- Betty Clayton: I'll never forget it, Mr. Gable. Honest Injun. You're my favorite actor.
- [singing]
- Betty Clayton: I don't care what happens, Let the whole world stop, As far as I'm concerned, You'll always be the top...
- Alice Clayton: Now look here, young lady, you stop thinking about these movie picture actors and you go right to sleep. And, mind you, no dreaming about them either.
- Betty Clayton: [Alice leaves the room, Betty gets out of bed, starts to write a fan letter, and begins singing] Dear Mr. Gable, I am writing this to you, And I hope that you will read it so you know, My heart beats like a hammer, And I stutter and I stammer, Every time I see you at the picture show, I guess I'm just another fan of yours, And I thought I'd write and tell you so, You made me love you, I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it...
- Emma Snipe: How much do you want to lose?
- Peter Trot: About 70 pounds.
- Emma Snipe: 70 pounds? Frankly, you take that much off and you'll be nothing but a blood vessel to keep your clothes warm.
- Emma Snipe: Uh, what's your name now?
- Peter Trot: Same as it always was, Peter Trot.
- Emma Snipe: Oh, I used to just adore Peter Rabbit.
- Peter Trot: Well, I'll still do it. How much do you charge?
- Emma Snipe: Well, we charge by the pound. 50 cents a pound. You pay that much for good rump steak.
- Emma Snipe: You can't be vital without vitamins. How do you eat?
- Peter Trot: Like a horse.
- Emma Snipe: Well, frankly, you'll have to cut that out. From now on you'll sit up at a table just like anyone else.
- Sonny Ledford: I've heard worst than that at the opera. Haven't you, Peter?
- Peter Trot: Oh, you know, opree ain't as bad as it sounds.
- George Papaloopas: Don't talk about horses. I wouldn't bet on another horse, if the horse talked to me, personal!
- Sonny Ledford: Don't forget the old adage: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- George Papaloopas: And don't you forget that old adage: The two rolling mosses gathers a bird in the bushes!
- Peter Trot: Eight hundred bucks ain't buttons.
- George Papaloopas: Buttons? Who wants buttons? I got buttons! I want bucks!
- Herman Whipple: "A Whipple Sucker Born Every Second." My pet, that is the *greatest* slogan I ever thought of.
- Caroline Whipple: You paid $10,000 for it, didn't you?
- Peter Trot: I used to be a jockey.
- James K. Blakeley: Well, what did you ride? Elephants?
- Peter Trot: Not sir, I was a little guy then.
- James K. Blakeley: Little? Well how big are you now?
- Peter Trot: Six feet one in my underwear.
- Herman Whipple: My pet, I'm always a businessman and never neglect to investigate first. I even, eh, checked on you before we were married.
- Caroline Whipple: How nice. Did you find anything interesting?
- Herman Whipple: Several things, my dear. That's why I married you.
- Sally Lee: Well, what are you going to do now?
- Sonny Ledford: I wouldn't do a thing without asking you.
- Steve Raleigh: [singing] If you want to learn to dance, You can be a social riot, Get right in the swim and try it, Follow in my footsteps...
- Peter Trot: Hey, you're a pretty good lookin' gal. Did you ever think of goin' on the stage?
- Steve Raleigh: Were you ever stage struck?
- Peter Trot: Yeah, hit me right here.
- [puts his hands over his stomach]
- Alice Clayton: She too is a child of the theater: born in a dressing room, raised in a wardrobe trunk.
- Sally Lee: You sing it.
- Steve Raleigh: Me? If I sang one note they'd stop the train and come running back here with lanterns looking for a flat wheel. Now, come on, sing it.
- Sally Lee: But, after all, it's your song.
- Steve Raleigh: Nah, it isn't. It's yours and mine.
- Sally Lee: [singing] Love can come along in the strangest ways, It looks at a lucky couple and sets their hearts ablaze, I can feel that fire in my happy heart, For we are the lucky couple - couple - look what we have for a start, The stars that shine, Are yours and mine...
- Alice Clayton: It is my hope that she will carry on for the Claytons.
- Betty Clayton: Ah, the Claytons are a bunch of hams.
- Alice Clayton: Betty!
- Betty Clayton: I'm sorry, Ma. It slipped out.
- Steve Raleigh: Now, I'm going to do something for you Duffy. Here's the $200 you loaned me when things were tough.
- Duffy: Why Steve, I can hardly believe it.
- Steve Raleigh: You didn't believe I'd pay you back?
- Duffy: No, I can hardly believe I ever had it to lend you.
- Hamilton Brown: Where'd you find her?
- Steve Raleigh: In a boxcar.
- Duffy: I beg your pardon?
- Steve Raleigh: In a boxcar. You know the thing they carry horses in?
- Hamilton Brown: With a horse?
- Steve Raleigh: Yes!
