“- Harry Lime: Smell that?
- Marv Merchants: [sniffs] Yeah.
- Harry Lime: Know what that is?
- Marv Merchants: Fish.
- Harry Lime: It's freedom.
- Marv Merchants: No, it's fish.
- Harry Lime: It's freedom, and it's money.”

Joe Pesci - Harry Lime
Daniel Stern - Marv Merchants

“This is New York City. A man can do whatever he wants.”
Royce Rich - Bloomingdale's Cop

“New York is a wonderful town. Everybody dreams about going there, but we're luckier than lots of families because we're really going. Wait till you see the nice new home we're going to have, and the loads and loads of new friends we're going to make.”

Judy Garland - Esther Smith

“The place: New York City. The time: Now, 1962. And there's no time or place like it. If you've got a dream, this is the place to make that dream come true. That's why the soaring population of hopeful dreamers has just reached eight million people. Oh! Make that eight million and one.”
Rick Scarry - Narrator

"Cats" is the second-worst thing that ever happened to New York City.
Ben Affleck - Ollie Trinke