"The Professor: We do nothing...That's right, nothing. Oh, we could congratulate ourselves on a marvelous stroke of good fortune. Our non-existent decoy George Kaplan created to divert suspicion from our actual agent has fortuitously become a live decoy... What can we do to save him, without endangering our own agent?...We didn't invent our non-existent man and give him the name of George Kaplan, establish elaborate behavior patterns for him, move his prop belongings in and out of hotel rooms for our own private amusement. We created George Kaplan and labored successfully to convince Vandamm that this was our own agent hot on his trail for a desperately important reason...If we make the slightest move to suggest that there is no such agent as George Kaplan, give any hint to Vandamm that he's pursuing a decoy instead of our own agent, then our agent working right under Vandamm's very nose will immediately face suspicion, exposure and assassination, like the two others who went before."

"Clara Thornhill: You gentlemen aren't really trying to kill my son, are you?"

"Mother, this is your son, Roger Thornhill...No, no, Mother. I have not been drinking. No, no. These two men, they poured a whole bottle of bourbon into me. No, they didn't give me a chaser."

"Ah, Maggie, in the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only the expedient exaggeration. You ought to know that."

"I'm not very bright, I guess...just dumb. If I had any brains, I wouldn't be on this crummy train with this crummy girls' band...I used to sing with male bands but I can't afford it anymore...That's what I'm running away from. I worked with six different ones in the last two years. Oh, brother!...I can't trust myself. I have this thing about saxophone players, especially tenor sax...I don't know what it is, they just curdle me. All they have to do is play eight bars of 'Come to Me, My Melancholy Baby' and my spine turns to custard. I get goose pimply all over and I come to 'em...every time... That's why I joined this band. Safety first. Anything to get away from those bums...You don't know what they're like. You fall for 'em and you really love 'em - you think this is gonna be the biggest thing since the Graf Zeppelin - and the next thing you know, they're borrowing money from you and spending it on other dames and betting on horses...Then one morning you wake up, the guy is gone, the saxophone's gone, all that's left behind is a pair of old socks and a tube of toothpaste, all squeezed out. So you pull yourself together. You go on to the next job, the next saxophone player. It's the same thing all over again. You see what I mean? Not very bright...I can tell you one thing - it's not gonna happen to me again - ever. I'm tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop."

"Beverly Wills — Dolores"

"Edward G. Robinson Jr. — Johnny Paradise"

"Harry Wilson — Spats's henchman"

"Mike Mazurki — Spats's henchman"

"George E. Stone — "Toothpick" Charlie"

"Barbara Drew — Nellie Weinmeyer"

"Billy Gray — Sig Poliakoff"

"Dave Barry — Mister Beinstock"

"Joan Shawlee — Sweet Sue"

"Nehemiah Persoff — "Little Bonaparte""

"Joe E. Brown — Osgood Fielding III"

"Pat O'Brien — Detective Mulligan"

"George Raft — "Spats" Colombo"

"Jack Lemmon — Jerry (Gerald)/"Daphne""

"Tony Curtis — Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil Junior""

"Marilyn Monroe — Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk"

"Marilyn Monroe and her bosom companions"

"The movie too HOT for words!"

"Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!"

"Mort Mills - Al Schwartz, district attorney's assistant"

"Ross Martin — Sgt. Andre Fodor"

"Benson Fong — Sgt. Imoto"

"William Hopper — Dr. George Fenton"

"William Redfield — Roy Cooper"

"Phil Foster — Sgt. Jackie Siegle"

"Mickey Shaughnessy — Sgt. Mahoney"

"Eric Fleming — Capt. Barney Merritt"

"Walter Brooke — Col./Gen. Samuel T. Merritt"

"Working for one government was bad enough, but now we've got all of them on our backs."

"This is a story of tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, when men have built a station in space, constructed in the form of a great wheel, and set a thousand miles out from the Earth, fixed by gravity, and turning about the world every two hours, serving a double purpose: an observation post in the heavens, and a place where a spaceship can be assembled, and then launched to explore other planets, and the vast universe itself, in the last and greatest adventure of mankind — the plunge toward the… conquest of space!"

"Valentin de Vargas - Pancho, Grandi hood"