"[to Preysing, after he tries to get 'familiar' with her by asking her to call him by his first name] You know I always say that nothing should be left hanging over. And names are like that. Suppose I met you next year and said, 'How do you do Mr. Preysing?' And you said, 'That's the young lady who was my secretary in Manchester.' That's all quite proper. But supposing I saw you and yelled 'Hi baby. Remember Manchester.' [he laughs] Yeah, and you were with your wife. How would you like that?"

"To life! To the magnificent, dangerous, brief, brief, wonderful life...and the courage to live it! You know, Baron, I've only lived since last night, but that little while seems longer than all the time that's gone before."

"Then we’ll go to Tremezzo. I have a villa there. The sun will shine! […] We’ll be happy and lazy. […] It will be divine ! Divine ! Divine !"

"I think Suzette, I've never been so tired in all my life.."

"The Grand Hotel. Always the same. People come. People go...nothing ever happens."

"Believe me, Mr. Kringelein, a man who is not with a woman is a dead man."

"What do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat. Sleep. Loaf around. Flirt a little. Dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall, and no one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed, and that's the end."

"When a man's collar is an inch too big for him I know he's ill."

"Edwin Maxwell - Dr Waitz"

"Murray Kinnell - Schweimann"

"Frank Conroy - Rohna"

"Tully Marshall - Gerstenkorn"

"Morgan Wallace - the chauffeur"

"Rafaela Ottiano - Suzette"

"Ferdinand Gottschalk - Pimenov"

"Purnell Pratt - Zinnowitz"

"Robert McWade - Meierheim"

"Jean Hersholt - Senf, the porter"

"Lewis Stone - Dr Otternschlag"

"Lionel Barrymore - Otto Kringelein"

"Wallace Beery - General Director Preysing"

"The Darling of Broadway Gives a Hot Time to the Nation."

"Louise Beavers - Pearl (Lou's maid)"

"Robert Homans - Doheney"

"Grace La Rue - Frances Kelly"

"Fuzzy Knight - Rag Time Kelly"

"Tammany Young - Chuck Connors"

"Rochelle Hudson - Sally"

"Dewey Robinson - Spider Kane"

"Rafaela Ottiano - Russian Rita"

"David Landau - Dan Flynn"

"Noah Beery Sr. - Gus Jordan"

"Gilbert Roland - Sergei Stanieff"

"Owen Moore - Chick Clark"

"Cary Grant - Capt. Cummings"

"Mae West - Lady Lou"

""YOU CAN BE HAD!" she told him!"

"Is that a bannana in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?"