“- Amanda Dunfrey: I just want you to know that it's okay... being scared. And, well, if you need a friend, someone to talk too...
- Mrs. Carmody: I have a friend. God, up above. I talk to him everyday.”
Laurie Holden - Amanda Dunfrey
Marcia Gay Harden - Mrs. Carmody

“- George Halley: I don't trust any of my friends.
- Panama Smith: The feeling's mutual, George. They don't trust you either.”
Humphrey Bogart - George Hally
Gladys George - Panama Smith

“- Exercise Instructress: Let's begin with posture. A lady always enters a room erect.
- Mrs. Howard Fowler - Sylvia: Most of my friends exit horizontally.”
Ann Morriss - Exercise Instructress
Rosalind Russell - Mrs. Howard Fowler - Sylvia

“Another piece of motherly advice. Don't confide in your girlfriends. If you let them advise you, they will see to it, in the name of friendship, that you lose your husband and your home.”

Lucile Watson - Mrs. Morehead

“You keep me around because even Johnny Eager has to have one friend.”

Van Heflin - Jeff Hartnett