Charles Theverner: She's after my money. Everybody is after my money.
Dupin: You must've been after it yourself to have acquired so much.


--Joseph Cotten (as Dupin) in The Man with a Cloak

Gregory Anton: I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to me.
Brian Cameron: I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to her.


--Joseph Cotten (as Brian Cameron) in Gaslight

Bowen: Why don't you sit down?
Chris Hale: I wouldn't sit on your death bed.


--Joseph Cotten (as Chris Hale aka Steve) in Walk Softly, Stranger

Mrs. Flynn, the housekeeper: You read like an actor... and you drink like one. Would you take advice from the likes of me?
Dupin: Ma'am, I take advice as easily as I take a drink. The only trouble with me is I've never been able to make good use of either.


--Joseph Cotten (as Dupin) in The Man with a Cloak

Mrs. Inness, landlady: You know, it's the first of the month.
Dupin: I can understand you excitement, it only comes once every thirty days.


--Joseph Cotten (as Dupin) in The Man with a Cloak

Mary Marshall: [coming out of a theater showing a war movie] Is the war really like that?
Zachary Morgan: I guess so.
Mary Marshall: That's funny.
Zachary Morgan: Why?
Mary Marshall: I mean that you should only guess so.
Zachary Morgan: Well, they have experts making those pictures. I guess that's the way they see the war. A beach a mile long, and thousands of soldiers, and tanks, and machine guns and everything. I guess that's the way it is.
Mary Marshall: But it wasn't that way for you, huh?
Zachary Morgan: It's just a difference in size. To a guy that's in it, the war's about ten feet wide, and kind of empty. It's you and a couple of fellows in your company, maybe, and maybe a couple of Japs. It's all kind of mixed up. Sometimes it's all full of noise, and sometimes it's quiet. It all depends on what you're thinking about, I guess. It depends on how scared you are, how cold you are, and how wet you are. I guess if you asked a hundred guys what the war's like, they'd all give you a different answer. Mary. You know what?
Mary Marshall: What?
Zachary Morgan: I mean, usually you don't like to talk about it. I never said anything about it before, not to anybody.
Mary Marshall: I'm sorry, I ...
Zachary Morgan: No. No, I feel kind of good.


--Joseph Cotten (as Zachary Morgan) in I'll Be Seeing You

Johnny Moon: Why don't you get the good citizens of this town to help you out?
Sheriff Logan: When trouble breaks out, they're kind of hard to find.


--Joseph Cotten (as ) in White Comanche

Flaherty: Some men leave goodwill. Others just a will.
Dupin: There are even some that leave two wills.


--Joseph Cotten (as Dupin) in The Man with a Cloak

Allen Quinton: Call her... a pin-up girl of the spirit.


--Joseph Cotten (as Allen Quinton) in Love Letters

Allen Quinton: I couldn't possibly say what I'd like to say right now.
Singleton: What?
Allen Quinton: I'd like to say that you're lovely.
Singelton: Go ahead, say it. I'd like to hear it.
Allen Quinton: You're lovely.


--Joseph Cotten (as Allen Quinton) in Love Letters