The Front

Florence Barrett:
A writer looks for trouble.

Howard Prince:
No, wrong. A lunatic looks for trouble.

[last lines]

Howard Prince:
Fellas... I don't recognize the right of this committee to ask me these kind of questions. And furthermore, you can all go f*** yourselves.

Howard Prince:
Swimming's not a sport, swimming's what you do so that you shouldn't drown.

Howard Prince:
Where are you from?

Florence Barrett:
Connecticut.

Howard Prince:
That's very ritzy.

Florence Barrett:
It's very proper anyway. I was very well bred - the kind of family where the biggest sin was to raise your voice.

Howard Prince:
Oh yeah? In my family the biggest sin was to pay retail.

Florence Barrett:
Do you want a drink?

Howard Prince:
[Distracted and worried] Yeah, but just a drink.

Sam:
This friend of yours, Alfred Miller...

Howard Prince:
We went to school together.

Sam:
And you had no idea that he was a Communist?

Howard Prince:
He was only 12.

Howard Prince:
[to Sam] I - I still don't see why we can't fix it. You know what I me...? Pay somebody off 'cau - 'cause how much cou-could it cost, you know, 'cause they're just Congressmen?

Hecky Brown:
[after gulping a glass of scotch] You know, I never learned how to sip a drink. When I was very little, every evening before supper my father would pour a shot glass full of whiskey, mumble a prayer, [He emulates his father by mumbling in Yiddish] and down it went! I thought that was the way you drank.

Hecky Brown:
[Parting words to Howard] Take care of yourself. The water is full of sharks.

Howard Prince:
That's the trouble with you leftos. You have this thing about money.

Hecky Brown:
It's nice when something nice happens to someone nice. it doesn't happen too often.