“- Walsh: Does that mean he wants you to prove your own client is guilty of murder?
- Jake Gittes: Yeah.
- Walsh: Well, is that ethical?
- Jake Gittes: Larry, he's a lawyer.”
Joe Mantell - Walsh
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“She knows nothing about international politics, she has the mind of an artist, she sees people as general humanity, not as separate races.”
Robert Taylor - Mark Preysing

“I'm not one of you anemic creatures who can get nourishment from a lettuce leaf - I'm a musician, I'm an artist! I have zest and appetite - and I like food!”
Mary Astor - Sandra Kovak

“I don't approve of, but I like people who think in terms of ideal conditions. They're the dreamers, poets, tragic figures in this world, but interesting.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“The artist has a special temperament, and he must live his life exclusively with those who understand it.”
Frank Puglia - Villeneuve