“Howard, we want you to know: you're our son, and we'll always love you, gay, straight, red, green, if you rob a bank, if you kill someone.”

Debbie Reynolds - Berniece Brackett

“- Ma Beckoff: Arnold, think about the boy. The way you live is bound to affect him!
- Arnold Beckoff: Ma, David is gay!
- Ma Beckoff: He hasn't even been here a year!
- Arnold Beckoff: He came that way!
- Ma Beckoff: Nobody comes that way!
- Arnold Beckoff: What an opening!”

Anne Bancroft - Ma Beckoff
Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Arnold Beckoff

“Number Two Son very promising detective... promises very much, produces very little.”

Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“Once he was known as Sam Edison's son. But now I'm Tom Edison's father, and I don't mind.”

George Bancroft - Samuel "Sam" Edison

“If you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman