- Phil Baker: Oh, Dorita, you remember Mr. Potter and Mr. Mason.
- Dorita: Ah! I remember Mr. Potty. You are here to kick up some more heels, huh?
- Peyton Potter: No!
- Phil Baker: Mr. Potter wants you to come to his house this weekend.
- Dorita: Ah-ah-ah, you naughty boy. You are what they call a fast-work man, yes?
- Peyton Potter: [inspecting lipstick on his handkerchief] Hmm... ketchup?
- Mrs. Peyton Potter: No doubt. And from a Brazilian tomato.
- Dorita: [singing] Some people say I dress too gay, But every day I feel so gay, And when I'm gay, I dress that way, Is something wrong with that? Noooo!
- Tony De Marco: [noticing Vivian Potter for the first time] You are beautiful!
- Mrs. Peyton Potter: He speaks English!
- Edie Allen: Its wolf talk, that's international.
- Edie Allen: Hear the orchestra?
- Andy Mason: Yeah, where's it coming from?
- Edie Allen: Where's your imagination?
- [singing]
- Edie Allen: A journey to a star would not be very far, As long as I'm alone with you...
- Mrs. Peyton Potter: Well old swoopy, swapping swoops at your age. What have you got to say about that?
- Peyton Potter: I told you darling we were simply discussing investments.
- Edie Allen: [singing] Oh, the polka dance, The polka dance, The polka dance is gone, But the polka dot, The polka dot, The polka dot lives on...
- Phil Baker: You know, Mrs Potter was a great dancer herself, in her day.
- Edie Allen: Really?
- Phil Baker: Gosh, she was so smooth she could waltz around with a glass of beer on her bustle and never disturb the foam!
- Edie Allen: Dorita, you're snoring again.
- [Dorita grunts and rolls over]
- Edie Allen: Dorita! Dorita, wake up.
- Dorita: [Wakes up with a start] What's the matter? Buglers?
- Andy Mason: Dad, what's going on around here? The house is full of show people.
- Andrew Mason Sr.: Don't worry son. I locked up all the silverware, and put all the breakable stuff away.
- Dorita: Mr. Mason is serving everyone mint jalops and I bring you a mint jalops too! It's delicious.
- Peyton Potter: Yes, well, you might have saved yourself the trouble. I am a teetotaller. I never touch alcohol.
- Dorita: Oh, you don't touch it. You drink it.
- Peyton Potter: I am a businessman. I go in for no foolishness. I'm entirely business.
- Dorita: Oh, I like that. Maybe you show me how to be all business too!
- Andy Mason: Mrs. Potter give you a furlough too?
- Peyton Potter: I promised my wife I'd be home before midnight. I like to keep my promises. She expects me to and I expect her to expect it.
- Peyton Potter: Now, see here A.J., I should have been more firm. When I told you that I am never seen in places like this, I meant it. I don't know how you've managed to get me this far. I should have put my foot down.
- Andrew Mason Sr.: Don't be a square from Delaware. Get hep to yourself.
- Peyton Potter: What kind of talk is that?
- Andrew Mason Sr.: I heard it on a jukebox.
- Dorita: Oh, yeah?
- [singing]
- Dorita: You're in the kind of a place that seems, Like a little cabaret in Rio, Then you hear a Boogie-Woogie trio, And you discover you're in New York, A "senhorita" with the flashing eyes, Looks to you as if she might be chummy, But she only wants to play gin-rummy, And you discover you're in New York, You hear a tropical drum, You drink a tropical rum, You're in a tropical spot, And yet, you really are not, In case you're missing the point, You're in a typical joint, On gay Broadway...
- Peyton Potter: This place gives me a very uneasy feeling, A.J.
- Andrew Mason Sr.: Shame on you. Gimme your hat and get your mind off your wife.
- Andy Mason: Well, I talked to Mrs. Potter and everything's fine. She was delighted to hear that you had taken up dancing again.
- Peyton Potter: She was? Did you tell her about me out there on the floor? Did you tell her about me dancing with that South American savage?
- Andy Mason: Where's Miss Allen?
- Phil Baker: Miss Allen? Oh, you see, between shows, she goes over to the Broadway Canteen. This is her night to dance with servicemen.
- Andy Mason: Didn't you tell her I wanted to meet her?
- Phil Baker: She wasn't interested. I'm afraid you picked the wrong girl.
- Andy Mason: Yeah? I think I'll go over to that Broadway Canteen.
- Phil Baker: I'm warning you, you won't get to first base.
- Andy Mason: You forget I'm pretty good at baseball.
- Phil Baker: So was the mighty Casey, but even Casey struck out.
- Andy Mason: It'll take more than three strikes to keep me away from first base.
- Phil Baker: Fifty bucks says you go down swinging.
- Andy Mason: I'll take that bet!
- Benny Goodman: [singing] Have you heard Minnie's in the money? Take my word Minnie's In the money, She hasn't got a guy who's got a diamond mine, But she's a welder on the old assembly line, So bless her, yes sir, for Minnie's in the money, Minnie's in the money, that's fine, She's helping Uncle Sam to keep his people free, She's okay, hooray! Minnie's in the do-re-mi...
- Andy Mason: You go along with him. I've got some unfiinished business.
