“I've wasted so much time being beautiful.”
Polly Walker - Caroline Dester

“- Rocky Sullivan: Say, you turned out to be a pretty snappy-looking dish.
- Laury Martin: Thanks.
- Rocky Sullivan: For a sociable worker.
- Laury Martin: Thanks again.”
James Cagney - Rocky Sullivan

“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”

Paulette Goddard - Hannah

“- Emily Webb: Am I pretty enough to get anybody?
- Mrs. Webb: You're pretty enough for all normal purposes.”
Martha Scott - Emily Webb
Beulah Bondi - Mrs. Webb

“You're like some marvelous, distant, well, queen, I guess. You're so cool and fine and always so much your own. There's a kind of beautiful purity about you, Tracy, like a statue.”

John Howard - George Kittredge