“- Max: You know, the one thing I can't figure out is whether these girls are real smart or just real, real lucky?
- Hal: Don't matter. Brains'll only get you so far and luck always runs out.”
Stephen Tobolowsky - Max
Harvey Keitel - Hal

“- The Great Edgar: I've got a good mind to...
- Charlie: Why don't you use it?”
Edgar Bergen - The Great Edgar
Charlie McCarthy - Charlie

“I'd rather be smart than be an actor.”
Dickie Jones - Pinocchio

“- Verne: So you outsmarted me, huh?
- Julie: That's what happens, they tell me, when smart people get together. One of them winds up ahead.”
Clark Gable - Verne
Joan Crawford - Julie

“There's murder in every intelligent man's heart.”

Cliff Clark - Martin