“If we're going for a drink, I want to be alive to enjoy it!”

Trevor Howard - Jack Cartwright

- Lucky Jordan: Don't you know that you shouldn't be drinking at your age?
- Annie ("Ma"): I'd like to be drinking at your age, but time passes.
Alan Ladd - Lucky Jordan
Mabel Paige - Annie ("Ma")

“- Dr. Einstein: I cannot operate without a drink!
- Jonathan Brewster: Pull yourself together, doctor!
- Dr. Einstein: I cannot pull myself together without a drink!”
Peter Lorre - Dr. Einstein
Raymond Massey - Jonathan Brewster

“Drinking don't bother my memory. If it did, I wouldn't drink. I couldn't. You see, I'd forget how good it was, then where'd I be? Start drinking water, again.”
Walter Brennan - Eddie

- Polly Bailey: Well, maybe we should change our slogan to "If you must drink and drive, suck charcoal".
- Nick Naylor: Won't the police ask about the charcoal in your mouth?
- Bobby Jay Bliss: There's not a law against charcoal.
- Polly Bailey, Nick Naylor: Yet.
Maria Bello - Polly Bailey
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor
David Koechner - Bobby Jay Bliss