“- Kady Tyler: Don't make me go.
- Jess Tyler: Look... get your stuff together, and... I'll run you wherever you wanna go. But... you just can't stay here. Please?
- Kady Tyler: Jess, I'm your daughter... and I got nowhere to go.”
Pia Zadora - Kady Tyler
Stacy Keach - Jess Tyler

“- Dana Freeling: Mom! I'm going to dinner with Janice and Brian.
- Diane Freeling: Is your room all packed up?
- Dana Freeling: Everything but the bed!”
Dominique Dunne - Dana Freeling
JoBeth Williams - Diane Freeling

“- Michael Shayne: She can't do that to me!
- Ethel: You can't blame her none, Mike. After all, she was caught between a stiff breeze and plenty of wind.
- Michael Shayne: Talk English!
- Ethel: You gave her a stiff breeze, and he gave her plenty of wind.”

Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne
Marie Blake - Ethel

“A girl of sixteen's practically an idiot anyway, so I can't very well blame you for something that was practically done by somebody else.”

Henry Fonda - Charles

“If man places self in way of finger of suspicion, must not be surprised if he receive poke in the eye.”

Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan