“- Sam Spade: If you kill me, how are you going get the bird? And if I know you can't afford to kill me, how are you going to scare me into giving it to you?
- Kasper Gutman: There are other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening to kill.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade
Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

“We didn't know when the Doc was going to be giving the Sheik his physical but it was our one and only opportunity to take him out. So I didn't have the usual time to butter him up. Which means we needed twice the sex with half the foreplay.”
Robert Redford - Nathan Muir

“- Son of Sam: How did you get in here? Leave me alone! What do you want?
- Harvey the Black Dog: I want you to go out and kill. Kill.
- Son of Sam: No!
- Harvey the Black Dog: Kill! Kill!!
- Son of Sam: I will kill. I will... I'll do anything you say. I'll do anything you say! Yes, master! I will kill! I will kill!!”

Michael Badalucco - Son of Sam
John Turturro - Harvey the Black Dog

“- Hildy Johnson: I suppose I proposed to you?
- Walter Burns: Well, you practically did, making goo-goo eyes at me for two years until I broke down.”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Walter Burns: You persuade Hildy to do the story and you can write out a nice fat insurance policy for me.
- Bruce Baldwin: I refuse to use my wife for business purposes.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Ralph Bellamy - Bruce Baldwin