“- Detective Sapir: So nobody took the mummy.
- Night Watchman: I would've heard them.
- Detective Sapir: 'Course he would've. What a stupid question. Did you take him?
- Night Watchman: No sir!
- Detective Sapir: Just a shot.”

Stan Shaw - Detective Sapir
Ernie Brown - Night Watchman

“- Hans Lehman: I must advise you, we may require some more questions at a later date.
- Lisa: You may require questions? You bring me here at a time of sorrow asking questions. Stupid questions. While my uncle is murdered in a public place.”
John Van Dreelen - Hans Lehman
Marthe Keller - Lisa

“You could be dead... right now. But then there would be too many bloody questions.”
Danny Midwinter - Constable Withers

“Detective without curiosity is like glass eye at keyhole - no good.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“- Walter Neff: What do the police figure?
- Barton Keyes: That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They're satisfied. It's not their dough.”

Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff
Edward G. Robinson - Barton Keyes