- Eli Kotch: I was driving all over L.A. today, trying to find "the city." But there's no city here. It's just a... a giant village.
- Margaret Kirby: [after a very long pause after being asked if she can remember anything unusual about Eli Kotch] He wears a truss.
- Jack Balter: You should have waited awhile. Cooled it! What's the damn rush?
- Eli Kotch: Well, I tell you, Jack, you wait around, you get fat.
- Sergeant Elmer K. Coxe: [on the airport chaos occasioned by the arrival of the Russian premier] This is nothing. You should be here when Elizabeth Taylor arrives in town.