“- Plio: What is your fate?
- Bruton: To die here. It's the way things are.
- Plio: Only if you give up. It's your choice, not your fate.”

Alfre Woodard - Plio
Peter Siragusa - Bruton

“I'm getting married, Walter, and I'm also getting as far away from the newspaper business as I can get.”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

-Walter Burns: You're a newspaperman.
- Hildy Johnson: That's why I'm quitting. I want to go someplace where I can be a woman.
- Walter Burns: You mean "be a traitor".

Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“- Newsman: We were only saying a swell reporter like you wouldn't quit so easy...
- Hildy Johnson: I can quit all right without a single quiver. I'm gonna live like a human being. Not like you chumps.”
Frank McLure - Newsman
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“- Joe Blake: Don't resign, Tim. I can fit you into a good ground job.
- Tim Griffin: There's no such thing as a good ground job, you know that. I'd go crazy every time a plane flew past.”
Fred MacMurray - Joe Blake
Regis Toomey - Tim Griffin