“- Katherine: Cocteau was Cocteau before he ever did... drugs.
- Owen: What are you saying?
- Katherine: That it's not going to help you.”
Elaine C. Grove - Katherine
Bob Brady - Owen

You know what I think, "on some level"? I think you're the kind of wise cocksucker that writes a tear-jerk play against the Marines and then turns around and smuggles a shitload of heroin into this country.

Anthony Zerbe - Antheil

“We don't associate with the creative types. We have a Scrabble club. We associate with people with babies.”
Linda Kash - Mrs. Allan Pearl

“- Peggy Walsh: When did you get this idea Jim?
- Jimmy Ringo: Well I didn't get it, it just kinda' came over me. The way gettin' older comes over ya. All of a sudden you look at things different then the way ya did five years ago. All of a sudden I knew this was the only thing in the world I wanted.”
Helen Westcott - Peggy Walsh
Gregory Peck - Jimmy Ringo

“Even in most primitive man, the need to create was part of his nature. This need, this talent clearly separated early man from animals, who would never know this gift.”
Orson Welles - Narrator (voice)