“Mike, I learned it from you. You always told me this was the rule. Rule number one: Throw away your cards the moment you know they can't win. Fold the fucking hand.”

Gretchen Mol - Jo

“With all my heart, I still love the man I killed.”

Bette Davis - Leslie Crosbie

“I knew if he left I'd never see him again, so I seized the revolver and fired. I heard a cry. He staggered toward the veranda and I ran after him and fired and fired and fired. There's no excuse for me. I don't deserve to live.”

Bette Davis - Leslie Crosbie

- "Maxim" de Winter: I knew where Rebecca's body was, lying on that cabin floor on the bottom of the sea.
- Mrs. de Winter: How did you know, Maxim?
- "Maxim" de Winter: Because... I put it there.

Laurence Olivier - "Maxim" de Winter
Joan Fontaine - Mrs. de Winter

“I love those hick shirts he wears with the boiled cuffs and the way he always has his vest buttoned wrong. Looks like a giraffe, and I love him. I love him because he's the kind of a guy that gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. Love him because he doesn't know how to kiss.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Sugarpuss O'Shea