“I don't mind taking orders, but there's one decision that's always up to me.”
Jean Harlow - Daisy

“- Porter: Who makes the decisions?
- Carter: Well, a committee would make the decision in this case...
- Porter: One man... you go high enough you always come to one man... who?”
Mel Gibson - Porter
William Devane - Carter

“I don't care what your secrets are. But I can't go ahead without more confidence in you than I've got now. You've got to convince me that you know what this is all about, that you aren't just fiddling around, hoping that it will all come out right in the end.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“Drop by drop, Holmes. Drop by drop. Ah, in a way I'm almost sorry. You were a stimulating influence to me but it was obvious that I should win in the end.”

Lionel Atwill - Professor Moriarty

“The American people are conditioned by network TV, by local news, to believe that their communities are much more dangerous than they actually are.”
Arthur A. Busch - Himself