"I just want to tell you all how happy I am to be back in the studio, making a picture again! You don't know how much I've missed all of you. And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after Salome we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! There's nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!… All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

"Without me, there wouldn't be any Paramount studio."

"The stars are ageless, aren't they?"

"They took the idols and smashed them, the Fairbankses, the Gilberts, the Valentinos! And who've we got now? Some nobodies!"

"There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK!"

"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!"

"No one leaves a star. That's what makes one a star."

"Teresa Wright - Charlie Newton"

"Evelyn Ellis - Bessie (Bannister maid)"

"Louis Merrill - Jake"

"Carl Frank - Dist. Atty. Galloway"

"Gus Schilling - 'Goldie' Goldfish"

"Erskine Sanford - Judge"

"Ted de Corsia - Sidney Broome"

"Glenn Anders - George Grisby"

"Everett Sloane - Arthur Bannister"

"Orson Welles - Michael O'Hara"

"Rita Hayworth - Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister"

"The Story Of A Reckless Woman!"

"I told you... you know nothing about wickedness"

"Do all rich women play games like this?"

"Robert Gist - Leslie Hennessy"

"Norma Varden - Mrs. Cunningham"

"Jonathan Hale - Mr. Anthony"

"Marion Lorne - Mrs. Anthony"

"Kasey Rogers - Miriam Joyce Haines"

"Patricia Hitchcock - Barbara Morton"

"Leo G. Carroll - Sen. Morton"

"Robert Walker - Bruno Anthony"

"Ruth Roman - Anne Morton"

"Farley Granger - Guy Haines"

"It's off the beaten track!"

"You'll be in the grip of love's strangest trip!"

"A tennis star plays a match with murder!"

"It starts with a shriek of a train whistle...and ends with shrieking excitement!"

"I still think it would be wonderful to have a man love you so much he'd kill for you."

"I beg your pardon, but aren't you Guy Haines? ...I certainly admire people who do things. People who do things are important. Me, I never seem to do anything."

"Charles Bates - Roger Newton"

"Edna May Wonacott - Ann Newton"

"Wallace Ford - Det. Fred Saunders"

"Hume Cronyn - Herbie Hawkins"

"Patricia Collinge - Emma Newton"

"Henry Travers - Joseph Newton"

"Macdonald Carey - Det. Jack Graham"

"Joseph Cotten - Uncle Charlie Oakley"

"Mike's got a lot of blarney but he knows how to hurt a man when he gets mad."

"Sidney Broome: [to Michael] Get down to the office, Montgomery Street. You was framed. Grisby didn't want to disappear. He just wanted an alibi - and you're it. You're the fall guy. Grisby's gone down there to kill Bannister, now."

"Sidney Broome: There's gonna be a murder. Ain't gonna be no fake murder, not this time. Somebody's gonna be killed...Yeah, your husband. Maybe he's the one who's gonna be knocked off...Could be? You'd better get down to his office if you want to do anything about it."

"Bessie: You heard him, Mr. Poet. I need the money."

"Jake: What's a tough guy?...A guy with an edge...A gun or a knife, a nightstick, or a razor, somethin' the other guy ain't got. Yeah, a little extra reach on a punch, a set of brass knuckles, a stripe on the sleeve, a badge that says cop on it, a rock in your hand, or a bankroll in your pocket. That's an edge, brother. Without an edge, there ain't no tough guy."