“- Grace Pasic: It was a nice three months together.
- Cesar Dominguez: Six. It was six months, honey.
- Grace Pasic: But only three were nice.”
Lolita Davidovich - Grace Pasic
Antonio Banderas - Cesar Dominguez

“He doesn't want a wife. He wants a love slave, one that he can kick around.”
Elizabeth Peña - Rosie Morales

“- Betty Lou Perkins: Why is it so hard to believe that I might be exciting to other men? People have affairs. People have lovers. Why not me, Alex?
- Alex Perkins: 'Cause I never did. I never had anyone but you.
- Betty Lou Perkins: You had everyone but me. You had Frank, and the boys, and the force and the bars and the games.”
Penelope Ann Miller - Mrs. Elizabeth Louise 'Betty Lou' Perkins
Eric Thal - Detective Alex Perkins

“- Henry Lowndes: If you call her a widow, that proves that even you thought you were dead.
- Bill Cardew: I'll show you how dead I am.”

Melvyn Douglas - Henry Lowndes
Fred MacMurray - Bill Cardew

“The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows. Husbands, dead husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives.”
Joseph Cotten - Charlie Oakley