The Barefoot Contessa

Harry Dawes:
"Life, every now and then, behaves as though it had seen too many bad movies, when everything fits too well - the beginning, the middle, the end - from fade-in to fade-out."

Alberto Bravano:
[to Kirk Edwards] How many millions have you in tax-exempt bonds, and oil wells whose power of production your government so generously protects, while it denies similar benefits to the human brain?

Maria Vargas:
In Hollywood, it is not easy to become a star.

Harry Dawes:
Ah, where is it easy?

Alberto Bravano:
To make a hundred dollars into a hundred and ten dollars - this is work. To make a hundred million into a hundred and ten million, this is inevitable.

Drunken blonde:
[of Maria Vargas] She hasn't even got what I've got.

Jerry:
What she's got you couldn't spell - and what you've got, you used to have.

Drunken blonde:
I don't even believe you're playing Pinochle.

Myrna:
I'm a frightened tramp.

Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini:
It is time for the Torlato-Favrinis to get off the world.

Eleanora Torlato-Favrini:
The fact remains that we are neither unique nor important to the world. And it will go on without us.

Alberto Bravano:
[to Kirk Edwards at the party] Take a drink, my friend, and say what you have in your heart. But you never drink. You never say. Because you are afraid of what you have in your heart!

Kirk Edwards:
You've never done an honest day's work in your life!

Alberto Bravano:
I *have* never done a day's work in my life - honest OR dishonest, but neither have you... To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.

Harry Dawes:
Her name is Jerry.

Maria Vargas:
She has the name of a man.

Harry Dawes:
That's where the similarities end.

Oscar Muldoon:
You mean they're throwing punches?

Jerry:
Don't be silly - neither one of them has had his hands closed since the day he was born!