- Larry Cain: [complaining about the noise] Say listen, thunder foot. You're making my room sound like a pool hall on Saturday night.
- Mabel O'Dare: Well that out to make you feel right at home!
- Aloysius K. Reilly: [aggressively] My name's Aloysius K. Reilly!
- Secretary: Well, don't get sore at me; I wasn't at the christening.
- Larry Cain: Some day I'll meet that dame. When I do, I'll spank her so tender she can sit on a newspaper and read the headlines.
- Larry Cain: [to Mabel, insulting her performance] The man sitting next to me said, "I wonder what's she's doing on the stage all alone. She must have thrown her jockey!"
- Pat 'Pop' Walters: [Looking up at the ceiling where a terrible noise is coming from Mabel's dance routine] That dame up there is practicing.
- Dodo: What is she, a bareback rider?
- Larry Cain: [to Pop] Take me someplace where this cluck isn't.
- Mabel O'Dare: [grandly] Don't you DARE call me a cluck!
- Aloysius K. Reilly: What you haven't got is glamour.
- Larry Cain: No, and I don't wear a beret either.
- Mabel O'Dare: Something's rotten in Denmark.
- Aloysius K. Reilly: Well, don't look at me. I never been there.
- Milo, the Stage Manager: I'm gonna give that girl a crack at Toddy Williams' part.
- Jacob 'Jake' Sherman: You're not on the level, are you?
- Milo, the Stage Manager: I certainly am.
- Milo, the Stage Manager: But there's a hundred girls can dance better than that.
- Jacob 'Jake' Sherman: Well, what of it? She's got pep, she's refreshing, and she crtainly is a new face.
- Milo, the Stage Manager: A new face - yeah - but she's gotta dance with her feet.
- Mabel O'Dare: How do they look?
- [Serves two eggs, sunnyside up]
- Aloysius K. Reilly: I've seen Greta Garbo and the Mona Lisa, but those are the most beautiful eyes I've ever looked into.
- Aloysius K. Reilly: Now, if you could only sing or dance or juggle or something, I could fix it up like that. Jake Sherman's putting on a show.
- Aunt Mimi: You know Jake Sherman?
- Aloysius K. Reilly: Couldn't be closer to him if I was his Siamese brother.
- Aunt Mimi: Then she works. Mabel can dance. I've been teachin' her steps ever since she was a little nipper.
- Mabel O'Dare: Aunt Mimi was right when she said that she taught me all she knew about dancing. But, Aunti's got flat feet, and I think it might show up in my work.
- Aloysius K. Reilly: You ever see anybody watch a chorus girl's feet? Come on.
- Ronny Cauldwell: Boy, you could sell ice blocks in Siberia.
- Jacob 'Jake' Sherman: You telling me? That's how I earned my passage money to this country.
- Ronny Cauldwell: No foolin'?
- Jacob 'Jake' Sherman: Sure. You know when corsets went out of style, I sent two boatloads to China, and I sold them to bandits for bulletproof vests.
- Toddy: I can remember when I was a show girl.
- Ronny Cauldwell: So can half the male population of New York.
- Aloysius K. Reilly: I grew up with Jake, and you ain't him.
- Aloysius K. Reilly: What? You grew up with me?
- Jacob 'Jake' Sherman: Don't give me that. You ain't you. You're somebody else pretending to be him.
- Jacob 'Jake' Sherman: Oh, well, maybe I'm wrong.
- Jacob 'Jake' Sherman: I think you're both just a couple of cheap chiselers.
- Mabel O'Dare: Just a minute! I don't care whether you're Jake Sherman or the four Marx Brothers, but you can't get away with calling me a chiseler.
- Jacob 'Jake' Sherman: Now look, young lady, do I look like the type of man who goes around impersonating himself? Well, I'm not. I would like very much to convince you that I'm me.
- Toddy: What am I supposed to do? Stand around while you chat with every little dame that wanders in off the street?
- Aunt Mimi: Beware of good looking prize fighters. I knew one once. He spent so much time on the canvas, I started thinking of him as a portrait.
- Aloysius K. Reilly: He got more space this morning than he did when he won the title. I've given him color.
- Pat 'Pop' Walters: Well, if he ever lays his hands on that O'Dare dame, he'll give her a couple of colors: black and blue. He thinks she put that stuff in the paper.
- Aloysius K. Reilly: Well, so what. He can't deny it without making a sap out of himself.
- Larry Cain: I'm supposed to be a fighter and what am I doing? Playing Post Office all over the front page with a dame!
- Pat 'Pop' Walters: You've got to remember, champ, all the world loves a lover.
- Larry Cain: Who was that?
- Pat 'Pop' Walters: Foxy Woxy Corporation. They make Lovies.
- Dodo: You've heard their slogan, champ: Say I Love You with a Breathe of Spring.
- Larry Cain: What?
- Pat 'Pop' Walters: Lovies. You know, them breathe killers.
- Dodo: If you been eatin' onions, all you have to do is pop one in your clapper and you blow out like a violet.
- Aunt Mimi: You're gettin' paid for being in the show, aren't ya?
- Mabel O'Dare: Yes, as a dancer - not a sparing partner for an egotistical pug-ugly!
- Aunt Mimi: Just think, Mabel, you'll be on the front page right along with Mussolini and...
- Mabel O'Dare: I don't want to be on the front page with anybody.
- Aunt Mimi: Well, of course, if you wanna be a snob.
- Aloysius K. Reilly: Think of the publicity value. Oh, I can see it now, just as plain as if it were in print: Larry Cain the Battling Adonis of the Squared Circle.
- Larry Cain: Don't say things like that.
- Pat 'Pop' Walters: Just when I'm gonna cash in on the boy, this beautiful thing comes into his life an kicks me right in the puss!
- Aunt Mimi: The girl had a future until you came along. What she got with a prize-fighter?
- Pat 'Pop' Walters: Garage mechanic.
- Aunt Mimi: With a garage mechanic? Thank you. Nothing but a free valve grind.
- Jacob 'Jake' Sherman: Mabel, now, look, you can't do a thing like that. You must remember the oldest tradition of the theater: The Show Must Go On!
- Mabel O'Dare: Why?