“Mr. Bannister tells me you once killed a man. You are Michael, aren't you?...I'm very interested in murders. Forgive me if I seem inquisitive, but where'd it happen?...How'd you do it? No, let me guess. You did it with your hands, didn't you? Does it ever bother you when you think about it? What did he do to you?...You just killed him for the fun of it, eh?...Then it wasn't murder, I suppose. Tell me, would you do it again? Would you mind killing another man?...Would you kill me if I gave you the chance? I may give you the chance.”
“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