- Mark Cardigan: [Preparing to go out and rescue Dan Milner] Now might I drink hot blood and do such bitter business the earth would quake to look upon.
- Helen Cardigan: [Rolling eyes] 'Hamlet' again...
- Gerald Hobson: Mark, this is no time for histrionics.
- Mark Cardigan: [Scoffing] What fools ye mortals be.
- Dan Milner: I'm too young to die. How about you?
- Mark Cardigan: Too well-known.
- Dan Milner: Well, if you do get killed, I'll make sure you get a first-rate funeral in Hollywood, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
- Mark Cardigan: I've already had it. My last picture died there.
- Dan Milner: Whenever I have nothing to do and I can't think, I always iron my money.
- Lenore Brent: What d'ya do when you're broke?
- Dan Milner: When I'm broke, I press my pants.
- Myron Winton: [after he and the other guests have viewed one of Mark Cardigan's films] Yes sir, I agree with those folks: that was one of the finest movies I've ever seen. They oughta' make 'em ALL like that. None of this nonsense about social matters. People don't go to the movies to see how miserable the world is - they go there to eat popcorn and be happy!
- Mark Cardigan: [Addressing Mr. Krafft] What did you think of it?
- Martin Krafft: [Dourly] It had a message no pigeon would carry.
- Mark Cardigan: [Slightly amused, turning to Mr. Winton] At my studios, all messages are handled by Western Union.
- Myron Winton: You know, you can't take his opinion on anything: he's an *intellectual.*
- [Cardigan responds with a look of mild alarm]
- Mark Cardigan: What about tomorrow morning?
- Dan Milner: All right, what about it?
- Mark Cardigan: The hunting. I've got all the equipment you need. How about me rootin' you out about five.
- Dan Milner: Five?
- Lenore Brent: He shoots them as they crawl out of bed.
- Lenore Brent: Put some oil on my back, will you? Go on.
- [By the pool: Milner to rubs the oil on her bare back]
- Lenore Brent: Mmm, that's nice. You've got good hands.
- Dan Milner: You like it nice, don't you?
- Lenore Brent: Mm-hmm. I've always had everything nice. My grandfather had more money than he could count, but you'd like him in spite of it.
- Dan Milner: I could like him *for* it!
- Lenore Brent: He finally gave me a million dollars just so he could say every guy I met was after my money.
- Dan Milner: And were they?
- Lenore Brent: Oh, he'd have *loved* you for that snide crack.
- Mark Cardigan: Mind tellin' me who I'm shootin' at, and why?
- Dan Milner: If this were one of your pictures you could just step right out there and ask 'em. But I'm afraid their guns are loaded.
- Mark Cardigan: You know something? All my life I've suspected myself of being a phony. Half of it I've been acting. A hundred lives and a hundred stories, all phony. This is the only time the guns were ever loaded with anything but blanks.
- Dan Milner: How's it feel?
- Mark Cardigan: Fine... You couldn't know how fine.
- Jose Morro: She is beautiful as well as interesting, isn't she?
- Dan Milner: She's beautiful - that's always interesting.
- Dan Milner: Well, you see how it is: fools get away with the impossible.
- Lenore Brent/Liz Brady: That's because they're the only ones who try it.
- Lt. Rodriguez: You are not a pig. You are what a pig becomes. It is sometimes eaten between two pieces of bread.
- Nick Ferraro: [speaking of Dan Milner] I want him to be fully conscious. I don't like to shoot a corpse. I want to see the expression on his face when he knows it's coming.
- Martin Krafft: American language I know well, but the use to which Americans put it, I'm not always able to understand.
- Mark Cardigan: [to Milner and Lenore] Well, what did you think of the picture?
- Lenore Brent: [Sarcasm] Oh, it was fine. It was just a little long - about an hour and a half.
- Dan Milner: Are you in the oil business, or are you just spending your alimony all at once?
- Lenore Brent: I'm what you'd call a spoiled child of the rich.
- Dan Milner: Well, how do you do? I'm what you'd call a spoiled child of the poor.
