“Love won't obey our expectations, it's mystery, is pure and absolute.”
Meryl Streep - Francesca Johnson

“People read about love as one thing and experience it as another. Well, they expect kisses to be like lyrical poems and embraces to be like Shakespearean dramas.”
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen

“You're a man with ideals. Well, I guess I better be going while you still got them.”

Mae West - Flower Belle Lee

“You have a right to have an ideal. Oh, I guess we all have one.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“You wanna be honest, don't you? You don't have to die to keep the John Doe ideal alive. Someone already died for that once. The first John Doe.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Ann Mitchell