- Duffy: Let me get this straight now, you found a girl and a horse in a boxcar?
- Steve Raleigh: Right!
- Duffy: And she's a great dancer.
- Steve Raleigh: Right!
- Duffy: You mean the girl.
- Steve Raleigh: Yes. The girl.
- Duffy: That's a relief.
- Jerry Jason: Don't be silly little girl. You go right ahead. *Sing* to your hearts content.
- Alice Clayton: All right, Betty, go ahead and sing and sing loud.
- Betty Clayton: [singing] When the whole world seems wrong, Just learn the words of a simple song, Of blue skies above, Be a troubadour and all is love...
- Jerry Jason: There's a strange woman outside with a child who *insists* on seeing you.
- Duffy: Have her arrested.
- Hamilton Brown: But, Steve, you can't put a show over with an unknown in the lead.
- Steve Raleigh: Why can't I? The picture people do it. They're always giving some unknown a chance and then praying for them to make good so they can cash in on a new star.
- Duffy: Yeah, but pictures are different Steve. They print them on celluloid. If the girl doesn't make good, they can just take a pair of scissors - cut her out, like that. Now, this girl gets on the stage and she has to stay there till the curtain comes down. By that time, you'll be over Newark, looking for a new backer and I'll be apologizing to the newspaper boys for having called you a smart Producer.
- Betty Clayton: [singing] Everybody's gay, Everybody's gay, Oh, say, can't you hear the orchestra play...
- Betty Clayton: [singing] Everybody sing, Get into the swing, Go, Do, Re, Me, Fa, So, La, Si, Get happy! Get happy!
- Alice Clayton: [singing] Sing a song of cheer again, The skies above will be clear again, Those happy days are here again, Sing a song of cheer again...
- Sally Lee: Will Mr. Raleigh come out this way when he leaves?
- Jerry Jason: He will, if he doesn't jump out the window.
- Sally Lee: Oh, I don't think he'd do that.
- Jerry Jason: Well, I did. Once.
- Sally Lee: You did? Why?
- Jerry Jason: Oh, I don't know. I thought I could fly
- Sally Lee: Look, Broadway!
- Steve Raleigh: Yep, that's Broadway. The place people come to from all parts of the world, to write home for money.
- Jerry Jason: I know of a boarding house. Here's the address. The place is full of actors and termites. But, it's comfortable.
- Steve Raleigh: Oh, we're going to put a ring through Broadway's nose and lead it around - just you and I.
- Sally Lee: You're not doing this because you - well - because you like me a little?
- Steve Raleigh: No. Oh, just because we'll be working together doesn't mean that I shouldn't like you, does it?
- Sally Lee: No.
- Steve Raleigh: Because I couldn't help doing that.
- Sally Lee: I'm glad you can't help it - now.
- [kiss]
- Steve Raleigh: Well, that wasn't work, was it?
- Alice Clayton: [singing] Some of these days, You'll miss your honey, Some of these days, You'll be so lonely, You'll miss my huggin', You're gonna miss my kissin', You're gonna miss me, honey, When I'm far away...
- Steve Raleigh: I need twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
- Herman Whipple: Well, I'd like to help you out, Steve, but, after all, twelve hundred and fifty dollars is twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
- Alice Clayton: [singing] When you leave me, I know it's gonna grieve me, You're gonna miss your red hot Mama, Your Mama...
- Sally Lee: In the meantime, your broke, I'm broke.
- Sonny Ledford: Well sure! We're all broke But, we're happy.
- [singing]
- Sonny Ledford: Though I'm flat, Though I'm broke, Though I'm bent, I'm contented to never sigh, As time goes by...
- Alice Clayton: You know, Steve, I'm smart enough to know that the high spots of a career can never be recaptured. I have my memories. They're grand bubbles. I'd hate to burst them.
- Sonny Ledford: [singing] You're a Vanderbilt kin, With a Tiffany grin, Where have you been? You're another Cinderella, You're a dime from Rockefeller, You're that million copy seller, "Gone With The Wind"...
- Steve Raleigh: Some other time.
- George Papaloopas: There's no presence like the time. You got to make hay while the iron is hot.
- Emma Snipe: Oh, welcome to the Health Club. I'm Emma Snipe and I know exactly what you want. You're under weight. You're a sick man. It's a wonder to me you even stand up. Sit down. Now, I don't want to worry you but, frankly, the undertaker is standing right behind you. But, don't you worry.
- Sally Lee: We're going to enter our horse in the $25,000 jumping race at Saratoga.
- George Papaloopas: Oh, can he jump?
- Sally Lee: Can *he* jump!
- Sonny Ledford: Can *he* jump!
- Peter Trot: *Can* he jump?
- Emma Snipe: You don't put any *umph* into it. Frankly, you've burnt your candle at both ends. What you want is more *umph*, isn't it?