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Dixon Steele
- Dixon Steele: I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
- Capt. Lochner: Why didn't you call for a cab? Isn't that what a gentleman usually does under the circumstances?
- Dixon Steele: Oh I didn't say I was a gentleman. I said I was tired.
- Laurel Gray: [on a scene in Dix's script] I love the love scene - it's very good.
- Dixon Steele: Well that's because they're not always telling each other how much in love they are. A good love scene should be about something else besides love. For instance, this one. Me fixing grapefruit. You sitting over there, dopey, half-asleep. Anyone looking at us could tell we're in love.
- Mildred Atkinson: Before I started to go to work at Paul's, I used to think that actors made up their own lines.
- Dixon Steele: When they get to be big stars, they usually do.
- Dixon Steele: Go ahead and get some sleep and we'll have dinner together tonight.
- Laurel Gray: We'll have dinner tonight. But not together.
- Dixon Steele: You know, you're out of your mind - how can anyone like a face like this? Look at it...
- [leans in for a kiss]
- Laurel Gray: I said I liked it - I didn't say I wanted to kiss it.
- Capt. Lochner: [Dixon has replied with sarcasm to Lochner's questions] You're told that the girl you were with last night was found in Benedict Canyon, murdered. Dumped from a moving car. What's your reaction? Shock? Horror? Sympathy? No - just petulance at being questioned. A couple of feeble jokes. You puzzle me, Mr. Steele.
- Dixon Steele: Well, I grant you, the jokes could've been better, but I don't see why the rest should worry you - that is, unless you plan to arrest me on lack of emotion.
- Dixon Steele: There's no sacrifice too great for a chance at immortality.
- Waiter: [rolls his eyes] Yes sir.
- Frances Randolph: Remember how I used to read to you?
- Dixon Steele: Uh huh. Since then, I've learned to read by myself.
- Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, "There she is - the one that's different. She's not coy or cute or corny. She's a good guy - I'm glad she's on my side. She speaks her mind and she knows what she wants."
- Laurel Gray: Thank you, sir. But let me add: I also know what I don't want - and I don't want to be rushed.
- Frances Randolph: Do you look down on all women or just the ones you know?
- Dixon Steele: I was pretty nice to you.
- Frances Randolph: No, not to me. But you were pretty nice.
- Mildred Atkinson: [after summarizing a novel she's read] And, you know, there are lots of little plots and things I didn't even tell you about!
- Dixon Steele: Thank you.
- Dixon Steele: [noting the geography of their apartments] You know, Ms. Gray, you're one up on me - you can see into my apartment but I can't see into yours.
- Laurel Gray: I promise you, I won't take advantage of it.
- Dixon Steele: [wryly] I would, if it were the other way around.
- Dixon Steele: [to Laurel] I've been looking for someone a long time... I didn't know her name or where she lived - I'd never seen her before. A girl was killed, and because of that, I found what I was looking for. Now I know your name, where you live, and how you look.
- Dixon Steele: Anything you want to make you happy?
- Laurel Gray: [whispers into his ear] I wouldn't want anyone but you.
- Dixon Steele: [verbally recreating a vehicular strangulation] You get to a lonely place in the road, and you begin to squeeze...
- [referring to the book Dixon is supposed to adapt into a screenplay]
- Mildred Atkinson: Oh I think it'll make a dreamy picture, Mr. Steele. What I call an epic.
- Dixon Steele: And what do you call an epic?
- Mildred Atkinson: Well, you know - a picture that's REAL long and has lots of things going on.
- Dixon Steele: Oh, I love a picnic. Acres and acres of sand and all of it in your food.
- Laurel Gray: Stop griping. Just lie still and inhale.
- Dixon Steele: What, sand?
- Laurel Gray: No, air - and don't let it go to your head.