“- Mia Baran: I haven't believed foR so long... So when the pool was empty I thought: maybe there is a God. And He knows what we did. And He's coming for us.
- Nicole Horner: It's not God, Honey. That's a lady detective with one breast.”

Isabelle Adjani - Mia Baran
Sharon Stone - Nicole Horner

“Detective without curiosity is like glass eye at keyhole - no good.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“- Walter Neff: What do the police figure?
- Barton Keyes: That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They're satisfied. It's not their dough.”

Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff
Edward G. Robinson - Barton Keyes

“- Helen Grayle: I hadn't supposed there were enough murders these days to make detecting very attractive to a young man.
- Philip Marlowe: I stir up trouble on the side.”
Claire Trevor - Helen Grayle
Dick Powell - Philip Marlowe

“- Lynn Bracken: He takes a cut of our earnings and invests it for us. He doesn't let us use narcotics and he doesn't abuse us. Can your policeman's mentality grasp those contradictions?
- Bud White: He had you cut to look like Veronica Lake.
- Lynn Bracken: No. I'm really a brunette, but the rest is me.”

Kim Basinger - Lynn Bracken
Russell Crowe - Bud White