- Joyce Harwood: Well, don't you even say 'Good night'?
- Johnny Morrison: It's "good-bye", and it's tough to say good-bye.
- Joyce Harwood: Why is it? You've never seen me before tonight.
- Johnny Morrison: Every guy's seen you before somewhere. The trick is to find you.
- Leo: Just don't get too complicated, Eddie. When a man gets too complicated, he's unhappy. And when he's unhappy, his luck runs out.
- Johnny Morrison: [after being picked up] You oughta have more sense than to take chances with strangers like this.
- Joyce Harwood: Funny, but practically all the people I know were strangers when I met them. I'm going to Malibu. Is that any use to you?
- Johnny Morrison: What's in Malibu?
- Joyce Harwood: Houses, people. I have some friends there.
- Helen Morrison: I take all the drinks I like, any time, any place. I go where I want to with anybody I want. I just happen to be that kind of a girl.
- Johnny Morrison: [discovering his wife in close proximity to Harwood] You've got the wrong lipstick on, Mister.
- Man Recommending a Motel: [walking into the cheap motel] Clean sheets every day they tell me.
- Johnny Morrison: How often do they change the fleas?
- Joyce Harwood: [offering Johnny a lift as it rains heavily] Get in.
- [Johnny hesitates]
- Joyce Harwood: Well, you could get wetter if you lie down in the gutter.
- Johnny Morrison: [to the partygoers] Seems I've lost my manners or would anyone here know the difference?
- Corelli: You still want that room?
- Johnny Morrison: [sarcastically] If you're sure nobody's dead in it?
- Corelli: [leading him to the room] Right back this way. You live in San Francisco?
- Johnny Morrison: [laconically] Yeah, when I'm there.
- 'Dad' Newell: Let me see. I seem to have misplaced your name for the moment.
- Buzz Wanchek: Where were you keepin' it?
- Joyce Harwood: [sitting with Johnny in a convertible in the hills overlooking Los Angeles] It takes a lot of lights to make a city, doesn't it?
- Buzz Wanchek: [sitting down at the bar with two friends] Bourbon straight with a bourbon chaser.
- Johnny Morrison: Same.
- George Copeland: Two separate glasses. Get it?
- Bartender at Gus': Why wouldn't I get it?
- 'Dad' Newell: [examining Helen's body] Been dead for hours.
- Mr. Hughes: Suicide?
- 'Dad' Newell: Could be.
- Mr. Hughes: Better be!
- 'Dad' Newell: Unh-unh! Too much gun!
- Johnny Morrison: I'm sorry, but nothing seems funny to me tonight. It all blows up in your face sometimes.
- Joyce Harwood: What does?
- Johnny Morrison: Whatever you're doing, whereever you're going.
- Johnny Morrison: You ought to have more sense that to take chances with strangers like this
- Joyce Harwood: It's funny, but practically all the people I know were strangers when I met them
- [last lines]
- Buzz Wanchek: [as he and George are awkwardly milling around as Johnny and Joyce talk a few steps away] Uh, let's go find someplace where we can get a drink, huh?
- George Copeland: We gotta wait for Johnny.
- Buzz Wanchek: We gotta wait for Johnny?... What do you think I am? A camel? Come on!
- [George and Buzz walk away leaving Johnny alone with Joyce]
- 'Dad' Newell: Well, I guess I better be goin', Mr. Harwood.
- Eddie Harwood: Wait a minute - you forgot your cigar.
- 'Dad' Newell: Oh.
- Eddie Harwood: I think it's out.
- Eddie Harwood: [he lights it] Cigars go out awful easy, don't they, Dad?
- Eddie Harwood: [he blows out his lighter for emphasis] Good night.