The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) in another very famous line: "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."

I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.

Hope that, in future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling love for one another.

It's not that it's so good with money, but that it's so bad without it.

I am essential to the theater.

I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.