Patricia Neal
(as Marcia Jeffries)
Marcia Jeffries:
Betty Lou is your public, all wrapped up with yellow ribbons into one cute little package. She's the logical culmination of the great 20th-centure love affair between Lonesome Rhodes and his mass audience.
Anthony Franciosa
(as Joey DePalma)
Walter Matthau
(as Mel Miller)
Mel Miller:
[commenting on one of Lonesome Rhodes' on-air tirades after the two have had a falling out] I'll say one thing for him, he's got the courage of his ignorance.
Walter Matthau
(as Mel Miller)
Walter Matthau
(as Mel Miller)
Mel Miller:
[of writers] Here you see the lepers of the great television industry. Men without faces. Why, they even slide our paychecks under the door so they can pretend we're not here.
Walter Matthau
(as Mel Miller)
Mel Miller:
Didn't you know? All mild men are vicious. They hate themselves for being mild, and they hate the windy extroverts whose violence seems to have a strange attraction for nice girls. You should know better.