- Andrew Mason Sr.: Unfiinished business? That must mean a girl. Boy, I wish I were young again.
- Andy Mason: Well, I'm glad you're not. Where would I be?
- Andrew Mason Sr.: Good night, son.
- Peyton Potter: This is all your fault, A.J. It was you who sicced that gypsy on me.
- Andrew Mason Sr.: She's no gypsy. She's a Brazilian!
- Peyton Potter: Well, whatever she is, she's a...
- Andrew Mason Sr.: She's a bombshell!
- Andy Mason: Couldn't I meet you after the show? We could sort of go out and you could show me the town, sort of. Will you?
- Edie Allen: I'd love to.
- Andy Mason: Really?
- Edie Allen: I'll be fiinished at 1:30. Just in time for a drink and dance at the Stork Club. Then on to El Morocco, then just a quick look in on Monte Carlo. After that, we'll go to Lindy's for a late bite and then I know a swell spot on 52nd Street. Won't cost you more than $50 - that is, of course, if you don't tip too heavily. We're gonna have lots of fun, Sergeant.
- Andy Mason: Those places are pretty expensive, aren't they?
- Edie Allen: Yes, they are.
- Andy Mason: I played a lot of baseball.
- Edie Allen: Are you pretty good?
- Andy Mason: Well, that depends. Sometimes I, uh, don't even get to first base.
- Edie Allen: I like baseball.
- Andy Mason: [dancing] I wish you weren't so beautiful.
- Edie Allen: Why?
- Andy Mason: Well, then nobody would cut in, and you'd be all mine for the rest of the evening.
- Edie Allen: Have you been getting results with that line?
- Andy Mason: Aw, I'm sorry. You're used to getting a pretty good spiel from most of these fellas I guess.
- Edie Allen: Oh, I don't mind them. After all, they're a long way from home. A long way from their girls. You can't blame them if they get off the beam once in a while. They're all pretty sweet. Even the wise ones.
- Edie Allen: [singing] No love, no sir! No nothin', Till my baby comes home, But what I says still goes, No love, no nothin', And that's a promise I'll keep, No fun with no one, I'm getting plenty of sleep...
- Andy Mason: My train leaves at 8:00. I'll meet you at the information booth at 7:30.
- Edie Allen: Well, I, uh, I don't know whether I can make it. You see, I have a -
- [Andy kisses her forehead]
- Edie Allen: I have a rehearsal in - in the morning, and I don't know for how long.
- [Andy kisses her cheek]
- Edie Allen: Then I promised Mabel from there I'd go to Brooklyn with her to see the Dodgers play.
- [Andy kisses her lips]
- Edie Allen: I - I guess maybe I could miss seeing the Dodgers. It won't hurt anything.
- [long kiss]
- Dorita: [singing] I wonder why does ev'rybody look at me, And then begin to talk about a Christmas tree? I hope that means that ev'ryone is glad to see, The lady in the tutti-frutti hat, The gentlemen, they want to make me say, "sí, sí", But I don't tell them that, I tell them, "Yes, sir-ee!" And maybe that is why they come for dates to me, The lady in the tutti-frutti hat...
- Phil Baker: Mr. Mason, if you had a beard, you'd remind me of my two favorite people: Santa Claus and Uncle Sam.
- Phil Baker: I suppose you came down to meet our train, eh?
- Edie Allen: Yes, I did, but I was a little early.
- Phil Baker: Of course, you couldn't have been seeing a few soldiers off, by any chance.
- Dorita: A few soldiers? Only one, I'll bet you. Sergeant Crazy.
- Edie Allen: It's Casey, Dorita. And what's wrong with saying good-bye to a soldier?
- Phil Baker: Nothing.
- Dorita: I call it nice works if you can get him.
- Dorita: Sergeant Mason? He's Sergeant Crazy!
- Vivian Potter: Oh, I think it's you that's crazy.
- Dorita: Oh, no, no, I'm not crazy. My name is Dorita.
- Mrs. Peyton Potter: Ah, I remember you from your pictures in the newspapers, or was it the Police Gazette? How are you?
- Dorita: I'm very well to do. Thank you.
- Mrs. Peyton Potter: Ah, you do very well what you do do.
- Mrs. Peyton Potter: Peyton will never allow it.
- Phil Baker: Not even with some gentle persuasion?
- Mrs. Peyton Potter: What do you mean?
- Phil Baker: Let's see. I've got it! Your boudoir.
- Mrs. Peyton Potter: What are you talking about?
- Phil Baker: I'm talking about the biggest scene of your career. Come along, you old tenderized ham.
- Mrs. Peyton Potter: Well, at last, I'm worth something.
- Vivian Potter: This is the man I'm going to marry.
- Dorita: What? Then he's a two-time, double-cross snake of the bush.
- Mrs. Peyton Potter: Peytie, can I help it if I'm irresistible?
- Peyton Potter: It's that vitamin B1. I told you you were taking too much. You're overdoing it.
- Dorita: [singing] Paducah, Paducah, Paducah, Paducah, Paducah, If you wanna, you can rhyme it with bazooka, But you can't pooh-pooh Paducah, That's another name for paradise.
- Andy Mason: Pat, why don't you go watch the rehearsals. Maybe some of the girls need hooking up, huh?
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