Harry Dawes: "Life, every now and then, behaves as though it had seen too many bad movies, when everything fits too well - the beginning, the middle, the end - from fade-in to fade-out."

- Humphrey Bogart (as Harry Dawes) in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

Maria Vargas: In Hollywood, it is not easy to become a star.
Harry Dawes: Ah, where is it easy?

- Humphrey Bogart (as Harry Dawes) in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini: It is time for the Torlato-Favrinis to get off the world.
Eleanora Torlato-Favrini: The fact remains that we are neither unique nor important to the world. And it will go on without us.

- Valentina Cortese (as Eleanora Torlato) in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

Myrna: I'm a frightened tramp.

- Mari Aldon (as Myrna) in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)