- "Candy" Johnson: Don't tell me my wife is gonna die. I don't like talk like that.
- Dr. Otis: Take hold of yourself, man. I'm doing my best, but I'm only human.

Clark Gable - "Candy" Johnson
Russell Hicks - Dr. Otis

“I know how this dream ends, Charlie. It isn’t in paradise. It ends with me carrying you into Sutton Emergency Room at three o’clock in the morning. And standing there, crying like an idiot... while your shoes fill with blood and you die.”

Penelope Ann Miller - Gail

“When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.”
Billy Crystal - Harry Burns

“Well, go on, do me in you bastard cowards! I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this!”
Paul Farrell - Tramp

“I wouldn't pray just for a old man that's dead, 'cause he's all right. If I were to pray, I'd pray for folks that are alive and don't know which way to turn.”
John Carradine - Jim Casy