"You keep the relationship casual, until the absolute breaking point. And then one evening or afternoon or morning, it could be months from now. Well, you know how it works"

"A new form of me began to take shape. I planned my reemergence, like the Normandy invasion. (Sofia, Sofia...) I'll just say it - I did my homework. I read every memo. Thomas Tipp was right: People will read again."

"You're not blind. You're drinking Jack Daniels, and when you drink Jack, you start in with that... Frank Sinatra, she shot me down, give me a cigarette, "King of Sad" thing."

"I want to live a real life... I don't want to dream any longer."

"I wanna wake up! Tech support! It's a nightmare! Tech support! Tech support!"

"These? These are more than headaches. These are steel plates slicing through my every thought."

"Doc, once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 miles an hour, somehow you don't invite happiness in without a full body search."

"Look at us. I'm frozen, and you're dead. And I love you."

"I remember. Somebody died. It was me."

"I lost you when I got in that car. I'm sorry."

"Good. Because for a minute there I thought we were talking about A FUCKING MASK!!!"

"The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there?"

"That smile's gonna be the end of me."

"My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can't. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. It never works..."

"Isn’t that what being young is about, believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man that would live forever?"

"I dug her completely. Some how I'd found the last semi-guy less girl in New York City."

"Primer on David Aames Senior. My father wasn't built for the 21st century. He never went to McDonald's, not once. He never watched television, and yet... his biggest magazine is still the TV Digest. He and my mother threw the grandest parties of the literary world. Ballooned. Jumped out of airplanes. He sought adventure. His autobiography is the manual... for every cutthroat publisher in New York City."

"When I come back, I expect to find you gone. Wait for me!"

"Edward McWade - Mr. Gibbs (final film role)"

"Garry Owen - Taxi Cab Driver"

"Chester Clute - Dr. Gilchrist"

"Vaughan Glaser - Judge Cullman (final film role)"

"Edward Everett Horton - Mr. Witherspoon"

"Grant Mitchell - Reverend Harper"

"John Alexander - Uncle "Teddy" Brewster"

"Priscilla Lane - Elaine"

"Peter Lorre - Dr. Einstein"

"Raymond Massey - Jonathan Brewster (part played by Boris Karloff in the Broadway production)"

"Jean Adair — Aunt Martha Brewster"

"Josephine Hull — Aunt Abby Brewster"

"Cary Grant — Mortimer Brewster"

"I shall be in my office vetoing some bills."

"(when told that his "term of office" is over) Is this March the 4th? (Mortimer: Practically.)"

"CHAAARGE!!!"

"Who do I look like, Boris Karloff?"

"The home of my youth... As a child, I wanted to escape it. Now, I want to escape back into it."

"This time, I want the face of an absolute non-entity!"

"[to Mortimer] If you tell O'Hara what's in the window seat, I'll tell him what's in the cellar. There's an elderly gentleman down there who seems to be very dead."

"[repeated line] Go to bed, Aunt Abby!"

"We better not leave the car parked in the street; it might be against the law."

"We were married today. We were going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Your brother tries to kill me. A taxi is waiting and now you want to sleep on a window seat. You can take the honeymoon, your wedding ring, your taxi, your window seat, and put 'em in a barrel and push 'em all over Niagara Falls!"

"[last lines] No, no. I'm not a Brewster. I'm the son of a sea-cook! Ha! Ha!"