“[voiceover] It was early October when we made San Francisco, and dropped anchor across the bay from the city in Sausalito. It had been a most interesting cruise, all very rich and rare and strange. But I had had no stomach for it. To begin with, living on a hook takes away your appetite. You have no taste for any pleasure at all but the one that's burnin' in you. But even without an appetite, I had heard it's quite amazing how much a fool like me can swallow.”
“I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.”
The Lady from Shanghai
“New York is not as big a city as it pretends to be.”
The Lady from Shanghai
“When I start out to make a fool of myself, there's very little can stop me. If I'd known where it would end, I'd never let anything start, if I'd been in my right mind, that is. But once I'd seen her,...”
The Lady from Shanghai
“That's how I found her, and from that moment on, I did not use my head very much, except to be thinking of her.”
The Lady from Shanghai
“Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.”
The Lady from Shanghai