- [last lines]
- Max Cady: [Bowden has shot Cady and is holding the gun on him] Go ahead. I just don't give a damn.
- Sam Bowden: No. No! That would be letting you off too easy, too fast. Your words - do you remember? Well I do. No, we're gonna take good care of you. We're gonna nurse you back to health. And you're strong, Cady. You're gonna live a long life... in a cage! That's where you belong and that's where you're going. And this time for life! Bang your head against the walls. Count the years - the months - the hours... until the day you rot!
- Diane Taylor: [after Cady has beaten her, she prepares to leave town] You can't help me.
- Charles Sievers: But I can. Now you file an assault charge and Cady'll get six months in jail.
- Diane Taylor: Six months! And after that... When he walked out of this room he said... he said to consider this only a sample. And from my limited knowledge of human nature, Max Cady isn't a man who makes idle threats.
- Diane Taylor: [Diane is cuddling with Max as he is driving] Why are we going this way?
- Max Cady: Better scenery.
- Diane Taylor: What would you know about scenery? Or beauty? Or any of the things that really make life worth living? You're just an animal: coarse, lustful, barbaric.
- Max Cady: Keep right on talkin', honey. I like it when you run me down like that.
- Diane Taylor: Max Cady, what I like about you is... you're rock bottom. I wouldn't expect you to understand this, but it's a great comfort for a girl to know she could not possibly sink any lower.
- Max Cady: I got somethin' planned for your wife and kid that they ain't nevah gonna forget. They ain't nevah gonna forget it... and neither will you, Counselor! Nevah!
- Nancy Bowden: Well, anyway, you're ten minutes late.
- Sam Bowden: It's a mistake to teach women how to tell time. They always use it against you.
- Police Chief Mark Dutton: [Bowden has told Dutton that he's worried about Max Cady] You have a dog don't you, Sam?
- Sam Bowden: She couldn't bite through a doughnut; but she's a good barker.
- Police Chief Mark Dutton: Well, that's good enough. I'll call you when they pick him up.
- Sam Bowden: [tries to pay Cady to leave town; Cady wants revenge] You shocking degenerate. I've seen the worst - the dregs - but you... you are the lowest. Makes me sick to breathe the same air.
- [leaves the bar]
- Max Cady: [to Diane Taylor] Go on, tell me some more about that time when you were Queen of the Veiled Prophet's Ball.
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