“- Jerry Durrance: Are you afraid of getting burnt if you get too close to happiness?
- Charlotte Vale: No. I'm immune to happiness and therefore to burns.”
Paul Henreid - Jerry Durrance
Bette Davis - Charlotte Vale

“- Deirdre: You're scared!
- Sam: Of course I'm scared! You think I'm reluctant because I'm happy?”
Natascha McElhone - Deirdre
Robert De Niro - Sam

“It was a bad time. Everybody living in fear, but still we were happy. My father would come home to mother, and when he had seen her, he would forget about the killings.”
Gibran Evans - Daigoro

“I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I'm in a world of shit... yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid.”

Matthew Modine - Pvt. J.T. 'Joker' Davis

“She deserves all this happiness, Bruce. All the things I couldn't give her. Yeah, all she ever wanted was a home.”

Cary Grant - Walter Burns