“- Regina Lambert: Have you ever been in love in Paris, Joshua?
- Joshua Peters: Uh, I can't say I've had that pleasure, Reggie.
- Regina Lambert: Well, you're still young. Maybe you still have a chance.
- Joshua Peters: That would be nice.”
Thandie Newton - Regina Lambert
Mark Wahlberg - Joshua Peters

“Had he been a younger man, he probably would have made it. That's the point. Don't wait too long in life.”

W.C. Fields - Egbert Sousé

“A girl of sixteen's practically an idiot anyway, so I can't very well blame you for something that was practically done by somebody else.”

Henry Fonda - Charles

- "Gloves" Donahue: Do you remember anything else from your youth?
- Sunshine: Yeah, but they gave me three years to forget.
Humphrey Bogart - "Gloves" Donahue
William Demarest - Sunshine

“- Catherine Wolff: Dad hates the idea that some day he's going to die, simply can't stand it!
- Michael Shayne: Somebody must have told him the good die young.”
Marjorie Weaver - Catherine Wolff
Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne