance, must not be judged by the same standards applied to the man who kills for gain."

"The streets were dark with something more than night."

"There are only three ways to deal with a blackmailer. You can pay him and pay him and pay him until you're penniless. Or you can call the police yourself and let your secret be known to the world. Or you can kill him."

"Troy Evans - Captain Dalton"

"Jim "Poorman" Trenton - Narrator"

"Sy Richardson - Walt Richardson"

"John Putch - Mike"

"Tommy Hinkley - Jake"

"Darrell Larson - Jack Berger"

"Hawk Wolinski - Biff"

"John Lavachielli - Mario"

"Geoffrey Blake - Frost"