- Creighton Chaney at 13: Say, Pop! There's a great new joke going around school. "Don't step on that spider. It might be Lon Chaney."
- [first title card]
- Title Card: On August 27, 1930, the entire motion picture industry suspended work to pay tribute to the memory of one of its great actors.
- Title Card: This is his story.
- William R. Darrow Jr.: Who are you? What are you doing here?
- Lon Chaney: I'm from the collection agency. I've come to collect my wife.
- Hazel Bennett Chaney: Darling, it's wonderful. But isn't it very painful?
- Lon Chaney: Only when I laugh.
- Clarence Locan: What'd you say?
- Creighton Chaney at 13: Huh?
- Clarence Locan: A thousand faces! Thalberg's been after me to start a new advertising campaign. "The Man of a Thousand Faces"! How's that?
- Lon Chaney: [In character of Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre, to his estranged wife] What's the matter, Cleva? Still afraid of freaks?
- Irving Thalberg: [after hearing Lon describe his interpretation of Quasimodo] That's just what I want the audience to see, Mr. Chaney - the soul of a man that Godmade different. If you can get that on fim, we've got ourselves a picture.
- Lon Chaney: If a guy can be enough things in this buusiness, he can make a living.
- Gert: Now, just listen, don't start spendin' the money. You Still got that face.
- Lon Chaney: I've got a face, Gert, a whole boxful.
- Lon Chaney: And you can stop bothering me. Get out!
- Clarence Locan: [Leaving with his feelings stung] You can make it 1001 faces, Lon. This is one I've never seen before.
- Lon Chaney: We've got to talk about this.
- Cleva Creighton Chaney: Surprise, Lon, for once I don't want to talk anymore.
- Cleva Creighton Chaney: [Believing that Chaney has cost her her singing job] You had me fired! Damn you! Damn you! Damn you!
- George Loane Tucker: Look, Lon, publicity is part of our business. We're not just a goldfish bowl; we're an aquarium. There's no room in the industry for a mystery man. Why, if we wnt...
- Clarence Locan: [Interrupting] Just a minute, Mr. Tucker - mystery man! I'm a dead head from way back. I haven't paid t see anything in years. , but you know something? I'd buy a ticket to see a mystery man... a change of face - nothing more. I can hear the jingle in the box office. I can see the campaign now - Lon Chaney: Man of Mystery!