- Photographer: [as Curtayne enters the court] James P. Curtayne, complete with carnation.
- James Curtayne: [confidently] Never enter the ring without it.
- Postal Clerk: Oh, you're an attorney?
- James Curtayne: Yeah.
- Postal Clerk: Then you should know about a court order.
- James Curtayne: I think maybe one drink...
- Ginny Curtayne: You can't take one drink!
- James Curtayne: Yes, I can take one drink. I'm going to take one.
- Ginny Curtayne: Dad, I'm not frightened. We've beaten this before. I'll get dressed...
- James Curtayne: [pouring himself a drink] Go and get yourself a husband like any normal girl should do! Stop mothering me! Stop this protective custody!
- Ginny Curtayne: All right, drink that drink. Drink the whole bottle. And go out and get another bottle and drink that, too. Drink forty bottles. And I won't bother you. I'll leave you alone. You can fall up the stairs all by yourself. You can learn to put yourself to bed, because I won't be here. I'll be in my own home, with my husband, the one who's been waiting for me for two years! I won't have to be your keeper! My father's keeper! The nagging daughter of an incurable alcoholic!
- James Curtayne: [slapping her across the face] Ginny, stop!
- James Curtayne: [going up to the bartender] Gimme a short beer, Augie.
- Augie: [surprised, since Curtayne is supposed to be on the wagon] You're kidding, Mr. Curtayne?
- James Curtayne: [sharply, a bit impatient] Gimme a short beer.
- Vincent Ricks: [Ricks brings in Frankie Korvac] Here he is... people's witness.
- Louis Barra: [contemptuously] People's witness? People's slob!
- Sol Lanzetta: [watching Curtayne take a drink] Couldn't beat it, could yuh? Just a worn out old lush!
- James Curtayne: [visiting him in jail] Now, Johnny, tell me this. When they tried to pick you up, why did you run?
- Johnny O'Hara: I didn't know it was the cops. I thought it was... I was scared.
- James Curtayne: You thought what?
- Johnny O'Hara: I was scared. I... I saw guns. That's from the war. That's how guns hit me.
- James Curtayne: Oh? They didn't seem to hit you that way when you won the DSC...
- Johnny O'Hara: Put me down I was scared.
- James Curtayne: What's your girl's name, Johnny?
- Johnny O'Hara: Girl's name? What would you want that for?
- James Curtayne: What's her name!
- Johnny O'Hara: I got no girl, Mr. Curtayne.
- James Curtayne: [standing up, looking at Johnny sternly] All right, Johnny. Now, of course you know this is just the start. I'll be in to see you again tomorrow.
- James Curtayne: There's something I want you to remember: get this into your noggin and keep it there. You're not in here because you stole some apples off a peddler's cart.