Stephen Boyd credited as playing...
Frank Fane
- Frankie: [referring to Steve Marks] What happened to him? He was a good actor. He made more pictures than I have.
- Alfred 'Kappy' Kapstetter: This is a chancy business, Frankie. You never know you're on the way out 'til you suddenly realize it would take a ticket to get back in.
- Kay Bergdahl: Frankie, you are *rude* and *nasty*, and *impossible*. Absolutely *impossible*.
- Frankie Fane: Will you stop beating on my ears, I'm up to here with all this bring-down! I'm me. You don't like what you see, then change the scenery. Go. That's right, go!
- Grobard: You got a pretty feisty mouth!
- Frankie Fane: And you got a glass head, I can see right through it! It's how I know you're stupid!
- Frankie Fane: You know, I think you go a little soft in the gourd early in the morning.
- Sophie Cantaro: [angrily] Look at me when you talk to me! I'm not some sort of garbage pail you can slap a lid on and walk away!
- Hymie Kelly: She died on the table, ya bastard! She died under the knife! She miscarried!
- Frankie Fane: What's that got to do with me?
- Hymie Kelly: It was your baby!
- Frankie Fane: So just go sliding back in there and tell 'em game called on account of Oscar. That's right. *Oscar*.
- Kay Bergdahl: You're wasting your time. I'm not the kind of woman who uses sex as a release or, or even as a weapon.
- Frankie Fane: You always talk like that?
- Kay Bergdahl: I try.
- Frankie Fane: Then do me a favor, will ya, try droppin' it with me, I'm not that smart. You free thinkers confuse me.
- Kay Bergdahl: Let me put it this way. I think I have more to offer than just my body.
- Frankie Fane: [mocking] Now I understand.
- Kay Bergdahl: I am the end result of everything I've ever learned, all I ever hope to be, and all the experiences I've ever had.
- Frankie Fane: How many experiences have you had?
- Kay Bergdahl: None. But when the right time comes I'll be special for some man. So it's worth waiting for.
- Laurel Scott: Ever since we hit this town you've been living off me. If you think I'm gonna work my tail off so you can run around with the Village chicks... oh, stop spreading the pollen around, Frankie, or else!
- Frankie Fane: Or else what? You'll chop my allowance? You'll turn me out of your warm bed? You're *nothin'*, that's what! So can that "or else" crap!
- Frankie Fane: Speaking of broads, whatever happened to Laurel?
- Hymie Kelly: I married her.
- Frankie Fane: Oh yeah? How is she?
- Hymie Kelly: She died.
- Frankie Fane: What'd you say?
- Hymie Kelly: I said she died.
- Sophie Cantaro: I don't know why I keep expecting you to act like other men when you're not... you're another kind of machine entirely. You bleed, you cry...
- Frankie Fane: No, Sophie. I don't care about anything that much.
- Frankie Fane: Don't lecture me, you've got to save me, Kappy.
- Alfred 'Kappy' Kapstetter: What am I, the second coming of the messiah? I'm an *agent*. There's just so much I can do.
- Trina Yale: Figured we'd get hammered together and wrestle around on the couch for a while?
- Frankie Fane: How 'bout that.
- Frankie Fane: You a tourist or a native?
- Kay Bergdahl: Take one from column A and two from column B, you get an egg roll either way.
- Frankie Fane: [laughing] I have a feeling I'm not gonna get anywhere with you.
- Kay Bergdahl: All depends, where you'd like to get.
- Frankie Fane: Mostly I'd like to get alone with you somewhere.
- Laurel Scott: [sighs] Things haven't been going so good for us the past couple of months, have they?
- Frankie Fane: What you mean is, I'm not workin', so I'm a creep!
- Laurel Scott: You could get a job, Frankie. It wouldn't kill you.
- Frankie Fane: [grabs Laurel] Tell me all about it. You twitch your hips and you think that's ten years on the road guy. Well, nobody ever gave me a dime that I didn't have to sweat for! So knock off with this lazy slob routine!
- Laurel Scott: You hurt me, Frankie!
- Frankie Fane: Send me a bill.
- Laurel Scott: I've gotta go to work. But when I come back you and me are gonna have a talk!
- Frankie Fane: Sure, if you like talking to yourself!
- Kay Bergdahl: If a woman doesn't treasure herself, how can a man treasure her?
- Frankie Fane: You make my head hurt with all that poetry.
- Kay Bergdahl: [laughs] I think you try awfully hard not to understand people.
- Frankie Fane: I'm tryin' to understand you.
- Kay Bergdahl: No, you're not. You're trying to seduce me.
- Kay Bergdahl: Don't you understand *how* you embarrassed me in there? Who do you think you are, Frankie, just who do you think you are?
- Frankie Fane: I'm *me*. And that's plenty good enough.