“- Maria Hughes: Why won't you play men?
- Ned Kynaston: Men aren't beautiful. What they do isn't beautiful either. Women do everything beautifully, especially when they die. Men feel far too much. Feeling ruins the effect. Feeling makes it ugly.”
Claire Danes - Maria Hughes
Billy Crudup - Ned Kynaston

“I don't want to live in a world without love or grief or beauty, I'd rather die.”
Dana Wynter - Becky Driscoll

“Stephen's tired of himself. Tired of feeling the same things in himself. Time comes when a man's got to feel something new, and he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old.”

Lucile Watson - Mrs. Morehead

“Ellen, I am Heathcliff. Everything he's suffered, I've suffered. The little happiness he's ever known, I've had too. Oh, Ellen, if everything in the world died and Heathcliff remained, life would still be full for me.”

Merle Oberon - Cathy

“Cathy, I never broke your heart. You broke it! Cathy! You loved me! What right to throw love away for the poor fancy thing you felt for him, for a handful of worthiness.”

Laurence Olivier - Heathcliff