- Mark Cardigan: I'm out of my mind to ask her... She hates everything I do.
- Dan Milner: She likes you.
- Mark Cardigan: Yeh, I know, that's what I don't understand.
- Dan Milner: If she liked me, man, I wouldn't try to understand.
- Dan Milner: [to a self-proclaimed heiress] I haven't met as many rich dames as I'd like to, but I know one thing - they all have a terror of talking about their dough.
- Dan Milner: [to a dame] You know, you could be a handy thing to have around the house if a man went broke.
- Lenore Brent: [to a musician who has recognized her from her "previous" life] Liz Brady went to Europe with a USO troupe. She never came back.
- Dan Milner: Where have you been? I looked for you all day.
- Lenore Brent: I stayed in bed. "Nimrod" went hunting again.
- Mark Cardigan: [the rescue boat he was "commanding" has sunk beneath him] Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
- Mark Cardigan: You know, this is the most wonderful place in the whole world. You should see the buck I killed yesterday. You'll see the pictures as soon as Morro gets them in his album. He's makin' a scrapbook of everything I kill!
- Lenore Brent: Yes, he mentioned it. He also said that, given the time and ammunition, you might very well rid the world of all animal life.
- Lenore Brent: That was real nice. You should've been a masseur instead.
- Dan Milner: Instead of what?
- Lenore Brent: Instead of whatever it is you do.
- Lenore Brent: Instead of walking out to sea, I came here. Do you still have our champagne?
- Dan Milner: Is it a big occasion?
- [Lenore leans in and give Milner a long kiss]
- Lenore Brent: [exclaimed as a daredevil Howard Hughes-type pilot flies directly overhead into a major storm] Who's that idiot?
- Lenore Brent: Wherever I am, I sing at the drop of a hat.
- Dan Milner: Even if you have to supply the hat?
- Lenore Brent: Exactly!
- Thompson: Put the gun down now. The guy behind you has a bigger one.
- Dan Milner: Let's keep it nice and polite, huh? Have him introduce himself.
- Helen Cardigan: Mark... you're wounded!
- Mark Cardigan: 'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door.
- Dan Milner: I was just getting ready to take my tie off. Wondering whether I should hang myself with it.
- Lenore Brent: You're not leaving?
- Dan Milner: My bungalow costs $75 a day. I thought I'd go spend some time in it.
- Myron Winton: You're probably wondering what a man like myself is doing in an odd place like this.
- Dan Milner: No.
- Dan Milner: Whenever I have nothing to do and I can't think, I iron my money.
- Lenore Brent: What do you do when you're broke?
- Dan Milner: When I'm broke, I press my pants. One time a dame walked into my room, just like you did right now. She'd been out in the rain. You know, I pressed her dress dry for her.
- Lenore Brent: What did she do?
- Dan Milner: Went in the kitchen, poured me some coffee.
- Lenore Brent: I think you're the strangest man I ever knew.
- Dan Milner: What makes you think you know me?
- Bill Lusk: I'm a social outcast. Nobody's speaking to me.
- Dan Milner: I'll speak to you. What would you like to talk about?
- Bill Lusk: Myself, naturally.
- Lenore Brent: I've never been that direction. I've been the other way, but I'd like to be going that way. Tomorrow. Now.
- Dan Milner: Why? What's out there?
- Lenore Brent: Islands. Samoa and Tahiti.
- Dan Milner: Bikini.
- Lenore Brent: You're such a wise guy.
- Dan Milner: You're not gonna find a thing except yourself.
- Lenore Brent: I'd even like finding that.
- Sam: Where you been? I ain't seen you since the last rain.
- Dan Milner: Palm Springs.
- Sam: Hustling the millionaires?
- Dan Milner: I went down there to cure a cold. I wound up doing 30 days.
- Sam: For what?
- Dan Milner: For nothing.
- Sam: I don't get it?
- Dan Milner: Well, I got it. Somebody is putting the salt on me.
- Dan Milner: You really believe in breaking a man down, don't you?
- Corley: Just bending him a little, Milner, that's all.