“- Sailor: They told me my grandmother died peacefully in her sleep. It's a good way to go.
- Molly: Nobody dies peacefully, in their sleep! It's what they tell people, to make them feel good. Want to know how people really die, in their sleep?”
Howard Morris - Sailor
Lesley Ann Warren - Molly

“- Molly: Want to know how people really die, in their sleep? First, they go to bed. Then, about two in the morning, they go... Ahhh! Oh! Get a doct...
- Fumes: I ain't never goin' to sleep again!”
Lesley Ann Warren - Molly
Teddy Wilson - Fumes

“I can't sleep anymore. It's too much like death.”
Vincent Gardenia - Cosmo Castorini

“I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead.”
Sam Elliott - Wade Garrett

“When you're in bed, you're dead.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz