"[to the 2nd Mrs. de Winter] Why don't you go? Why don't you leave Manderley? He doesn't need you. He's got his memories. He doesn't love you. He wants to be alone again with her. You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you? Look down there. It's easy, isn't it? Why don't you? Why don't you? Go on. Go on. Don't be afraid!"

"[to the 2nd Mrs. de Winter] So this is what's been happening during my illness! Tennis lessons, my foot! I suppose I have to hand it to you for a fast worker. How did you manage it? Still waters certainly run deep. Tell me, have you been doing anything you shouldn't?... But you certainly have your work cut out as mistress of Manderley. To be perfectly frank with you, my dear, I can't see you doing it. You haven't the experience. You haven't the faintest idea of what it means to be a great lady. Of course, you know why he's marrying you, don't you? You haven't flattered yourself that he's in love with you? The fact is that empty house got on his nerves to such an extent, he nearly went off his head. He just couldn't go on living alone... Hmmph, Mrs. de Winter! Goodbye, my dear, and good luck."

"I'd like to have your advice on how to live comfortably without hard work."

"[to the 2nd Mrs. de Winter] But you. I can't forget what it has done to you. I was looking at you, thinking of nothing else all through lunch. It's gone forever, that funny, young, lost look that I loved. It won't come back again. i killed that too, when I told you about Rebecca. ...It's gone, in twenty four hours. You are so much older..."

"[to the 2nd Mrs. de Winter] Do you remember that cliff where you first saw me in Monte Carlo?... That was where I found out about her... She stood there laughing, her black hair blowing in the wind, and told me all about herself — everything. Things I'll never tell a living soul. I wanted to kill her. It would have been so easy. Remember the precipice? I frightened you, didn't I? You thought I was mad. Perhaps I was. Perhaps I am mad. It wouldn't make for sanity, would it, living with the devil. "I'll make a bargain with you," she said. "You'd look rather foolish trying to divorce me now after four days of marriage. So I'll play the part of a devoted wife, mistress of your precious Manderley. I'll make it the most famous showplace in England, if you like. Then people will visit us and envy us and say we're the luckiest, happiest, couple in the country. What a grand show it will be! What a triumph!" I should never have accepted her dirty bargain, but I did."

"I am unequivocally tall. I do not know any women who are taller than me. Women who are taller than me are lesbians, for whom 1969 was a very momentous year."

"Boris Leskin — Grandfather"

"Elijah Wood — Jonathan Safran Foer"

"Eugene Hutz — Alex"

"No, it does not exist for you. You exist for it. You have come because it exists."

"Well, I read in my guidebook that you can't find Marlboro cigarettes here so you should take them everywhere as tips."

"(to Jonathan) Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. I do not want to make you petrified person but there are many dangerous people who want to take things from Americans... and also kidnap them. Okay? Goodnight!"

"I am especially beloved of American movies, muscular cars, and hip-hop music. I also dig negroes, most of all Michael Jackson, because he is such a first-rate dancer, like me. Many girls want to be carnal with me, because I am such a premium dancer."

"I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine."

"Okay, so she is deranged, but so so playful."

"[Referring to the dog] This is Sammy Davis Jr. Jr... She is Grandfather's Seeing Eye bitch. Father purchased her for him not because he believes Grandfather is blind, but because a Seeing Eye bitch is also a good thing for people who pine for the opposite of loneliness. In truth, Father did not purchase her at all, but merely retrieved her from the home for forgetful dogs. Because of this, she is not a real Seeing Eye bitch, and is also mentally deranged."

"My grandfather informs me that this is not possible."

"Please do not be distressed. This is only the driver's seeing-eye bitch."

"Forgive my speaking of English, Jonfen, as I'm not so premium with it."

"Many women want to be carnal with me because I am such a premium dancer."

"Did you manage to manufacture some of the Z's?"

"...And remember, the next scream you hear could be your own!"

"Garrison investigated a strange event in 1991 that caused birds around to act bizarre and die. He identified the culprit as , which was produced by off the Pacific Coast. Those acid-making algae were consumed by fish and , which were in turn gobbled by birds, who couldn’t effectively rid the toxin from their systems. “There were reports of pelicans and s wandering around drunk and throwing up ,” said Garrison, who is based in Domoic acid was probably responsible for another instance of strange bird behavior reported in 1961 around Monterey Bay, when Hitchcock was said to be vacationing nearby, Garrison said. The filmmaker reportedly asked to have a copy of the newspaper sent to him, the scientist added."

"The most striking image of all is a from high above the town, including a pair of s who drop into the shot from each side of the frame. As one critic noted, 'the town as seen in the overhead shot does not actually exist. It was an , into which a fire was inserted, filmed from a hill overlooking the car park. The gulls were filmed from a clifftop on the , west of Los Angeles, and into the shot. ...'"

"Mr. Hitchcock ... begins, innocently, with a haughty San Francisco girl having a testy encounter in a bird shop with a man on whom she plays a practical joke. Then, mischievously, he leads her to the fellow's family home in a fishing village north of San Francisco to deliver an impudent present of two s. ... Then, sneakily, Mr. Hitchcock tweaks us with a tentative touch of the bizarre. The plausible is interrupted by a peculiar avian caprice. A attacks a young woman. Flocks of angry gulls whirl in the air. A swarm of s swoops down a chimney and whirrs madly through the living room. And, then, before we know it, he is flying in shock waves of birds and the wild, mad, fantastic encounter with a phenomenon of nature is on. There may be no explanation for it (except that symbolic one, perhaps), but the fierceness and frightfulness of it are sufficient to cause shocks and chills. And that is, no doubt, what Mr. Hitchcock primarily intends. ... The cast is appropriate and sufficient to this tic intent. is pretty, bland and wholesome as the disruptive girl. is stolid and sturdy as the mother-smothered son. is querulous as the mother, and pretty is pleasant but vaguely sinister as the old girl friend."

"Ruth McDevitt - Mrs. MacGruder, pet store clerk"

"Doreen Lang - Mother in diner"

"Karl Swenson - Drunk doomsayer in diner"

"Joe Mantell - Traveling salesman at diner's bar"

"Lonny Chapman - Deke Carter, cook in diner"

"Charles McGraw - Sebastian Sholes, fisherman in diner"

"Ethel Griffies - Mrs. Bundy, elderly ornithologist"

"Veronica Cartwright - Cathy Brenner"

"Suzanne Pleshette - Annie Hayworth"

"Jessica Tandy - Lydia Brenner"

"Tippi Hedren - Melanie Daniels"