- Sergeant Clifton Sleigh: I'm investigating...
- Prof. Auguste Balls: Of course you're investigating! You're a policeman. I knew that the moment you walked into my emporium: your courage, your alertness, the way your eyes take in everything. I immediately said to myself "Balls, this is a policeman's policeman".
Ted Wass - Sergeant Clifton Sleigh
Harvey Korman - Prof. Auguste Balls

“It's gone forever, that funny young, lost look I loved won't ever come back. I killed that when I told you about Rebecca. It's gone. In a few hours, you've grown so much older.”

Laurence Olivier - "Maxim" de Winter

“- Mortimer Brewster: You mean you knew what you'd done and you didn't want the Reverend Harper to see the body?
- Abby Brewster: Not at tea. That wouldn't have been very nice.”

Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster
Josephine Hull - Abby Brewster

“- Gregory Anton: I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to me.
- Brian Cameron: I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to her.”

Charles Boyer - Gregory Anton
Joseph Cotten - Brian Cameron

“It's not like anybody knows what anything means, right? It's not like anybody knows that. So at least I know I don't know what I mean, which is better than most people. They probably think they know what they mean, not just what they think they mean.”

Sean Penn - Eddie