“Another fault: being popular and strong, when only anonymity and cunning guarantee one a long life. If you desire a long life, you must not be loved. That's one of our new laws, all the more powerful for being unwritten.”
Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“- Cesca: The police are here for you! It's all my fault, I shouldn't have come...
- Tony: Your fault, my fault, who cares? So long as you're here.”
Ann Dvorak - Cesca
Paul Muni - Tony

“She finds human imperfection unforgiveable. And when I gradually discovered that my relationship to her was supposed to be not that of a loving husband and a good companion, but... but that of a kind of high priest to a virgin goddess, then my drinks grew deeper and more frequent.”

Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven

“You boys have had your fun. Now pay for it.”

Charles Judels - The Coachman

“- Kane: If I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
- Walter Parks Thatcher: Don't you think you are?
- Kane: I think I did pretty well under the circumstances.”
Orson Welles - Kane
George Coulouris - Walter Parks Thatcher