Matt Libby: [after being introduced to Esther] Esther Blodgett? Well, we'll do something about that. Anyway, nice to have you with us.

- Jack Carson (as Matt Libby) in A Star is Born (1954)

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 (1954)

Judge George J. Barnes: Were you Norman Maine the actor?
Norman Maine: Yes.

- James Mason (as Norman Maine) in A Star is Born (1954)

Oliver Niles: You know Libby you missed a lot not knowing Norman Maine.
Matt Libby: Not knowing him? I spent my life knowing him. I knew what he was going to do before he did it. I knew him backwards.
Oliver Niles: You didn't know him at all. He was quite a guy.

- Charles Bickford (as Oliver Niles) in A Star is Born (1954)