“- El Guapo: Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you.
- Jefe: So when do you think Carmen will open up her flower to you?
- El Guapo: Tonight, or I will kill her!”
Alfonso Arau - El Guapo
Tony Plana - Jefe

“There will be no cross-examination in this court. You may speak, if you like. But let me warn you, Mr. Webster - if you fail to convince us, then you, too, are doomed.”

H.B. Warner - Justice John Hathorne

“I don't care what your secrets are. But I can't go ahead without more confidence in you than I've got now. You've got to convince me that you know what this is all about, that you aren't just fiddling around, hoping that it will all come out right in the end.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“Cameron's got me towed up tighter than Hitler has Mussolini.”

Russell Hicks - Pringle

“I'm going on with my work because, as you said, it is important. At least we believe it's important, and we must live what we believe.”

Leslie Howard - R.J. Mitchell