- Charlie How-Come: You don't get the idea, mister. These cops banging those pans, flashing those lights, they're gonna scare that poor cat of mine. Cats are funny, mister. They don't want to hurt you, but if you scare them they go crazy. These cops, they don't know what they're doing.
- Teresa Delgado: I'll pay you tomorrow.
- Manuel - Grocer: Next time you come. Poor don't cheat one another. We're all poor together.
- [first lines]
- Kiki Walker: It may sound like music to her. I can do better with my teeth in a cold shower.
- Eloise: Don't take this personally Miss Walker, but it's ironic - I mean, you being a big star and me being a cigarette girl.
- Kiki Walker: I know, I know. You got the talent and I got the breaks. I heard it in every nightclub.
- Eloise: If you got cold feet honey, I'll take over for you. That little red dress of yours fits me just perfect.
- Kiki Walker: Someday you'll try on my coffin and I hope it fits you just perfect.
- Maria - Fortune Teller: You will meet a rich man and he will give you money.
- Clo-Clo: You and your cards! 'Meet a rich man'. I look for them with money. And what rich man hasn't money? And for what was I born, if not for money? You're not telling me anything.
- Brunton - the Rich Man: When you marry champagne, you can't trade it in for beer. You're stuck with it.
- Clo-Clo: I don't understand that fancy talk.
- Jerry Manning: Must get lonely here.
- Cemetery Gatekeeper: No.I have many friends... but they don't bother me with talk.
- Jerry Manning: So you still think it was the leopard.
- Dr. Galbraith: Is there anything in Clo-Clo's death, Jerry, to suggest it wasn't the leopard?
- Jerry Manning: Yes, the lipstick.
- Roblos - the Police Chief: Why?
- Jerry Manning: Well, ask Kiki, ask any woman. Girls don't put on lipstick in the middle of the night on a dark, lonely street unless they're with a man, or going to meet a man.
- Kiki Walker: [to Jerry] We're not going to catch a train, Darling - we're going to stay right here and catch a murderer.
- Jerry Manning: I thought... Is Kiki just gonna walk out there tonight? Just walk out on the floor cold in front of a bunch of 'gawkes'? That I think a Spanish twirler is the greatest thing in life? No. Not my client. She's gonna make an entrance that this towns gonna remember for the rest of their lives.
- Kiki Walker: [referring to the leopard] On his back I suppose!
- Cemetery Gatekeeper: You're late this evening, señorita.
- Consuelo Contreras: I have brought my birthday flowers for my father's grave. It will only take a moment.
- Cemetery Gatekeeper: Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath or as long as eternity. Don't linger. The gates are locked at six!
- Jerry Manning: There's something wrong with this whole setup.
- Roblos - the Police Chief: Yes, there is something wrong. People who want publicity and don't mind how they get it. What risks they make other people run. What agony and sorrow they bring to other people.
- Eloise: She's a local. When the dudes come out to New Mexico, they went to wallow in Latin glamour. This is a bad town for blondes.
- Kiki Walker: Yes. So I've noticed. Jerry's noticed, He'll come up with something.