“- Jeff Grant: What the hell kind of investigation is this, anyway? Are you going to tell me or aren't you?
- Roy Parmenter: You're asking all the right questions, Jeff. Something big is coming down.”
River Phoenix - Jeff Grant
Sir Sidney Poitier - Roy Parmenter

“Detective without curiosity is like glass eye at keyhole - no good.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“- Walter Neff: What do the police figure?
- Barton Keyes: That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They're satisfied. It's not their dough.”

Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff
Edward G. Robinson - Barton Keyes

“- Helen Grayle: I hadn't supposed there were enough murders these days to make detecting very attractive to a young man.
- Philip Marlowe: I stir up trouble on the side.”
Claire Trevor - Helen Grayle
Dick Powell - Philip Marlowe

“- Lynn Bracken: He takes a cut of our earnings and invests it for us. He doesn't let us use narcotics and he doesn't abuse us. Can your policeman's mentality grasp those contradictions?
- Bud White: He had you cut to look like Veronica Lake.
- Lynn Bracken: No. I'm really a brunette, but the rest is me.”

Kim Basinger - Lynn Bracken
Russell Crowe - Bud White