Angels Over Broadway

"Oh, if only I had my slave costume and my chains!"

"Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Bill OBrien"

"Im pretending theres something swell about you. This delusion came over me while we were dancing. You know, when you look into a girls eyes and you think you see someone that isnt there... well thats what I saw."

"Theyll deal you hope off the bottom."

"Constance Worth - Sylvia Marbe"

"[on the telephone] Hello, Dutch? Bill OBrien! Say listen, Im over at the Pigeon Club takin in the sights, and, uh, I ran into somethin that I thought might be of mutual interest to us. An out-of-town job came shoo-shooing in here a while ago and throwin away money like birdseed."

"Thomas Mitchell - Eugene Gene Gibbons"

"Ralph Theodore - Dutch Enright"

"[seeing a waiter put two drinks on the table] Fine, fine! I no longer have to order drinks. I just attract them. He shall have liquor wherever he goes! [to Engle] As I understand from your communication, Mr. Engle, youre on the brink of self-destruction. May I shake your hand? A brilliant idea! I speak as one who has destroyed himself a score of times. I am, Mr. Engle, a veteran corpse. We are all corpses here! This rendezvous is one of the musical graveyards of the town. Caters to zombies hopping around with dead hearts and price tags for souls. Hmmmp! [offering him one of the drinks] Will you join me, sir? It is the custom here for the dead to drink - heavily! [drinks] Allow me to present my credentials as a fellow cadaver. Im being divorced by my wife whom I love dearly in my own nasty way. I was disemboweled by another woman. I have written three bad plays in a row, and next year Ill write a worse one. I have neither a home, a single hope, nor a shred of curiosity left. Bankrupt and broke, Ive destroyed myself, sir, in becoming famous. I am no longer a man, Mr. Engle, Im an epitaph over an ash can! And now, sir, whats your story?"

"Stage Doorman: [looking out into the darkened, empty theater] Shhh! Hear that noise? Thats the rats - always performing! If I left this scenery here, theyd eat it up - eat the whole theater up if it wasnt for the actors! The hollering frightens them."

"Yesterdays pain is tomorrows joke. And youll always end up laughing if you can manage not to cut your throat first."

"[to Bill OBrien] Ill remember this night for a long time. When things dont seem so good, Ill remember Mr. Gibbons, and Mr. Engle... and you."