“- Lilly Raines: Do you make an effort to be obnoxious, or is it a gift?
- Frank Horrigan: It's a gift. Let's face it, half the things we do are window dressing. Take running alongside that limousine: it'd take an anti-tank missile to put a dent in that damn thing. There we are, out for show, trying to make the President look more presidential.”
Rene Russo - Lilly Raines
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“- Maggie Ryan: You don't act like a good girl, you don't talk like a good girl, and you don't dress like a good girl.
- Sarah Jane Ryan: I act and talk and dress exactly how I please. But technically I'm still a good girl.”
Una O'Connor - Maggie Ryan
Ann Sheridan - Sarah Jane Ryan

“- Alfred Kralik: You treated me like a dog.
- Klara Novak: Yes, but instead of licking my hand, you barked.”
James Stewart - Alfred Kralik
Margaret Sullavan - Klara Novak

“- Virginia Brush: Either he's an old friend of the family's or there's something in your eye.
- Amy Lind: I never saw him before in my life until a few minutes ago when I passed Fisher's drug store.
- Virginia Brush: He followed you here?
- Amy Lind: No. I followed him.”

Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind

“- Virginia Brush: Why can't you be nice to me once in a while?
- Hugo Barnstead: I've been thinking about it. Then I remember we're married, so why bother?”
Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
Jack Carson - Hugo Barnstead