- Det. Lt. Pete Ramirez: I should have been a better friend. I shoulda stopped you. I shoulda grabbed you by the neck, I shoulda kicked your teeth in. I'm sorry Steve.
- Steve Thompson: She's all right, she's just young.
- Mrs. Thompson: Huh! Some ways, she knows more than Einstein.
- Steve Thompson: A man eats an apple. He gets a piece of the core stuck between his teeth. He tries to work it out with some cellophane from a cigarette pack. What happens? The cellophane gets stuck in there too. Anna? What was the use. I knew that somehow I'd wind up seeing her that night.
- Steve Thompson: I take my hat off to you.
- Anna Dundee: Yeah... yeah, I'm a prize.
- Steve Thompson: Tramp.
- Anna Dundee: Tell me all about it.
- Steve Thompson: Tramp! Cheap little no good tramp!
- [gets up to leave]
- Anna Dundee: Stick around. You make it all so nice and sad.
- Mrs. Thompson: What makes you think I don't understand? I understand! A girl puts on a piece of silk, and the next thing that happens, a young fellow like you is sure he knows exactly what he's doing."