"(on the phone with Doug) Doug, I think you're overreacting. Now, I feel sorry for Will Giddings, but he'll be taken care of. But I am not going to concern myself with a fire in a storage room on 81, because it can't possibly affect us up here! Not in this building! Now, have someone call me when the fire department arrives. In the meantime, get in your dinner jacket and come up to join the party, now come on! (hangs up the phone)"

"Did you change any of Doug's electrical specifications?"

"For God sakes, why?!"

"We've got a fire, and if it was caused by anything you did I'm going to hang you out to dry, and then I'm going to hang you!"

"Ladies and gentlemen. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? It seems that we have a small fire. In one of our storage rooms, 50 floors below. Now I assure you there's no danger. But in accordance with the fire department's orders, a purely precautionary procedure, we're going to have to move the party down to the lobby for a while and we'll be serving cocktails and champagne in our Continental Room. But I promise you - dinner will not be delayed. Now if we can all move to the elevators."

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry. You'll have to move back into the Promenade Room, and we'll be taking you down by the scenic elevator. Now these express elevators can be activated by fire. And with the probability of short circuits, the cars might stop on the floor where the fire is. So please we'll use the scenic elevator, over there. (a panicked group of guests enter an express elevator anyway despite Duncan's warnings) FOR GOD'S SAKE, GET OUT OF THERE! (elevator door closes with the panicked guests in the elevator car, which would soon bring them to their firey doom) Please, back!! (pushes the elevator button to try to get the elevator car back up to cancel the trip down, but to no avail)"

"(on the security phone) Security, this is Duncan. Have the main breakers gone? (whispering to Senator Parker after getting the bad news) The whole system's failed."

"Urgency? Hey Dunc, if that fire was caused by fluky wiring in this building, we could get fires breaking out EVERYWHERE!!!"

"I don't know. Maybe they just oughta leave it the way it is. Kind of a shrine to all the the bullshit in the world."

"One Tiny Spark Becomes A Night Of Blazing Suspense."

"The tallest building in the world is on fire. You are there with 294 other guests... There's no way down. There's no way out."

"“The Towering Inferno” Is Not Just The Story Of The World' Tallest Building In Flames, It's The Story Of People..."

"You are there on the 135th floor, no way down, no way out."

"The world's tallest building is on fire. You are there on the 135th floor... no way down... no way out."

"Steve McQueen – Fire Chief Michael O'Halloran"

"Paul Newman – Doug Roberts"

"William Holden – James Duncan"

"Faye Dunaway – Susan Franklin"

"Fred Astaire – Harlee Claiborne"

"Susan Blakely – Patty Duncan Simmons"

"Richard Chamberlain – Roger Simmons"

"Jennifer Jones – Lisolette Mueller"

"O. J. Simpson – Harry Jernigan"

"Robert Vaughn – Senator Gary Parker"

"Robert Wagner – Dan Bigelow"

"Gentlemen, I have a very simple policy. What you shove up your ass is your own business."

"Jim Ford as Criminal Stuck in chimney (uncredited)"

"Arne Starr as Court Supporter (uncredited)"

"Rob Schneider as Asian Minister (uncredited)"

"David Spade as Transvestite Groupie (uncredited)"

"Becky and Jessie O'Donohue as Donna and Darla"

"Jonathan Loughran as David Nootzie"

"Rob Corddry as Jim the Protestor"

"Dennis Dugan as Cab Driver"

"Jamie Chung as Hooters Girl"

"Tila Tequila as Hooters Girl"

"Dan Patrick as New York Cop"

"Blake Clark as Crazy Homeless Man"

"Dave Matthews as Salesman"

"Lance Bass as Bandleader"

"Allen Covert as Steve"

"Shelby Adamowsky as Tori Valentine, Larry’s daughter and Chuck’s stepdaughter"

"Cole Morgen as Eric Valentine, Larry’s son and Chuck’s stepson"

"Peter Dante as Tony Paroni"

"Matt Winston as Glen Aldrich"

"Rachel Dratch as Sara Powers"

"Mary Pat Gleason as Teresa"

"Richard Chamberlain as Councilman Banks"

"Nicholas Turturro as Renaldo Pinera"

"Dan Aykroyd as Captain Phineas J. Tucker"