- Luisa Vidor, alias Johann Schultze: If only the director of Bongo Bar could see me now! He has no faith in my artistic talent. He thinks I should just play bit parts. But I have a lot of potential. I know I have talent.
- Irene Wagner: [first lines - voiceover] I had been driving aimlessly around the city for more than an hour. My hands gripped the wheel. I struggled with myself, not knowing how the struggle would end.
- Children's Nanny: Sorry, ma'am, but we can't take it anymore. Miss Marta is unbearable. She thinks we're all loafers. She picks on me in particular because I go dancing on Sundays. What's wrong with that?
- Irene Wagner: You must be patient with Marta. She's grown old. It happens to everyone sooner or later.
- Children's Nanny: I don't want to get old. I'd rather die young.
- Irene Wagner: Let's hope not.
- Irene Wagner: [voiceover] I felt as though everything here helped to soothe my tired nerves. Seated on my favorite armchair, I abandoned myself to Marta's pampering. She caressed me with loving hands as she had when I was a child, reminding me of my childhood in Sweden. The immense landscapes, the swims in the lakes, the days of innocent lightheartedness that never came back.
- Irene Wagner: Don't you think you were too severe?
- Mady: No.
- Irene Wagner: But she told the truth.
- Mady: Yes, but, when? When she had no other way out. When she understood that she couldn't lie anymore. No. She must be punished for her obstinate refusal to confess. I don't understand how a person can be guilty of a serious wrong and not have the courage to confess.
- Irene Wagner: Maybe she was ashamed. We're all ashamed in front of those who are closest to us, those we love.
- Irene Wagner: [voiceover] My mind was in tumult. The gray fog and driving rain made the anguished hours I waited, even more desperate.
- Giovanna Schultze friend: Her real name isn't Schultze. It's Vidor, Luisa Vidor. I always told her, "Giovanna, you'll come to a bad end." She owes money to everyone. We're both from Cologne. We worked together as dancers, but I changed theaters because my boyfriend didn't want me dancing half-naked. He's an old-fashioned type. You know how some men are.
- Professor Albert Wagner: In my opinion, we mustn't lose track of the reality of things. We've reached the boundaries between life and death with our experiments. If we could understand these boundaries, we would really be way ahead.
- Irene Wagner: Mary, here's your present.
- Mady: I wanted a rifle!
- Irene Wagner: Girls don't play with rifles! No rifle for you .
- Mady: But you bought one for Bubi.
- Irene Wagner: Come sit next to me. Come on, let's see what is in this package. Can you guess what it is? Do you like it?
- [shows her a new stuffed rabbit]
- Mady: I don't want it.