Sheriff Logan: For someone who's trying to live like a white man, you're sure turning out to be one hell of a Comanche!


--Joseph Cotten (as ) in White Comanche

Uncle Charlie: Forty thousand dollars is no joke, not to him, I bet. It's a joke to me. The whole world's a joke to me.


--Joseph Cotten (as Uncle Charlie Oakley) in Shadow of a Doubt

Uncle Charlie: I can't face the world in the morning. I must have coffee before I can speak.


--Joseph Cotten (as Uncle Charlie Oakley) in Shadow of a Doubt

Uncle Charlie: I got in the habit of carrying a lot of cash with me when I was traveling.
Mr. Green: Dangerous habit, Mr. Oakley.
Uncle Charlie: Never lost a penny in my life, Mr. Green. I guess heaven takes care of fools and scoundrels.


--Joseph Cotten (as Uncle Charlie Oakley) in Shadow of a Doubt

Uncle Charlie: The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands, dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women... Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?


--Joseph Cotten (as Uncle Charlie Oakley) in Shadow of a Doubt

Uncle Charlie: What's the use of looking backward? What's the use of looking ahead? Today's the thing - that's my philosophy. Today.


--Joseph Cotten (as Uncle Charlie Oakley) in Shadow of a Doubt

Uncle Charlie: You think you know something, don't you? You think you're the clever little girl who knows something. There's so much you don't know, so much. What do you know, really? You're just an ordinary little girl, living in an ordinary little town. You wake up every morning of your life and you know perfectly well that there's nothing in the world to trouble you. You go through your ordinary little day, and at night you sleep your untroubled ordinary little sleep, filled with peaceful stupid dreams. And I brought you nightmares. Or did I? Or was it a silly, inexpert little lie? You live in a dream. You're a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something.


--Joseph Cotten (as Uncle Charlie Oakley) in Shadow of a Doubt

Zachary Morgan: [meeting her at the women's prison gate] Mary, I didn't want to make you cry.
Mary Marshall: There's nothing wrong with crying at a time like this.
Zachary Morgan: The minute I got on the train, I knew why you didn't tell me.
Mary Marshall: Nothing matters, except that you're here.
Zachary Morgan: I'm terribly ashamed of walking out like that. I need you, Mary. I want to feel that you need me.
Mary Marshall: Oh, I do. I do.
Zachary Morgan: I'll be right here. I'll be right here waiting. I'll be all well by then. Ready to make a new start, too.


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

Zachary Morgan: Mary, I want to tell you why I got mad at that guy in the coffee shop last night, and why I walked away from you after I threw that rock at the lamppost and missed it.
Mary Marshall: I knew there must be some reason, but you don't have to tell me.
Zachary Morgan: Look, I was brought up in a home, an orphan's home.
Mary Marshall: That's nothing to be ashamed of.
Zachary Morgan: I'm not. It's not like being in prison, or anything like that.
Mary Marshall: No.
Zachary Morgan: Well, in the home there was a janitor. This fellow had been in the last war. A young guy. He was a shell shock case. Whenever we could get our hands on any firecrackers, we'd bang them off and laugh at him when he jumped. Well, that fellow in the coffee shop reminded me of the janitor, and they both made me think of myself and what I'd be like in a few years. Only difference is, that now in the hospital, they have a fancy name for it: neuropsychiatric.
Mary Marshall: The doctors must know a lot more about it now than they did during the last war.
Zachary Morgan: Maybe. They don't know something about me that I know. You see, before I became an engineer, I was an athlete, a pretty good one. I know what my timing used to be, they don't, and it's gone, Mary. Before this happened to me, I could have hit that lamppost all day. I don't know why I'm bothering you with all this. Yes, I do. I know why I'm bothering you. Because I feel so much better when I talk to you. I like to be with you.


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

Mr. Marshall: [after they sing a Christmas carol together] Well, it feels pretty comfortable to have another man's voice around at Christmastime.
Mrs. Marshall: I'm sure Barbara's doing her best to arrange that for you, Henry.
Barbara Marshall: Oh, mother.
Mrs. Marshall: Oh, darling. Maybe family jokes are in bad taste. They make the guest feel out of place.
Zachary Morgan: No, ma'am. I haven't felt so easy in a long time. This is the best Christmas dinner I ever had. Yesterday, I was a stranger here. I mean, I felt like a prisoner inside myself. Now, just to be in a home like this, with people like you, maybe someplace I can come back to next month, or next year...


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