“- Celeste: Don't mind him. It's called gallows humour.
- Sam: Yeah, but is it funny?
- Oscar: Only if you're in love and waiting to die. My name's Oscar, this is my wife Celeste. I've got cancer, she's got AIDS.”
Lin Shaye - Celeste
Adam Horovitz - Sam
Bill Cobbs - Oscar

“I didn't ask to marry a Strafford, a Strafford asked to marry me. I married a man, not an institution or a trust fund or a bank.”
Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle

“- Henry Lowndes: Are you trying to tell me that you didn't love me, that you married me just because I was so kind?
- Bill Cardew: She's telling me what kind of a rat you were, taking advantage of a helpless widow.”

Melvyn Douglas - Henry Lowndes
Fred MacMurray - Bill Cardew

“- Ann Krausheimer Smith: If you want your freedom, I don't want to be the kind of a wife who clings to her husband when she's not wanted.
- David Smith: I do want to be married to you. I love you. I worship you. I am used to you.”
Carole Lombard - Ann Krausheimer Smith
Robert Montgomery - David Smith

“- Gloria: Why didn't you ever marry?
- The Great Man: I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.”
Gloria Jean - Gloria
W.C. Fields - The Great Man