“- Noodles: How's your sister?
- Fat Moe: I ain't seen her for years. She's a big star now.
- Noodles: We should have known, huh? You can always tell the winners at the starting gate. You can always tell the winners, and you can tell the losers.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
Larry Rapp - Fat Moe

“- District Officer: There've been a half a dozen complaints since you came to that cafe.
- Bijou: A half-dozen! Why not fifty? I'm surprised.”
Richard Carle - District Officer
Marlene Dietrich - Bijou

“- Dan: Imagine finding you here.
- Bijou: I'm the type of girl you're liable to find anywhere.”
John Wayne - Dan
Marlene Dietrich - Bijou

“Husbands expect their wives to keep their figures.”
Merle Oberon - Jill Baker

“- Susan Applegate: What do you expect me to do?
- Lucy Hill: Help.”
Ginger Rogers - Susan Applegate
Diana Lynn - Lucy Hill