“I'll be the sculptor and you'll be the clay.”

Adolphe Menjou - Anthony Powell

“- Eric Stanton: I made it clear to you when I took this job. You can't tie me down. Cramps my style. I always work best when a certain feeling comes over me, and right now I haven't got it.
- Joe Ellis: [under his breath] Genius!
- Professor Madley: Eric my boy, you're an artist. You have my sympathy. And a bus ticket on the firm.”

Dana Andrews - Eric Stanton
Alice Faye - June Mills
John Carradine - Professor Madley

“She knows nothing about international politics, she has the mind of an artist, she sees people as general humanity, not as separate races.”
Robert Taylor - Mark Preysing

“I'm not one of you anemic creatures who can get nourishment from a lettuce leaf - I'm a musician, I'm an artist! I have zest and appetite - and I like food!”
Mary Astor - Sandra Kovak

“I don't approve of, but I like people who think in terms of ideal conditions. They're the dreamers, poets, tragic figures in this world, but interesting.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg