- Cora: I gotta have you, Frank. If it was just us. If it was just you and me.
- Frank Chambers: What are you talking about?
- Cora: I'm getting tired of what's right and wrong.
- Frank Chambers: They hang people for that, Cora.
- Cora: He wants to have a baby. You understand? He's changed. He says the accident changed him and now I'm supposed to have his kid. How am I gonna do that? How am I supposed to have his baby?
- Cora: [disgusted, after seeing Frank drink milk directly from the bottle] Will you use a glass? What are you, an animal?
- Cora: All I know is, it went dark... If he'd have turned around, Frank, they'd have hanged us for it... and something... something put that cop there... It's an act of God those lights went out!
- Frank Chambers: Now, you got this on the dash. And you don't know where you got this.
- [Frank to Cora as he is hitting her to stage the auto crash injuries]
- Nick Papadakis: You know, Frank, this a country - it's no - there is no ideas here. Opportunity, ooh, yes. Sure, they got them. But there is no happiness.
- Nick Papadakis: You know, you never make fun a man talk funny. I talk English better than she talk Greek.
- Sackett: Who do you think you're dealing with? I know you killed him.
- Frank Chambers: Come on. Why would I want to kill him?
- Sackett: Oh, buddy, I saw her. I might kill for her.
- Cora: You just want to shut me up.
- Frank Chambers: No. If I wanted to shut you up, I'd have shut you up.