- Nina Land: I grew up reading you. I wanted to act because of you. I so wanted to meet your standards, but you think I'm appalling.
- Jimmy Erskine: There is art in you, Miss Land. My disappointment is in your failure to access it.
- David Brooke: Jimmy, tone it down.
- Jimmy Erskine: What exactly?
- David Brooke: The unpleasantness... The extravagance... The extremity of your style.
- Jimmy Erskine: That's why people read me!
- David Brooke: Don't break the law, don't cause a stink. More beauty, less beast. Final warning.
- Jimmy Erskine: He who lives in fear dies in shame.
- Tom Turner: Who said that?
- Jimmy Erskine: Me, just now. Write it down for the memoirs.