Matt Libby: This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, with a whimper.


--Jack Carson (as Matt Libby) in A Star is Born

Peter Virgil: Run, run, run... When you see a pretty woman.


--Jack Carson (as Peter Virgil) in Romance on the High Seas

Peter Virgil: There's something I just gotta do, I cant help myself.
Georgia Garrett: Well if you cant help yourself, you can't help yourself.
Peter Virgil: I gotta find the cable-gram.


--Jack Carson (as Peter Virgil) in Romance on the High Seas

Wally: [to Ida] I hate all women. Thank goodness you're not one.


--Jack Carson (as Wally Fay) in Mildred Pierce

Wally: My client feels, and I am in complete accord with her, that she has been irrep - ih...
Mrs. Forrester's lawyer: 'Irreparably'?
Wally: ...unduly damaged. Therefore there is one more little formality that we should discuss first.
Mrs. Forrester's lawyer: What's that, Mr. Fay?
Wally: The financial settlement. You see, my client would like ten thousand dollars.
Mrs. Forrester's lawyer: I think I'm safe in observing that almost anyone would like ten thousand dollars, Mr. Fay. But ih -...
Wally: But ih - ?
Mrs. Forrester's lawyer: We see no necessity for a financial settlement of any kind.
Wally: You don't, huh?
Mrs. Forrester's lawyer: No.
Wally: [Smirk] You will.


--Jack Carson (as Wally Fay) in Mildred Pierce

Wally: Oh boy! I'm so smart it's a disease!


--Jack Carson (as Wally Fay) in Mildred Pierce

Wally: There's something about the sound of my own voice that fascinates me.


--Jack Carson (as Wally Fay) in Mildred Pierce

Wally: You know, this is a pretty big night for you.
Policeman #1: Yeah?
Wally: Yeah, lots of excitement. There's a stiff in there!
Policeman #1: Is that so? Oh and I suppose you were running right down to the station to report it?
Wally: [forced laugh]
Policeman #1: Yeah...
[to partner]
Policeman #1: Say, he say's there's a dead guy in the house.
Policeman #2: You never saw a deader.


--Jack Carson (as Wally Fay) in Mildred Pierce

Wally: You know, you keep on refusing me, and one of these days I'm going to start thinking you're stubborn.


--Jack Carson (as Wally Fay) in Mildred Pierce

Amy Lind: Oh for goodness sake, Virginia, cut out the nonsense. This is a pre-arranged date and we all know it. I've got to get back on duty by 11, so come on, let's shake our tootsies.
Virginia Brush: Amy!
Amy Lind: Oh 'Amy!' my Grandmother's hot water bottle!
Biff Grimes: [muttering to Hugo] She's fast.
Hugo F. Barnstead: [under breath] Yeah.


--Jack Carson (as Hugo Barnstead) in The Strawberry Blonde